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Inspired footnotes
Posted whenever inspiration strikes — because the best footnotes can't be scheduled.
Why This CEO Chooses Hard Things On Purpose
My daughter's podcast just featured one of my own mentors — and the key message was simple: do the hard things, on purpose.
Synthetic Identities — The Fraud AI Didn't Invent, But Definitely Supercharged
AI didn't invent synthetic identity fraud. It just gave it a serious upgrade in speed and accessibility.
No Courage, No Leadership. No Kindness, No Followers.
Courage without kindness is just aggression with better branding.
Worth sharing: the real bottlenecks in physical AI
Digital AI only touches 20% of the world's economic activity. The bigger frontier is what happens when intelligence moves off the screen and into physical space.
Three things from the 2026 AI trend reports
Multi-agent systems, the rising cost of trust, and why data still wins — plus one new one: the quiet rise of sovereign AI.