Entrepreneur
A book for my students on the one sentence I teach about careers: let your first employer be your first customer. Why firms hire, how the job became a bundle, why low fixed costs are the whole strategy, and what your own AI changes about the line between employee and vendor. … readFirst Customer
A lesson for my students on what to delegate, from Exodus 18: send the small matters down, respect rank and order, and never send your AI to a person who is worthy of your own attention. … readThe Great Matters
A complete course for advanced students of personal AI: how to take the seat of the one who draws the table, carries the intention, sets the boundary and remains the author, in five parts and eighteen labs. … readSuper Admin: The Advanced Course in Personal AI
You decide at planting and deliver at harvest, so supply always answers an old price — and the cobweb theorem says markets built that way must swing. AI puts a harvest-time forecast on every kitchen table, and a hundred-year-old cycle starts to die where the lag is made of learning and survive where it is made of matter. … readPlanted at Yesterday’s Price
Nina Schick says we are turning sand into non-biological intelligence. Here are eight predictions for what happens when the scarcest thing a civilization ever had becomes a manufactured good. … readWhen Intelligence Comes Off an Assembly Line: Eight Predictions
My two favorite AI prompts are four words long: “You do it” and “You decide.” Stop telling AI how, describe the state change you want, push back when it hands the work back, and log what it cannot do yet, because that list expires. … readYou Do It. You Decide.
For a 24-year-old in Charleston, home, flood, auto and health insurance are no longer riders on a bigger decision; they are the decision, and they are why I tell my students to rent, ride-share, and keep health coverage to the minimum. … readInsurance Is the Decision Now
Your first customer is not paying for effort but for something to become true, and the past-tense verb is how you see it. As AI makes artifacts cheap, the value moves to verbs that need someone else’s yes: signed, shipped, paid, renewed. … readLook for the Past-Tense Verb
Graduating into the AI economy, your first move is not starting a company. It is finding Customer Number One, letting them finance your development, and bringing your own AI coworker who walks out the door with you. … readYour First Customer
A coworker is anyone who works with you — no shared title, department, or rank required — and once you accept that, the company your working life organizes around turns out to be you, not your employer. … readYou Are the Company