Yaron Vorona: Can’t Is Almost Always a Choice
Startup coach Yaron Vorona on coaching deep tech founders through the Series A step up, escaping the supplicant trap, and why can't is almost always a choose not to.
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For Executives & ProfessionalsJoe Rockey: AI Is a Function, Not a Relationship
Consultant Joe Rockey returns with one test for every AI decision: is it a function, or is it replacing a relationship? Get it wrong and AI costs you money and clients.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAnthony Markey: Everybody Is Worth a Coffee
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
Fiction WritingBehind the Book: Dungeon
In 1981 I fell in love with a text game called Dungeon, the predecessor of Zork. Forty years later I turned it into a novel. Here is why, and the decision that saved the book.
ConsciousnessBehind the Book: The Eternal War
The Eternal War started with one question: what happens when an AI goes to Hell? Not a person with a soul, but a machine that cannot find the pattern in eternal punishment.
Fiction WritingBehind the Book: Through the Looking Glass
The first Behind the Book essay: how my first novel grew from a Facebook message, fourteen hours of Skype interviews under a no-lying rule, a pen name I later retired, and an ending that refused a rescue.
AmericaI Grew Up in California. I No Longer Live There.
He would talk about what happened to him. That was not the problem. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen.
BiasThe Only Open Seat Was Next to a Black Kid. His Name Was Sam.
Every signal my nervous system sent said do not sit there. I sat there because there was nowhere else to go. Within a week we were friends.
ConsciousnessI Got Tired of Religious Answers That Did Not Match Reality
I did not set out to write theology. I started trying to make sense of existence because the explanations I grew up with created more problems than they solved.
BlockchainBeating the No-Win Scenario: Kobayashi Maru Decisions, Sunk Costs, and Changing the Rules | Michael Santore
BlockSkunk founder Michael Santore joins Richard Lowe to talk no-win scenarios, the elevated paradox, the fantasy sports startup that stopped like a spaceship, sunk costs, and why AI compliance is quietly asking for immutable audit logs.
AI AdoptionSusan Evangeline Bagh: Seeing the Whole Chessboard
Susan Evangeline Bagh spent 25 years climbing from engineer to global strategy executive by learning to see what specialists miss: the whole chessboard. In this conversation, she breaks down why most AI hype is noise, why transformations fail, and what…
BiasI Have Owned a Lucky Shirt. I Have Knocked on Wood.
I am not immune to any of this. The question is never whether you think irrationally. It is whether anybody has died of it.