Notes from the field.
Occasional thoughts on relationships, deal-making, and what it actually takes to move technology and marketing companies forward.
It’s not all about the Benjamins…it’s about relationships!!
The AI Doom Loop Is Real, and the Way Out Is the Oldest Trick in the Book WIRED just ran a piece that nailed something I have been feeling for a while now. They are calling it the AI doom loop in hiring, and the setup is almost too perfect.…
Ed Zitron is finally getting his due!!
Ed Zitron Is Worth Your Time, and I’m Tired of Pretending Otherwise Somebody finally put Ed Zitron on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in a charcoal gray T-shirt and let him say the quiet part out loud. Vanity Fair just ran a piece …
I was a bit early but it’s coming.
The AI Economy Has a Commitment Problem, and the Bill Is Coming Due Every CEO in America is out here swiping right on AI. Nobody’s ready to get married. That’s the read from Amy Webb, the futurist who runs Future Today Strategy Group and ta…
Hire the PERSON Not The RESUME
Stop Hiring the Resume. Start Hiring the Person. Google used to reject people for having bad grades. Senior candidates, guys and gals who had already built real careers, real track records, real wins, and Google would still pass because the…
Let’s stop with the freaking shortcuts!!
Everybody’s Chasing Scale. Nobody’s Answering the Phone. I was at dinner a few weeks back and somebody asked me how I find the people I place. Not the tech, not the tool stack, just the actual method. And I told them the truth. I call peopl…
It’s Easy to Start but then what??
Healthcare Doesn’t Have a Front Door Problem. It Has a Follow-Through Problem. So Fast Company ran this piece from the GoodRx CEO, Wendy Barnes, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Her headline basically says healthcare has enough front doo…
It’s become a load of crap.
Nobody Trusts the Guy Reading Off a Script Fast Company ran a piece this week about the influencer bubble finally popping, and reading it felt like watching something everybody already knew get put into words. The framing that stuck with me…
Are you actually trying to solve a problem or is it all just lip service?
Stop Saying AI. Start Solving Something. There was a piece in the Times this week that stuck with me. Julie Averill, who spent eight years running technology at Lululemon, wrote about what happened when she left the company. Her replacement…
we need to be more hospitable!!
Every brand says they care about people. Almost none of them prove it. Read a piece by Heather Freiser in Ad Age this week, “Why Hospitality Is Advertising’s Most Human Competitive Advantage,” and it kind of stopped me in my tracks. She’s a…
Value over speed is how to win when it comes to AI
Speed Isn’t the Metric. Value Is. Everyone wants to tell you how fast their AI is. Fast to deploy, fast to answer, fast to spit out the deck, fast fast fast. And yeah, speed sells, because it’s easy to feel. You watch something happen in th…