Before AI Came For Copywriters, The Internet Came For Travel Agents
Richard In the 1994 X-Files episode “Duane Barry,” a man takes people hostage in a travel agency. Back then, the setting was a mundane backdrop for a sci-fi thriller. Watching it…
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When Your Product Demo Starts Looking Like a Yard Sale
Yesterday we explored the good. Now let’s look at the kitchen-sink approach in Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Muse presentation. After introducing “personal superintelligence,” he demonstrated everything from negotiating an $85-a-month cable…
The Art of Category Positioning
Mark Zuckerberg recently presented his vision for Meta AI. One of the interesting things about Zuckerberg is that he’s been offering counter-narratives to the other tech bros. While others say…
The Sun Tzu Strategy Big AI Tech Bros Are Ignoring
The top AI tech bros operate as if today’s massive head start guarantees permanent market control. They command enviable capital, compute, talent, and user bases. But confusing today’s strongest position…
How to Succeed Through Brute Force
1879. Thomas Edison and his team are trying to build a practical incandescent light bulb. They test material after material, trial and error, running thousands of experiments in search of…