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Reading the Water

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Stop tinkering & start building. Discover 10 hard-won lessons from 3 years of surviving the AIPocalypse. Learn to build systems that guide AI, outmaneuver the loops, and level up your tools.

From AI Tinkerer to Tool Builder: Three Years of Surviving the AIPocalypse

Three years ago, I made a decision that would reshape everything: if I was going to survive the coming AIPocalypse, I would need to control the AI, or the AI would control me. It started at Seattle's AI Tinkerers meetups—rooms full of engineers, entrepreneurs, and curious minds

Founder Perspective

The Woman Who Taught Me to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Sixteen years ago, I was the new guy at Whitepages, trying to figure out search marketing in a city where I barely knew anyone. That's when I discovered the Seattle search community—a scrappy group of SEM specialists who met monthly to share war stories about Google'

Founder Perspective

I Built a Psychology-Based Copy Analyzer. Here’s What 200+ Real B2B Messages Taught Me.

For the past year, I've been building COS — a tool that uses Big Five personality psychology to analyze B2B communications. Not grammar. Not readability. Personality coverage. The premise is simple: every piece of copy you write passes through an invisible psychological filter in your reader's brain.