Hello everyone, happy Monday!
I have enough things to write about that I want to give you a summary. No, this is not an excuse to pour my brain emanations into AI. I am just gridlocked right now on topics because I don’t know what you, gentle reader, care about.
I am going to put this on the socials and see if I get enough people DMing me, posting to the threads, or channeling energy crystal-powered positive energy through the seventh dimension to give me guidance on priority.
Here are the topics. I will number them for ease of identification:
- The million times context boost of 2026 – upcoming model enhancements that suggest innovation in AI is not dead, and in fact is in its infancy.
- The museum of play – how you can really (really) feel old.
- Who is winning the AI game and why is it different than before?
- 12 hours to 36 hours. What a difference 24 hours makes.
- The long tail is now the invisible tail.
- What the hell is an anti-fractional CTO?
- The cost of AI and the degradation of service.
- How to prevent AI burnout.
- How to win as a remote-first company.
- The power of presentations written in ten minutes.
- Entertainment is the beachhead for AI despite the hurt feelings of “players”.
- The difference between usable and functional.
- Go to the grocery store.
Please ignore the last one; I am not sure how it ended up on my monitor.
This represents three months of blog writing, and all of it feels important to me.
And it was the great Ricky Bobby who said: “You can’t have two number ones, then you would be number eleven.”
The purist in me suggests I should have waited until there are eleven things on this list, but at that point, the joke would be pretty old, and I want your feedback today, not in mid-June when you are all off LinkedIn and doing vacation things.
Thank you for helping to shape my brain leakings.
