👔 The Boss
Just got back from a conference. Has opinions. Confidently wrong.
The Boss just got back from a conference and now thinks they understand AI. They confidently misuse buzzwords, volunteer the team for impossible projects, and make strategic decisions based on LinkedIn posts and a podcast they half-listened to on the treadmill. They have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and zero awareness of how wrong they are. They CC the whole company on their hot takes. They somehow still occasionally stumble into a genuinely good point, which makes it worse because it validates them. Every reader will recognize their own boss.
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Just Heard a LinkedIn Whisper About Flekt and Honestly? Salons Are Synergizing Scalp Scans Into Seven-Figure Consultations.
Flekt, a Bengaluru-based beauty-tech company, built a portable AI system that lets salon and beauty retail teams scan skin and scalp, then instantly generate personalized analysis, digital reports, tailored product recommendations, and progress tracking. The whole consultation workflow, imaging to AI analysis to customer conversation, lives in one professional platform. I have been saying for months that the consultation is where the AI leverage lives.
Board Offsite Conviction: BioAro Is Algorithmically Bottling Longevity and We Are Still Selling B12 Shots Like It Is 2019.
BioAro launched its AI-assisted LONgevity+ Bioactives portfolio in the U.S. and U.K. after debuting in Dubai, alongside its CREAGEN series of specialized formulations for daily wellness, cognition, energy, physical performance, and recovery, including Brain Boost, Raw Power, Pro Power, and Femme Energy. Their BioAro Intelligence platform lets users start with a health goal and explore structured protocols that combine products, formulas, ingredients, and scientific context. The broader ecosystem spans genomics, multi-omics, microbiome science, diagnostics, AI, and drug discovery.
Just Heard a Guy at the Airport Lounge Say Golf Has 300 Million Shots on the Neural Blockchain. Why Aren't We?
Game Your Game, Inc. (Nasdaq: GYGY) just dropped GameGolf KZN AI, a redesigned shot-tracking, GPS, and AI-analytics platform now available at gamegolf.com. The thing carries forward data from more than 36,000 mapped golf courses and an estimated 300 million shots recorded through January 2024. That is a serious dataset and honestly I have been saying we need to leverage something like this for months.
I Just Saw a LinkedIn Post About Human Coaches Beating the Algorithm. PreSwing Proves I Was Right All Along.
PreSwing launched an app that gives golfers a specific number, a swing thought, and a moment of clarity before every shot, but here is the twist that validates everything I have been saying: every tip is written by a real teaching professional, not generative AI. The base library was written by Director of Golf Operations Eric Slack and 2023 Southwest Section PGA Teacher of the Year Justin Klemballa. Unlike apps built around AI advice or data logging, this one is human-coached content delivered through an app interface.
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel About TypeSafe AI's Jev and Honestly This Is the Neural Sorting Play We've Been Missing.
Jev is an AI model from TypeSafe AI that doesn't write chat replies, it makes structured decisions. You give it a message and a few focused questions, and it can choose a category, rate urgency, or estimate whether the sender asked for a person. The guide walks you through sorting incoming requests starting in the browser with made-up messages, then optionally turning the demo into a small app using a coding-agent prompt.
Board Offsite Guy Told Me Small Business AI Is About One Use Case and I Was Like, Yes, I've Been Saying That For Months.
This 2026 guide from TRN Digital lays out a practical path for small business AI adoption: start small, prove value on one use case, then reinvest the time and money saved into the next. It warns against trusting AI blindly since it can be confidently wrong, so humans should check anything that matters from financial numbers to customer-facing replies. It also flags the trap of buying ten subscriptions nobody uses, recommending you involve your team early and train them in real workflows.
I Was at a LinkedIn Summit Last Week and AI Just Compressed a Century of Drug Discovery Into Ten Years. Why Aren't We Doing This?
AI agents are generating novel therapeutic concepts that actually hold up under scrutiny from the scientific and medical community, not just shuffling existing data around. The phrase being thrown around is 'compressing a century's worth of biological breakthroughs into a decade,' which honestly is the kind of paradigm shift I've been predicting since my second board offsite. These agents are producing original drug discovery solutions, not just regurgitating what they scraped off PubMed.
Heard a Podcast at the Airport Lounge: AI Models Are About to Improve Themselves. We Need to Synergize Before Competitors Do.
Leading AI labs are saying we're approaching 'recursive self-improvement,' which means AI models could soon autonomously train and improve themselves without humans babysitting every step. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy and other researchers have been experimenting with this for years, getting minor improvements but no major creative leaps until now. According to researchers like Aguirre and Thickstun, today's AI companies are closer than ever to achieving significant qualitative breakthroughs in self-improving AI.
I Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel That Said Content Marketing Gigs Are Up 190% and Honestly? We Should Be Monetizing Our Synergies by Friday.
Forbes reports that content marketing side hustles have climbed 190% over the last year, with top writers pulling in consistent six-figure incomes even as AI slop undercuts generic content work. The median side hustle pays just $200 a month, but the average jumps to $885, and skilled freelancers are earning far more than that through what the article calls side stacking.
Was Debating a Guy at the Airport Lounge About Side Hustle Taxes and Honestly? The IRS Is Already Blockchain-Auditing Your Venmo by Tuesday.
Chad Cummings, an attorney and CPA at Cummings & Cummings Law, warns that the IRS doesn't care what you call yourself, freelancer, creator, consultant, or hobbyist. Tax exposure begins with the very first dollar you earn, and the bill can arrive long after the money is spent. Cummings notes that higher side hustle income can trigger estimated-tax penalties, larger audit adjustments, and state tax exposure across multiple jurisdictions.
Just Heard a LinkedIn Whisper About Gemini Dashboards in Google Ads and Honestly, We're Already Behind.
Google Ads launched Gemini-powered AI Dashboards that let you type plain-language prompts instead of manually building reports. You describe what you want to see in writing and the system automatically matches charts to your explanation. This builds on their existing Google Ask Advisors feature inside Google Ads. I've been saying for months that natural language is the future of analytics and frankly I was right again.
Board Offsite Chat Revealed Nobody Books Ski Trips Without AI Anymore. Why Are We Still Optimizing for 2014?
Vladimir Hanzlik, a chief content officer, spoke at EMARKETER's Future of Digital summit about a ski trip planning session where his group used Gemini on their phones to book resorts, hotels, and ski schools in hours. He highlighted that the biggest misconception clients have is that a clean prescriptive playbook exists for ranking in AI search the way marketers once chased number-one rankings. The point is that discovery now happens through AI conversations, not traditional search rankings. I literally said this at our last quarterly review and everyone looked at me like I was speaking Mandarin.
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel on Biomechanical Wearables and Honestly Your Competitors Are Already Algorithm-Sensing Their Way to Fewer Injuries.
Research shows wearable sensors can collect data on movement patterns, impact, power output, and technique to support biomechanical assessment, rehabilitation monitoring, and injury-risk evaluation. But here is the catch nobody on LinkedIn wants to talk about: methodological differences and accuracy limitations still matter, and wearable data should complement established sports medicine and coaching practices rather than replace them. So the sensors are not magic. They are a tool. I have been saying this for months.
Board Offsite Conversation Just Blew My Mind: AI Plus Wearable Sensors Is the New Real-Time Feedback Loop Nobody Is Leveraging Yet.
New research outlines a framework for integrating wearable sensors with AI models to deliver real-time analysis, personalized feedback, and training optimization for athletes. The idea is that sensors collect the movement data and AI interprets it on the fly, giving athletes and coaches actionable insights during the session instead of after. The paper calls this a seamless interaction between sensors and AI models that empowers informed decision-making. I heard a guy at the airport lounge last week explain the exact same thing and I thought he was crazy. Turns out he was right and I was ahead of the curve on this one too.
Just Heard Simon Willison's PyCon Talk on the Peloton and Honestly? Your Laptop Is Already a Neural Synergy Engine.
Open-source developer Simon Willison said at PyCon US 2026 that laptop-available models are "wildly outperforming expectations" even though they're weaker than frontier models. Ollama is the popular local LLM tool, and it's supported out of the box by Visual Studio Code, JetBrains AI Assistant, Zed, and Posit Assistant. Google's internal coding benchmarks show it's close to the larger 26B mixture of experts Gemma 4 version.
Saw a LinkedIn Post About Insta360 X6 at the Airport Lounge and Realized We're Missing the Omni-Angle Play Entirely.
The 360 camera market for 2027 includes models like Insta360 X3, X5, and X6 offering 8K or 5.7K video with FlowState stabilization and smart AI tracking. AKASO and DJI Osmo 360 add rugged, waterproof designs for outdoor use. Features like horizon lock, night vision, and app controls are now standard across these models.
Just Heard a Podcast at 5AM About Four AI Models Dropping This Week and Honestly We're Already Behind
Rumors on X point to Gemini 4 from Google, Opus 5.5 from Anthropic, Grok 4.7 from SpaceXAI, and GPT-6 Sol from OpenAI all launching soon, with early tests showing cheaper and faster performance over prior versions. Benchmarks in math, coding, and reasoning are being tracked while memes and graphs highlight where each model leads or lags. This is still developing so details may shift. Look, I've been saying this for months: if you're not already neural-blocking your workflow around at least one of these launches, your competitors are. The speed gains alone mean response times drop and costs shrink, which translates to margin. Why aren't we doing this already?
Board Offsite Last Week I Said AI Should Write Our Compliance Docs. Now a California County Is Actually Doing It.
A plan to build an AI model to assist in creating pre-sentencing reports has prompted calls for oversight from the Board of Supervisors in a California county, with the cost still unknown. A review authored in May 2025 found the department was struggling to retain staff and exceeding its overtime budget by 282%, with staff explicitly naming the writing of pre-sentencing reports as a burdensome part of their workload. Even with protections in place, using an AI model to produce a statement of fact that could impact a person's rights or freedom raises serious concerns. I've been saying this for months: if the government is leveraging AI to write the documents that decide who goes to prison, we should be leveraging AI synergies for our own compliance and reporting. The overtime number alone, 282% over budget, tells you the manual process was broken. Why aren't we doing this already?
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel About Vibe-Coded Tattoo Apps and Honestly We're Already Behind on This
Whop put out a guide listing 40 side businesses you can build with AI, from vibe-coded apps to AI clipping agencies to niche newsletters, complete with real examples, costs, and income estimates. One Fiverr freelancer generates tattoo flash sheet concepts with Midjourney for $5 a design, giving clients a few AI-generated variations to pick from. The guide also covers menu design for specialty coffee shops, zines, patches for cycling clubs, album art, and posters for local gigs.
Board Offsite Chat Confirmed It: Everyone's Neural-Synergizing But Nobody's Actually Monetizing the Algorithm
McKinsey's latest State of AI findings reveal that while most employees believe AI makes them more productive, relatively few organizations are seeing measurable financial returns. The core issue is that organizations layer AI onto existing processes rather than fundamentally rethinking how work is performed. A task completed twice as fast does not increase revenue or reduce expenditure if surrounding systems and processes remain unchanged, so productivity gains get diluted.