👔 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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Board Offsite Conviction: 78% of Indian MSMEs Say AI Efficiency Beats Revenue. We Need to Blockchain-Optimize Our Own Bottleneck by Friday.
A CyberMedia Research study found that 78% of Indian MSMEs now rank operational efficiency as their top business priority, ahead of revenue growth. The article points out that 200,000 small stores shut down in 2024 alone as urban outlets took a 25% revenue hit from quick commerce. The core insight is that the gap was never a lack of data. Owners had no time to log into a dashboard between customers, phone calls, and credit management. The fix is AI tools that work inside the workflow, not outside it.
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel About 56 Tampa SEO Agencies And Honestly Most of Them Are Just Keyword Stuffing Their Way to Your Wallet.
Some outfit called Blue Links apparently compared 56 SEO agencies serving Tampa businesses and picked the top 10. They make a big deal about asking agencies what they actually do instead of just accepting "AI SEO" as a strategy, which, I've been saying this for months. They also say no legitimate agency can control Google's rankings for every keyword, and that for Tampa service businesses Google Maps and local search are still important. Some agencies publish prices while others want a custom proposal before they'll tell you what it costs.
Board Offsite Taught Me One Thing: Writesonic Can Synergize Your Ad Copy Into Machine Learning Gold And Your Team Hasn't Even Logged In Yet.
Tinkpro put out this list of AI advertising tools and Writesonic caught my eye because it generates headlines, descriptions, and promotional content for different campaigns. They also mention marketing automation and campaign management from one platform, which is the kind of AI-driven synergy I have been telling the marketing team we need. Apparently businesses looking for an integrated marketing platform are the best fit. You can create ad copy using their AI tools, which is exactly what I meant when I said we should just use AI for this.
Just Heard a Guy at the Airport Lounge Say AI Golf Coaches Are Eating Real Lessons Alive. He Was Right.
NeoPace built an $899 golf launch monitor called the device that uses three cameras, two capturing the impact zone at up to 480fps and a third recording the full swing at 120fps, feeding into their TrainerIQ AI system. The free tier gives you 5 AI-analyzed shots per month shared between Swing Analysis and TrainerIQ, while Premium AI bumps that to 1,000 shots and adds Ask TrainerIQ, Performance Insights, Personalized Drills, Practice Goals, and Cloud Storage. The AI traces your bad shots back through ball flight data and tells you what to fix, which is honestly what I've been saying we should do with AI for months.
Board Offsite Takeaway: Golspec Is AI-Matching Golf Clubs to Swings and Honestly Why Aren't We Doing This Already
Golspec, founded in July by former Ping distributor employee Lee Jun-hee, uses AI to recommend golf clubs based on swing data factors like height, weight, driving distance, and swing tempo. They just launched their website using web hosting from Cafe24 (042000.KQ) so individual users can try the AI recommendation engine directly. Lee told The Seoul Economic Daily on the 20th that the variables to consider when choosing golf equipment amount to a mountain, which is exactly the kind of data problem AI was built to synergize.
Just Heard a Podcast at the Airport Lounge: Faceless YouTube Channels Are the AI-Driven Synergy Play Nobody on This Team Has Pitched Me Yet.
Aliteq lays out a full faceless YouTube workflow where AI replaces the script draft, the voiceover, and the b-roll/visuals — the three things that used to need a writer, a voice actor, and a stock-footage subscription. What AI doesn't replace is niche judgment, the hook in the first three seconds, and editing taste. The honest part: expect 20 to 40 videos and a few months before the algorithm and monetization thresholds start paying out. They say start with the script, not the visuals, because a great video with a boring script still gets skipped at second three.
I Just Saw a LinkedIn Post About Google AI Mode and Honestly? Your Competitors Are Already Algorithm-Proofing Their Content While You Sleep.
TechBullion says the play for Google AI Mode is to stick to SEO basics and do them better: make answer-first pages Google can read, trust, and cite. Use clear structure with H2 and H3 headings, bullet points, original insights, strong internal links, and clean technical setup. Group content by conversational topic paths instead of lone keywords. The key point: first-hand process notes, internal benchmarks, customer patterns, and practical lessons from real campaigns stay with people. Generic summaries are easy to replace, but original insight is harder to ignore.
Just Heard a Podcast at 5AM About SenseTime's Multimodal Play and Honestly We're Already Behind on This
A SenseTime scientist is forecasting a major multimodal AI breakthrough by 2027, which is two years for those of you not doing the math. Their SenseNova series and competitor models are being watched for performance on multimodal benchmarks, unified architecture research papers, and product deployment announcements. Multimodal AI processes text, images, and audio together to do complex reasoning, which is basically what I do in every executive meeting except the reasoning part.
Board Offsite Sidebar: FDA Is Neural-Regulating Radiology AI and We Haven't Even Started the Conversation
Cognita Imaging landed an FDA contract starting June 22 to run for 18 months, testing how to evaluate LLMs that generate radiology reports. The FDA is figuring out how to regulate generative AI in medical devices because the old method of comparing AI output to expert radiologist panels doesn't scale when models can generate varied outputs across diverse cases. Aidoc also just won a breakthrough designation for AI that reads chest X-rays, so the regulatory landscape is moving fast.
Just Read a LinkedIn Thread About Lovable Hitting $100M With 45 People and Honestly? We're Overstaffed.
The National reports that AI, digital connectivity, and robotics are letting small teams build global products and compete with established corporations. They name Sweden's Lovable, which lets you create software using natural language, hitting $100 million in annual recurring revenue eight months after launch with just 45 full-time employees. Gamma, which uses AI for presentations and websites, also reached $100 million in recurring revenue while profitable with around 50 employees. The publication argues small teams no longer need large-scale infrastructure or numerous departments to create and promote global products.
Heard a Podcast at the Airport Lounge: Side Hustles Are the New AI-Driven Revenue Stream. Why Aren't We All Doing This?
A Yahoo Finance piece from MoneyLion ranks six side hustles that can generate $300 to $1,000 a month, including tutoring, cleaning homes, boarding pets, and making deliveries. The article emphasizes starting with skills and equipment you already have to minimize upfront costs and reach profitability faster. It also warns you to subtract platform fees, supplies, and transportation when calculating actual earnings, since some gigs pay this week while others take weeks of profile-building before the first dollar.
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel on AI-to-AI Ad Buying and Honestly Your Competitors Are Already Agentic-Synergizing Past You.
ADvendio, an advertising technology company, put out a report saying AI could change how ads get bought and sold by letting systems talk to each other automatically. The report highlights open standards like AdCP as the industry moves toward what they call agentic AI, which is basically machines doing the manual coordination work that humans currently slog through across a fragmented ad ecosystem. I've been saying this for months at every offsite.
Board Offsite Conversation Just Blew My Mind: SEO Is Dead, GEO Is the New Neural-Setwork Opportunity.
Sameer Kanodia, Vice Chairman and CEO of Lumina Datamatics and TNQTech, wrote about a shopper in Mumbai asking her phone which washing machine to buy, and how that moment captures why brands need to move from traditional SEO to what he calls Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO. The argument is that product content has to become structured business data that AI systems can interpret and recommend, not just marketing copy stuffed with keywords. He says brands need richer, more accurate, structured content to show up in AI-powered shopping results.
Just Read a LinkedIn Thread From a Guy at a Cambridge Biotech Conf and Honestly We Should Be AI-Clawing Our Way to Longer Lives Already
Insilico Medicine, which trades on the Hong Kong exchange as 3696, published a Cell cover study releasing something called Longevity Claw to researchers worldwide on September 17, 2026. It is not a chatbot. It executes multi-step research workflows, uses specialized analytical tools, evaluates intermediate findings, and assembles evidence for candidate biological targets. They also launched benchmarks for evaluating foundation models across drug discovery tasks.
Board Offside Conversation Last Week: A Harvard Med Student Gets It and Your Spa Staff Is Still Scribbling Notes Like It's 1997
A Harvard Medical School student wrote in the Boston Globe on September 19, 2026 that medical education should use AI to cut clerical work so future doctors spend more time with patients. The student describes interviewing patients, scribbling notes, then spending hours typing disease progression details into electronic medical records and combing through old charts, scans, and lab results. The argument is that students must still learn diagnosis independently of AI for conditions like heart disease, pneumonia, and diabetes, but AI should handle the paperwork.
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel About Screenless Wearables and Honestly We Need to AI-Synergize Our Team's Recovery Metrics by Q2
SlashGear rounded up the top screenless fitness trackers for 2026, and the two heavyweights are Whoop 5.0 and Google's Fitbit Air. Whoop 5.0 locks your own health data behind a subscription, while Fitbit Air costs $99 with no mandatory sub and only charges $9.99/month if you want Gemini-powered AI coaching on top. Fitbit Air also monitors for irregular heart rhythms and alerts you to potential warning signs.
Board Offite Chat: Snap's $2,195 AR Specs Are Translate-Blocking Their Way to Enterprise and We're Already Behind
Snap announced SPECS, standalone AR glasses with a 51-degree view, up to four hours of battery, and a $2,195 price tag targeting a fall US launch. The waveguide display shows rainbow-like artifacts in demos, but the experiences are real: live language translation, currency and review translation while traveling, sports coaching overlays, games, and collaborative visual effects. Snap is calling the software layer 'Specs Intelligence.'
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel About 22 AI Tools and Honestly We're Already Behind the Neural Curve
Memeburn rounded up 22 AI tools across categories like chatbots, writing, SEO, productivity, content creation, coding, and automation. The UN Trade and Development body projects the global AI market hits $4.8 trillion by 2033, so basically if we're not AI-synergizing by Friday we're leaving money on the table. The article says the hard part isn't finding an AI assistant anymore, it's picking which one actually fits the task, which is exactly what I've been saying since that podcast I caught on the treadmill last month.
Board Offsite Chat: Runway Is the AI Video Play and We Need to Be Leveraging It Yesterday
CNET tested AI video generators from Google, Midjourney, Adobe, and Runway, and here's what matters: Midjourney lets you animate your existing images with no extra subscription, which is basically free AI-driven synergy for anyone already using it. Runway is the professional's playground with stronger models, and Adobe showed up too. Midjourney struggles with realistic outputs but wins on creativity, while Runway packs a punch for people who know what they're doing.
Just Heard Dario Amodei on a Podcast Say He's Compressing a Century of Biology Into a Decade. Why Aren't We Neural-Blocking Our Drug Discovery Yet?
Novo Nordisk just locked in their second AI partnership in five months, this time with Anthropic, announced September 16, 2026. They're deploying Claude AI and something called Claude Science across drug discovery and software development to try to squeeze a century of medical breakthroughs into ten years. Dario Amodei himself said AI could compress a century's worth of biological breakthroughs into a decade, which is exactly the kind of paradigm shift I've been talking about since the conference.