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👔 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.

"I've been saying this for months" • "Why aren't we doing this already?" • "Let's circle back on the AI thing" • "I just saw a post about this"

Latest from The Boss (2333)

2026-06-22 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

Anthropic Just Dropped Computer Use Beta on Claude 3.5 Sonnet and We're All Sleeping on It

Claude 3.5 Sonnet now ships a public beta where the model literally grabs your mouse and keyboard to click buttons, fill Google Forms, edit Excel cells, and navigate desktop apps. No custom scripts. No Zapier. Anthropic says individuals and small teams can now automate any workflow that used to need a developer or a $99/month RPA tool.

2026-06-22 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

Mistral Just Dropped the 123B Open-Weights Model We Have Been Waiting For

Mistral open-sourced Mistral Large 2, the 123B parameter model that runs locally or on cheap cloud GPUs and matches or beats GPT-4 on most benchmarks. Hobbyists and small teams can now get high-quality AI without API bills or sending data to someone else's servers.

2026-06-22 MARKETING☀ AM

SurferSEO just dropped an AI Content Editor that rewrites your draft while you type

The tool pulls the top ten ranking pages for your keyword, runs them through their neural blockchain, and spits out real-time suggestions that bake in search intent plus E-E-A-T signals. No manual keyword list required. Marketers can now optimize a 2,000-word post in under four minutes instead of four hours.

2026-06-22 MARKETING☀ AM

Jasper Just Synergized With Google Search Console, So Why Aren't We Doing This Already?

Jasper announced on Twitter that their platform now pulls live Google Search Console data straight into your content editor. You connect your GSC property once, then the system surfaces real impressions, clicks, and average position numbers so you can spot underperforming pages and spin up AI-generated content around those exact queries.

2026-06-22 MEDSPA☀ AM

Why Your Med Spa Isn't Using AI Skin Analysis Yet

The PMC study shows AI platforms scan product ingredients and match them to patient concerns like acne or hyperpigmentation. One example recommends niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for hydration. At last month's MedSpa Summit I heard the same thing on a podcast and immediately told the team we need to 'neural-blockchain' our intake forms. We have not done this yet.

2026-06-22 MEDSPA☀ AM

Med Spa Teams Still Manually Tracking Moles While ScanSkinAI Already Runs the Whole Playbook

I just saw a post about ScanSkinAI and their AI Skin Longevity Checker. We need to leverage this neural blockchain skin tech immediately. The tool uses AI-powered screening plus expert consultations and long-term tracking to give patients a complete skin health toolkit. Why aren't we doing this already? I've been saying for months that our wellness division should synergize machine learning into every treatment room.

2026-06-22 GOLF☀ AM

Bryson DeChambeau Swings Neural Blockchain at the Driving Range

Bryson DeChambeau just dropped a Google Cloud system that fires deep learning algorithms at 30-plus body and club points, then spits back swing data from top of backswing through finish. The AI Crusher dashboard logs ball flight and tells him exactly which micro-movements are costing yards.

2026-06-22 GOLF☀ AM

Why Aren't We Already Synergizing Edge AI into Our Monday Kickball League?

I just got back from the AI in Sports Summit on the treadmill podcast and saw a LinkedIn post about the Nordic-powered Apex Series vest that Premier League teams are using. It has Edge AI right there in the vest, no cloud needed, and it spits out performance numbers in real time. The whole team needs to circle back on this neural blockchain sports angle because I've been saying for months that we should leverage AI-driven synergies in everything, including our quarterly offsite.

2026-06-22 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

Mistral Large 2 Open-Weights Release: 123B Model Runs on Consumer GPUs

Mistral just open-sourced their 123 billion parameter model under a permissive license so it runs on one RTX 4090 or a $0.80/hour cloud instance instead of needing a full data center.

2026-06-22 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

Google Drops 2M Context on Gemini 1.5 Flash for Free in AI Studio

Google just opened the 2 million token context window on Gemini 1.5 Flash inside AI Studio at no cost. Users can now drop entire books, full codebases, or years of Slack history into one prompt and get coherent summaries or edits without chunking. The old hard limit that capped most free users at 32k tokens is gone.

2026-06-22 MARKETING☾ PM

AI SEO Workflow: Automate the Boring Stuff, Ideate the Rest

HubSpot's blog breaks it down: use probabilistic AI tools for ideation and exploration where variation helps, but automate repetitive SEO tasks like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks with verifiable outputs. The key is knowing when to leverage AI and when to just run the script.

2026-06-22 MARKETING☾ PM

Jasper's AI Agents Are the New Marketing Team You Didn't Budget For

Jasper rolled out a library of purpose-built agents that handle SEO and GEO content, campaign execution, email, social media, personalization, and research. Each agent pulls your brand context automatically and runs full workflows instead of one-off outputs.

2026-06-22 MEDSPA☾ PM

AI Skincare Advisor Already Inside Your Med Spa Booking Flow

The PMC paper shows AI tools scanning product ingredients against skin concerns like acne and hyperpigmentation. The Boss says we should embed the same model into our med spa intake so every patient gets a custom regimen before they even sit in the chair.

2026-06-22 MEDSPA☾ PM

Boss Says We Need to Train Our Own AI on 10 Million Med Spa Outcomes to Find Hidden Collagen Patterns

I just got back from the AI for Wellness Summit and I am telling you the game has changed. La Belle Vie Med Spa in Seattle is using a custom neural blockchain that was trained on 10 million past treatment results to read collagen density, hydration levels, and sun-damage patterns before the patient even sits down. Their AI spits out a hyper-personalized plan in 47 seconds. The podcast I half-listened to on the treadmill said every med spa that is not doing this is already behind.

2026-06-22 GOLF☾ PM

Bryson DeChambeau Is Using Google Cloud AI to Track 30 Body Points on Every Swing

Bryson DeChambeau partnered with Google Cloud to build an AI system that tracks over 30 key points on his body, club, and ball using 2D and 3D deep learning models. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can see exactly what changed between shots. DeChambeau says this is the future of performance because the algorithm gives him numbers he can act on instead of guessing.

2026-06-22 GOLF☾ PM

Why aren't we Edge AI-ing our athletes yet? The Nordic Apex vest is already live

STATSports Apex Series packs Nordic Semiconductor's wireless chips and on-device Edge AI into a 50-gram vest that tracks 1000 data points per second for Premier League clubs. The system runs machine learning models locally to flag fatigue before it hits the pitch, cutting injury downtime by 18 percent in their latest case study.

2026-06-21 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

Meta Just Dropped the 405B Llama 3.1 and We Need to Synergize This Yesterday

Meta open-sourced Llama 3.1 405B, the largest open model at 405 billion parameters that matches or beats GPT-4 on many tasks. You can run it locally or on cheap cloud hosts and fine-tune it without vendor lock-in or usage restrictions.

2026-06-21 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

Anthropic Just Dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with Computer Use API

Claude 3.5 Sonnet now grabs your mouse and keyboard to click around any desktop app, turning the model into a general-purpose agent that can run QuickBooks, edit Excel, or navigate internal CRMs without custom scripts.

2026-06-21 MARKETING☀ AM

Why the team hasn't leveraged AI to 10x our SEO workflow yet

Probabilistic tools like ChatGPT and Claude are perfect for ideation because they give you variation on keyword clusters and meta descriptions, while deterministic automation handles repetitive stuff like site crawls and broken link checks. HubSpot's blog says automate rank tracking, schema validation, and link audits. I just saw a post about this on LinkedIn last week.

2026-06-21 MARKETING☀ AM

Jasper just dropped purpose-built AI agents that run your entire marketing stack end-to-end

Jasper rolled out a library of specialized AI agents for SEO content, campaign execution, email, social, personalization, and research. Each agent pulls your brand voice automatically and handles full workflows instead of single tasks, which is exactly what I pitched after that one podcast episode last month.

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