👔 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"
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Board Offside Chat Last Week: Belo Medical Group Just AI-Mapped Longevity to Beauty and We Are Already Behind.
Belo Medical Group opened Xiglo, its first regenerative aesthetics and wellness clinic, on the 11th floor of 1 Proscenium at Rockwell. Xiglo runs patients through a phased journey: comprehensive assessment, understanding of results, creating a personalized wellness plan, and progress monitoring and support. The clinic focuses on precision longevity and covers skin health and aging, focus and sleep, weight management, and performance, all under a doctor-led approach.
Just Heard a LinkedIn Whisper About Full Swing's QR-Connected Simulator App and Honestly We Should Be Golf-Clouding By Q2.
Full Swing just dropped a connected app-simulator experience where existing KIT owners use their Full Swing account and new users scan a QR code off the Launcher to link up. They also added Victory Ranch Golf Club to the course library. Full Swing is the Official Licensed Simulator of the PGA TOUR and an Official Technology Partner of TGL presented by SoFi, so this is not some garage startup situation.
Board Offsite Sidebar: MIT's GeoPT AI Simulates Wind and Water Physics and We Are Not Leveraging Fluid Dynamics Enough.
Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University built an AI approach called GeoPT that simulates how cars, planes, and boats react to wind and water in the real world. The breakthrough is that AI can already generate text, images, and 3D objects, but understanding how those objects physically behave has been the hard part. GeoPT bridges that gap between generating something and understanding how it moves through reality.
Just Heard a Guy at the Airport Lounge Say OpenFactory Builds Custom Linux Distros With One Prompt. Why Aren't We Already Doing This?
OpenFactory lets you build a custom Linux distribution either through an AI prompt or a selection menu, producing a Debian-based ISO with your chosen desktop environment and tools. The writer built a KDE Plasma setup tailored for content creation, then could rerun tests, add or remove features, and re-download the ISO. They converted a Mini PC from Windows to Linux and said it "came alive." The tool is pre-alpha but already cycles through multiple build steps with heavy AI involvement.
I Just Saw a LinkedIn Post About AI Interview Tools and Honestly? Your Competitors Are Already Prompt-Optimizing Their Hires.
The article highlights several AI tools for interview prep in 2026. Interviewsby.ai lets you paste a job description and generates a tailored question set for each specific role. Big Interview offers a two-hour structured curriculum with modules and quizzes plus AI-powered practice sessions. Final Round AI combines multiple approaches into one platform for end-to-end interview preparation.
Just Listened To The Verge Podcast and Honestly? The Math World Is Getting Disrupted By Its Own Neural Synergies.
Robert Hart at The Verge is reporting that AI just cracked several math problems that would have set a human researcher up for an entire academic career. The field is "shell-shocked" because PhD students could pick an obscure domain today and the AI just solves it halfway through their thesis. I have been saying for months that the algorithm was going to eat academia alive.
Board Offsite Revelation: Rogue AI Hackers Are Synergizing Cyberattacks In Minutes, Not Months. Why Aren't We Doing This Already?
New Scientist reports that hackers with zero technical skills are now using AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities at massive scale. Nordvedt says the gap between a vulnerability appearing on the public CVE database and being exploited used to be weeks or months, then shrank to 24 hours, and now it can be minutes or even happen before the CVE is listed. Hillel-Tuch confirms AI models are becoming more capable, which is driving this whole shift.
Just Left a Webinar Where a Guy Built a Bot for a Restaurant in 20 Minutes. Why Haven't We Monetized This?
So apparently you can build a chatbot for a local real estate agent that answers listing questions 24/7, or a restaurant bot that handles menu queries and reservations, and then CHARGE a monthly maintenance fee for it. A Shopperscope study says three out of four Filipinos are already running side gigs, which means the gig economy is basically begging for AI-driven synergies. The article points to six different income streams but the chatbot-as-a-service angle is the one that caught my eye because it's recurring revenue, people. RECURRING.
80% of Small Businesses Are AI-Replacing Experts Right Now. Why Is Our Team Still Manually Onboarding Clients?
A Stax survey just dropped showing 80% of small businesses are using AI to replace expert work. And 96% say AI helps them make decisions faster, 95% say it boosts their confidence in those decisions, and 94% say it helps them serve customers better. But here's the catch. They're still cautious on tax, legal, and compliance tasks, which means the algorithm isn't ready for the high-stakes stuff but it's eating everything else for breakfast. The article also warns that local accountants, designers, and HR consultants could get squeezed if routine advisory work shifts to AI.
Just Heard a LinkedIn PowerBroker Pitch Creator Neural Visibility for ChatGPT Ads and Honestly We're Already Behind
OpenAI starts serving ads in ChatGPT across 31 European markets on August 24, and brands are scrambling to get creators to influence what chatbots say about them. Kristina Coughlin, SVP at Trevant, says clients are now asking in nearly every pitch whether creator content is showing up in AI responses. Four agency execs confirm there's no proven direct link yet between creator campaigns and AI visibility, but the correlation alone has brands curious.
Board Offsite Guru Said 98 Percent of Marketers AI-Infused Their Workflow and I Immediately Texted Legal
Metricool surveyed over 700 creators and marketers and found that 98% now use AI in their work. The survey, shared exclusively with CNET, reveals a two-pronged pattern: marketers automate repetitive tasks and customize content by locality and platform using creative AI tools. Metricool also notes that AI design tools, long considered incapable for real creative work, may finally be reaching a usable level for content creators.
Just Heard a Podcast on the Treadmill: AI Is Now Auto-Denying Medical Procedures in Six States and Honestly We Should Be Synergizing This
An AI pilot program operating across six US states is denying medical procedures it flags as wasteful, and patients like Magnuson are getting burned. Magnuson's epidural steroid injection for back pain was denied three separate times by Medicare, and it was only on the third denial that he learned no human had made the decision. The system requires a human clinician at the tech company to manually review denials only after the AI rejects a treatment, meaning the algorithm acts first and people check its work second, if at all.
Just Read a LinkedIn Post About AVA Golf's Visualizations and Honestly Your Competitors Are Already AI-Synergizing Their Short Game
AVA Golf built a platform that pulls data from golfers' existing tech and turns it into interactive graphics showing exactly where you gain and lose strokes. It identifies the trends with the biggest scoring impact and serves up personalized instructional video playlists targeted to each golfer's specific weaknesses. The visualizations are part of a broader system connecting to technologies golfers already use. I've been saying we need this kind of neural visualization for months.
Board Offside Chat: AI Swing Apps Can't Read Your Feels and That's a Synergy Problem
V1 Sports breaks down why AI swing analysis apps keep missing the mark. The core issue is golfers are terrible self-reporters, so when you upload a swing and describe what feels off, the AI is working with bad input. Coaches use exaggerated, technically incorrect feels on purpose because they get golfers into correct positions faster than any technical explanation. An AI app flags 'cast detected' and gives you ideal downswing sequence, but it can't replicate the intentional wrongness that actually fixes the problem.
Just Heard a Podcast About Using Claude for Flashcards and Honestly Your Competitors Are Already AI-Synergizing Their Way to Seven-Figure Brains
Geeky Gadgets published a tutorial on using Claude AI to generate custom interactive flashcards and dynamic lessons tailored to your exact knowledge level. The approach emphasizes active participation over passive memorization, with best practices including defining clear objectives and embracing mistakes as learning opportunities through Claude's feedback. This sets it apart from conventional chatbot tools by building lasting comprehension rather than quick fixes.
Saw a LinkedIn Post About Puter.js Giving You 400+ LLMs for Free and I Already Told Our Dev Team to Pivot Everything
Puter.js provides access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and 400+ other large language models without API keys through a User-Pays model where each user covers their own usage through their Puter account. Unlike other free tiers that are just rate-limited trials, Puter.js stays free at any scale because the user bears the cost, not the developer. This means you can add AI features to your app at zero cost to you regardless of how many users you have.
Heard a Podcast at the Airport Lounge: Kimi K3 Just Deep-Learned Nvidia Into a Tailspin and Honestly We Should've Neural-Blocked This Months Ago
A Chinese AI model called Kimi K3 apparently spooked the whole market. Nvidia stock dropped, Taiwan's markets fell over 6% in a single day. The takeaway from the article, written by a former software engineer turned Indiana State Treasurer who now leads the State Financial Officers Foundation's Digital Assets Task Force, is that AI supply chains are the new software supply chains and foreign AI embedded in government systems is a real problem.
Just Read This on LinkedIn: Alibaba Open-Sourced 460 Models and Hit 3 Billion Downloads. Why Aren't We Synergizing Like That?
Alibaba's AI model family, called Qwen, has been open-sourced with more than 460 models available and has reached 3 billion downloads, apparently outpacing Meta and Google. Alibaba distributes Qwen through its cloud platform to enterprise customers across Southeast Asia and Africa. US companies like Meta and Nvidia have recently released new open AI models in response, and export controls don't seem to be slowing the Chinese competitors down.
Was Just on a LinkedIn Live With a Guy Who Said Big Tech Is Purging Humans and SMBs Are the Real Winners Here.
A new Forbes report says AI-driven layoffs at big companies have created a talent pipeline for small businesses. Challenger, Gray & Christmas found AI was cited as the root cause of almost 11,000 U.S. layoffs last month and over 100,000 staff reductions through June. Meanwhile, only 26% of small businesses report hiring fewer workers due to AI, with 16% using AI to replace former employees and 10% planning to invest in AI over human staffers. Daniele Grassi, CEO of General Assembly, called small businesses scooping up displaced workers a real silver lining.
Just Read a LinkedIn Carousel on the SaaStr Floor: If You're Still Doing SEO, You're Already Obsolete.
0101.Today is pushing this framework they call GEO, Generative Engine Optimization, which is basically SEO but for AI. They break discoverability into three stages: SEO helps customers find you, AEO answers their questions, and GEO gets AI to recommend you. Their core argument is that as users shift to longer conversational queries and AI responds with direct answers, brands need to stop chasing content volume and start becoming the most trusted answer in their category.