Published inAustin Startups·PinnedThe Entrepreneur’s Essentials: ContentsNote: On Mother’s Day 2022 to honor my mom, Brenda, and also my wife, Debra, and after 13 months of work alongside David Judson (a true partner), I came out with the second, expanded edition of this book in print on Amazon Prime. Like the first edition, it is also…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
3 hours agoThe 4 Billion-Year History of AI’s Large Language ModelsThe aggregate of all of the information in all of our brains and across all our books, and everything publicly found on the internet, is now the genome of a new creature– ‘Agora’ By Byron Reese, author and entrepreneur, and Brett Hurt, CEO and Co-founder of The data.world team ChatGPT…AI9 min readAI9 min read
Nov 23Ten lessons from OpenAI’s five-day rollercoasterI originally published this yesterday morning on LinkedIn. I was asked by Juan Sequeda to speak on Board governance given what happened at OpenAI. That internal Lunch & Learn at data.world is coming up post Thanksgiving. To organize my thoughts, here are ten lessons from OpenAI’s five-day rollercoaster: 1. Their…OpenAI9 min readOpenAI9 min read
Nov 9In the wake of Hamas’ gruesome slaughter, the banality of evil lurks in one simple word — “but” (shortened version)How antisemitism and Islamophobia flourish in the ‘Age of Maximal Ignorance’ and its spreading mind virus of false equivalency — I published the original version of this article on 11/7, the one-month anniversary of the horror of 10/7. I had a lot to unpack, and it received a lot of gratitude. It was long — over 4,300 words, around a 17-minute read. I was asked by a good friend, Erin…Israel7 min readIsrael7 min read
Nov 7In the wake of Hamas’ gruesome slaughter, the banality of evil lurks in one simple word — “but”How antisemitism and Islamophobia flourish in the ‘Age of Maximal Ignorance’ and its spreading mind virus of false equivalency — It’s time to tame the perverse tyranny of this word “but” in our discourse on Israel and the now month-old war raging in Gaza after the gruesome slaughter, rape, and torture of more than 1,400 innocent people. The slaughtered are primarily innocent Israelis but they also include innocents from 27…Anti Semitism17 min readAnti Semitism17 min read
Oct 4Meet ‘Archie’ who is helping all of us get smarter — at the speed of AIInternally, we’re harnessing AI to elevate our teams and foster critical thinking, introspection, and empathetic collaboration. Externally, we’re using AI to reshape how we engage with customers and prospects. We’ve covered education enhanced by Artificial Intelligence for our children in Part One and Part Two. Now I want to turn…Artificial Intelligence12 min readArtificial Intelligence12 min read
Oct 1The Great ConvergenceEverything advanced so quickly this week, as discussed in this week’s episode of the Hard Fork podcast. In that spirit, I created this short story with some advanced prompting in ChatGPT’s GPT-4 model. Welcome to “The Great Convergence”. The Great Convergence The excitement in the air was palpable. Billboards across the city screamed…Convergence5 min readConvergence5 min read
Sep 24River’s SecretI wrote a science fiction short story today named “River’s Secret”. I spent about an hour on it with Google’s Bard as OpenAI’s GPT-4 didn’t allow me to given the subject matter. Bard, the newest version, was a helpful brainstorming partner. …Science Fiction4 min readScience Fiction4 min read
Sep 19Youth Will Lead Us to a Much Needed, New ‘Learning Ecology’Rather than fearing or banning artificial intelligence, some education innovators and students are moving to design new ways to learn with new tools of technology at the exponential pace of AI itself Part Two In Part One of this series on the power of artificial intelligence in education, I started big by addressing the planetary learning crisis we urgently need to acknowledge and confront. So to kick off Part Two, I’ll start small, with a microcosm of AI’s global promise that can…Education14 min readEducation14 min read
Sep 12Why the ‘education crisis’ is a global malady (and how AI can fix it)Let’s climb onto the shoulders of the AI-in-education pioneers Ethan Mollick and Sal Khan to radically reimagine a new, “post-linearalist” ecology of learning Part One As the purpose of this series is to share a few thoughts on learning and artificial intelligence, let’s start with an educational exercise: First, pick any country in the world. Recall the dreamy destination of your honeymoon. Pick a spot off your bucket list. Throw a dart at…Education12 min readEducation12 min read