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
8 hours agoMeet ‘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
3 days agoThe 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. …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
Sep 8AI and the future of enterprise marketing and sellingWe launched something big at data.world — really big — that I’m really proud of. It’s an enterprise software first for our category, and I think it is absolutely inevitable for the future of enterprise marketing and selling. Meet Interactions with Archie, our conversational bot trained on all of our…AI2 min readAI2 min read
May 23What would your data say if it could talk to you? A lot, if you learn to listen to it with AI…As we live in a moment when just about everyone is analogizing the fast-emerging tools of artificial intelligence to one science fiction movie or another, I’ll offer up my own — that scene in The Matrix where Morpheus offers Neo the choice between the life-changing “red pill” or the stay-in-the-ordinary…Ted13 min readTed13 min read
Apr 2Back to The Future of a Higher-Minded Austin With a New University Devoted to That IdeaI’ll give the benefit of doubt to the new University of Austin (UATX), which can bring together a young MAGA Republican and a student activist in Black Lives Matter and help them listen to one another, politely debate, and even find a bit of common ground. It’s a hard thing…Uatx15 min readUatx15 min read
Mar 2Part II: How the ‘Fourth Surge’ of the ‘Double Helix of Data’ Became a Torrent of InnovationProving that an agile approach is just as relevant to data delivery as it is to software development Part Two Sometimes, technology evolves very quickly, as I discussed in my last essay on the past half century’s three “surges” of data. …Data Governance12 min readData Governance12 min read