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My team sent me a token cost table for AIOlabz and called it the cost model. It is a great table. It is also one of five numbers that decide whether we have a scalable business. Why the numbers behind one learner decide what we can charge.
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My team sent me a token cost table for AIOlabz and called it the cost model. It is a great table. It is also one of five numbers that decide whether we have a scalable business. Why the numbers behind one learner decide what we can charge.
A breakup letter to my travel app of 19 years. It turns out it was just a database and a little script reading my Gmail. So I built my own, and took back my $49.
Am I living the life I intend to? Twenty apps couldn't tell me. So I put my whole life in one database, connected my Whoop data and Grokbot, and finally got an answer.
Leading AI and people is the new shape of leadership. A personal story about Georgetown, a father's pride, and why the rigor behind AI, not the prompts, is the work.
Most founders track AI tools, not AI outcomes. One Verne Harnish talk in Manila ended a conference, rewrote my homepage, and gave me the four AI metrics I now rebuild engagements around.
Most founders chasing AI are stacking it on top of a 0.5x version of themselves. The 90-day experiment that took me from 1x to 2x, and what it means for your AI stack.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd be teaching Georgetown Executive MBA students. The story of how Leadership in the AI Era came to be: a phone call, a coffee in Saigon, and thirty years of coaching.
A Vietnamese film premiere, a father, two daughters, and the leadership lesson every founder needs about consistency.
Claude Routines replaces Zapier, Make, and N8N inside the AI layer. The speed is not creating leverage. It is exposing who did the prep work. What founders should do this week.
Supabase for non-technical founders, explained like a friend would. I shipped a real database-backed contact form on my site in one hour. Here is how.
Leading humans and AI is the new job for founders. Before you buy another tool, build the foundation. A letter on workflow design, data, and real AI ROI.
The Year of the Fire Horse started on February 17th. By the end of the first week, I'd already lived through a revenue high, the worst product failure of my career, and a perfect score in a leadership class. Three massive swings in seven days.
I learned so much about the 50% of leadership that we all know matters — the human side. The relationships. The hard-won wisdom that only comes from building something real in difficult places.
Ms. Trang from Pasteur Street Brewing Company attended our AI After Dark workshop. Less than 12 hours later, she had already built her digital twin and put it to work. Here is what that tells us about the gap between learning and doing.
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