Archives: Musings

  • Impossible is setting your own boundaries

    A pet peeve of mine is going through planning or R&D work and hearing “this can’t be done”. Admittedly, I’ve pushed back in client conversations for the sake of avoiding scope creep or refocusing the conversation on what’s dealt at hand. But in almost all cases, impossible means: And seemingly my birthday this year has…

  • Ben Horowitz on AI and long span

    A great interview by Ben Horowitz of a16z I can recommend, released this week for Columbia Business School: Strong, but well-informed and articulated opinions: And many other takeaways revealed in this interview.

  • 2,000 hours of podcasts

    As we go through a hundred interviews over the past two months, I frequently hit a wall whenever I point the conversation toward extracurricular activities. Interviewing for a handful of roles – from senior engineers through key account managers to some marketing and growth engineers, external resources are often missing or lacking, anything from pet…

  • When Google goes down

    Google was down in several parts of Europe + Turkey for over 3 hours today – and the chaos and shock on social (and even at the office) was pretty notable. Some open Slack threads lasted for hours, with people trying different things – from US proxies to VPNs to tethering from mobile, using mobile…

  • Fooled by AI, I am betting on humans again

    My first interaction with computers was back in 1993. I was completely obsessed with the premise of technologies, later on fully immersed in the concept of gaming, automated logic, programmed decision-making with the speed of light, and the opportunities this brings to the humankind. This was a natural continuation of my education and career path,…

  • Gen Z failing B2B marketing because of social

    The most common argument I have with young marketers in B2B is around positioning and tone of voice. The whole info space with viral X threads, engaging TikToks, $19 playbooks and GPT prompts (or $199 “get rich quick” copywriting courses) shape some narrow-minded, “echo chamber” limited beliefs in the young generation. I often relate to…

  • Reaching a progress ceiling – AI and other tech

    Smartphones have reached the peak of progress just like LLMs are no longer progressing with the same pace OpenAI set in the first few weeks/months. Mobile phones are now “AI-empowered” and launching new hardware models with no incremental improvements over their previous generations. I’ve been criticizing Apple for nearly A DECADE, living in the past,…

  • Salespeople selling AI software

    This was announced a couple months ago, but I still see ongoing references to the story + ongoing discussions on social, newsletters, and podcasts. Marc Benioff is hiring 2,000 salespeople to sell their AI sales agentic infrastructure, Agentforce: Marc is a pretty sharp founder and Salesforce is a monster. Their acquisition of Slack is also…