Audience participation, "don't sweat the small stuff."
“Very often, you need great audiences to have great art.” Tyler And at: “people judge things at the margin, right? In a friendship, or marriage, or if you have co-founders. At the margin, am I getting what I want? And, getting out of that mindset is very difficult. "
we gave up on that dream
The Concorde was fast, but not that fast. It could go from New York to Paris in just over 3 hours. The starry-eyed futurists of the song could be forgiven for expecting things to get even better. But even when oil prices were cheap, it was just too expensive to run, so we gave up on that dream, and now are lucky to travel that distance in 7 hours.
You get the enterprise AI you deserve, or, while management search for AI workloads, workers gobble up the AI ROI
Recent discussions on enterprise AI reveal that while individual workers may benefit from productivity gains, the overall ROI for companies remains unclear and challenging to measure.
Low quality content production is a higher quality of life
‘I think the level of quality that everything has these days, every image, every website, every song, every video also has downsides. It defining the “norm”, the expectation we have from one another has two main issues that keep irritating me.’
🔗 The Professionalism Trap
Google Cloud: $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years
nine out of the top 10 AI labs use Google’s infrastructure. He also says that nearly all generative AI unicorns run on Google Cloud, that 60% of all GenAI startups worldwide have chosen Google as their cloud provider, and that the company has lined up $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years, which represents more than double its current annual run rate.
(1) Clearly, some comms work in action here, to, (2) get the message out there that Google is kind of a big deal.
we can all agree that "workslop" is the word we need
The critique acknowledges the flaws in a HBR study about “workslop” while embracing the term itself.
“Our parenting hack of the year so far is having cut vegetables ready at the table when our kids get home from school. The percentage of vegetables consumed is up like 10x” Good tokens 2025-09-26
Feeding the hungry robot with your video content
Doing SEO for the LLMs so that your content can be found.
🔗 AEO for YouTube: How to Get Your Videos Cited by ChatGPT
monetization efforts
Sources say that Simo has recently been meeting with potential candidates, including some of her former Facebook colleagues, to lead a new team that will be tasked with bringing ads to ChatGPT. The role will oversee all monetization efforts across OpenAI, including subscriptions.
🔗 OpenAI is looking for a head of ads for ChatGPT