Rickmanelius

"Where is the best place to keep up with all things AI?"I get asked this question a lot. For the past 15 months, I've been leading AI training and team transformations, and building, building, building (my current interest is in open-weight models on loca

I'm SUPER jealous that I didn't think of this first...Alas! Hat tip to seclilc for tweeting this gem out two days ago.I've been thinking about it ever since. Why? Because there is growing grumbling among everyone about AI writing. And it's not just others

Here are quick takes on five things that I'm still thinking about this Friday morning.Be sure to reply/share the best thing you read this week (or something that lit you up). Any topic goes!1. Heart HealthIn the last 3 months, 3 people I know had heart at

I would have killed for this solution a decade ago.DDEV was a startup I co-founded back in 2015. And for the first few years, we sucked at marketing. We had an amazing tech platform, but we lacked the time and creativity to explain it in a Sesame Street S

I'm dating myself, but I used to love Pinterest Fails.No clue what I'm talking about? Observe Exhibit A.Cake Central / @bethanyvania / Via cakecentral.com instagram.comOn the left, a beautiful cake for the cat lover in your life.On the right, nightmare fu

A heavy rainstorm almost canceled one of my last high school track meets.This sucked. I had been warming up for the 400-meter hurdles with the hopes of winning sectionals. But I had to take cover under an umbrella for over 30 minutes. When the rain stoppe

I'll start and end this article with two recent stories (names changed to protect the awesome).Story 1: Two Weeks vs Ten MinutesBen is a non-technical colleague that I respect, and I was livid that he was being taken advantage of.His affordable, $30/hour

Startup CXO at @atomicform (web3 NFTs) Techstars All-star Mentor MIT PhD Materials Science Follow me for 15 years of lessons on growing early-stage startups

Conventional wisdom is that burnout is caused (solely) by overwork.So logically, if AI can help us complete tasks 2-100x faster than before, we should be UNDERWORKED and experiencing ZERO burnout, right?If only it were that simple.ALL THE THINGS!You may b

I'm a productivity junky, and what's true is you need space (time, energy, focus) to take on the big rocks, lest all of life's distractions consume every minute of your workday.A clear example of this is the utilization vs touch time curve. If your day is