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Nine Systems That Break Before an AI Agent Goes Live I'm not at all surprised so many enterprise AI deployments fail. So many things have… Read → Six Steps to Turn a Business Goal Into an AI Pilot This week I delivered a 60-minute workshop to CFOs, CHROs, and CLOs teaching them how… Read → How AI Supports the Entire Video Production Process I'm about to give y'all so much free sauce it's not even funny. We make… Read → Why Solo Entrepreneurs Will Become One-Person Unicorns I caught up with Kuo Zhang, President of Alibaba.com, and asked him for his hottest… Read → Profound Built Three Moats in a Post-AI World Profound just raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, co-led by Sequoia and… Read → Six Steps to Building an AI Roadmap That Doesn't Fail We're in the unsexy phase of AI right now. It's no longer about the flashy… Read → 30 Features of an AI-Native Company What does it actually look like when a company goes all-in on AI? Not just… Read → The Case for Professional Centaurs I'm either going to look like an absolute idiot or a fucking genius. I believe… Read → AI Isn't Killing Jobs. It's Sorting Them. A really solid meta-analysis just dropped on AI's impact on labor markets. And the findings… Read → Three Levels of AI Maturity in Business I've been watching how companies approach AI adoption, and there's a clear pattern emerging. It's… Read → The 10 Steps to AI Transformation (Only 1 Is Actually AI) It's not sexy to say, but most of AI transformation has nothing to do with… Read → Claude Code Workshops Are Coming to Dallas and Chicago This May We recently ran a Claude Code workshop for 50 Fortune 500 execs. It was a… Read → The Enterprise Brain: Why Someone Will Make a Fortune Solving Knowledge Work's Biggest Problem Someone is going to build a world-class "Brain" for enterprises and make a stupid amount… Read → I Built an AI Interview Companion to Run More Objective Interviews Fun AI-powered tool I built today. It's a companion that helps me run interviews more… Read → You're Only Scratching the Surface of AI If your answer to "how do you use AI?" is drafting emails, creating research reports,… Read → Where Engineers Should Work to Future-Proof Their Careers Every engineer I speak to is worried about the future of their profession. And honestly?… Read → My Playbook for Building a Recruiting Machine Recruiting is painful. It's especially painful when you need to hyperscale your business. I'm currently… Read → The Two Decisions That Will Make or Break Your Startup If you f*ck up two specific decisions as an entrepreneur, you are toast. The first… Read → How One Marketer Created 40 Facebook Ads, 100 Landing Pages, and Booked 4 Podcasts in a Single Day This guy made 40 Facebook ads, 100 landing pages, booked himself on 4 podcasts, and… Read → The Repositioning Gap: What Dario Amodei's Interview Means for Your Business If you're serious about building an AI-native business, last week's Dario Amodei interview is a… Read → Half of Marketing Teams Will Be Rewriting Their AI Messaging in 12 Months I'm calling it now. In 12 months, half the marketing teams shouting about AI will… Read → A 32-Year Overnight Success Just hit 200,000 followers, pretty pretty crazy. I'm a 32-year overnight success, so thought I'd… Read → How I Built a 17-Slide Partnership Deck in Under 10 Minutes with Claude Code I just had Claude Code build me a 17-slide partnership deck in under 10 minutes.… Read → A Finance Exec's AI Transformation: From 2-Week Models to 2 Hours I spoke to the Head of Finance for a Series B tech startup yesterday. He… Read → Claude Code Beyond Engineering: 11 Powerful Use Cases from Ultra-Users Claude Code has become known as a developer's tool, but its capabilities extend far beyond… Read → One of the Most Insane Weeks of My Career This was one of the most insane weeks of my career. It's difficult to express… Read → How I Create 1,000+ Posts Per Year as a Full-Time Founder I use a killer tool to help me create 1,000+ posts per year, while being… Read → Is Claude Opus 4.5 Worth the Hype? People are saying Claude Opus 4.5 is the next ChatGPT moment. I did not know… Read → 41 High ROI AI Use Cases by Category I have been testing AI tools obsessively over the past year, and I have found… Read → Announcing Our Partnership with Vercel Huge partnership announcement, 5 years in the making. Tenex and Vercel are partnering up. I… Read → What 100+ Speaking Gigs Taught Me About Fear I just gave a keynote to 350 executives, and it reminded me of something important.… Read → What I Have Learned Building in AI Six months ago, I started building what I call McKinsey for AI. It is 100%… Read → The 50-Day Culture Test I used to think core values were total bullshit. Corporate theater that you get to… Read → Stop Playing AI on Hard Mode Most companies approach AI implementation backward, focusing on flashy products instead of practical adoption. As… Read → How to Make Studio-Quality Videos Using AI Tools I have discovered something incredible that's transforming the video production landscape: You can now create… Read → Is AI Really Coming for Your Job? The idea that AI will completely eliminate jobs is unfortunately not accurate. While it’s a… Read → Scale with EOS I love EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System). It often feels like the less popular younger brother… Read → Making AI Approachable & Actionable It’s official. Tenex , your AI transformation partner, is making “Applied” a weekly digital event… Read → How to Win Deals in the Age of AI Here’s a pretty crazy sales story. Last week, a huge fitness influencer reached out to… Read → The 26 Biggest AI Frustrations Every Founder Faces This AI cycle is both amazing and highly frustrating at times. To understand what’s really… Read → Matching Mondays Matching Mondays is officially a thing! See the pictures below of my matching outfit with… Read → My Tech Stack That Runs Multiple Businesses I get messaged about it daily, so running it back. Here’s my current software &… Read → Building a Life, Not Just a Business In this next phase of life, my north star is simple, but profound. My North… Read → Brooke Welcome to the world, Brooke Spencer Lieberman. Named in honor of my dad, Bruce Spencer… Read → The Standard Today, we officially launched The Standard . A weekly newsletter that breaks down specific strategies… Read → Mondo Duplantis: My Favorite Athlete A sentence I never thought I’d say: The #1 pole-vaulter in the world is my… Read → Don't Try This: Running 5K While Explaining How I Built and Sold Morning Brew Most entrepreneurs tell their origin story from a comfortable chair in a studio. Me? I… Read → 14 Hot Takes on AI From Cracked Engineers I asked cracked engineers for their hottest takes on AI. They didn’t disappoint. Here’s the… Read → Post Run High: What No One Tells You About a $75M Exit at 28 I recently had the opportunity to be featured on the Post Run High podcast hosted… Read → My Current Beliefs on the AI Supercycle I’m constantly refining my views on AI, it’s such a fast-moving field after all. But… Read → 9 Insights From Speaking With 100+ Software Engineers I’ve spoken to more software engineers in the last 5 weeks than the previous 5… Read → Why AI’s Hype Outruns Its Hustle There’s a massive talk-to-walk gap in AI right now. Endless yapping about AI because it… Read → Getting to Know storyarb It’s been exactly 2 years since storyarb started. We went from a tweet about executive… Read → Introducing Distro: The First AI Content Strategist I'm excited to announce Distro , the first AI content strategist designed to solve a… Read → Lessons From Building Multiple Businesses I’m 2 years into multipreneurship. I embarked on this journey because I loved the early… Read → My Startup Stack: 100+ Tools Later I’ve tried 100+ tools to run my businesses and spent 10 years to find my… Read → 5 Business Lessons From Rihanna's Entrepreneurial Journey Rihanna was the first female billionaire to perform a Super Bowl half-time show. What you… Read →