2026 Predictions Recap and 2025 Year in Review
Reflecting on 2025: travel, loss, and deep AI learning. I share my personal highlights and 2026 predictions on Google's AI dominance, crypto stagnation, and the rising threat of AI-driven fraud.
Latest
The Hidden Cost of "Free": Why Legacy Productivity Tools Destroy Team Velocity
Zero-Clickgeddon is here. Learn why traditional SEO is dead, how Google's AI Overviews steal traffic, and what steps leaders must take to master Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to secure Position Zero.
The Ultimate Productivity System: From Mindset to Metrics
Stop calculating ROI only on software licenses. Learn the hidden cost of "free" legacy tools (like spreadsheets and outdated systems) and discover how they secretly destroy team velocity and cripple enterprise efficiency.
Master GEO: The 3-Step Strategy to Beat AI Overviews and Secure Position Zero Authority
Stop confusing Google. Design your SEO Topic Cluster Architecture in 3 steps to unify content, signal deep expertise, and maximize internal linking authority for higher rankings.
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Will Guidara Book That Transformed My Approach to Digital Customer Experience
Discover key lessons from Will Guidara's Unreasonable Hospitality book. See how to apply the 95/5 rule and the core philosophy of Eleven Madison Park to dramatically improve your digital customer experience and business strategy.
TPUs vs GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race
It's Black Friday and it's time to talk tech. Benioff Dumps ChatGPT. Google's Secret Weapon. Who's Running That X Account?
Excel: The Best and Worst Tool in Your Tech Stack
Excel is both your biggest asset and worst nightmare. Discover why it’s the most loved and hated tool in business and what to use instead.
Why Your Company Needs a Chief Failure Officer: Building an Innovation Culture
Stop punishing mistakes. Learn why appointing a Chief Failure Officer (CFO) is essential for building a powerful innovation culture and accelerating your team’s learning velocity to ensure you fail forward.
The Windshield Mindset: Build What’s Next, Not What Was
Learn how adopting the windshield mindset helps you focus on future growth instead of past mistakes. Build what's next, not what was.
🌍 Google’s Data Firehose, Cookie Reform, and Claude’s Market Move
Cookies might finally crumble, NVIDIA makes faces talk, Hugging Face redefines testing, Google opens the data firehose, and Claude tries to out-analyze the Fed. The internet’s getting less annoying, AI’s getting more powerful, and Wall Street just got a new chatbot rival.
Ikigai Explained: How Purpose Leads to a Longer, Happier Life
Discover Ikigai—the Japanese secret to purpose, flow, and longevity. Learn how small daily habits can create a happier, more meaningful life.
🔓 AI Endpoints, Vapes, and Browsers... Who Let This Happen?
Tech is showing up in places it has no business being. A vape turned webserver, Chrome sneaking in AI, Torvalds dropping F-bombs on bad code, and over 1,000 Ollama endpoints left naked on the internet. This week’s stories prove: just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
⚡️ Ice Batteries, LEGO Loops & Claude’s File Magic
This week is a buffet of the bizarre and brilliant: scientists bent ice into electricity, Redditors built a hypnotic infinite LEGO domino loop, Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans resurfaced, Google sounded the alarm on the open web, and Claude learned how to save files.
AI
🔥 The Only Rule You Need: Hell Yeah or No
From Siri’s stalled glow-up to the UK Gov’s underwhelming AI trial — plus Derek Sivers drops the only rule you’ll ever need: Hell Yeah or No.
AI
Your Human OS: One Interface for All Your Tools
Build your own Human OS: cut context switching, connect all your tools with AI + MCP servers, and unlock focus, performance, and productivity in work, fitness, and life.
Business
🌮 From Tacos to 9GHz
This week: CPUs hit 9GHz, Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru gets trolled, Google drops a new image editor, and one developer codes his way from prison to innovation.
Productivity
🪑 The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build
OneUptime ditches AWS for big savings, N100 Mini PCs prove the cloud isn’t always king, AGENTS.md sets a new AI standard, the IKEA Effect shows why we overvalue what we build, and yes—someone is making a Lego-powered submarine.
AI
🚀 AI Showdowns: Apple Rallies, OpenAI Retreats, and DeepSeek Stumbles
Apple calls AI bigger than the internet, OpenAI backtracks after GPT-4o backlash, and DeepSeek’s chip gamble stalls...this week, the AI world was anything but quiet.
Newsletter
Why Zapier Won My Time Back from n8n
A comparison of n8n vs Zapier, sharing why I switched back to Zapier to save time, avoid hosting hassles, and build powerful automations faster with a larger app ecosystem.
Books
Never Eat Alone: Lessons on Building Relationships That Last
A practical review of Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi, sharing key lessons, quotes, and a simple plan to build authentic, lasting relationships that fuel personal and professional success.
⚡ AI That Gets Sh*t Done — From Zapier’s Playbook to LLM Cage Fights
AI battles, a Trello backlash, coders turning into AI maestros, Zapier’s secret AI playbook, and engineers hitting the racetrack this week’s Byte is all gas, no brake!.
AI
📺 Netflix Stats, AI Agents, and Shopping in ChatGPT
From shopping inside ChatGPT to Netflix’s latest streaming stats and the rise of smarter AI agents, this edition is packed with the future of tech. Don’t miss the tools, trends, and jaw-dropping headlines shaping what we watch, buy, and build next.
AI
From Cloud Native to AI Native: Why Your AI Architecture Needs a Reality Check
Discover why AI Native architectures are the future, learn how to avoid vendor lock-in, build flexible systems, and leverage multiple AI models for resilience and innovation.
AI
🦟 Lasers, LLMs & Local AI: Your Byte-Sized Tech Brief
From shopping inside ChatGPT to Netflix’s latest streaming stats and the rise of smarter AI agents, this edition is packed with the future of tech. Don’t miss the tools, trends, and jaw-dropping headlines shaping what we watch, buy, and build next.