Episodes

Cohost JD Dillon and guest Josh Felix on influence as the workplace skill AI just repriced: everyone has ideas now, so the differentiator is getting the right person to pay attention, reconsider, and decide. Josh's story anchors it, from a three-and-a-half-minute layoff to five job offers built on a website instead of a resume. JD's subtraction: he stopped chasing scale, and would rather move 10 people who can change something than reach 10,000 who scroll past. With JD Dillon. Guest: Josh Felix.

Douglas Hubbard wrote the book people hand you when you say something cannot be measured. This interview is from 2016, before there was an AI budget anyone had to defend, which is exactly why it holds: the three reasons people call a thing immeasurable are the three ways an AI value case still falls over. The conversation is audio; the video is a visualizer. Guest: Douglas Hubbard.

Guest Michael Simon on what is actually in force: most of the attention went to the timelines that moved, while a set of chatbot obligations came into force on schedule across US states and beyond. Federal and nine states in detail, the EU AI Act and California around them, and what an operator does about it on Monday. Guest: Michael Simon.

Guest Limited Edition Jonathan on Substack's Pangram detector: why a label does its damage whether or not it is accurate, why the tool reverses on the exact cases its own stated problem cares about, and what it costs a writer to be scanned without being told. Guest: Limited Edition Jonathan.

Guest Sabino Marquez on why AI compliance is really AI procurement, why a bull can be responsibly fed and still be a bull in your apartment, and the first question nobody is asking: is this thing safe for the value you already hold? Guest: Sabino Marquez.

Guest Christine Rodrigues and cohost Lee Rodrigues on the job hunt after AI: when polished resumes turned into noise, why the corner cases still get hired, and how to keep your thought sovereignty. With Lee Rodrigues. Guest: Christine Rodrigues.

Solo methodology episode. What a signal and a subtraction actually are, and how to find your own, with or without AI.

The debut. The newsletter becomes a live show. With Lee Rodrigues.