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Jev (Product Review)
This week I learned about Jev, an AI decision model from TypeSafe AI that’s quite different from the LLMs we’ve grown used to. Jev isn’t your standard text-based LLM. It takes an input, applies a schema, and produces an output, similar to a standard API call. The main difference with regular LLMs is that Jev…
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The Meeting Book (Book Review)
I’ve never been a fan of meetings. Bad meetings, that is. The ones that are ill-prepared (myself included, more often than I’d like to admit) or that just don’t seem to go anywhere. We’re terrible at counting the true cost of a meeting too, quietly adding another recurring weekly slot to the calendar without ever…
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Why Stripe bought OpenRouter
Your bank sees your transactions with them. Your credit card provider sees theirs. Your mortgage lender sees theirs. None of them sees the whole picture of how you behave as a borrower, because each only sees their own slice. That’s what a credit bureau is for, it sits across every lender and sells the aggregated…
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Grok Bot (Product Review)
My summary of Grok Bot before looking into it – the first offspring of the Cursor and SpaceX/xAI tie-up. Expect an agentic platform similar to OpenClaw and Google Hermes. How does Grok Bot explain itself in the first minute? “AI teammates you can give real work to. Bots can sign into your tools, use them…
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The Decision Stack (Book Review)
Ask ten people to define “strategy” and you’ll get ten different answers. There’s no shortage of books and frameworks to help us think strategically, but formulating and aligning on one is still a genuinely difficult exercise. I’ve found that the hard part isn’t defining the vision or mapping out the steps to get there. It’s…
