Sunday August 24th, 2025 - AI, Career Advice, Sales & Trends

It is grey day. I slept until 5am in the morning when I was awaken by a shaky feeling that it was time to find a restroom.

Despite my clear note and conviction at that time, that I will never be able to sleep again, once I am awake, I shortly after fell asleep again.

🕒 8:30am I woke up again. A beautiful morning. They grey was gone. The blue shimmered through. Time to finally get up.

But the note, that followed, was it an intuitive one? Or something else? Just a dream in the half-waken stance between having been asleep and not fully yet awaken? What was it? Should I give it any attention or let it fall back to where it came from?

"You throw your life away. You are not who you are. Computer time is not yours. And sitting all day long on the computer neither. And your teeth, look at your teeth", did the voice lament.

I gave it meaning. I woke up and I decided, it is time to change. But how does change look like when it's 8:30am on a Sunday morning, the lights just flickered through the curtains and day just glimmered in the first morning's sunshines?

It was time to write. Collect my thoughts. Collect the 1000 tabs, that I opened yesterday on my computer. The reason - I went from point to point, trying to bring chaos into clutter awhile creating a long list of new innovations, ideas, and insights won through the plethora of thoughts and perspectives.

• Leopold Aschenbrenner and his piece on Situational Awareness
• Led me to readings of young and old researchers, scientists and a name of ___, we will research him later, who just won the Fields medal, while he dropped out of high-school to become a poet and later discovered how mathematics brings him joy through the ability to wonder through the fields and space. One who can only work 3 hours a day and one who - while I can easily work longer - reminded me a lot about myself - wandering, being lost, poetic at times
• Starting, building, prototyping, rapidly until the 1000 tabs were reality and the 8 Cursors were stumbling my screen and a terminal note mentioned "you cannot open a new one" - I was clearly stuck. Got frustrated and lost in my own-created chaos. I almost slammed my computer and decided to leave that rat net for the following day. The day we are in right now. So let's begin and clean that mess. And preserve what is valuable for later days.

Cleaning the Mess - Part I: The 1000 Open Tabs on Browser One

Let's begin to clean the mess one browser tab a time, preserving what is valuable, making a note, and letting go. And better closing what is irrelevant faster than the day and night so to keep the mind focused on the task and fresh enough to handle more to go today.

Substack - 8 Tabs - I was pondering the differences of platform to finally start my writing again. A love-hate relationship. I wrote blogs and pages filling at least 3 new books, deleted them all, getting lost in the platform of choice and never started again. Sad to say the least. Now it's a new approach. Writing. Just writing. Whatever happens. Categories as I wish, chaos as it will prevail, but if there is only one thing one person will find helpful, meaningful or interesting, and maybe even help them change towards what they care about more, happy will I be.

Result: We will be closing all but one. Because hey, we are writing right now, so as long as we have not yet decided to let Substack go or copy-paste its articles here, there will be a two-way street.

Twitter - Simple, Ghost allows to directly post articles to various social media platforms - Twitter was one of them, Linkedin did not get the mark for me, as I have too many followers and want to write a "real" post that fits my audience, it just accidently stayed open. Direct Close, for sure. Done. Bye for now.

Remark: My mind keep starring at Substack. We closed it, but it's still there. Why? It's irritating. We could also close it and open it again. Let's do that. It is visually exhausting. -> Substack's last tab closed.

Google Doc about Sales Strategies - Open or Close? I get it. Slowly. My mind grasps the issue. The mind is obsessed with leaving open, because if not, it closes a "thing" that may be lost forever, a thougth, that is crucial, a thought that was the whole idea of daily writings. But isn't it in the minds interest, the human's interest to move on? To consistently develop and change? Isn't that called growth? So why hinging to a tab, while another tab can open? But what if the one tab predetermines the other tabs being opened? Like a blueprint for the mind to function in? A raster to be used to keep it in check? So if that anchor point is closed, will it lose the directions it will take from that anchor point itself? And flicker in the moonlight like wasps trying to escape?

The answer is not simple, but it is essential. It brings us closer to the matter of the mind and its fascinating yet irritating intricacies and spirals that even the mind itself cannot explain its own mind, while a third stream screams - yes it can - it just needs to listen.

While we ponder the closig of that one tab, the anchor of it all, we have not come a point further. The tab is still there, the document is still laying around and the mind is still trying to find an answer to the dilematta. It is like a life line that cannot be broken, but once it's broken it may give us hope, it may free us from the mind's own thoughts that bring the anchor to the center of the universe.

It is the anchor point. But what do we want to have it be? A sales document and point of anchor that is lying around with nothing but an empty promise - not used, not broken into pieces, not lived by itself, created by the experience itself?

We made a decision - the issue with the document, the same as with all the tabs open, it is that - the hope ot can be preserved as something important, something once touched to be staying in the memory, to give it some meaning, some perspective. To not lose what is deemed important. But what if all deems to be important? What if all waits for its preserving? When all has the same meaning? Then where will we end up? What will we decide for in the moment? When all is same and nothing is more?

A dilematta of another kind. But a point to be taken in the matter of the 1000 tabs. As 1000 tabs open 1000 streams of thoughts, of rabbit holes, of notes. When the mind not knows, where to focus on, it's 1000 streams of notes. OVERWHELMING. Surely chaotic. Its like the mind becomes more like the robot. The AI that goes into rabbit holes and explains with each topic the stance that just get more in-depth and real, the more one writes about the same topic. But the balanced way in itself is not touched upon that chaotic stance. It stays. It does not need anything else. And it does not need the intensity. It knows, intensity is chaos. Is problem. While intensity itself, by itself can have beauty in itself. In other forms. You see the mind makes sure, there is balance in the word. There is a different form, that does not allow for extreme perspectives, for the dark side to be looked at while ignoring the good side. As in all - there is always dichotomy.

Note: We closed the document. And wrote the key message down - here - : When you want to sell, do it that way: Reach out, connect, and don't sell to the one you speak to, but ask for a favor instead: Do you know someone, for whom that could be interesting what I have to offer. That's it. Wasn't that difficult was it? Source: Alex Hormozi, August 2025. Where: unknown. He is active on social media.

Weeknights.co - A platform I encountered by accident as I was looking for venues in New York. And boom, it came up - wonderful, but mostly Pubs, not the real ones - the ones where they may sponsor an event - that requires more work. Still, if you need that, look some up at weeknights.co -> Result: Easy Close.

Remark: Ghost moved to the first tab in the tab list. Yeap - first achievement of the day - it is in the right order. That is a calming note, and yet, squeezed and holded by the masses, being one in many and knowing it's not time to lead and clean, had something calming to it too. If you do not understand what I mean, imagine you are a tab among many. Where do you want to be in the long strain of tabs? Are you the middle man, the first or last one? Or do you have a tribe you feel most aligned with? Where are you there?

Sitch.app - Jessica Sophia Wongs, Yorkseed Founder among others - I was looking at various links of people on Linkedin, as I wanted to build one for myself. Instead of using a free Linktree, I came up with the wonderful idea to build my own one with Cursor. Works well, no doubt. And it's not too complicated. However, is that necessary? Is that time really worth it any of my time? When there is a tool already out there that does the exact same?

Yes, it does, but what if we could figure out how it's built? And rebuild it and make it better. I opened Cursor, typed in my idea and let it run on it. 3 minutes later, my app was ready. For me to use. I wanted to bring it to production. But really, honestly, is that any good of an idea? Me, using a tool that I built myself, will likely cost more and be sightly more natural and personal - but spending that much time on such a thing? When there are so many more important problems to work on?

Sure, let's note it down: Sitch.app, Linktree, the next tab -> Great examples, great ideas. When I stop writing this article, and only then, can I focus on using one for free to share my links with the world as well ;) The good? We preserved their examples visually, so closing these tabs is easier, as the main reason to keep them open - having inspiration for my own Linktree - is fulfilled. I can always come back.

Coeus Collective - Here we are, a tab for two reasons - The Linktree itself and the content it prevails. You already see - One is a NYC community for the founders and creators who are building the futre and Jessica is also leading a community - Yorkseed - here in New York. These are two communities of many here that are focused on investors, founders, builders and creators. Those that shape the future, those that brig new ideas and innovations into the world. Those that inspire and create.

I want to see myself among them, and yet, I collect their perspectives, I am the collector of communities, people, and places. But again, can you be one and the other? Can you be the one that is within and the one that is outside? Don't you have to decide who and what you are?

This decision, it never made sense to me, and yet, it derives my whole's life drama. The question for the one thing. The question for the - what to do. The result, there is not one thing. Because it's like with the search for love, the search for connection, the search for meaning. If you look for the one thing, you may find an answer, but will you find the thing itself? Or isn't the search in and by itself already the reason you will never find it?

That is an article, or many articles, a whole book worth of pondering. A question that lies at the heart of my perspective. A question for which there is likely never an answer, but an approximation. And yet, its the core of our existence from one of many perspectives. Because how do we live our life, when we know that what we look for never comes, but what we do not look for, will come. But then how do we act, when we know that what we look for does not happen? How can it happen, when we cannot look for what we look for but have to look for what we do not know to look for? Isn't that a contradiction in itself?

An yet, there are distinctions to be made, and while I am not sure I can answer them now and ever will, they shed light on the character of what we look for. Is it a note, a result, a process, a perspective, a character, a tool, a hope, a note? The note closes it in and out, an open space that allows for whatever you want to put inside. Following a character of oneself, of someone else, a process of a workflow or a design, a result of a number or a visual imaginary, the possibilities are endless. Endless indeed and not for the time being. But if that interests you, let me know and I may write another piece about it.

For now, let's go back to our NYC communities for founders, investors, operators, creators and builders.

There are many in the city, some of which are Yorkseed, the Coeus Collective, The AI Collective, Andrew's Mixers, FABRIK as a community of communities, and many more. More on them later. But keep in mind, when you are in New Yor, you always find an event to connect with those that I just mentioned.

Alexey Guzey Blog and Articles - 8+ Tabs - My specialty, starting to read a blog, liking it and opening all articles that interest me of that blog. The result? My tab show gets extremely long, can be 20, 30, 40 article links per blog. And the result of that? I scan through the first 2-10 articles, I may go down into rabbit holes and then, I stand still, overwhelmed of all that new content, and overcame with a feeling of guilt of the open tabs and the knowledge and language not consumed and feeling shame of closing them without having read a line of what the writer put together in their time. Something intrinsically lost from the eyes, not retrieved and not able to come back in the time being.

There are 8 Tabs open, with a wide variety of topics, for which some caught my interest specifically - "What should you do with your life", "Research Ideas", of course the list of lists of all articles, kind of the menu on the kitchen table, delicious and dangerous at the same time (see the 1000 tabs), "Omens of exceptional talent", "intelligence killed genius", "Cursed omens of exceptional talent" and just realized I have not read that one yet, the /cursed-talent but the /talent only, will do so now, "people who are going to change the world" and who I want to befriend or at least follow, I presume and if they fall into my mode of interest, and that's it.

A long list and some great notes and quotes that caught my interest. Especially intelligence killed genius - there is a lot of truth in that one. Alexey explains the idea of it - "Genius is being extremely good at a couple of things that really matter." But because we look at intelligence, geniuses are left feeling it's not on them and they are not able to change the world or make an impact. Why? Because "I know a few people who I believe to be geniuses. What happens when I tell them that I believe they’re a genius? They all tell me that there are people smarter than them and that they’re 'only pretty good at one or two things'". For him genius is this:

While we close all the tabs surrounding his blog, and thanks Alexey for all these insights - let's move on to note down two tasks: 1) Connect to the people he mentioned as those changing the world (all on X? interesting!) and 2) keeping his ideas and notes in mind (done via this article). -> Done.

Erik Torenberg Substack - 5 Tabs - none of them read in detail, just scanned through. Ended up at his blog after reading about ideas on what career to follow. Same trap as before - Following and looking for a lightbulb moment that never comes, as looking for that answer never comes. It's like saying now and in the future I want to have a career that fits. So, I now decide for a future state that now can never know. But now, all I can say is, that is exciting, let's do more of that. If that ends up at Career X in 20 years, who knows?

Let's see if there is anything I want to preserve for us here and for a potential future reference.

Now I remember, I do read his article and got interested in it - "See your career as a product" talks not only about seeing it as a product, but also creating a personal moat. And that personal moat is the answer to that question: "Ask others: What’s something that’s easy for me to do but hard for others? What's something I have that’s very difficult for people to reverse engineer?"

He gives us some examples for that:

My response to that yesterday was that I inputted that question into Claude AI and asked it: ** Please help me find an answer to that question by guiding me through relevant questions to answer that"

The answer: I am apparently a "Cross-Domain Pattern Synthesizer with Experiential Authority" or in other words I do "rapid diagnosis of hidden psychological and systemic dynamics in complex situations, then practical solution synthesis plus massive cross-domain solution generation" or in short I am "a psychological systems detective". PUH. Sounds very similar and down-to-earth to the examples Erik comes up with.

The result: My brain is lost in the words of the AI, a bit like human design theory, where you type in your birthday, birthdate and time and timezone and miraculously you are a type, and a lot of other things based on a mixture of various theories and astronomies and spiritual perspectives. Seems to be making sense, but once you read the other profiles you realize, they are similarly close and far away from yourself as the one you are put into. Same goes when you use AI to find your answer. While you give it your answers, it spins it together like a wheel of luck and rationalities, but does it touch upon your experience and context, while you have written your words into the chat window?

A better idea it is? Leave AI out. And see if you find an answer. If you don't, that is ok. Leave it there and come back whenever you find a new answer. Over time, there may be an answer. And if not, then it may not work for you. You may after all be a synthesizer, can call yourself a genius (Alexey's article), if you believe your synthetic abilities to be based on intelligence without being necessarily intelligent, and forget it all together as again, it is the attempt to look for an answer, where the answer will never reveal itself by looking for it. -> I closed the tabs.

Career Advice, Tips, Notes on 17 Tabs:

I preworked to make it faster for you and me, to cluster the tabs, to give them meaning, to hurry up our article that becomes like a mixture of content to be fit into a whole book if written down - maybe even more than a whole book. Many books.

Here follows the advice distilled in a nutshell of 17 tabs all around career and productivity, resume and decisions advice.

• "So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love" - Book by Cal Newport. Stumbled across it various times, never read it myself. Good reviews. Does not say anything, but many improves the likelihood not all are paid. So improves the likelihood it is good. - Tab 1, done.
• Marginal Revolution Blog by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok - Scanned through, but cannot make any indications if that is good or what it even is about. If you have time to read it, let me know. Tab 2, done.
• Elad Gil Website - Also did not read it yet, but it says he invested in Airbnb and other interesting companies, so well worth the read at some point in time. - Tab 3, done.
• Argh, got stuck in Elad Gil's Website, saw, he writes, clicked on it, ended up at his Substack and realized -> that is cool. Here is an image in his latest article on "AI Market Clarity" on AI Models and how they track on IQ Results. Looking at Alexey's article - how would that image look like if we put it into a genius zone? - Tab 3.1, closed fast, that is interesting, but we are not finished yet closing.

• Tim Ferris: "For Less Anxiety and More Life, Treat Your To-Do List Like a Diner Menu" article - Mentioning Cal Newport's book "Deep Work" (now I remember, I actually read it and liked it a lot), writes about the idea, that working through a list of to-do tasks, "to read" lists or else is a dull experience, especially as to look at life's and work's lists. But what if they are to be "best understood as a menu – a list of things to pick from, rather than one you have to get through." Then it is a much more joyful experience. You have a list. But you only pick what you enjoy. As he says "After all, if there are vastly more things I could do with any given hour or day than I actually can do, [..], then in fact we’re always picking from a menu, even if we delude ourselves that what we’re doing is getting through a list." I like that idea. Maybe it treats an angry, busy mind with some calmness and the enjoyment that not all things need to have the same meaning and the same attention of the human it attends to. Tab 4, done.
• An X post by Richard Ngo - Quite profound the more I look at it: see below. Tab 5, closed.

• 80,000 hours blog article: "All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job" - Part 9 of a Career Guide, where just part 9 may already fill a whole book. I'll share the key insights, the details, the real context and perspectives, you will have to read yourself - Let's scan through -> "1. Don't forget to take care of yourself.". We stop here. The scanning showed - It's general advice. And I just realized, I may have started at Nr. 8 and 9 and working myself back upwords than downwards. If that is a list to be meant to be 1 to 9, then I reverse order it hereby. If not, great, it's just a bullet list. I remember having read various articles of the 80,000 blog in the past and enjoyed reading them. If that is still the case nowadays is the matter of another day. Tab 6, closed.
• David Perell: "How to Maximize Serendipity" - That fascinates me and the article starts with a beautiful quote: "“The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.” – Abraham Flexner" as well as with the one sentence "The best opportunities are the ones you never expected. They’re serendipitous.". Let's read it. Well, I read the full article and I opened 9 new tabs in the meantime. What that means, it is a piece that catched me, the idea of creating serendipious moments that lead to moments that are not seen but that will happen if we keep ourselves open for it. I love it. And maybe you will too. Click on the link and read it yourself. - Tabs 7a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i closed.
• HOWTO: Be more productive - I feel I get tired. We just closed tab 7. And we are far away. The next article is a nice one on productivity, and one note that poops up throughout "Make your time higher quality" - try to do things and work on things that are getting more and more important, with other words, that are 'high quality'. Tab 8, closed.
• The vigilante Accountability project - I am not too sure how I landed here, but it is an invitation, an idea to write about vigilante accountability. If that interests you, click on the link. For now, we close this tab number 9.
• Don't end the week with nothing - Productivity tips and tricks, and some insights on what you should work and how to work on it. I have scanned it, well, make up your own mind on this one, tab 10 closed
• A Career Cold Start Algorithm - An insight into how to start making an impact in a new team and project when everyone else is already in it : Talk to everyone for 30 minutes: 25min asking questions, 3min: Asking about the biggest challenge now, 2min: Ask, who else to speak to. Then write all down, create an project org map and make an impact fast. Reminds me a lot of my work in Sales and Customer Success. This was rule number one when starting a new job. And whenever you are asked what you would do in the first 30-60-90 days of a new job, make sure that answer is not missing ;) Tab 11, closed.
• Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, ... by Patrick McKenzie - That's just hilarious, as the full sentence of that is: "Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them having been taught before. In that spirit, here's some quick Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already." What follows is a list of exactly those advice pieces, starting with: "Your idea is not valuable, at all." Good luck reading it. Crushing from line one. For now, let's close it. Tab 12, closed.
• Re-opened again, it was a rather interesting read, check it out. Some of these known and yet not known advice pieces are gold. Obvious yes, and yet good to remember. A fun title with an honest and real quest. Now closed for real, tab 12 is closed.
• Resume Blasphemy - This is a nice article about the annoying parts and pieces of a classical resume. Thus the author suggest a "Working Resume" including a) A clear picture of the business of the employer you want to work for. b) Proof of your understanding of the problems and challenges the employer faces. c) A plan describing how you would do the work the employer needs done. d) An estimate of what/how much you think you could add to the bottom line. - My notes, can also be a two liner first. Or our Alex Hormozi note sales note: Ask for a favor, don't do a sale. In any sense, when I apply for a job, that is what I will be doing. Resumes, especially now with AI, are a picture of the past, not of the future. A point in time instead of what is behind. A brand, not a story. A blasphemy, maybe. Tab 13, closed.
• A reddit thread on careers - we'll leave that here. No clue. If you care about random content, read it here. Tab 14, closed.
• Derek Silvers, "There is no speed limit" from the book "Hell yes or no" - Without having read the article itself, the concept of hell yes or no has some legitimacy in it and it is what I wanted to follow a while ago. But does it has any validity? Is it good advice or bad? For sure it is for the undecided, the lost. Given that I wrote "I am lost" somewhere in the frames of that article, there is a truth to it that can not be taken away and needs a closer look. Hell yes for sure is something that feels soft, clear, no questions asked. The no is all despite that and while it is not good to say yes to a non-hell-yes, what if you are a person of what if's? Isn't that then exactly the wrong signal? Isn't that a word, a frame of exclusion, of synthesizing, of focusing too much? To radically ignore what may have been an opportunity, maybe even one of serendipity, of intuition that the rational mind wiped away before the body could make sense and let the hell yes flow into its mouth? There is no answer her today, but think of it this way - if you catch yourself to say yes, while your body says no, take it as a good advice to listen to, if you feel you leave all the rest on the table, maybe it's time to let go and find what works for you better. Tab 15, closed.
• Paul Graham, How to do what you love - I read this article before. I remember that I opened the tab and directly became aware, that the visuals, the style, the wordings were those of Paul Graham. Have I read it again? No, not yet. But I remember that I enjoyed it the last time I did. Tab 16, closed.
• Tab 17. Closed. It's an article we already covered. "What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice" by Alex Guzey. And with that we close our Career, Productivity and other notes Tab marathon.

I am tired. These were 17 tabs. 17 insights, news, directions, perspectives. And the more I do that, I understand, it's an exercise that gives my mind peace. We have not forgotten anything, almost like a focused exercise in which each tab, as useless as it may be, have to be looked at, described, perfected. It's like these improvisational theater practices, where you open a box of materials, imaginary, and you pick one. Once you did you in your imagination, with your words and fingers describe what you see. The texture you feel, the movement that happen, the form, size, material, the experiences you have it, the moments you shared with it, all you hold and explore. And only when you are done, can you let it go. But the practice itself have brought you into contact with that imaginary "thing" and it won't leave you anymore, as it has touched your soul in one way or the other, even if it was only in your mind.

Opening the Box of AI - Tools, Products, Articles, News

We have just closed 17 Tabs and with it 17 short stories and insights that we came into contact with. It is clear that the mind is tired. It has consumed and brought its attention to 17 pieces of information. While that may seem to be small, the pure fact that the mind tried to consume that information, make sense of it and brought its conscious attention to the pieces of information, tells that the mind had to switch it's focus in one way or the other. One could argue it did so in the frame of a cluster, where all the tabs were part of a specific theme, thus reducing the attention switching notes and reducing it's mental energy, but that energy was lost is still a given. Even if the practice itself is an amusing and fascinating one.

And the written word to pull those notes and insights and making sense of them especially. For now though, lets begin with our next cluster of tabs - thankfully next to next, so we can just follow along a stream of tabs, almost of tasks in a list of to-dos. The list of tabs. Like Tim Ferriss said, maybe it should be like a menu, we pick the interesting ones. But for now, for the sake of the argument, let's do them sone by one. When we feel exhausted after, when we did not give ourselves the choice to pick the tab clusters, we know, that for us in that moment, his advice, his article carried some truth in it.

Starting point: 15 tabs to be closed.

• Staying Ahead - "jobless by 2027?" - Diving straight in with the dangers of AI, the massive changes AI will bring to the world and if that means, we will all lose our jobs in 2 years? 2027 seems a far away number, haven't we just crossed the 2000 mark? or the 2020 mark? How come we are already close to the 2030 mark? But here we are, and let's figure out what they say? It's a long read that mainly focuses on the AI 2027 Report that recently came out and showcases how we either give up all jobs to AI or we find a way to coexist and foster human values among AI, while the question is not anymore if AI becomes superhuman, but when.
• Related to the newsletter and the report is an image I recently encountered at an event here in New York about Model Context Protocol as well as that both are appearing in the AI 2027 article: The immense speed at which AI Models are able to have more time to finish the tasks they work. And if you worked with AI Models for while as I did, this was very obvious to encounter in your ay-to-day work. The same question remains: What if we asks AI to perform Genius tasks? How well will it perform? For now, let's close Tab 1a and 1b in this AI series.

• A tool: Airbook - Their claim: an analytics platform "where teams bring all their data in one place, explore what's driving revenue, and act on it." Given that we are working on a similar product base (all data in one place), but then do not explore it but chat with it, that caught my interest. Haven't used the product yet though. Tab 2 closed.
• Next Tool: Jan - The promise, "Chat with AI without privacy concerns". Given that prvacy is a REAL concern, given that you can give your AI agent now the tools to search the web and the log-in data to your tools and let them do what you would normally do, of course creates more security risks. And given that in the US, there are little guardrails for what you can do with AI, the sky is the limit. It is just natural, that at some point in time, there will be a huge data breach. the question is not if, but when and in which scale. How Jan is solving it, I don't know, but will check it out. Tab 3, closed for now.
• On another note, could be an interesting market to invest in. Given that hypothesis.
• AI Base article - "European AI Startup Releases Chicken Brain and Fly Brain Models, 94MB Ultra-Small AI Can Run Offline on Apple Watch" - That's a news that is more a note that becomes relevant for our product development and the idea that you do not need to necessarily use one of the bigger and commercial AI models to run your products, but that there are also over 2 million free-of-cost AI models that you can use. These are two models that I saw somewhere and wanted to learn more about them and their capabilities. More later. Tab 4, closed.
• Next tool - Veospark - While I felt for Airbook and Jan, I should better call them products, and not tools, this one here though feels much more like a tool than a product - even though it's sold as a product - and has some upvotes on Product Hunt. But it has one aspect that makes me suspicious of it: "based on Veo3". Cursor and co are also built upon them, for sure, but the question is - how much of add-ons are built on top of the AI tool it is based on itself - and how much do users value the extra visuals in comparison to the efficiency of a Command Line tool/chat tool to build theor products. What is it now? "AI Agent for Google Veo 3Iterate with AI • Preview scenes • Ship complete videos". Won't check it out myself, as I like Veo3 a lot so far, but if you like it (or not), would love your feedback. Tab 5, closed.
• Another product - Kuse - It looks interesting, was #1 Product Hunt Product of the Day and has three steps - "Drop files onto the canvas" -> "Select content and ask anything" -> "Get amazing results". Haven't checked it out, but may do so later in an attempt to understand their underlying logic behind as well as to see what they accomplished here. For now, tab 6, closed.
• AI Future Lab - Stumbled across it, as I connected with Dino on Linkedin and he suggested me to reach out to people in that community in New York. A bit of serendipity - he lives in Austria. Tab 7, closed. Same goes with TUM AI Initiate - proposed by him. Tab 8, closed. Same goes for the Young AI Leaders Community by the United Nations. He connected me with two hub and event leaders here in New York. Super nice of him. All I did was ask about what he is doing. Tabs 9, 10 Closed. The conversations though are not closed, they are just beginning.
• Pioneering Minds AI Panel: AI For Reals – Deploying AI in Your Business - An event by Pioneering Minds and ran by a friend: Nick Gu - It will take place 28th of August 2025 in New York and will be about "AI For Reals –Deploying AI in Your Business". If you want to take part, click the link and sign up. Be aware, you should have an interest in technical deep dives to enjoy the events thoroughly. If you do, they are very insightful and you for sure learn something new. Tab 11, closed.
• AI Tool - Invideo - I connected it with Claude and likely really good, but hey - I paid $35 dollars to get a non-watermarked video and then, the next time I tried it, they wanted to have another $15 for AI. But the whole product is AI-made, so how come, that this costs extra. Now, I tried to cancel it 3 times and it stll shows that the subscription is not cancelled and I have to contact support, as something went wrong. And when I click on the Support button, nothing happens. While it may be a really good Video making and cutting tool, be careful of the pricing models and the potential not-cancelling ability. May be growth costs and issues, and yet, from a customer perspective, that is not a good experience. One negative experience eradicates 100 good ones. Unfortunately that is true for Invideo. Hope, you collect more better experiences. Tag 12, closed.
• AI Product - Explorium - I love the name, isn't that beautiful, the exploration of the space, of AI, the world? When I was a young kid, somewhere in my notes, in a notebook, I found a sentence, written in scrawled handwriting: "I want to be an explorer!". I never forgot since I found that note again. The only memory I have of anything in written form despite a piece I wrote later in my teenies and that resulted in a concerned conversation with my teacher, who asked me why I could only be really free when skiing in the Alps. For that, the Explorer Story sounded more like a hero story that I told myself and saw myself, like a Mulan or Katniss in the Hunger Games. For the product itself - I have not tried it. It's promise, it's claim: "B2B data and infrastructure" for basically everything that it lists down. As it mentions a CRM and I am working on one, for sure it's a product to have a look at. tab 13, closed for now.

We finished the next cluster of tabs.

In the meantime, it is well beyond noon. And a new voice sounds through the articles lines - it is time to eat and drink something. You won't treat your body well if you won't do that.

The voice is likely right and for that reason, I will leave you here in the open space - I know, I apologize - until I will return to finish closing the tabs (there are still 42 left) and sharing what I have saved for myself as well.

The cluster we likely encounter will be - Products I am working on myself, ideas that I follow and technicalities that I encounter. Again, career insights and ideas, fast and a range of innovation ideas and trends that are boiling in the ocean of noise in the digital world, ready to be explored and to be brought to light.

For now, happy Sunday, wherever in the world you are! 😄