Tag: small business
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The Marathoners Win
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AI will not save lazy people from doing the work. It will make serious people more dangerous because they can take harder reps, build better systems, and keep going longer.
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I Did Not Have Agents Communicating in a Discord Server on My 2026 Bingo Card
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I did not expect to be running a Discord server as mission control for humans and agents. But here we are, and it is working better than I expected.
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The Job Changed. The Titles Didn’t
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AI job titles are not keeping up with agents, judgment, business context, and the people who can still ship without creating cleanup.
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Owning an Agency in 2026
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The old agency lanes still exist. Websites. SEO. Ads. Copy. Retainers. But in 2026, the real work is shifting toward judgment, orchestration, trust, systems, speed, and knowing how to use AI without turning the business into a mess.
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You Are the Moat
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Tools are not the moat anymore. Automation is not the moat. Even knowing AI will not stay a moat forever. The durable advantage is the person who knows what matters, what does not, and how to turn messy reality into the next right move.
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Delivering on Perfection
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Perfection sounds premium, but real work needs clearer standards: excellence, reliability, care, and the judgment to deliver under constraints.
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What Forward Deployment Engineer Means To Me
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Forward Deployment Engineer is a messy title because the work is messy. To me, it means operational capability under uncertainty: understanding systems, communicating with humans, integrating tools, debugging chaos, and moving toward outcomes.
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Don’t Mistake Niceness for Weakness
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Don’t Mistake Niceness for Weakness Don’t mistake niceness for weakness. That idea sits underneath more client work, team friction, and boundary problems than most people want to admit. There is a weird thing that happens when you are good to people. If you are patient with clients, some people assume you are soft. If you…
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The Deep Generalist Was Built the Hard Way
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My career and life have been all over the place at times. That used to look scattered. Now I think it trained the exact skill AI makes more valuable.
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Every Agent Still Needs a Human Harness
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AI agents do not remove the human. They change which human matters. Right now, the person keeping the agent useful is still the whole game.
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