Recently, I published the audiobook for AI as your Teammate, which I recorded using AI. I started by paying around $40 to clone my voice. The audio I sent the company was terrible. Just absolutely terrible. It sounded like I was recording my voice from across a room. They cleaned up the audio and really…More
“All Feedback is a Gift”
In conversation, someone said to me, “All feedback is a gift.” I couldn’t disagree more. Feedback, at its most basic nature, is someone else giving you their opinion on a thing with the intention of helping you. However, framed in the manner of an opinion, no matter the intention, I find the framing of the…More
Tech & Everyone Else
In the early days in tech, there were two kinds of tech companies: companies like Intel, who made memory and semiconductors for tech companies like Apple to integrate into their products, and companies like Apple, who built technology and sold it to everyone else. Clients for most of the tech industry were people and businesses…More
The Economics of Being a Digital Nomad
I neglected to write this essay for months because it didn’t meet my criteria for an essay. It was neither pushing the limits of my thinking nor was it a topic of which I felt my opinion could be novel and valuable.((The first version of this was written in early December, 2022, then put on…More
Confidently Wrong
ChatGPT seems to be an interface moment for language-generation AI. Everyone is talking about it. Sure, there are a few companies worth over $1B combined that do AI for marketing copy, but ChatGPT seems to be captivating even the most non-technical people. I experimented with ChatGPT to write sports articles. I gave it the following…More
Strategic Spending
A book titled “Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less,” which I have not read, had a section posted on Twitter. It discussed strategic and nonstrategic costs. Explained briefly, a strategic cost is an expense that adds to the bottom line. Examples would be advertising that works, salespeople, R&D that you can commercialize. A…More
“World-Changing Technologies”
I did a few business minors in college. Seemingly, in every course except for finance, accounting, and industrial design,((ironically, the three courses I either liked the best or learned the most in)) we did case studies on up-and-coming companies. At the time, two of the most done case studies were Uber and Airbnb. All those…More
B2C Becomes B2B
Print media’s hay day was when you they made money on both sides of the equation. Readers subscribed to the paper, and advertisers paid to advertise in it. Then, Google came along. Print media was the original industry to monetize B2C and B2B. The free + ads model is pervasive in today’s world. Facebook and…More
Places to Live, Places to Visit
Editor’s Note: When we started being digital nomads, we wanted to live one month per location. We wanted to immerse ourselves in the culture and live like locals for a minute, then bounce and do it again. Below is an edited excerpt from my diary. August 1, 2022 Zagreb Croatia It’s time I recap some…More
GitHub Copilot
Ever since I got really interested in technology, I’ve wondered what it was like for the early tech pioneers to use a computer for the first time. What sort of magic did they feel? I feel similarly about the internet. Story after story of people remembering the first time they used the internet. Those times…More
Evan Ryan 