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
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“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
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
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
Inspiration is highly perishable
I find inspiration to be highly perishable. It’s a short-term high. It briefly, momentarily, kicks me into high gear with all sorts of vim and vigor, but, like a child who ate too much candy, it crashes. Then, it’s gone forever, and you’re left with “real life.” When I sense those moments, I do everything…More
25 Years of Peace – Year 2
2 years into my journey, I’ve never missed a day of writing down something that brought me peace. It’s interesting to notice some of the themes that have arisen. The same people, over and over, bring peace. Those people get tons of my time. I write their names down a lot. Freedom comes up an…More
My first entrepreneurial safety net
My first year in business was primarily spent building mobile apps for clients. When I was in college, I thought that mobile apps would be pretty big, and I thought AI would be really important. I didn’t have any money to hire developers and I didn’t know how to build apps or AI, so I…More
Evan Ryan 