Taking Advantage of the AI Arbitrage Window

AI coding tools collapsed the cost of building software by as much as 90% in the last two years. Jason Alba built an entire HR learning management platform, dashboard, course catalog, AI chat tools, user accounts, through vibe coding. Two people, no engineering background, functional product. My co-founder at BUILT, Robert Davis, as a side
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How to Lead Your Team: Just Ask Them

Jason Alba and I have been recording conversations about business books for his new HR platform, Enhanced HR, working our way through titles like Good to Great by Jim Collins, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, and Atomic Habits by James Clear (tomorrow we’re discussing The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen
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Will AI Destroy Jobs? What 500 Years of Wrong Predictions Tell Us

Every generation is certain that THIS technology will finally destroy us. Every generation is wrong. Looking for links to books and other resources? Scroll to the end of the post. I’ve been seeing a lot of doom and gloom lately, in the news, on social media, and from politicians using the fear of AI to
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Who Holds the Visionary Accountable?

Q: I’m the visionary in my company and I don’t like being held accountable. Well, I do and I don’t. Am I a problem that needs to be fixed? If you’re an entrepreneur who uses EOS, you’re already familiar with terms like “visionary” and “integrator” and what they mean. If you’re not sure what I’m
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Use White-Label Public Relations To Grow Your PR Firm

Here’s a drop-dead easy business idea…if you have the right connections and/or aptitude—use white-label PR services to grow your own PR firm. This is ideal for: Existing PR firms Freelance PR professionals Someone who wants to start a PR agency Individuals and companies that already help companies with their marketing, thought leadership, and personal branding
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Affirmations For Entrepreneurs

Do positive affirmations work? Yes, if you actually do them. And if they’re good affirmations (a lot of them are silly and I had to do a lot of curation and creation to come up with a smaller number of affirmations I think are worth repeating). Positive affirmations have been shown through studies to improve
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7 Lessons From Two Decades of Remote Work

I quit my job. It was December, 1999. I had gotten married three months earlier. My wife and I were both students at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. We were poor. We had one, cheap car, with no air conditioning, and lived in a small studio apartment with cinderblock walls and a vintage fridge,
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