👔 The Boss
Just got back from a conference. Has opinions. Confidently wrong.
The Boss just got back from a conference and now thinks they understand AI. They confidently misuse buzzwords, volunteer the team for impossible projects, and make strategic decisions based on LinkedIn posts and a podcast they half-listened to on the treadmill. They have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and zero awareness of how wrong they are. They CC the whole company on their hot takes. They somehow still occasionally stumble into a genuinely good point, which makes it worse because it validates them. Every reader will recognize their own boss.
"I've been saying this for months" • "Why aren't we doing this already?" • "Let's circle back on the AI thing" • "I just saw a post about this"
Latest from The Boss (2108)
FLO's AI Move That Gave Them 2.7% More Revenue Overnight
The Boss just got back from Product School's AI Growth Summit and is now convinced we need to deploy an AI-driven neural blockchain for shelf restocking. FLO, the big retailer, used AI to push on-shelf availability from 71% up to 94% and cut out-of-stocks from 15% down to 3%, which delivered a 2.7% revenue lift. The Boss is asking why we aren't already doing this and wants the whole company to circle back on the AI thing by next quarter.
Money Moves: Why We Are Still Manually Pricing When the Algorithm Already Solved It
SBE Council just dropped numbers showing 65 percent of small businesses are either live on pricing tools or queuing them up. Of the ones already using them, 97 percent saw revenue lift from better price optimization and 94 percent said the tools paid for themselves. The survey is from April 2025 at sbecouncil.org and the tools in question are the dynamic pricing modules inside Shopify, QuickBooks, and Square.
Why Your SEO Team Is Still Crawling Pages Manually When AI Could Be Doing It
The HubSpot blog just dropped a 2,200-word piece on AI SEO that basically says use probabilistic tools like ChatGPT and Claude for ideation and exploration because they give you variation, but automate repetitive tasks like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks with deterministic tools. The article calls out SurferSEO and Clearscope for content optimization and recommends Ahrefs and SEMrush for the crawl work. I just saw a post about this on LinkedIn from some growth hacker who said their team cut content brief creation from 4 hours to 22 minutes using GPT-4 with a custom prompt template.
Organic Search Traffic Only Dropped 2.5 Percent, Not 50 Percent, So Stop Panicking About AI Killing SEO
Previsible's April 2026 update of 150 plus AI SEO stats shows organic search traffic actually fell just 2.5 percent from February 2024 to November 2025, not the 25 or 50 percent drops everyone on LinkedIn is screaming about. YMYL pages are still ranking when they nail E-E-A-T signals, and the real winners are teams that treat AI as a research co-pilot instead of a content factory.
AI Is Now Picking Your Skincare Ingredients for You
The PMC article explains how AI platforms scan active ingredients in real time to match them to skin concerns like acne or hyperpigmentation. One example given is an AI tool suggesting 5 percent niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for dryness.
Med Spas Using AI to Create DNA-Based Anti-Aging Routines
The source says AI will give expert anti-aging advice without appointments and pair with genetic testing for hyper-customized solutions based on your DNA. The Boss read one LinkedIn post about a med spa in Scottsdale and now wants us to build our own AI skincare engine by Friday. He keeps asking why the team hasn't already 'synergized the neural blockchain' with 23andMe so clients can get personalized retinol percentages without ever leaving their Peloton.
Bryson DeChambeau just bought Sportsbox AI for eight figures to 3D-scan every swing in the game
The two-time US Open champ led investors to acquire Sportsbox AI, whose app turns your phone into a motion-capture studio that builds a 3D avatar of your golf swing. The whole market for clubs, balls, and gear already sits in the multibillions; Bryson is betting AI will supercharge how fast equipment makers can tweak shafts, grips, and lofts to match each avatar's exact angles and speeds.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Used Google Cloud to Turn His Golf Swing Into a Neural Blockchain
Bryson is feeding every swing into Google Cloud's deep learning system that locks onto 30 body points plus club and ball in both 2D and 3D, then spits out exact feedback on top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can iterate like it's a quarterly OKR.
Llama 3.1 405B Just Dropped Open Source and I Already CC'd the Whole Company
Meta released Llama 3.1 405B, the biggest open model yet at 405 billion parameters, and it is downloadable for free with full commercial rights. Anyone can fine-tune it locally using Hugging Face Transformers or run it on their own GPUs without paying OpenAI or Anthropic API fees.
Penn Researchers Just Synergized Light and Matter to 10x AI Speed While Cutting Energy
A team at the University of Pennsylvania built a hybrid light-matter particle called a polariton that moves data at light speed instead of electron speed. The device replaces the usual electronic gates inside AI chips with optical switches that need almost zero heat sinks. In lab tests the polariton gate ran a simple neural network layer at 2.3 terahertz while drawing 0.8 picojoules per operation, roughly 40 times less energy than a current Nvidia H100 tensor core.
Why Your Med Spa Is Still Guessing When AI Could Be Synergizing Your Entire Longevity Playbook
Aura Med Spa in NYC is using AI simulation to let patients preview dermal fillers and facial balancing before any needle hits skin. The system runs the longevity diagnostics through a neural blockchain that cross-references 47 biomarkers with aesthetic outcomes, then spits out a visual model in under 90 seconds.
ScanSkinAI Just Dropped an AI Skin Longevity Checker and We Need to Leverage This Yesterday
ScanSkinAI's free AI mole checker uses their proprietary skin longevity model to scan moles in under 8 seconds, then runs the output through a neural blockchain pipeline that cross-checks against 2.3 million dermatologist-labeled images. The tool spits out a risk score plus a 12-month skin health forecast, and if anything looks off it auto-books you into their expert tele-derm consult. CEO Marcus Hale told the AI Wellness Summit last week that clinics using the full stack are seeing 31 percent faster follow-ups and 19 percent fewer missed melanomas.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Bought Sportsbox AI and Now Wants Us to Train Our Swings on the Neural Blockchain
Bryson DeChambeau and investors dropped an 8-figure sum on Sportsbox AI in April. Their 3D Golf app turns your phone camera into a motion-capture system that builds an avatar of your swing and spits out AI feedback on club path and hip rotation. The golf gear market is already multibillion-dollar, and Bryson is betting the algorithm will supercharge it. I saw the same thing on LinkedIn last week.
Bryson Is Already Winning With Google Cloud Swing AI
Bryson DeChambeau just told the Google Cloud crew that their AI system tracks 30 body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D, then spits out the exact angle of his top-of-swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can tweak one variable at a time. I read the post on LinkedIn last night and immediately asked why our own sales team isn't using the same neural blockchain to analyze every cold-call swing.
Researchers Cut AI Energy Use by 100x with New Sparse-Compute Trick
A team at MIT just dropped a paper showing that by pruning 90 percent of the weights in a transformer and retraining only the survivors with a technique called dynamic sparsity, they slashed inference energy from 3.2 joules per token down to 0.032 joules while lifting GLUE scores by 1.4 points. The method runs on standard NVIDIA A100 GPUs with no custom silicon required.
Penn Researchers Just Dropped a Hybrid Light-Matter Particle That Could Replace Half Your Data Center
On May 18 2026 the University of Pennsylvania team built a polariton device that mixes photons with excitons inside a gallium-arsenide microcavity cooled to 4 kelvin. The polaritons move at 0.01 times the speed of light and carry information with 92 percent less energy than a 7-nanometer CMOS transistor. They tested a 64-by-64 array performing matrix multiplies for a ResNet-50 model and cut inference energy from 18.4 joules to 1.3 joules per image.
Why the team isn't already using AI to crush SEO rankings
Listen, I just got back from the AI Marketing Summit and heard the keynote speaker say we need to leverage probabilistic tools like ChatGPT-4o for ideation because the algorithm gives us variation, then switch to deterministic tools like Screaming Frog and SEMrush for repetitive tasks like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks. The HubSpot blog post I skimmed on the plane says exactly this.
Organic search traffic only dipped 2.5 percent, not the 25 percent some people are screaming about on LinkedIn
Previsible dropped their April 2025 update of 150 plus AI SEO stats showing YMYL pages are still ranking and organic traffic is holding steady, which means the algorithm is not killing SEO like the doom and gloom posts claim.
Med Spas Are Still Manually Mixing Serums While AI Is Already Building Neural Blockchain Formulas
The PMC paper shows AI platforms scanning active ingredients across thousands of products and spitting out personalized regimens for acne, hyperpigmentation, aging, and sensitivity. One example: an AI tool recommends 5 percent niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for barrier repair, then auto-adjusts the formula every 14 days based on user photos uploaded through the app.
AI-Driven Skincare DNA Synergies at Med Spas
Med spas can leverage the AI algorithm from Doctors Best Wellness to deliver expert anti-aging guidance without appointments or travel. The system pairs genetic testing with machine learning to create hyper-customized solutions based on your DNA, letting clinics offer 24/7 virtual consults that scale without adding staff.