Always hunting for new solution categories: and this one’s genuinely new. AI Forward Deployed Engineers flip the model: they learn the business, build what’s missing, and keep improving it www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-v... #AI #Startups #FDE
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Helping Retail & CPG Enteprises solve business challenges with startup innovation at Microsoft for Startups. I create ripples in the space time continuum, that alter future realities in the third dimension
How do we fundamentally discover new things? Einstein suggested it begins with a leap from experience to a new idea, and only later does logic follow. Discovery starts where intuition moves first inters.org/Einstein-Let...
On the Rational Order of the World: a Letter to Maurice Solovine | Inters.org
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New Post: Beyond Open vs. Closed: Building a Model Portfolio for Retail and CPG: https://shish.substack.com/p/beyond-open-vs-closed-building-a
this is amazing: More of #Germany's electricity came from wind & solar power than from fossil fuels for the first time ever in 2025 www.intellinews.com/wind-and-sol... #sustainability #EnergyEfficiency
#Ikea leaned into #AI and kept its call center teams, retraining them instead of cutting jobs. Those centers are now its fastest‑growing sales channel, climbing 15- 20% each year www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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The human predicament is almost comic: we’re built for the present moment yet spend our lives fleeing it. Allergic to “now,” we chase futures that never arrive, always trying to get away from the only place we ever are www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-...
How to Exist
Here’s an experiment for a true daredevil. Sit there for a three minutes, following two rules:
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5 #Architectural Holdout Houses Around the World .. and yes #seattle's own Up House (secretseattle.co/edith-macefi...): www.untappedcities.com/5-architectu... ...& the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view: ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/h... #retail
The Moving Story Behind Seattle’s Famous “Up” House
Edith Macefield’s House has become a local landmark after its comparisons to Carl Fredericksen’s from “Up.” In the middle of Ballard’s neighborhood in Seattle, you can find a small house surrounded by...
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A 10% #AI boost in a 500‑engineer org is real impact. It means roughly 10% more value shipped without adding headcount. The mistake is expecting 2–3x gains leaddev.com/reporting/ai...
AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x
The benchmark is wrong, not the results.
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#TBT: @BillGates letter to shareholders from the year I joined #Microsoft: www.microsoft.com/investor/rep... Anyone else recall: Digital Nervous System ? :)
Bill Gates 1997 Annual Report letter to shareholders
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New post on #AI strategy for #retail and #CPG: skip the open vs closed weight debate. Build a portfolio of both, matched to the task. How retailers, brands, and RCG #startups can make that split, and where #Microsoft fits in. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-mo...
🎙️ 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒔 & 𝑺𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝑨𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝑻𝑳𝑫𝑹 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs... #retail #innovation #startups
#Apple has resisted the #AI spending race, betting that customer experience, not infrastructure investment, will ultimately determine the winners www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Apple becomes second $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks
Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off
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#AI is cooling demand for new grads: #unemployment is up to 5.6% in early 2026, and junior tasks like research, analysis, & writing are exactly what automation now handles siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
here are the tshirts that were created by my #AI agents thus far: www.redbubble.com/people/Peace... more about the AI Agents: shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen...
My #AI Agents (shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen...) created a new tshirt: www.redbubble.com/i/long-sleev... #jimothy
New spotlight: PulpoAR is bringing #AI-powered virtual try-on and skin analysis to beauty #retail. With the virtual try-on market projected to hit $48B by 2030 and most brands still early on AI, the timing looks right. Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu... #BeautyTech #startups
Y Combinator is accepting applications for the Fall 2026 Batch funding cycle. The deadline to apply on-time is July 27 at 8pm PT www.ycombinator.com/apply #startups #founders
Apply to YC | Y Combinator
To apply for the Y Combinator program, submit an application form. We accept companies in batches four times a year. The program includes weekly dinners, office hours with YC partners and access to th...
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I kept up with the world of PCs by reading John Dvorak’s column in PC Magazine in the late 80s and early 90s. His take on the industry shaped how I followed tech during those early years.
Unnoticed out-of-stocks and missing product availability keep #grocery shoppers frustrated. Instacart plans to close the gap by putting Arpalus’ shelf-scanning tech in the hands of its in‑store shoppers. www.retaildive.com/news/instaca... #retail #AI
Instacart acquires shelf-scanning technology startup
The purchase of Arpalus gives it a system that allows workers to record product levels on store shelves using a smartphone app.
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The Cost Management dashboard in the Microsoft 365 admin center helps organizations control, monitor, and optimize Copilot Credit spending for #AI experiences enabled by usage-based billing learn.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
Managing AI experiences enabled by usage-based billing
Copilot Credits power usage-based billing across eligible AI experiences. Discover how to allocate, monitor, and optimize spending using the Cost management dashboard in the Microsoft 365 admin center...
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Your best store manager spent 20 years learning what works. When they leave, it goes with them. A learning loop paired with a world model is how #retailers finally capture that, and find the patterns even a veteran never spotted www.linkedin.com/pulse/learni... #AI #Retail
55 enterprise-ready #startups. Five solution themes. One map of where #Retail & #CPG #innovation is actually happening. New post on the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus portfolio & the problems these companies solve www.linkedin.com/pulse/solvin...
Met with the BrainCo team this morning and had to share. They're solving a problem every enterprise knows: #AI pilots that never reach production. Their forward deployed model embeds engineers alongside your operators to get complex AI actually working www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu...
Bertrand Russell’s secret to aging well: widen your interests, dissolve the ego, and flow into something larger than yourself www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/13/h...
New Post: Vibecoding a Real-Time Grayline Map and Satellite Tracker Without Writing Code: https://shish.substack.com/p/vibecoding-a-real-time-grayline-map
#AI is expensive because you rent compute. MeshLLM (meshllm.cloud) links all your #GPUs + memory across machines and exposes them as a single OpenAI‑compatible endpoint www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-ll...
Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
How Mesh LLM pools existing GPU resources across machines into a single OpenAI-compatible API, built on iroh.
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