Austin Tech Week kicks off today, and no excuses this time, I'm registered! What I love about our community is how much of it is built, not pitched. Robots on real streets, chips, energy, deep tech, and humans with grease under their fingernails. What's on your list this week?

The more your team leans on AI to make decisions, the more your product starts to look like everyone else's. AI is great at finding the statistically safe answer. Safe is exactly how brands disappear. I won't name names. The edge now is the human who's willing to be wrong in an interesting way.

Talked with a 40-person design firm in Prague. AI in everything, but still obsessed with human craft, about 30% fewer people for the same output. Low ego, happy doing pieces of a product. Design firms are driving through fog. Where are we headed, how do we stay useful, and what are you betting on?

Remember when we all used to try to keep up with, or even outrun, the pace of tech? It led to exhaustion, despair and burnout. Huge price to pay. Now that it's utterly impossible, we can just relish the beauty of each day, and get good at being human again. Happy Friday all

The design choices people make. Never ceases to astound me.

My coach told me this week LinkedIn posts aren't for going viral. They're for the last ten people who just connected. So they already know how you think before you get on a call.

Persona AI is raising $142M to put welding robots in shipyards. That's the kind of robotics bet I want to see more of.

On a robotics scaleup intro yesterday in SF. They want the machine to feel like furniture: warm when you need it and invisible when you don't. Not cute or dystopian. Just useful enough to disappear into the workday. That was refreshing to hear.