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Announcing Edgar - a personal assistant for life and work

I'm excited to announce Edgar, the second tech product that I'm launching under my personal holding company, Positive Sum. What is Edgar? Edgar is an AI assistant, for personal and professional life. It can help you manage your email and calendar, intelligently automate tasks through Workflows, as well as connecting

Why I'm building an AI assistant

There's been a lot of buzz about artificial intelligence this year - it would be difficult to have missed it, seemingly penetrating into every sector and walk of life. And yet, the most common question I hear from people outside of tech asking about it is 'but how does it

Building the InYouGo brand

I'm very happy with how the branding and design has gone with InYouGo. Of course, branding is a constant exercise that is never finished, and the v1 product for InYouGo will grow and expand over the coming months as we gather more feedback from users I'm particularly happy with the

Announcing InYouGo

I'm excited to announce InYouGo, the first tech product within my holding company. Why am I building InYouGo? Last year, I founded Positive Sum Productions, a live theatre production company. I began investing in theatre productions in London's West End. Theatre has always been a passion for me, but this

The Phases of AI Integration

I believe it will take several years to see the current power of the models already available today, in commercial settings. And I believe we'll see products being built in order, matching the phases below. Why is this an important point to consider? Because the nature of the UX/UI

WeWork's decline

I've seen headlines in the news over the past few days that WeWork is in financial trouble (again!). It got me thinking about their business, and what went wrong It feels like their entire marketing + messaging is about providing a space for people to work, for which they've now become

The path to self-improving products

I've been thinking about the impact of artificial intelligence on product building in recent days. This has been prompted by a few things: YouTube As I wrote about most recently here, I'm experimenting with building a YouTube channel. For now it's just an experiment, but I've already learned a lot

Operating Principles for Personal Holding Companies (Part 1)

While wrapping up the development of my first product under Positive Sum, I have been contemplating the principles that I aim to establish for the growth of Positive Sum in the upcoming years: There are a few principles by which I am looking to grow Positive Sum over the coming

Creating a lightweight blog with Interval and Supabase

For each product within my portfolio, I want to host a lightweight blog, where I can easily make edits. Update I've now integrated AI into this workflow too, which I run through in this video.

The growing importance of storytelling

I've had a growing interest in story-telling over the past few months - for a few reasons: * Company Building: While building and growing Stairway, it was clear that story-telling is a valuable skill for a CEO - you need to be able to tell good stories when convincing early employees