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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,

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

How I'm structuring my personal holding company

As I build out Positive Sum, I'm thinking of it currently in three core categories: Tech Products This is the most important category - I've come to find even more over the past 12 months that building and growing technology businesses is what I feel I&

Voice Input

I just read Fred Wilson's post on Voice Input. It is true that voice input has been around for many years, but it is also only recently that I've started using it personally, for several reasons: 1. Improved transcription: I'm using a few products

Performing automated migrations with Supabase

I love how easy it is to perform migrations with Supabase - this is something that could easily consume a lot of time as a solopreneur, but I'm able to easily perform many migrations per hour/day using their tooling. I'm finding that differences like this

The impact of AI on leverage, work and employment

The implications of recent advancements in artificial intelligence are being widely under-estimated. We're seeing artificial intelligence being applied to certain common tasks like the creation of blog posts, and the generation of images. These use cases on their own are significant jumps in productivity, which allow what would

Automating SEO

Over the weekend I built a tool to begin to automate the SEO efforts for my companies - I strongly believe that SEO is a great growth channel, but most people are not patient enough to see great outcomes. With Stairway, we were able to be the top search result

Doctor Zhivago In Concert - Photos

Last night was the one and only performance of Doctor Zhivago in Concert at the London Palladium, produced by Lambert Jackson, along with my theatre production company, Positive Sum Productions. Here are some photos from the evening, taken by @danny_with_a_camera (website)