by Helen | Aug 17, 2026 | General
“Where am I getting screwed?” that’s the question entrepreneur Mark Cuban asks his large language model. I heard him say it in conversation with Allie Miller on a webinar this week. And it’s the question behind one thing that really excites me...
by Helen | Aug 17, 2026 | General
I already feel smug as I write this, as the pizza dough for our dinner is proving in the kitchen. And the thing about this pizza dough is that it seems wrong at every single stage. Or if I’m being melodramatic. Every. Single. Stage. And if I’d been making...
by Helen | Jul 17, 2026 | AI, Innovation, The Hard Part newsletter
From nothing to built, in two hours Yesterday I ran a clinic session for business owners to help them build what in marketing terms is known as a lead magnet but what the rest of us would call an online quiz. They built fully functional web pages in two hours from...
by Helen | Jun 19, 2026 | AI, Innovation, The Hard Part newsletter
The only time I’ve run out of petrol is while driving through an oil refinery. Back in the day, there were Fiat Uno pool cars on the refinery for driving around the site. As contact engineer on a unit over a mile from the office, I had the keys to my own Fiat...
by Helen | Jun 12, 2026 | General
Firstly, I’ve discovered a new word: botshit. It’s a more visceral description of AI Slop that’s been generated without sufficient oversight from common sense. And I just had to share. Also, it’s cited in an actual academic paper –...
