Real-world AI testing results from the lab. No theory, just experiments and honest outcomes.
What's actually happening with humanoid robots, what it means for your job, and why the hype-to-reality gap is bigger than they're telling you.
Category: brain-food | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 12 min read
We gave Dad a new golf cart for Christmas. Then I built a landing page to sell his old one—using AI, while on the course with my sons. The workflow took 2 hours. The mistakes were real. The offers started coming before we finished the round.
Category: success-stories | Result: success | Reading Time: 7 min read
Built my wife a tribute website during our family road trip. AI research, 12 iteration cycles, a live site in hours. She wasn't impressed. Here's what I learned about building fast vs. building wisely.
Category: failure-files | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 7 min read
I run businesses that build software for clients—but couldn't build a simple form for myself. So I tested 6 AI coding tools on real projects. Some delivered. Others burned through my budget fixing the same bug in circles.
Category: tool-reviews | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 10 min read
I cut presentation build time from 6 hours to 90 minutes by running multiple AIs in parallel—Claude for story, ChatGPT for flow, Gemini for frameworks—then cherry-picking the best outputs. Plus a visual library that compounds over time.
Category: failure-files | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 8 min read
AI helped me design a treehouse, source materials, and engage 6 kids as builders. It didn't swing a hammer—but it created capacity for what matters most.
Category: success-stories | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 9 min read
AI made my team faster—and more isolated. I’m unpacking the paradox, my own missteps with AI, and why belonging now matters as much as productivity.
Category: brain-food | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 5 min read
My kids asked ChatGPT, not Google. With 800M users and search behavior shifting, AI isn't the future—it's already here. Google's dominance just cracked.
Category: brain-food | Result: fuel | Reading Time: 8 min read
Most agencies waste thousands on AI tools nobody uses. The problem isn't the tools—it's that nobody owns AI strategy. Here's who should.
Category: brain-food | Result: fuel | Reading Time: 13 min read
AI ads are coming fast. I tested ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google's AI ads across my businesses - here's what actually works, what failed spectacularly, and your action plan.
Category: lab-reports | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 9 min read
I spent $12,000 testing AI tools across a marketing agency, wedding venue, AI consulting firm, and family of 9. Here are the honest results—including the spectacular failures nobody talks about.
Category: failure-files | Result: mixed | Reading Time: 14 min read
I testing AI for some time. The Sphere still broke my brain. Here's how Google's AI turned The Wizard of Oz into a $2.3B preview of media's future - and what you can steal for your business.
Category: brain-food | Result: fuel | Reading Time: 7 min read
Clients armed with AI can now generate impressive marketing plans that are completely wrong for their business—making agencies essential as 'truth-tellers' who know when AI's perfect strategies will fail.
Category: brain-food | Result: fuel | Reading Time: 8 min read