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Khan Academy
By Sal Khan
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Stop only asking AI to do work for you — spend your spare hours making it train you
Compelling Reason to Buy (Not to Sell)
In the bowling alley it is never about you — close the laptop and collect problem domain knowledge.
Decompose-and-Ensemble
Break a broad problem into specific tasks, then solve each with a specialized model in an ensemble.
Determinate vs Indeterminate Optimism (Betting Under Deep Uncertainty)
Founders need one specific plan; allocators need many bets and a discount on their own forecasts
Eval-Driven Product Development
Design the test for your AI product alongside the product, then hill-climb the model against it.
Model Maximalism
Build at the edge of what models can barely do — the next model will make it sing.
Poor Man's Fine-Tuning (Few-Shot + Role Priming)
Steer a model with in-prompt examples and a role identity instead of a full fine-tune.
Reason About It Like a Human
To design or debug AI behavior, ask what an equivalent human would do in the same situation.
Ship-Fast Operating Model
Lightweight bottoms-up planning, PM-light teams, and iterative deployment in a fast-moving domain.
Task Loss, Not Job Loss
Your job won't vanish — analyze it as a bundle of tasks and keep swapping the tasks AI absorbs
The Barbell Media Diet
Read only the up-to-the-minute and the timeless — distrust everything in the middle
The Beachhead Segment Formula
Pick a first market that is big enough to matter, small enough to lead, and fits your crown jewels.
The Bowling Alley Adjacency Expansion
Grow segment by segment along adjacencies — same customer new use case, or same use case new customer.
The Chasm Positioning Formula
Technology leaders who have specialised and committed to THIS problem — respect the incumbent, outclass the peers.
The Four Go-To-Market Playbooks
Early Market, Bowling Alley, Tornado, Main Street — each has its own playbook, and mixing them backfires.
The Marquee Customer and the 10th Executive Sponsor
Before you cross the chasm, win one famous logo — by finding the one exec in ten who wants to leapfrog.
The Superpowered Individual (Combination-of-Skills Career Moat)
Go deep in one craft, then use AI to add adjacent crafts until you become un-replaceable
The Value-State Test for Crossing the Chasm
VC money buys a change in your company's value state — you have crossed when you no longer need the next round.
Trapped Value and the 10% Capture Rule
Find the pool of value your technology unlocks — you keep roughly 10% of what you release.
Vertical AI Opportunity Finder
Build where the winning data is locked behind a company or industry's walls — foundation models won't go there.
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