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@5h15h.bsky.social
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Helping Retail & CPG Enteprises solve business challenges with startup innovation at Microsoft for Startups. I create ripples in the space time continuum, that alter future realities in the third dimension

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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 11h
Speaking at the Impakt Conference in #NYC on Oct 6 on a panel about data, #AI, & decision-making. Really excited about this one; the whole lineup is incredible. If you're going, would love to connect. Grab your invite: luma.com/oji879vr #ImpaktConference
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Download "The #FDE Multiplier" www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-ge... #AI #Whitepaper #Startups
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Demand for forward deployed engineers is growing faster than companies can hire them. In my recent Pegasus #startup meetings, I saw a new generation of startups respond by building virtual #FDE & tools that help human FDEs do more www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-ge... #AI
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spent a morning with @EnhansAI, a Microsoft for Startups Pegasus partner. Their AgentOS platform maps how a business works so #AI agents can analyze problems and act on them. In one #supplychain case, days of analysis became seconds www.linkedin.com/pulse/mornin...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Post: Everyone gets a private tutor now, so what will we learn?: shish.substack.com/p/everyone-gets-…
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#AI can help your business grow with the people you already have, and help those people reskill faster than ever. Thoughts from #Retail Show #Australia: www.linkedin.com/pulse/growin...
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Growing your company with AI instead of Shrinking with it
Audio TLDR Why AI conversations get heated Almost any conversation about AI turns into a debate sooner or later, and I've stopped being surprised by it. Bring up the data center going in at the edge o...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Been putting off a certification or license because a class felt like too much? I built my own study plan with #AI for the FAA Part 107 drone exam. Wrote up how it works and where to be careful: shish.substack.com/p/everyone-g...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 1940 #retail training film that still hits today. All poise, posture, and pride in the craft. A reminder that great retail begins with knowing your customer and showing up with intention pub-075ff01374c04555b51c9bc50f258b42.r2.dev/sources/0bda...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SkillOpt makes the skill doc the optimization target. The model and backend stay fixed while the procedure for evidence, tools, verification, and formatting evolves. microsoft.github.io/SkillOpt/ #ai
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SkillOpt | Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills
Project webpage for SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen language agents.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about #ai www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every company has a list of work it decided it couldn't afford. Almost nobody wrote it down. That list is where the interesting #AI stories are www.linkedin.com/pulse/undone... #retail #startups
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Walmart’s supplier negotiations show the truth: #AI agents didn’t take jobs. They did the long‑tail work humans never had time for, and closed 68% lnkd.in/p/gA5C6Rkc #retail #AIAgents
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New Post: The Internet Was Right About “Touching Grass”: shish.substack.com/p/the-internet-w…
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Run #CUDA-targeted Windows applications on #AMD #GPUs through ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP github.com/Speedstu/CUD... #GPU #AI
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GitHub - Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows: Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs with ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP.
Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs with ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. - Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#Amazon is partnering with #OpenAI so advertisers can run conversational #ad experiences inside #ChatGPT www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-... #retail #AI
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Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT: What marketers need to know
The managed service offering, which is in a U.S. pilot and available via Amazon DSP, comes as ChatGPT Ads recently hit a revenue milestone.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you lead #innovation at a #retailer or consumer brand, the Pegasus Customer Network is open to you. What it is, how it shapes the #startups we work with, and the five areas we're focused on this year www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-r... #retail #cpg #ai
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New Post: My favourite jazz singer turned out to be AI and I’m still thinking about it: shish.substack.com/p/my-favourite-j…
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
looking forward to following the Golden Globe Race over the next few months goldengloberace.com/live-tracker/ #GGR2026 #Sailing
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My favourite #jazz singer turned out to be #AI and I’m still thinking about it, by @5h15h shish.substack.com/p/my-favouri...
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My favourite jazz singer turned out to be AI and I’m still thinking about it
So I've been on a forties jazz kick since November.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
from the world of #retail, a reminder to avoid sloppy pasta mashable.com/life/walmart...
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The internet reacts to Walmart's 'AI slop' sign
The retailer is finally embracing contactless payments. Unfortunately, its promotional keypad has two 7s.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rick Steves' Not-Perfectly-Accurate But Simple Little Trick To Help American Tourists Think In Celsius: double the Celsius number and add 30 www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/...
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European Numbers and Stumblers
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New #Startup Spotlight on 4Minds, one of our Microsoft for Startups Pegasus companies. How a knowledge graph takes Category Managers from five systems and five different truths to one source of category intelligence www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu... #retail #AI
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have seen #robots prepare coffee at an autonomous cafe, and it was painfully slow: secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons... #AI
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15 Reasons Robotics is Hard
And why you should ignore demo videos
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Mac Studio clusters can hit 3× faster #AI inference, pooling memory to run today’s biggest open‑weight frontier models. www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/n...
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New Mac Studio Can Be Clustered Together for Faster AI Performance
Multiple new Mac Studio units can be clustered together over Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA (remote direct memory access), creating a shared memory pool for running larger AI models. Multiple new Mac Studio u...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Copyright shouldn’t be a tool to silence future creative competitors—whether or not they use #AI in their work www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype
New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps neit...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New Post: Using AI to Transcribe and Summarize Marine Radio Traffic: shish.substack.com/p/listening-to-c…
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Antenna→ #RTLSDR dongle →rtl_fm →Whisper running locally → daily summary Pointed the whole chain at VHF Marine Channel 16, the international maritime distress frequency, to see what a day on the water sounds like lnkd.in/p/efJH-FQh #AI #AmateurRadio #HAMRadio #Sailing
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Windows Task Manager’s Creator Rebuilt It 30 Years Later youtu.be/c3EEs-O3bGE?...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The jobs at most risk are entry- and mid-level, and the new jobs being created will mostly require skills that take many years to learn ..." and I’m already seeing many young fresh graduates struggling to land their first roles www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-... #AI
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The choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill Gates
AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. We need to start planning now so it makes the world a fairer place.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
i would this concept as a live view walking map: www.orbify.eu/demo/ #geospatial #maps
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Surveys are a poor instrument for finding out what customers are actually trying to accomplish. Interviews are better but do not scale. New post on what changes when you can read what customers write without asking them anything. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-j... #retail #CPG #startups
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Waymo published ten lessons from 200M fully autonomous miles. I rewrote it for #retail: sensor fusion, keeping your map current, refusing black boxes, and why a supervised pilot always flatters the system. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-le... #startups
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#Walmart says its stores have become the core of its omni model, now handling more volume than ever as last‑mile hubs for 80% of #ecommerce orders & all fast deliveries www.retaildive.com/news/walmart... #retail
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Walmart’s stores have ‘evolved’ as e-commerce grows
CFO John David Rainey said brick and mortar is vital as retail becomes more omnichannel. Meanwhile, Walmart's Q2 U.S. comps were softened by drug pricing regulation.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#PhysicalAI isn't a #robotics story. It's the next phase of the broader #AI wave, where agentic systems and spatial world models give #robots the ability to understand and act in the real world www.linkedin.com/pulse/physic... #startups #innovation
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Human ingenuity often shows up in the way we redraw the world. China’s Arctic route is a reminder that innovation can be as simple as finding a new path when old ones slow down. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/...
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Can China’s new Arctic sea route to Europe replace Middle East chokepoints?
Beijing's new 'Ice Silk Road' cuts through a melting Arctic, and could prompt new tensions with the US, analysts say.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How does #IKEA come up with names for its products? www.ikea.com/se/en/custom... So somewhere in Sweden there’s a town called “Skärmfjäll” that is absolutely furious it became a lamp ;) #retail
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How does IKEA come up with names for its products? - IKEA Sweden
Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Amazon’s search ads aren’t a convenience & act like a tax that sellers must pay to be seen, & shoppers end up covering the cost through higher prices. It rewards cheap goods backed by big ad budgets & makes search results less useful seths.blog/2026/08/the-... #retail #advertising
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#TIL: Juan de Fuca was actually Ioannis Fokas, a #Greek explorer whose name was later Hispanicized, & his claimed voyage through the Strait of Anián (now Strait of Juan de Fuca) www.wikiwand.com/en/Strait_of... .. I always thought it was named after a Spanish explorer #pnw
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Strait of Juan de Fuca - Wikiwand
The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a body of water about 96 miles long that is the Salish Sea's main outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The international boundary between Canada and the United States runs down the centre of the Strait.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Finding the sweet spot on your bike's seat height: the “0.883 rule”, also known as the Greg LeMond method cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/new... #biking #CYCLIST
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Is your seat height all wrong? - Canadian Cycling Magazine
Finding the sweet spot on your bike's seat height Is your seat height all wrong? Finding the sweet spot on your bike's seat height
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Always hunting for new solution categories: and this one’s genuinely new. AI Forward Deployed Engineers flip the model: they learn the business, build what’s missing, and keep improving it www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-v... #AI #Startups #FDE
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
How do we fundamentally discover new things? Einstein suggested it begins with a leap from experience to a new idea, and only later does logic follow. Discovery starts where intuition moves first inters.org/Einstein-Let...
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On the Rational Order of the World: a Letter to Maurice Solovine | Inters.org
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New Post: Beyond Open vs. Closed: Building a Model Portfolio for Retail and CPG: shish.substack.com/p/beyond-open-vs…
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
this is amazing: More of #Germany's electricity came from wind & solar power than from fossil fuels for the first time ever in 2025 www.intellinews.com/wind-and-sol... #sustainability #EnergyEfficiency
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#Ikea leaned into #AI and kept its call center teams, retraining them instead of cutting jobs. Those centers are now its fastest‑growing sales channel, climbing 15- 20% each year www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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MSN
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The human predicament is almost comic: we’re built for the present moment yet spend our lives fleeing it. Allergic to “now,” we chase futures that never arrive, always trying to get away from the only place we ever are www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-...
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How to Exist
Here’s an experiment for a true daredevil. Sit there for a three minutes, following two rules:
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
5 #Architectural Holdout Houses Around the World .. and yes #seattle's own Up House (secretseattle.co/edith-macefi...): www.untappedcities.com/5-architectu... ...& the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view: ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/h... #retail
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The Moving Story Behind Seattle’s Famous “Up” House
Edith Macefield’s House has become a local landmark after its comparisons to Carl Fredericksen’s from “Up.” In the middle of Ballard’s neighborhood in Seattle, you can find a small house surrounded by...
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#pnw #salishsea #sailing #pugetsound
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A 10% #AI boost in a 500‑engineer org is real impact. It means roughly 10% more value shipped without adding headcount. The mistake is expecting 2–3x gains leaddev.com/reporting/ai...
leaddev.com
AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x
The benchmark is wrong, not the results.
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5h15h @5h15h.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#TBT: @BillGates letter to shareholders from the year I joined #Microsoft: www.microsoft.com/investor/rep... Anyone else recall: Digital Nervous System ? :)
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Bill Gates 1997 Annual Report letter to shareholders
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