Multimedia was the word they used when I walked into my first computer store. I was astonished that the gray/white box displayed pictures that were almost photographic. My prior computer experience consisted of word processing with green letters. I was hooked - the sound sucked, but I was hooked. I made up my mind to paint there. So, I did. I ran into others who wanted to paint there too, and we rented a house together and called ourselves a business. I was abruptly educated. There were things like marketing, contracts, financing, functional specs, usability, and project management to name a few. It was incredibly fun and frustrating, but it was the lifestyle for me at the time. I loved it. Then an amazing and well-funded visionary named Walter Forbes (no, not the "Forbes," but wealthy nevertheless) wanted to build the first online shopping mall. Soon we had an online bookstore, travel store, auto store, auction house, everything under the sun store, and more – 14 in all. A little accounting snafu in a merger transaction ended his career and mine. I moved on to the B2B space. The B2B boom was even shorter than B2C, ending at roughly the same time. I experienced the world of mergers, corporate raids, rejiggered business models, and shuffled staff and roles for the next 8 years. The world where I grew up was replaced by social media and digital marketing. It didn’t fit me exactly, but I managed on for another 15 years while raising a family. And so, I'm here - hoping to return to my roots and utilize my writing skills to help drive the use of AI as a tool for business.