If used correctly AI can lead to 10x, 100x, or 1000x in productivity improvements if you can successfully manage key areas especially attention and accuracy at scale. If AI prototyping or automation interests you, let's connect and tell me how I can help!General Interests: applied/generative AI, rapid prototyping, bridging research and practical applications, agentic/agents, LLM/SLMs, inference optimization, attention mechanisms, multimodal, embeddings, hugging face, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), chain of thought (CoT), in-context learning (ICL), named entity recognition (NER), fine tuning, benchmarking, LPUs.I've founded/worked for many early-to-mid stage tech companies in many verticals including sales/marketing, social/RTB advertising, education, finance/banking, retail/commerce, and online sports. If you are looking for someone who is a relentless/curious knowledge seeker, has a passion for innovation, problem solving, creative thinking , and efficient execution, we are likely a good match. For new products I don't generally believe in competing with commodities or 20% better - that's a path that feels good but is ultimately long and difficult. Innovation and exploiting timely change are always the best accelerators. Keep it simple, iterate always.For best results, understand your market, ecosystem, customers, team and choose your most important idea. I like to focus asking good questions, listening closely, doing research, and selecting a path that is right/unique for a specific time/context.Values that help teams make decisions: Simplicity: Never create complicated solutions.Magnitude: Focus on being order of magnitude better.Survival: Create solutions that will be used everyday or right away.Progressive: Get comfortable with starting small.Temporary: Reality will invalidate some of your best ideas.Necessity: Focus on things people cannot do without your product.Shortest form: Most Pain, Narrow Focus, Highest Value, Be Unique, Seek Proof, Traction First.A few ways to avoid innovation traps: 1. Identify a most important change.2. Understand why it's not obvious.3. Validate in a unscalable way.4. Build forward and adjacent.5. Prove things with customers.6. Traction should not be difficult.7. Improve in differentiated ways.8. Scale quickly avoiding competition.What I like: ambiguity, systems thinking, analogies, clarity, focus, curiosity, open-mindedness.Hobbies: trail running/hiking (20+mi), piano, firewalking, risk management