The "First Principled" Founder
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 38 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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This Actually Might Make Some People Mad!
What if your regulated organization no longer needs passwords, passkeys, or traditional logins anymore? What if I can prove it?
For real. Not as a thought experiment—as a deployable control.
Right now, most of our “security” still...
Do You Trust AI With Your Kids?
The answer is...You Should Not!
You shouldn’t trust AI with your kids—not blindly, not by default, and definitely not just because the marketing copy says “safe” or “educational.” The uncomfortable reality is that AI has already given bad...
Everyone’s talking about AI models
Almost no one is talking about the required evidence layer underneath them
To all my banker and credit union friends: the regulators are coming, and they’ll be asking hard questions about your “cool AI.” They won’t think of it as innovatio...
AI is Reaching the Right People But There is a Problem!
A real evidence layer is missing. "Trust" is still a "maybe"!
We are all awash in AI. It’s everywhere. It’s at home with your Echo and your phone, it’s with your kids and their devices, and it’s embedded in almost every organization we do...
Why Does the Internet Still Run on “Spare Keys Under the Mat”?
Let’s forget about tech for a second and talk about the "good old days" and my house keys when I was a kid.
Let’s talk about the good old days when I grew up in a small town in South Dakota. Everybody knew everybody and we lived in a neigh...
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50 years battling to make amazing business happen with relentless first principles and entrepreneurial instinct. Farmer, rancher, fintech disruptor, serial entrepreneur, and non-profit leader driving brutal clarity, execution, and lasting innovation.
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