
Dispatches from the intersection of AI, startups, and analog life. By Sterling Smith — founder, angel investor, photographer.
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I have been thinking, all week, about the difference between what looks like the thing and the thing itself.
It started at a coffee shop. Strangelove, on the east side of downtown Austin, late Sunday afternoon. I came there to clear my inb...
An Ivy League PhD is training your next AI model for $35 an hour. A philosophy graduate is reviewing AI-generated slop at three in the morning so the chatbot won't surface it to you. Six months ago I wrote an essay about depth becoming the...
This is part of a series of reflections written while building RightMatch in a volatile market.
I’ve been overdue for a check-in here. Life has been moving fast, and when things move fast the instinct is to optimize, to compress the...
When you see your company featured in Times Square, you know something big is happening.
Last week, I stood in the heart of NYC watching RightMatch AI flash across the NASDAQ billboard.
Being part of the 2025 global cohort of Morg...
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This morning, on Martha’s Vineyard, we gathered hiring leaders, investors, and innovators for our Ethical AI Coffee Meetup. The conversations made one thing clear: the future of hiring won’t be decided by who has the most AI...
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I build things at the intersection of AI and hiring. Founder & CEO of RightMatch AI. This is where I think out loud about what’s working, what’s broken, and where it’s all heading. Also: film photography, because not everything needs to move fast.
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