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Dustin’s latest articles about entrepreneurship, business, AI, and other internet things.
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The Day I Almost Gave Up on Everything (And Why I’m Grateful I Didn’t)
Read More →: The Day I Almost Gave Up on Everything (And Why I’m Grateful I Didn’t)Failure has a way of whispering lies that sound like truth. After four years of watching dreams crumble, businesses collapse, and bank accounts drain, I was convinced I had nothing left to offer the world. Rock bottom felt like home, and I’d grown comfortable with the view from there. Then ChatGPT changed everything. Not immediately.…
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Why Most AI Companies Hide Their Identities (And What That Tells You About Their Business)
Read More →: Why Most AI Companies Hide Their Identities (And What That Tells You About Their Business)The AI industry has a dirty little secret. Most companies selling you “cutting-edge AI tools” won’t tell you their names. They hide behind faceless corporations, anonymous customer service, and zero accountability. And when they break the rules—which happens more often than you’d think—there’s nobody to hold responsible. Here’s why this matters more than you realize,…
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The GPT-4.5 Shutdown Proves Most AI “Experts” Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
Read More →: The GPT-4.5 Shutdown Proves Most AI “Experts” Don’t Know What They’re Talking AboutOpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4.5 in a couple weeks, and I’m not surprised. While tech influencers were busy posting LinkedIn carousels about “revolutionary breakthroughs,” I was calling GPT-4.5 what it actually was: bloated, inefficient, and environmentally irresponsible. The upcoming shutdown validates what independent testing revealed months ago—but most people were too busy following the crowd to…
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The Podcast Appearance That Broke Every Rule I Thought I Knew About Influence
Read More →: The Podcast Appearance That Broke Every Rule I Thought I Knew About InfluenceMost “influential” people aren’t actually influential at all. I’ve been a guest on over 100 podcasts. Hosts with impressive bios, established shows, people who look successful on paper. You know the type – the ones whose credentials suggest they should have massive sway over their audience. But here’s what nobody tells you about influence: the…
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Beware the “Free” Price Tag: Why That Amazing Tool Is Probably Selling You
Read More →: Beware the “Free” Price Tag: Why That Amazing Tool Is Probably Selling YouFree tools are a trap. There, I said it. And I know that statement just made half of you want to close this tab and find someone else who’ll tell you what you want to hear about your beloved free apps and services. But stick with me for a moment, because what I’m about to…
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From $20/Hour to AI Services Empire: The New Freelance Gold Rush
Read More →: From $20/Hour to AI Services Empire: The New Freelance Gold RushThe biggest opportunity in decades is hiding in plain sight, and most people are too busy worrying about AI taking their jobs to notice it. While everyone debates whether robots will replace human workers, a quiet revolution is happening in the freelance economy. People with basic AI skills are building six-figure service businesses from their…
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The 30-Second Solution That Produced 400% Increase in Conversions
Read More →: The 30-Second Solution That Produced 400% Increase in ConversionsOur conversion rates were terrible, and I was about to write a very expensive check to fix it. We had clear signs that people were visiting our landing page but not converting. Our cost per acquisition had ballooned to $100 per customer – unsustainable for any business, let alone a bootstrapped SaaS company. Traditional wisdom…
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Why I Named My Company After Biblical Wise Men (And What It Means for AI)
Read More →: Why I Named My Company After Biblical Wise Men (And What It Means for AI)When ChatGPT first launched, I had what I can only describe as a revelation. Not the religious kind – though maybe it was more spiritual than I realized at the time. It was the sudden recognition that we were witnessing something genuinely magical. After years of using clunky AI tools that barely worked, here was…
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AI Won’t Take Your Job, Someone Using AI Will
Read More →: AI Won’t Take Your Job, Someone Using AI WillThe biggest threat to your career isn’t artificial intelligence. It’s the person sitting in the cubicle next to you who just figured out how to get twice as much done in half the time. While everyone’s debating whether robots will replace humans, the real revolution is happening right under our noses. The winners and losers…
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I Just Bought a Business: Picyard Joins the Family
Read More →: I Just Bought a Business: Picyard Joins the FamilyTraditional design tools are killing your productivity, one screenshot at a time. There was a point where I was wasting 15-20 minutes creating a single screenshot mockup in Canva. Drop shadows, device frames, background gradients – every minor adjustment felt like digital quicksand. By the time I’d exported my fifth screenshot that week, I’d burned…
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The Age of Augmented Experts: Why the Next Wave of Millionaires Won’t Be AI Operators
Read More →: The Age of Augmented Experts: Why the Next Wave of Millionaires Won’t Be AI OperatorsThe gold rush isn’t over. But everyone’s digging in the wrong place. While millions chase fully automated AI solutions, a quiet revolution is happening. The smartest professionals aren’t trying to replace themselves with AI. They’re using AI to become irreplaceable. And they’re getting rich doing it. The Wrong Kind of Gold Rush Let me paint…
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The Penny-Pinching Paradox: Why Small Minds Count Pennies While Dollars Fly Past
Read More →: The Penny-Pinching Paradox: Why Small Minds Count Pennies While Dollars Fly PastI know someone who complains about spending $20 on tools that could transform their business. Same person pays $200 monthly for cable they watch twice. If this sounds familiar, welcome to the most expensive mindset in America: penny wisdom and dollar blindness. The $7 Coffee vs. $20 Tool Logic Here’s a scene that plays out…
