Chris Faron

The Grid Is Drawing a Line: PJM Moves to Rein In the #AI Power Boom – Miner Weekly theenergymag.com/news/2026-03-1…

@BojanRadojici10 Would love to try this

360 years. That is collective Excel experience of my team of 30 people, in one room. I have personally used Excel for 20 years. Since the very beginning. We’ve spent decades "crushing it" when it comes to financial modeling. We knew every shortcut. Every nested formula. We thought we had reached the peak of efficiency. (They are better then me, just to admit) But I have something to tell you. The game just changed. In my opinion, we are witnessing the biggest innovation since Excel was first released. It’s not a new function or a Power BI update. It’s Claude. Specifically, Claude’s ability to build and manipulate Excel models. For 40 years, the "manual labor" was the tax we paid. Hardcoding formulas. Spending hours formatting cells. Manually linking sheets and building tables from scratch. That era is over. Claude can now handle the heavy lifting of building the structure, the logic, and the formatting in minutes. But here is the part that really surprised me: It actually understands accounting. It understands the relationship between a Balance Sheet and a Cash Flow statement. It understands how operating drivers flow into a P&L. We aren't replacing our expertise. We are finally liberating it. Instead of spending 80% of our time building the model, we spend 100% of our time analyzing the results. If you want this Prompt and Excel model, just drop a comment and I’ll send it to you. (Important: follow me so I can DM you!)

Britain’s bond panic is currently making the case for Bitcoin many people seem to have forgetten cryptoslate.com/britains-bond-… via @cryptoslate

@branson_atx You are a real inspiration to anyone thinking of a start-up idea

i have apps on the app store, clients paying me, and i still have homework due tomorrow that's the reality of building young. it's messy. do it anyway.

Schools spent 20 years telling kids what type of learner they are. Zero evidence it helped anyone. The only thing it actually did was give kids an excuse to stop trying. Great read from @AustinA_Way

Teen Makes $30K with OpenClaw #ai newsletter.myclaw.ai/teen-makes-30k…

Bitcoin Difficulty Set for ~8% Drop, Exceeding 2022 Capitulation theenergymag.com/news/2026-03-1…

Life on Mars? I have no issue with progress, but what about tackling Earth's problems first? msn.com/en-gb/news/wor…

Meet the 88 year old trader who made $13 million from day trading

Google still recommends visible anchor text for your links seroundtable.com/google-visible…

AMA on Negative SEO today 2/13 at 12pm ET on the r/localsearch subreddit! Come ask @katobkato all your most pressing questions - how does negative SEO work? What can you do if you think you're under attack?  reddit.com/r/localsearch

👀 ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190x More Traffic to Websites - An eye opening piece by @patrickstox if you were still thinking in terms of *traffic* as a main indicator or goal from AI Search: * For every search-like query in ChatGPT, there are 8.33 searches in Google. * Google sends 190x more traffic to websites than ChatGPT. * ChatGPT’s CTR is 96% lower than Google’s CTR. The data shows two different business models: Google connects people to websites, ChatGPT keeps them in conversation. Read: ahrefs.com/blog/chatgpt-h…

Highlights: -65% of ChatGPT usage qualifies as search (my classification based on the OpenAI + Harvard study). -That's 12% of Google's Search Volume -Google sends 190x more traffic to websites than ChatGPT. -ChatGPT’s CTR is 96% lower than Google’s CTR. ahrefs.com/blog/chatgpt-h…

I thought AEO (read: SEO for LLMs) was a hunk of bullsh*t. And then i spoke to @kippbodnar, CMO of @HubSpot, who knocked the skepticism out of me. His first jab: In one year, they grew AI search traffic by 15x. It went from rounding error to real line item on the P&L. His second jab: AI search conversion rates are 5x higher than Google search. On some queries, 13x higher. His hook: 60% of AI citations don't come from the top 20 Google results. The companies dominating Google aren't automatically winning in AI search, which creates a huge advantage for early adopters. He then took me through his process for crushing AEO & seeing results in days, not months (like SEO): 1) Grade: your current AEO presence across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini with a tool like Hubspot's AEO grader. 2) Restructure: your content into chunked, answer-first pages with natural language headers. - one consolidated page, not 8-10 interlinked pages - lead with natural language questions like "What is X?" - 1-2 paragraph sections, not 1,000 word sections - table of contents on a single page 3) Separate: Mentions from citations and optimize differently for each - Mention = when AI references your brand or product in its answer but doesn't link to you - Citation = when an AI references you AND links to your page 4) Open up: your information — ungate content, build Reddit presence, make pricing public - Optimize for entity understanding: how well do AI models understand what your company does, based on every signal from Reddit to review sites, awards lists to help docs 5) Tool up: with AEO-specific software to track prompts and share of voice - Check out Xfunnel or Limey[.]ai 6) Rethink attribution: measure source of customers, not source of traffic. - Metrics that matter: share of voice, citation count, sentiment, mention frequency, source of customers not traffic

🚨Bitcoin’s Catastrophic Problem NO ONE Is Talking About! Bitcoin produces 144 blocks per day. Fees are paid per block, every ~10 minutes. Yesterday, Bitcoin Layer-1 fees totaled ~2.6 BTC for the entire day. (Approx. $180K) That works out to ~0.018 $BTC per block. Meanwhile, the real cost to secure a block (electricity + hardware) is often $150k–$200k, depending on hash rate and energy prices. Today, miners survive because of the 3.125 $BTC block subsidy. Fees do not matter NOW, because the Bitcoin emissions are worth enough to offset costs. 🚨THE PROBLEM? When Bitcoin reaches 21 million supply, that subsidy goes to zero. At that point, fees must fully pay miners — or hash rate drops, security weakens, and the system degrades. To break even long-term, Bitcoin needs tens of millions per day in L1 fees. Yesterday was sub $200,000. I own Bitcoin. I want it to succeed. But pretending this isn’t a real issue won’t solve it.

Reading: Discovery to Influence: A Guide to AEO and GEO about.ads.microsoft.com/en/blog/post/j…

Why the Next AI Billionaires Will be Attention Engineers — jeffbullas.com medium.com/p/why-the-next…

How can a such a well known company like @FedEx function so bad? can't amend the delivery date with the tracking because @FedExEurope want the Ebay alias that only the seller knows, they send shipping date in US format & when you get an error the email address bounces

@JohnLMusic Hey, why do you put American date format for UK users? Also, I can't change the delivery date because you want my Ebay Alias email (which only the seller can see......) #EpicFail

FedEx be like: Sunday email- You’re shipment is coming today! Monday email- Seriously, today! Tuesday email- Ok, it’s on the way now. Maybe tomorrow. When you call Friday- “what shipment?”

Another example of a site that started to lose rankings for many of its self-promoting "best" listicles in mid-January, and the downstream effect on ChatGPT citations for that domain at the same time (via @ahrefs Brand Radar)