Stan Berteloot

AI and the Future of News: A Princeton Panel Confronts the Promise and Peril open.substack.com/pub/backinamer…

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 20 Books for the Age of AI linkedin.com/pulse/20-books… via @LinkedIn

The Consistency Gap Most experts don’t have a content problem. They have a workflow problem. open.substack.com/pub/theamplifi…

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is a professor of law at George Washington University Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance. share.transistor.fm/s/884cf818

Your Heartbeat Can Convict You @Back_in_America open.substack.com/pub/backinamer…

I Am an American open.substack.com/pub/backinamer…

The Six-Hour Problem: What Nobody Tells You About Podcasting open.substack.com/pub/theamplifi…

The Six-Hour Problem: What Nobody Tells You About Podcasting open.substack.com/pub/theamplifi…

I just published Why Most Thought Leaders Quit Podcasting medium.com/p/why-most-tho…

I'll Always Be French. Now I'm Also a US Citizen. A French teenager arrives in Iowa for a year as an exchange student. He falls in love. He spends the next 25 years in France building a career, a family, a life. Then in 2016 he moved back. share.transistor.fm/s/fe6becfa

I just killed my daily newsletter. Well, evolved it. The Monthly Signal: AI in Marketing launches this month. Daily keeps you current. Monthly makes you dangerous in a meeting. Here's why that matters: staying informed isn't the same as knowing what to do getvoicestream.com/subscribe/0a30…

If You’re Still Chasing MQLs in 2026, You’re Already Behind – 10 B2B Shifts I’m Betting On linkedin.com/pulse/youre-st…

AI's Quiet Takeover: Conjecture's CEO on Humanity's Future and OpenAI's $10B Amazon Talks linkedin.com/pulse/ais-quie… via @LinkedIn

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Stop gating your content. You’re killing your pipeline! linkedin.com/pulse/stop-gat… via @LinkedIn

Yes, I confirm. ChatGPT is down

Two things can be true. If you're not amazed by AI, you don't really understand it. If you're not afraid of AI, you don't really understand it.

Roadmap update: Tinker launched into private beta a month ago, and we've seen hundreds of builders and researchers train and experiment with models on our platform. This month we've added new models, expanded the cookbook, and improved overall capacity and performance.

I have been using Wispr Flow for 2 weeks and can't stop! I love this app. It saves me time, makes my writing better across all my apps and devices. Try it out and get an extra month for free. wisprflow.ai/r?STAN103