Bryan Dennstedt

Bryan Dennstedt

August 2026

Posting every day is not a strategy
Cadence compounds only when each post carries one real idea.
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Talking With Humans Is Becoming the Last Unfair Advantage
You can now ask an AI to play your customer.
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I Replaced the Vector Database with a Folder of Markdown Files
Andrej Karpathy ran a company-sized knowledge base on plain markdown and grep, no embeddings.
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From Here Is What We Know to Here Is What You Should Do
A second brain that only surfaces information is a fancy search box.
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A Board Asked Me for an AI Strategy. Here Is the One Page I Gave Them.
The sixty-page framework is the problem, not strategy itself.
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I Asked AI About a Red Light. I Ended Up Emailing My State Senator.
Stopped at a diverging diamond wondering if I could turn left on red, I asked out loud and got the answer in nine seconds.
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How to Build a Corporate Second Brain in a Weekend
No vector database, no six-figure platform.
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How Is Your Life Actually Going?
You can be busy, successful, and fine on paper and still feel that something is off.
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Every Usage Limit Is a Free Trial for Your Competitor
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AI, Financial Services, and the Real Bottlenecks in Building with AI with Elijah Gutman
💡 AI is moving fast enough that the biggest bottlenecks are no longer the technology — they are human decisions, compliance boundaries, and the…
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I Finally Have a Word for How I Feel About AI: Apocaloptimist
I watched a documentary on a plane last week and it handed me a word I have been fumbling toward for two years.
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