December 2020Jessica and I have certain words that have special significance
when we're talking about startups. The highest compliment we can
pay to founders is to describe them as "earnest." This...
AI doesn’t fail because the model is bad, it fails because ownership is missing.
Once someone owns it, everything changes. Your resolution and automation rates climb, the system becomes self-improving,...
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
Game Development, Around the WorldIn the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world....
Give First is now available to pre-order in Audiobook format (it will be officially released on 12/2/26).I’m the reader, so if you are an audiobook person, you’ll have to...
February 2021Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school,
were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what
beginning writers were supposed to write then,...
Customer expectations have never been higher.
People expect fast, accurate, and effortless support, every time. And across industries, from ecommerce to financial services to healthcare, customer experience has become...