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· Jul 8
Your AI playbook for the rest of 2025
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From #AI Hype to Business Reality: The 2025 Enterprise Playbook
🎯 The AI industry has reached an inflection point where practical implementation and domain expertise matter more than access to cutting-edge models
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🎯 The AI industry has reached an inflection point where practical implementation and domain expertise matter more than access to cutting-edge models
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/your-ai-pl...
Matthew Glickman (Genesis Computing) about why the “last 10%” of enterprise AI is reliability, not demos - and why data engineering is the best place to start
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thedataexchange.media/genesis-comp...
The Junior Data Engineer is Now an AI Agent
Matthew Glickman on Data Engineering Automation, Agent Workflows, Confidence Checks, Institutional Knowledge.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Matthew Glickman (Genesis Computing) about why the “last 10%” of enterprise AI is reliability, not demos - and why data engineering is the best place to start
thedataexchange.media/genesis-comp...
thedataexchange.media/genesis-comp...
Can You Build a Fire-Proof Home? | PBS SoCal
YouTube video by PBS SoCal
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 4:06 AM
DHS is wrong for rushing to judgement
👀 An investigation is warranted based on this @nytimes.com video analysis from several angles www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
👀 An investigation is warranted based on this @nytimes.com video analysis from several angles www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
DHS is wrong for rushing to judgement
👀 An investigation is warranted based on this @nytimes.com video analysis from several angles www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
👀 An investigation is warranted based on this @nytimes.com video analysis from several angles www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Agent Optimization Unpacked
🗃️ From Prompt Tweaks to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🗃️ From Prompt Tweaks to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Agent Optimization Unpacked
🗃️ From Prompt Tweaks to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🗃️ From Prompt Tweaks to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Supercharging Data Teams
✔ Matt Glickman of Genesis Computing on Why AI is a Capability Expander, Not a Replacement
thedataexchange.media/genesis-comp...
✔ Matt Glickman of Genesis Computing on Why AI is a Capability Expander, Not a Replacement
thedataexchange.media/genesis-comp...
The Junior Data Engineer is Now an AI Agent
Matthew Glickman on Data Engineering Automation, Agent Workflows, Confidence Checks, Institutional Knowledge.
thedataexchange.media
January 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Supercharging Data Teams
✔ Matt Glickman of Genesis Computing on Why AI is a Capability Expander, Not a Replacement
thedataexchange.media/genesis-comp...
✔ Matt Glickman of Genesis Computing on Why AI is a Capability Expander, Not a Replacement
thedataexchange.media/genesis-comp...
Agent Optimization Isn't About Smarter Models 👀 It's About Better Systems
🎯 Stop Guessing: The Data-Driven Way to Optimize Agents
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🎯 Stop Guessing: The Data-Driven Way to Optimize Agents
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Agent Optimization Isn't About Smarter Models 👀 It's About Better Systems
🎯 Stop Guessing: The Data-Driven Way to Optimize Agents
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🎯 Stop Guessing: The Data-Driven Way to Optimize Agents
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Agent Optimization: what you need to know
🎯 Why Your AI Agent Works in Demos but Fails in Production
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🎯 Why Your AI Agent Works in Demos but Fails in Production
→ gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Agent Optimization: what you need to know
🎯 Why Your AI Agent Works in Demos but Fails in Production
→ gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🎯 Why Your AI Agent Works in Demos but Fails in Production
→ gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🆕 Agent Optimization Unpacked
🎯 From Prompt Whispering to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🎯 From Prompt Whispering to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
🆕 Agent Optimization Unpacked
🎯 From Prompt Whispering to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
🎯 From Prompt Whispering to Platform Engineering
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Jonathan Karl interview with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie
YouTube video by Jonathan Karl
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 5:48 AM
🔄 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
— rise of AI agents as primary users of data infrastructure
— Junior engineer training grounds are disappearing as routine tasks become automated
— Multimodal data formats
— Heterogeneous compute mixing CPUs &GPUs
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
— rise of AI agents as primary users of data infrastructure
— Junior engineer training grounds are disappearing as routine tasks become automated
— Multimodal data formats
— Heterogeneous compute mixing CPUs &GPUs
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
🔄 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
— rise of AI agents as primary users of data infrastructure
— Junior engineer training grounds are disappearing as routine tasks become automated
— Multimodal data formats
— Heterogeneous compute mixing CPUs &GPUs
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
— rise of AI agents as primary users of data infrastructure
— Junior engineer training grounds are disappearing as routine tasks become automated
— Multimodal data formats
— Heterogeneous compute mixing CPUs &GPUs
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
👍 Happyend is a beautiful new Japanese🇯🇵 coming-of-age story set in the near future 🎬 Don’t sleep on this one!
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Happyend
In a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate high school. One night they pull a prank on their princi...
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January 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
👍 Happyend is a beautiful new Japanese🇯🇵 coming-of-age story set in the near future 🎬 Don’t sleep on this one!
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Book of the Week 📕 No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris
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by Gardiner Harris
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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck up a conversation with the woman on the barstool next to him, who ha...
amzn.to
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Book of the Week 📕 No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris
amzn.to/4bivDjB
by Gardiner Harris
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Ivan Lendl on the players he admires most: Lessons that transcend the court. 🎾
youtu.be/YDCwMxsJrJg?...
youtu.be/YDCwMxsJrJg?...
At 65, Ivan Lendl Reveals the 5 Tennis Players He Admires Most
YouTube video by Tennis Time Machine
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January 3, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Ivan Lendl on the players he admires most: Lessons that transcend the court. 🎾
youtu.be/YDCwMxsJrJg?...
youtu.be/YDCwMxsJrJg?...
🚀 Data Engineering in 2026 isn't just evolving—it's being completely rebuilt.
The old playbook of dashboards and batch ETL? Already obsolete. Time to build for machine users, not human ones.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
The old playbook of dashboards and batch ETL? Already obsolete. Time to build for machine users, not human ones.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:20 PM
🚀 Data Engineering in 2026 isn't just evolving—it's being completely rebuilt.
The old playbook of dashboards and batch ETL? Already obsolete. Time to build for machine users, not human ones.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
The old playbook of dashboards and batch ETL? Already obsolete. Time to build for machine users, not human ones.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
Left-Handed Girl 🎬 is a great 🆕 movie by Shih-Ching Tsou (edited by Sean Baker)
🇹🇼 I hope it gets more people to visit #Taiwan #Taipei
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-Ha...
🇹🇼 I hope it gets more people to visit #Taiwan #Taipei
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-Ha...
Left-Handed Girl - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Left-Handed Girl 🎬 is a great 🆕 movie by Shih-Ching Tsou (edited by Sean Baker)
🇹🇼 I hope it gets more people to visit #Taiwan #Taipei
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-Ha...
🇹🇼 I hope it gets more people to visit #Taiwan #Taipei
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-Ha...
Happy New Year Everyone 🗓️🎊
📻 enjoy this classic from This American Life, featuring Sarah Koenig and her mom, Mrs. Matthiessen
www.thisamericanlife.org/511/the-seve...
📻 enjoy this classic from This American Life, featuring Sarah Koenig and her mom, Mrs. Matthiessen
www.thisamericanlife.org/511/the-seve...
The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About - This American Life
Sarah Koenig's mother lives by a set of rules about conversation. We tried to prove her wrong.
www.thisamericanlife.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy New Year Everyone 🗓️🎊
📻 enjoy this classic from This American Life, featuring Sarah Koenig and her mom, Mrs. Matthiessen
www.thisamericanlife.org/511/the-seve...
📻 enjoy this classic from This American Life, featuring Sarah Koenig and her mom, Mrs. Matthiessen
www.thisamericanlife.org/511/the-seve...
🆕 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes? The End of Junior Data Engineering as We Know It?
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🆕 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes? The End of Junior Data Engineering as We Know It?
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
🆕 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
1️⃣ The Era of the Agent-Native Platform
2️⃣ The "entry-level" job. We need to rethink how we develop talent when the "boring" work is fully automated
🎯 gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
1️⃣ The Era of the Agent-Native Platform
2️⃣ The "entry-level" job. We need to rethink how we develop talent when the "boring" work is fully automated
🎯 gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🆕 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes?
1️⃣ The Era of the Agent-Native Platform
2️⃣ The "entry-level" job. We need to rethink how we develop talent when the "boring" work is fully automated
🎯 gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
1️⃣ The Era of the Agent-Native Platform
2️⃣ The "entry-level" job. We need to rethink how we develop talent when the "boring" work is fully automated
🎯 gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
🆕 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes? The End of Junior Data Engineering as We Know It?
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
Data Engineering for Machine Users — 2026
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
gradientflow.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🆕 Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes? The End of Junior Data Engineering as We Know It?
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
The biggest shift isn’t the tech — it’s the user. We are moving from a world where humans look at dashboards to a world where AI agents launch 80% of our databases.
gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...
🙌 Evangelos Simoudis and I discuss two topics
1️⃣ Is AI a Utility?
2️⃣ Rethinking Section 230 for Generative AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W59E...
1️⃣ Is AI a Utility?
2️⃣ Rethinking Section 230 for Generative AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W59E...
Is AI The New Electricity?
YouTube video by Gradient Flow
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🙌 Evangelos Simoudis and I discuss two topics
1️⃣ Is AI a Utility?
2️⃣ Rethinking Section 230 for Generative AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W59E...
1️⃣ Is AI a Utility?
2️⃣ Rethinking Section 230 for Generative AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W59E...
‘So creepy’: Inside CNN’s investigation of Airbnb’s hidden camera problem
YouTube video by CNN
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Wall of street art in the Mission District in #SanFrancisco
December 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Wall of street art in the Mission District in #SanFrancisco
🎁 12 books for 12 days of Christmas 🎄 The best books we read in 2025
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Your holiday reading list: 12 books we loved this year
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December 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🎁 12 books for 12 days of Christmas 🎄 The best books we read in 2025
📚 gradientflow.substack.com/p/your-holid...
📚 gradientflow.substack.com/p/your-holid...