Elijah Murray
@elijahmurray.bsky.social
I build tech, startups, AI, and host the Long Game podcast.
UX design in the AI era is about conversations, not interfaces. The best designs understand what you want before you finish asking. This isn't future thinking—it's the present reality most are missing.
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
UX design in the AI era is about conversations, not interfaces. The best designs understand what you want before you finish asking. This isn't future thinking—it's the present reality most are missing.
Everyone's building AI for products, but the REAL advantage? AI for operations: 85% faster customer responses, 60% less manual work, 40% lower costs, and teams focusing on strategy, not tasks. Product AI gets attention. Ops AI delivers results.
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Everyone's building AI for products, but the REAL advantage? AI for operations: 85% faster customer responses, 60% less manual work, 40% lower costs, and teams focusing on strategy, not tasks. Product AI gets attention. Ops AI delivers results.
Today's drones need human operators. In 3 years, AI drones will navigate complex airspace autonomously, deliver packages in minutes not hours, and make superhuman decisions. The sky isn't just the limit—it's the new highway.
June 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Today's drones need human operators. In 3 years, AI drones will navigate complex airspace autonomously, deliver packages in minutes not hours, and make superhuman decisions. The sky isn't just the limit—it's the new highway.
AI technology is only as powerful as its human partnerships. Your capabilities multiply when you connect with domain experts who understand your data, technical teams to implement your vision, and cultural allies who speak your language. The best AI is collaborative.
June 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
AI technology is only as powerful as its human partnerships. Your capabilities multiply when you connect with domain experts who understand your data, technical teams to implement your vision, and cultural allies who speak your language. The best AI is collaborative.
Entrepreneurship barriers just collapsed. AI tools now enable anyone to: build MVPs without coding, test ideas in days not months, automate complex processes, and scale with minimal staff. You no longer need tech skills to build products.
May 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Entrepreneurship barriers just collapsed. AI tools now enable anyone to: build MVPs without coding, test ideas in days not months, automate complex processes, and scale with minimal staff. You no longer need tech skills to build products.
AI isn't just transforming business—it's democratizing entrepreneurship. Problems once unprofitable to solve are now viable opportunities. The future: millions of micro-companies tackling hyper-specific challenges. The entrepreneurial revolution has already begun!
May 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
AI isn't just transforming business—it's democratizing entrepreneurship. Problems once unprofitable to solve are now viable opportunities. The future: millions of micro-companies tackling hyper-specific challenges. The entrepreneurial revolution has already begun!
In 2025, dominant companies won't be those with huge ad budgets, but where EVERY employee creates daily content—sharing insights, building authority, and connecting with customers. The best marketing? Your team's collective expertise made visible.
May 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In 2025, dominant companies won't be those with huge ad budgets, but where EVERY employee creates daily content—sharing insights, building authority, and connecting with customers. The best marketing? Your team's collective expertise made visible.
Everyone's talking about AI, but few are positioning to profit from it. Major wealth transfers happen during tech revolutions. Early investors aren't just future-proofing careers—they're building generational wealth. The AI gold rush has begun.
May 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Everyone's talking about AI, but few are positioning to profit from it. Major wealth transfers happen during tech revolutions. Early investors aren't just future-proofing careers—they're building generational wealth. The AI gold rush has begun.
Stop writing, start speaking your thoughts. Speaking is 3x faster than writing, though writing organizes ideas better. In the AI future, voice input wins while reading stays faster than listening. The real skill gap? Articulating clearly on the first try.
May 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Stop writing, start speaking your thoughts. Speaking is 3x faster than writing, though writing organizes ideas better. In the AI future, voice input wins while reading stays faster than listening. The real skill gap? Articulating clearly on the first try.
AI isn't just technology—it's evolution accelerated. Humans created fire, which forged tools, which built civilization. Now AI reshapes everything. As Einstein said, "intelligence is the ability to change." The question isn't if we adapt, but how brilliantly we transform.
April 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
AI isn't just technology—it's evolution accelerated. Humans created fire, which forged tools, which built civilization. Now AI reshapes everything. As Einstein said, "intelligence is the ability to change." The question isn't if we adapt, but how brilliantly we transform.
Building a business isn't just about profit. It's where failures become assets, learning compounds daily, your ceiling is self-determined, and ROI extends beyond finances. Entrepreneurship is the ultimate self-investment.
April 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Building a business isn't just about profit. It's where failures become assets, learning compounds daily, your ceiling is self-determined, and ROI extends beyond finances. Entrepreneurship is the ultimate self-investment.
Your likes = dopamine. Their gain = your attention. Know the true exchange rate before spending another hour scrolling.
April 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Your likes = dopamine. Their gain = your attention. Know the true exchange rate before spending another hour scrolling.
A startup with revenue has 100 problems. A startup without revenue just has 1.
April 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A startup with revenue has 100 problems. A startup without revenue just has 1.
Traveler's productivity hack: Keep duplicates of all essentials permanently in your backpack. No more forgotten chargers, adapters, toiletries. No last-minute packing stress or airport markups. Always ready to go in 5 minutes flat.
April 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Traveler's productivity hack: Keep duplicates of all essentials permanently in your backpack. No more forgotten chargers, adapters, toiletries. No last-minute packing stress or airport markups. Always ready to go in 5 minutes flat.
The browser company isn't just building one browser—it's cannibalizing its own products after only 18 months. That's the right move: if AI must change everything, you either attack yourself or someone else will. Can't wait to try Dia.
April 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The browser company isn't just building one browser—it's cannibalizing its own products after only 18 months. That's the right move: if AI must change everything, you either attack yourself or someone else will. Can't wait to try Dia.
Ask your parents tonight if they love you unconditionally. Their response—or your reluctance to ask—will reveal everything you need to know.
April 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Ask your parents tonight if they love you unconditionally. Their response—or your reluctance to ask—will reveal everything you need to know.
We fight over solutions but want the same things: safety, opportunity, fairness, dignity. Left and right have different maps to a shared destination. Find common ground in virtues first, then debate the path.
April 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We fight over solutions but want the same things: safety, opportunity, fairness, dignity. Left and right have different maps to a shared destination. Find common ground in virtues first, then debate the path.
Stop planning, start executing. Most people prepare endlessly because it feels like progress without risk. Break this cycle: Build the smallest version, launch before you're ready, learn from real feedback. Execution beats perfection.
April 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Stop planning, start executing. Most people prepare endlessly because it feels like progress without risk. Break this cycle: Build the smallest version, launch before you're ready, learn from real feedback. Execution beats perfection.
Mastery isn't achieved by reading. It's built through action, failure, and persistence. You must create, fail, and rebuild repeatedly.
April 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Mastery isn't achieved by reading. It's built through action, failure, and persistence. You must create, fail, and rebuild repeatedly.
Stress emerges when there's tension between what you're doing and what you want to be doing—whether influenced by peers, parents, or profession. Like an iron beam under pressure, you're pulled in opposing directions.
April 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Stress emerges when there's tension between what you're doing and what you want to be doing—whether influenced by peers, parents, or profession. Like an iron beam under pressure, you're pulled in opposing directions.
Almost-presidents who changed America:
• Clay: 3x loser, shaped policy for decades
• Perot: 19% as 3rd party, forced budget talks
• Bernie: Lost primaries, won ideology war
• Chisholm: Opened doors for generations
Losing ≠ failing.
• Clay: 3x loser, shaped policy for decades
• Perot: 19% as 3rd party, forced budget talks
• Bernie: Lost primaries, won ideology war
• Chisholm: Opened doors for generations
Losing ≠ failing.
April 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Almost-presidents who changed America:
• Clay: 3x loser, shaped policy for decades
• Perot: 19% as 3rd party, forced budget talks
• Bernie: Lost primaries, won ideology war
• Chisholm: Opened doors for generations
Losing ≠ failing.
• Clay: 3x loser, shaped policy for decades
• Perot: 19% as 3rd party, forced budget talks
• Bernie: Lost primaries, won ideology war
• Chisholm: Opened doors for generations
Losing ≠ failing.
You fear nonexistence after death, yet voluntarily disappear from your own life when mindlessly scrolling or binge-watching. The real tragedy isn't dying someday—it's being absent while still alive.
April 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
You fear nonexistence after death, yet voluntarily disappear from your own life when mindlessly scrolling or binge-watching. The real tragedy isn't dying someday—it's being absent while still alive.
Don't fight for attention in crowded markets. Build something so uniquely you that it can't be copied. The path to success isn't competing where it's loudest—it's creating what only you can offer. True originality can't be replaced.
April 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't fight for attention in crowded markets. Build something so uniquely you that it can't be copied. The path to success isn't competing where it's loudest—it's creating what only you can offer. True originality can't be replaced.
Anxiety is stress without a known cause. Once you identify what's truly bothering you, it becomes actionable. Get specific about your fears and they transform from vague worries into solvable problems.
April 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Anxiety is stress without a known cause. Once you identify what's truly bothering you, it becomes actionable. Get specific about your fears and they transform from vague worries into solvable problems.
Living on autopilot is death. When you're not present, that moment—and you—don't exist. Only the present has meaning; everything else is memory or imagination. Be present for what's happening now. It's the only thing that's real.
April 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Living on autopilot is death. When you're not present, that moment—and you—don't exist. Only the present has meaning; everything else is memory or imagination. Be present for what's happening now. It's the only thing that's real.