Hi, I'm Michael.

The AI world moves minute by minute. A new model, a new trend, a new thing everyone has to pay attention to, and half of them contradict each other. After taking it all in, I've come to think most of it is just noise.

So I keep coming back to one question: where do I actually stand?

The best way I've found to answer it is to write and document my own journey. Turning what I've experienced and learned into something I'd put in front of other people forces me to put it in order. And when I look back after a while, I can see the thread that runs through it. That brings me back to my core. The trends came and went, and I still knew what I believed and why. That doesn't mean I'll always be consistent and correct. I'll change my mind from time to time, and some of my predictions will turn out wrong even when the reasoning looked sound. Writing it down plainly still beats going in circles in my own head.

I also write for whoever might need my lessons learned. Most of what we learn about building something comes in one of two forms. There's advice from people who fund those builders: the VC investors who have seen their fair share of startups come and go. And there are stories from people who made it themselves, only told years later, after the hardest parts have softened into over-simplified, clichéd stories with time.

Don't get me wrong. Both have real value.
But neither quite captures what it's like to be in the middle of the storm, before you know how it ends.

That's the view I can offer. I'm writing from inside, as a founder who is trying, and often failing, in real time to make it over the lonely road of entrepreneurship horizon. I learn something new almost every day that I wish a book or a mentor had told me first. A lot of people helped me get to where I am, and passing that on feels like the natural thing to do. If something here saves you from learning it the hard way, that was the whole point.