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Seeing the Constellations

Most companies don't have a shortage of stars. They have millions of them. Finding stars isn't the same thing as seeing constellations, and that's where the real intelligence in Geodesic lives.

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Are There Too Many Data Centers?

Thomas Malthus assumed we'd run out of what population growth needed. He underestimated our ability to get more productive with what we had. Every time LinkedIn tells me we need another data center, I wonder if we're making the same assumption.

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Under the Chuppah

This past week my daughter got married, and I've spent the days since trying to describe it and mostly failing. It was magical and glorious, and somewhere in that room I found the best description of what we build at SeerAI I've ever heard…

The Gold Dollars

Blue dollars are the costs you take out of the business. Green dollars are the value you create through better decisions. But there's a third category, harder to measure and maybe more valuable than either…

Use the Tool. Or Be the Tool.

I have a prediction: \"data scientist\" is going to become a very uncool job title. Not because the expertise stops mattering, but because the tools are about to become so good that everyone gets the superpower.

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The Enterprise Doesn't Have One Ontology

Everyone suddenly wants an enterprise ontology, and it makes sense. But there's a problem with the idea: the enterprise doesn't have one ontology. It has hundreds of them.

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The Question Your Supply Chain Can't Answer

A storm is forming over the Southwest. Every piece of data needed to answer what breaks next already exists. The answer is still four hours away, and by then the storm has landed.

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The End of the War Room

A customer asked Geodesic a question that normally sends half a dozen experts off to gather information for a week. Ten seconds later, the answer was on the screen. The room went quiet.

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SeerAI and the Future Joe Lonsdale Described

The Joe Lonsdale piece from earlier this summer keeps coming up in our conversations. The lesson from Palantir was not the application. It was the platform underneath it.

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