The internet used to be an escape from the real world. Now the real world is becoming an escape from the internet. AI is only making that more true. I shared this at our company All Hands last week:…

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CSO at Faire; danhock.com
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Dan Hockenmaier positions himself as a high-level operator who bridges the gap between strategic executive leadership and technical AI pragmatism. His content strategy centers on the transition from "tokenmaxxing" to "outcomemaxxing," moving past the hype cycles of Silicon Valley to focus on the tangible ROI of LLMs within complex organizations. He is notable for his rigorous, adversarial testing of AI models, treating them not as magic tools but as flawed strategic thought partners that require human oversight to avoid "slop." By intersecting his role as a CSO with a deep curiosity for product distribution and organizational psychology, he provides a sophisticated perspective on how AI will reshape the bottlenecks of human labor and leadership.
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The internet used to be an escape from the real world. Now the real world is becoming an escape from the internet. AI is only making that more true. I shared this at our company All Hands last week:…
I just published a new essay: LLMs vs. Marketplaces Many are predicting that LLMs will get between the customer and major marketplaces like Amazon, Airbnb, and DoorDash, destroying their economics in…

ChatGPT and Gemini are coming after marketplaces. What will happen? It's going to look very different by industry. Some predictions: 🏨 𝗛𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 (𝗲.𝗴. 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮, 𝗧…

Lesson I've learned the hard way: you'll lose every time to someone who is having more fun than you are. It's not always going to be fun, it's work after all. But if you find the work interesting, i…
Want to learn more about Strategy & Analytics at Faire and how the team is using AI to reshape the way we work? Join us for a virtual event next Wednesday! Jolie Kemp Zwick, Alexandra Cerf, EB Moore…

Substack just rolled out the anti-slop button Please join my official petition to get LinkedIn to add this as well

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The "AI for everything" era is officially over. We are now entering the era of the "AI Bottleneck."
For the last two years, the goal was simple: integrate LLMs into every possible workflow.
If you were a developer, you added a chat box. If you were a manager, you asked for a strategy doc. If you were a founder, you raised on the promise of "AI-native" features.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the future.
We realized that while AI makes it 10x easier to create, it doesn't make it any easier to care.
When everyone can generate a high-quality PRD in 30 seconds, the value of a PRD drops to zero. When every company can ship 80% more features, the noise becomes deafening.
The bottleneck has shifted from *production* to *attention*.
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