The Art of Persuasion with Laurie Zoss

The Art of Persuasion with Laurie Zoss

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Same Cockpit, Two Flight Plans: Work Hard or Think Hard

American Airlines flies about 1,800 more flights a day than United. Last year it made about $3 billion less. More motion, less money.Bill was an Executive Platinum flyer on American until the delays, broken connections and vanishing upgrades pushed him to United, where he's now a ...  Show more

Love the Mice, Not the Mousetrap: AI Inside Your Tools, with Mitchell Jones

In early 2025, Mitchell Jones sat in his basement in Ohio and burned a few hundred dollars trying to build an AI agent that fills out forms, a job that should have taken an afternoon. He kept paying for access to the same models through different wrappers. That friction turned in ...  Show more

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