AI = If You Build It, Will They Come?
Mark and Ryan debate the AI-era version of if you build it, they will come: building products is easier than ever, but distribution, trust, attention, and demand are still the hard part.
Mark and Ryan talk through what’s actually happening in business, software, AI, work, and the weird middle where ideas become real things.
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Mark and Ryan debate the AI-era version of if you build it, they will come: building products is easier than ever, but distribution, trust, attention, and demand are still the hard part.
Don’t start at episode one unless you’re a completionist. These are better doors into the show.
AI policies, plagiarism, detectors, and what schools are actually testing.
Offsites, leadership, and working on the business.
The build-vs-buy conversation that keeps coming back.
How AI changes work, school, software, media, judgment, and the way people make decisions.
The operating rhythms, constraints, rituals, meetings, and decisions behind running a real business.
Build-vs-buy decisions, internal tools, SaaS threats, product design, and the practical work of making software useful.
The agency and product-studio context around Oodle, Herald, Nebula, Cortex, OpenClaw, and internal experiments.
Meetings, collaboration, async work, remote friction, creativity, leadership, and the rituals teams keep or kill.
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