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Mark and Ryan pick up the AI-in-education thread and push it further: if AI can write the paper, build the tool, summarize the research, and automate the busy work, what exactly are humans supposed to learn, practice, and protect?
When a school's strict no-AI policy expels two seniors weeks before graduation, Mark and Ryan dig into the real question: what are we actually testing — and where's the line between AI as a calculator and AI as plagiarism?
In this episode of the Not Brothers Podcast, Mark and Ryan dig into one of the most important questions for entrepreneurs: are you working in your business, or on it? Using Oodle’s long-running offsite rhythm as the backdrop, they break down how stepping away from daily execution creates space for alignment, strategic thinking, and better decision-making.…
Ryan and Mark rant productively about meetings: remote work, async vs synchronous collaboration, open offices, unstructured thinking time, calendar theater, Level 10-style structure, and why being busy is not the same thing as doing useful work.
Ryan and Mark unpack the build-vs-buy software decision: when custom tools make sense, where off-the-shelf platforms win, how internal politics and maintenance costs creep in, and why the real answer depends on appetite, resources, and organizational reality.
Ryan and Mark talk through the fast-moving AI landscape: agentic models, tools, skills, business use cases, security risks, human oversight, model choice, experimentation, and what teams should understand before they shove AI into everything.
Short on time? Jump straight into the parts of the conversation most likely to pull you in.
“Building the product is easier than ever. That does not mean anyone will show up.”
The episode thesis: AI changes the speed of building, but not the need for distribution.
Play on this site“The niche software math changed when one or two people could build what used to require a full team.”
Why AI makes narrower products more viable, even if distribution still decides who survives.
Play on this site“If AI can write the paper, maybe the paper was never the best test.”
The cleanest website-native short: this jumps straight to the part where the format of school assignments becomes the real argument.
Play on this site“The danger is not using AI. It is letting AI do the reasoning and pretending the conclusion is yours.”
A sharper section for the core thesis: tools can execute patterns, but the human still owns judgment.
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