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Alison Lindland Built Her Career by Making Technology Feel Personal
Before she sold cognitive banking, Alison Lindland produced Off-Off Broadway theater, launched an early iPhone app and spent 13 years growing with one startup. The connecting idea is simple: technology matters when people can see themselves in it.
Grant McDougall Wants AI to Measure the Noise - and Give Humans the Wheel
After 25 years watching good ideas lose to tidy spreadsheets, the Australian agency veteran built BlueOcean to make brand legible in real time. Now, with Mighty Humans, he is asking a larger question: who gets to feel capable in the AI economy?
Lady Mariéme Jamme
A library gave Mariéme Jamme the vocabulary to rebuild her life. Now she is turning code, mentorship and an insistence on human dignity into a global education system for girls too often left outside the digital economy.
Tom Yeh
Tom Yeh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and the creator of AI by Hand, a wildly popular educational newsletter and community that teaches transformers, LLMs, and deep learning architectures through pen-and-paper calculations. With 62,000+ Substack subscribers, 200,000+ social media followers, and a Feynman-inspired philosophy that you only truly understand what you can build by hand, Yeh has become one of the most influential voices in practical AI education - bridging the gap between black-box hype and genuine first-principles understanding.