Using ChatGPT’s browser to run a solopreneurship

Using ChatGPT’s browser to run a solopreneurship

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ChatGPT’s internet browser Atlas can now research, plan and execute tasks inside your workflow. Instead of using ChatGPT like a chatbot, others suggest using the browser in different ways.

ChatGPT browser use cases to scale work:

  • Content intelligence: Scan Reddit, Substack, and YouTube to build next week’s posting plan or feature lists from real demand
  • Tab chaos killer: Ask it what you were working on and rebuild your workflow from browsing context
  • Inbox cleanup: Auto-unsubscribe from dead senders, get a clean report of what changed
  • Content creation: Let the browser create breakout hooks, draft scripts and organize everything into a Google Doc automatically
  • Conversion boost: Audit your landing pages and get a ready-to-run A-B test plans
  • Smart purchasing: Compare tools, products, and software intelligently and quickly before you buy
First Meta, now the US Army

First Meta, now the US Army

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After encouraging all their developers to use AI – including many companies that tracked how many tokens an employee used and used that for performance measurement and firing – many are now trying to hit the brakes.

First, Meta found out they were on track to spend $2B this year on tokens. Now the US Army is telling it’s members to hit the brakes as they’re running through their tokens faster than expected too.

Strange how people are taking advantage of the very things you told them to use with abandon or lose their jobs.

AI job swap: white collar workers ditching careers

AI job swap: white collar workers ditching careers

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I was catching an Uber back home from the airport after a business trip when my 50 year old drive shared a shocking tale. He was a computer programmer for 7 years. His parents got ill so he took a year to care for them before they passed. When he tried to get back in, there were no jobs. He literally sent out hundreds and hundreds of resumes and applications to not get a single callback. He talked about cool coding projects he worked on in his spare time and projects he did for work. But it didn’t matter – he now has had to drive uber the last year to even make ends meet. He doesn’t think he’ll ever get back into computer programming again.

Another friend of mine got out of game development because the industry had become so toxic as well as suffering huge layoffs. She has turned to becoming a physical therapist. She’ll make half what she did before, but already feels she is doing more good for the world than game programming ever did.

The change is dramatic and it’s real. Everything can’t be blamed on AI, but it is becoming more and more clear that is is impacting people – especially entry level workers that can’t even get in. My Uber driver’s story isn’t the only one – and workers in Europe are seeing the same patterns.

Jacqueline Bowman consistently go writing work (marketing/journalism) and writing every day for paid freelance work. In 2024, that all started to dry up as more and more of her clients started talking about AI. Soon she was reduced to editing work for about half the pay – despite taking even more time due to fact-checking everything. By Jan 2025, she could no longer pay her bills. She’s now switching to psychology and hoping it will be more AI proof.

Janet Feenstra was a freelance academic editor in 2013 – but now turned baker in Malmö, Sweden at 52 years old. She realized the writing on the wall when she saw AI could do the kind of english language editing she was doing for non-native speakers. She had to give up her home, retrain for a year, and now makes much less and lives in a small flat.

Richard was a occupational health and safety professional that worked his way up the career ladder for 15 years. He saw the writing on the wall after seeing more and more policies and safety systems done by AI. He sees need for a few “highly specialised managers. The rest of it’s probably going to go.” He jumped ship and is becoming an electrical engineer. He also took ‘a huge cut’ financially.

Even students and young are starting to switch paths. Paola Adeitan was studying law, but realize friends of hers were struggling to find entry jobs caused by the rise of AI use in law firms. A 23 year old left his pursuit of a geography degree for a trades job.

2023 report on the impact of AI on jobs and training in the UK by the Department for Education outlined that many clerical, finance, law, and business management jobs are very vulnerable to AI. The most significant AI-caused declines in employment and wages will be in jobs like software engineering and management consultancy, according to a King’s College London study.

What comes next is going to be very disruptive – very much like the revolution of the internet. Who comes out the winners is rarely who went into it that way. It’s good advice to pay very close attention to what the trends are in your industry – because AI is likely about to affect them very soon too.

Kids today are cognitively worse than their parents for the first time

Kids today are cognitively worse than their parents for the first time

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The statistics are sobering and damning.

14% of US college students read at the level of a 10 year old.

15% of US college students cannot do math at more than a 10 year old.

Professors at Berkeley find 20-30% of students taking early calculus courses turn up displaying “severe preparation deficits”. Instructors are begging for standardized testing as they find they have to reteach middle-school mathematics in shocking numbers of college students. UC faculty are now in ‘open revolt’ demanding the return of standardized skills testing.

It’s not just the US, a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted across 38 high-income, predominantly affluent Western countries, shows that this trend is spread across all the member states.

All of this is has combined to the disturbing fact that Gen Z is the first generation that is provably less cognitively capable than their parent’s generation. Since standardizing and measuring cognitive development since the late 1800s, every generation has outperformed their parents – until now.

The reason?

Cognitive neuroscientist studies show the decline coincides highly with the introduction of screens in the classroom, which started around 2010. Across 80 countries, if you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly. 

Compounding the issue is that besides just throwing out graduation requirements like Oregon has done, standardized testing has been adjusted to accommodate lower expectations and shorter attention spans. After misguided attempts to link test scores to teacher engagement and provide accessibility, some are now calling the lack of testing the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ and even linking calling it a policy that makes racism worse, not better.

This isn’t a US problem, it’s a world problem. Countries like Denmark are starting to act decisively. Severe limits on computer use, and returns to physical book reading and phonics has created turnarounds like the Mississippi Miracle.

‘Modern’ education methods have had their opportunity – and they have now clearly demonstrated they have failed a generation worse than has been done in any time in the last 200 years. That’s astounding.

Inside the Navy’s new drone fleet

Inside the Navy’s new drone fleet

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As I mentioned before, the face of naval warfare is changing. Meet Saronic – a ship building startup. They started fast and cheap by buying small, common, consumer boats and adding tech to them to prove out the concept. After discovering how powerful these little ships could be, even the Navy took notice. They have already secured $2.6 billion in funding and $500 million in government contracts to build a fleet of cheap, capable, fast to produce drone ships. The company is also using cash from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Joe Lonsdale to create their fleet of autonomous boats – capable of carrying cargo, weapons, flocks of drones, and the software for operating them.

It’s not just academic or specific to the Ukraine, these tiny ships are already proving their worth elsewhere. In early June, two U.S. airmen went down with their helicopter near the coast of Oman; roughly two hours later, they were rescued by 5th Fleet’s drone-focused Task Force 59—using one of Saronic’s Corsair USV drone ships. It was a Navy milestone, and possibly a world first. 

It’s far more than just search and rescue. The war in Ukraine is proving that large multi-million dollar capital ships are vulnerable to sinking by small, homemade $2000 drones packed with explosives. The other achilles heel of smart weapons is that they usually cost millions each and take a long time to produce. They work great for short, strategic engagements, but as the war in Ukraine points out, they simply cannot be produced in quantity fast enough over long periods of time in prolonged conflicts. That’s why the US military is looking at fast to produce, disposable, highly capable drone technology like Saronic who can create whole small fleets of hunter-killer boats for fractions of a capital ship.

Vuevo translation device

Vuevo translation device

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Pixie Dust Technologies in Japan created the Vuevo display – a cool little automatic translation device. It listens to you talking, and then translates between two languages live while putting up what the other person said on a transparent display. While auto-translation is not new, having it in such a clean, professional form factor means they have been popping up in Japan at better quality restaurants and hotels where foreign travelers are common.

Meta’s new Ray Ban glasses also have a translation feature as well, but it’s still rough (works best as listening to a lecture vs interactive real-life conversations:)

Of course, one has to wonder how it will do with accents…

Catholic Teaching on the Family

Catholic Teaching on the Family

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There is no greater confirmation of the holiness, goodness, and intent of the human family than when God, who is all perfect, who had no sin, who guided all of creation, chose to enter His creation the same way as all of us. He become a single cell in his mother’s womb, carried through a normal pregnancy, was born to two loving parents, and grew up as a child through normal human adulthood in a family with parents and relatives. He did not come down in a cloud or appear in a flash of power. He instead confirmed the beauty of the entire human life cycle – the work of His own hands – by choosing it above any other way.

If God, who is perfect goodness and love created and then came into the world this way – we should learn a powerful lesson about God’s intent for families and the whole human life cycle.

EVE Online Carbon engine open sourced

EVE Online Carbon engine open sourced

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Fenris Creations (Formerly known as CCP Games until May 2026) announced today that Carbon, their cross-platform game engine framework behind EVE Online (and EVE Frontier) is now completely open source.

The full code release includes lots of different modules like Destiny, Carbon’s physics simulation and pathfinding technology, and Trinity, Carbon’s graphics module. There’s also networking, UI, audio, resource management, scripting, scheduling and many more. It’s an amazing body of work for people to learn from.

The purpose of releasing it according to Ben Hunter, Senior Development Director?

“Carbon was built for a very specific purpose: to support living virtual worlds that can endure for decades. It has carried EVE Online through more than 20 years of continuous operation, from everyday player activity to some of the largest battles in videogame history. Open sourcing Carbon is about making that foundation visible, understandable, and useful to others. It is a commitment to transparency, longevity, and the belief that the next generation of persistent worlds will be stronger when more people can study, challenge, and build on the technology beneath them.”