A phone call from a crying colonel hit me harder than selling my company for $250 million.
August 7, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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A phone call from a crying colonel hit me harder than selling my company for $250 million.
He got handed a task at 5 PM — the kind that normally chains you to a desk until midnight. He ran it through my app and finished in ten minutes. Home by 5:20. He was in tears because he got to have dinner with his kids for the first time in weeks.
We talk about AI like it's only a cost-cutting story. Boardrooms, margins, headcount.
But the thing I can't stop thinking about is that colonel. The system had been quietly stealing time from the people who serve — and AI handed it back.
That's the side of this nobody puts on the earnings call.
His story is in REPLACEMENT. So is the case for using this technology to give people their lives back, not just to trim a budget. 👇
📱 Ebook: https://lnkd.in/gZCFR5Tk
He got handed a task at 5 PM — the kind that normally chains you to a desk until midnight. He ran it through my app and finished in ten minutes. Home by 5:20. He was in tears because he got to have dinner with his kids for the first time in weeks.
We talk about AI like it's only a cost-cutting story. Boardrooms, margins, headcount.
But the thing I can't stop thinking about is that colonel. The system had been quietly stealing time from the people who serve — and AI handed it back.
That's the side of this nobody puts on the earnings call.
His story is in REPLACEMENT. So is the case for using this technology to give people their lives back, not just to trim a budget. 👇
📱 Ebook: https://lnkd.in/gZCFR5Tk