09/15/2026
The idea for A Good Pour: Summer of Good AI came to me during a workout. I kept thinking about how few people were telling the good stories about AI: the ones happening the right way, without the hype.
So we spent the summer having real conversations. Industry experts, educators, software developers, sustainability experts, even an AI skeptic. Different lenses, same question: how do we use this well?
A few things stuck with me.
Most people judge AI by the slop flooding their feed, and that's fair. Without real intention behind it, everyone starts sounding the same. But AI built with purpose saves time, real time, and that time can go toward the work only a human can do.
We also need more education on the basics. And we need regulation. AI is a lot like a car: useful and dangerous, and it deserves the same guardrails.
And we need each other. AI can help me plan a trip. It can't tell me what my people would actually love. Only my friends can do that.
The series wraps this month. If you haven't listened yet, start wherever pulls you in.