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Mt Venteaux. Killer climb on the Tour.

Welcome!

I’d like to thank you all for being a part of my life and reading my essays.

It means a lot to me -

I started without a plan. Just to write every week.

After 81 essays, I realized that I need clarity and simplicity in my life and work.

So I decided to rename the newsletter and call it “Clear Thinking with Danny Lieberman”.

I look at overlooked intersections like startup founders and aging parents in my essay “The Agony and the Joy”

“There are men who can drink vodka, and men who can’t drink vodka but still drink it. The former get pleasure from the agony and joy, and the latter suffer for all those who drink vodka without being able to drink it”.

– How things were done in Odessa, Isaac Babel.

I write about AI in my essay “The Great Agentic AI hoax” and compare it to the Tour De France.

It’s like Mont Ventoux in the Tour De France. Mont Ventoux has crazy ascents.
The climb begins in Bédoin and is 21.4 kilometers, with an average gradient of 7.6%.
That’s crazy enough but averages are deceiving.
The first 6 km is a relatively gentle ascent, providing a good warm-up.
The next 10 km goes through a dense forest, with 9-10% gradients.
In the final 5 km, cyclists face a barren, lunar-like landscape with gradients averaging around 8% and up to 10%.

Agentic AI came out in mid 2023. We’re still in the warm up climb. We still have a dense forest and a lunar landscape with a 10% gradient to climb ahead of us.

I write about simplifying my life with an iPhone 16 in “Make it ridiculously simple”

I write about Kelli Ahlgrim’s mission in “I would bottle up man hugs and prescribe them to the women of the world”

This Thursday will feature an essay on “The tyranny of monoculture”. I write about the importance of diversity of thinking in a community and in tech.

Look for it in your Inbox and in the Substack app.

One of my readers noted that my essay “The Agony and the Joy” is important because it treats a neglected area for tech founders - who tend to be young, mission-centric and driven by themselves.

I’d like to invite you to contribute your own notes on the substack platform.

Write your honest opinions.

Who am I to force mine on yours?

Danny

About me:

I am unretired, consulting to WHO Europe on digital health cyber and privacy.

I write a lot: 3 books in 2024, the newsletter and daily posts on LinkedIn for life science executives over 45. I play saxophones, clarinet and EWI and I am a daily Qigong practitioner.

I'm in a volunteer program in Israel called “MiluimTech”. We’re a community of tech people who meet with combat reserve soldiers and just talk over coffee in Tel Aviv. It's a little thing but immensely satisfying.