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AI SEO: Getting Cited by ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity (AEO/GEO/LLMO)
Search is quietly becoming answers, and a fistful of new acronyms -- AEO, GEO, LLMO -- has arrived to explain it. Strip away the jargon and the job is simple: be the source the AI quotes. Here is how that actually works.
Build, automate, ship
Tutorials, engineering notes and industry insight, from Git to PLCs.
Traditional SEO: Ranking on Google, Bing & Yandex
SEO is not a bag of tricks you play on Google -- it is the craft of being the best, clearest answer to a question, and then getting out of the search engine's way. Here is how the whole thing actually fits together.
AI-Assisted Software Development
AI can draft code faster than you can read it. That is exactly the problem - and the skill that now separates good engineers from dangerous ones.
Using AI to Scale a Consulting Practice
AI did not replace me. It replaced the version of me that spent half the week on work no client was ever paying for.
Edge Hosting & Modern Deployment
The server you used to babysit has dissolved into a global network -- and shipping software has never been calmer. Here is what changed, and how to think about it.
AI-Assisted IT Support & Automation
AI will not replace your service desk. It will quietly hand the keys to whoever forgets to keep a human in the room.
AI Tutors & Personalized Learning
For forty years we have known one-to-one tutoring works almost magically well, and we could never afford it. Large language models change the math - but only if we remember that the model was never the teacher.
From the bookshelf
Reading notes, philosophy and reflections on living and thinking well.
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev and Platonov
Where to start with Russian literature: essential works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev and Platonov, and why each is worth reading.
The Power of Intellectual Enjoyment: What I Learned from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
When I first picked up Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, I had no idea how profoundly it would shape my understanding of intellectual fulfillment.
The Architecture of Love: On Sacrifice, Silence, and the Courage to Stay Human
There is a house that exists in no city, appears on no map, and requires no architect.
"Brooks Was Here": The Existential Crisis Hidden Inside The Shawshank Redemption
These were the words of a schoolteacher taking attendance, trying to remind a student that simply showing up has value. But the student, Zein, wasn’t convinced.
Life-Changing Lessons: How Great Philosophers Transformed My Perspective
A personal journey of how reading philosophers like Camus, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Socrates transformed my perspective on life
From Zero to Infinity: A Playful Mathematical Journey Through Nihilism and Pragmatism
Explore a fun, mathematical journey blending nihilism and pragmatism to navigate life's complexities, inspired by influential mentors.