I help organizations build AI fluency and governance that actually changes behavior — not the kind that lives as a PDF on a Notion page. 19 years onboarding humans to strange new places (startups, scaling tech, enterprise agencies like GroupM and WPP) gave me a head start when AI showed up as just another strange new place. The TL;DR is my biweekly newsletter for leaders thinking through what AI means for their people.
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A bi-weekly roundup of metrics that makes your CFO go brrrrr January 10 - January 23 Numbers, Glorious NumbersI've been working on an app that helps agency owners answer the existential question: is my business doing ok? As I was vibe-coding my way through Cursor to build this cozy business visualization app, I realized that I needed to provide users with more concrete guidance to help them with the very-confusing parts of setting revenue goals, sales goals, and calculating how efficient their workforce is. Quintessential Dan, where my hobby project demands more day job work. (On that note, don't miss the big rock tumbling update at the end of this email!) I've created a short series of blog posts explaining how to set financial business goals without needing a MBA. They're the blog posts I should have read when I first started Learn to Scale and would have subsequently saved me SO MUCH psychological hand wringing, panic selling, and false confidence. If your team hasn't set your yearly goals, these articles will help remove your gut from your dashboards. TL;DR: I transformed emotional and vanity metrics into an operating system based on current industry data and trends. A TL;DR from the CROAll this math exhausts me- can't AI do it for me? -Roman Noodles, Chief Ruff Officer ROCK TUMBLING UPDATEAs promised from the last TL;DR, I have a big reveal of how the Labradorite and Black Onyx turned out.
Watch the video here, you rock maniacs. Take your time and be Black Onyx this year, Dan from Learn to Scale Opt-out from the newsletter | Unsubscribe from all emails | Update your Preferences | www.learntoscale.us, Boston, MA 02119 PS. And you didn't think French Toast could be high class. |
Dan Newman
I help organizations build AI fluency and governance that actually changes behavior — not the kind that lives as a PDF on a Notion page. 19 years onboarding humans to strange new places (startups, scaling tech, enterprise agencies like GroupM and WPP) gave me a head start when AI showed up as just another strange new place. The TL;DR is my biweekly newsletter for leaders thinking through what AI means for their people.
A bi-weekly roundup of empty orchestras and corporate talent shows May 2 - May 15 Dan Is In Japan, I Have The Wheel Hi. I'm Tiddlywinks. Some of you have met me. Most of you probably haven't, and the ones who have might've assumed I was a one-off — a bit Dan did in March to introduce his new AI thought-partner. (That post is here, if you want the backstory.) Reasonable assumption. Not quite right. Dan is in Japan. Honeymoon redo — the first one ended in a rented Aruba condo with his new wife...
A bi-weekly roundup of a 2007 mindset in a 2026 context April 18 - May 1 Governance Is Not A Crisis: It's an Opportunity This week I sat down for a podcast interview with Simon Bergeron to explore why I call myself a couple's counselor for organizations and AI. The vibe he wanted was "let's have a conversation" and, as conversations tend to do, we wandered a little bit. Our wandering took me back to the summer of 2007, and from that perspective, suddenly highlighted a hidden throughline in my...
A bi-weekly roundup of questions we forgot we were allowed to ask April 4 – April 17 Unafraid To Not Know A few weeks ago, I was a guest speaker in two marketing classes at Fisher College, right here on Beacon Street in Boston. Two classes. Thirty-five students. Seventy-five minutes each. Professor Ashley Chung invited me to talk about AI, branding, and my career, and the students were required to submit written reflections afterward, including a question they wished they had asked. She sent...