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President @joinhandshake! Helping everyone earn, learn and grow in the AI economy. Loving @emilychangtv and our four crazy kids.
East Bay, CA joinhandshake.com Joined April 2009
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🚨Launch alert🚨 Less p(doom) and more p(job)!

Today, we’re launching @joinHandshake 's AI Skills Studio with @OpenAI, @Google , @NotionHQ, @clay , @Lovable, @Replit , @vercel, @salesforce, @SlackHQ , thousands of universities and millions of employers.

Start building here: joinhandshake.com/learn/

Most people want to learn AI to get better at their job and move their career forward. But all the noise about AI utopia vs apocalypse can be paralyzing. That's where AI Skills Studio comes in: you learn AI by building.

Pick a 10–45 minute project. Build something using the best tools around, tied to career tracks and skills. Get feedback along the way. Walk away with something that works, and something you can show off to anyone, including the 1 million employers on Handshake.

And it’s free to get started.

People are already building some fun and useful stuff: a medical-device sales CRM in Clay, a benefits navigator that uncovered a gym discount its creator didn’t know they had, and a multiplayer AI whodunit.

That’s what AI learning should look like. Less watching videos and taking quizzes. More getting your hands dirty, trying things, and putting it into practice for actual jobs and career paths.

Read more about why we built it: joinhandshake.com/blog/our-team/…
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This is one of the main drivers of companies and schools reaching out to get AI Skills Studio for their employees or students. Easy ways for everyone (tinkerer or no) to see AI value and go 1 step beyond using AI for search or asking it to optimize their fantasy football lineup.
a16z @a16z Oct 19
Jean-Denis Greze, founder of @TownAI, argues AI isn't diffusing because most people aren't tinkerers: a text box isn't enough, so the product must both identify the value prop and perform the work for them.

"There's this business that rents surfboards on an island to people and then uses Town to inspect surfboards and little beach buggies, whether they've been damaged, to decide whether afterwards the person should get their deposit back."

"What makes it work there is the tinkerer... The unlock is, is there someone over there that gets AI enough to wanna tinker a solution to their problem?"

"And the problem with that is that there aren't enough tinkerers in the world, or there aren't enough people that have the time to be tinkerers to help their business. And I think that's why AI is not diffusing."

"Instead what you're doing is you're using [AI tools] as a replacement, as like a better Google search."

"If you can make a non-tinkerer into getting the same value as a tinkerer... you could be a ginormous business today because AI can solve so many business problems. You don't need more intelligence. The intelligence is there."

@jgreze @arampell
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This entertained my family for hours tonight exploring different crops and regions. Obvious to see why my dad, a Salinas native, was called lettucehead in his freshman dorm!

Beautiful work, @sabhyac267. My son wants to know when other states and countries are coming next…
Sabhya Chhabria Verified account @sabhyac267 Oct 12
I made an interactive map of every farm field in California! Inspired by the @Snapchat map!

All 384k of them: lettuce in Salinas 🥬, cherries in Brentwood 🍒, dates in Coachella 🌴, and 1.6 million acres of almonds 🌰 Zoom into any field and see exactly what's growing there.

I've been obsessed with maps from years of hiking and cycling. Models like Opus 5.5 / Astra making building with them so fun!

Built on public crop data from @CA_DWR.

Click to see growing near you? 👇
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