Start Here

If you have just landed on this site and are not sure what it is, this page is for you. It takes about four minutes.

The problem I was trying to solve

When people want to understand something about AI, technology, fintech or crypto, they type a question into Google. What they get back is often a wall of long videos, thin listicles, or pages written to rank rather than to answer.

The straight answer is usually in there somewhere — often inside a video from someone who actually knows the subject — but it takes twenty minutes to find out whether it was worth it. And a great many videos are padding. I have watched enough of them to be confident about that.

Almost nobody wants to sit through a whole video to get one answer. What most people want is the answer to the question they searched for, in plain language, and then to decide whether to go deeper.

So that is what this site does. Every article starts from two things: a question people search for on Google, and a video from an independent creator on that subject. The article answers the question, using that video as its research material. The creator is credited, and the video is there if you want the full version.

What is here

Latest — the newest articles. A few a day, usually two or three.

Best of each topic — the source videos that most outperformed their own channel’s average, five per subject. This is the page to browse if you want the good stuff rather than the recent stuff, and it is built so a small channel with a strong video can beat a large one.

Guides — longer pieces I write myself, one per subject, drawing on everything the site has covered.

Glossary — 56 terms explained for someone who wants the answer in thirty seconds and the reason underneath it. Terms in articles link here automatically.

Tools — 35 free tools. They run entirely in your browser: nothing you paste is uploaded, and nothing is stored.

Trends — which companies, models and protocols come up most across the whole archive, with the method and its limits stated on the page.

What I think about AI, since you are here

A lot of people are frightened of it. My view is that fear is a poor substitute for understanding — not because there is nothing to be careful about, but because being afraid of something does not teach you anything about it.

There is a new way of using the internet arriving, and it opens a genuinely large set of possibilities. The people who get the most out of it will be the ones who took the time to find out what it actually does.

That cuts both ways, and this is the part I care about most. You need to know what these tools can do for you, and you need to know where the traps are — because there are a great many people who will happily abuse someone’s trust with them. Scams are what most people are actually afraid of, and fear does not help. Knowing what to look for does.

So ask the boring questions. What is it? What can it actually do? What are the openings? What should I watch out for? The more you know, the better the choices you get to make.

Learn it for your own sake. It will pay you back.

How the articles are made

I would rather tell you than have you work it out.

A system I built picks a question people search for on Google, within the subjects I have chosen, and finds a video from an independent creator on that subject. A language model writes the article to answer the question, using the video’s transcript as its research material. Those articles publish automatically — I do not read every one before it goes live.

What is mine is the machinery and the rules it follows: which subjects get covered and in what balance, which channels are searched, what gets rejected, and how sources are credited. When something goes wrong I fix the system rather than patch the one article.

That is also why the articles are written plainly rather than in my voice. I have not watched all of these videos or read all of these articles, and writing as though I had would be a small lie told several hundred times. Where you are reading me is here, on the about page, in the guides and in the glossary.

The about page has the longer version, and the corrections policy explains what happens when something here is wrong.

Five minutes, well spent

If you have never used the site before, try this: open Best of each topic, pick the subject you care about, and read the top article in it. Then decide whether the video underneath it is worth your time.

That is the whole idea, and it either works for you or it does not.

— Jacob S. Olsen, Denmark