# My Crowded Mind Musing at the intersection of product, design, strategy & technology. Page: Feed: --- ## [Design Leaders in AI](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/design-leaders-in-ai) _2025-07-01 · Max Miner_ A short list of influential designers crafting the future of AI. ## [Finding alpha in AI](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/four-people-to-follow-in-ai) _2025-05-07 · Max Miner_ Curating the high quality information is difficult in a landscape rich with hype and spin. Here are four forward thinkers who consistently deliver alpha in the AI space. ## [2024 Reading Recap](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/2024-reading-recap) _2025-02-03 · Max Miner_ Books, articles and podcasts consumed in 2024 ## [The Age of the Idea Guy](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/the-age-of-the-idea-guy) _2024-06-13 · Max Miner_ AI is lowering the barriers to building businesses with technology. The distance from zero to one is shrinking. Welcome to the age of the idea guy. ## [Language Model Awareness Optimization (LMAO)](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/language-model-awareness-optimization) _2024-05-13 · Max Miner_ LLM Awareness is the new SEO. To succeed, business leaders must consider how their organization is represented and recalled by the world's AI models. ## [The Irony of AI (at least for now)](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/the-irony-of-ai-at-least-for-now) _2024-05-01 · Max Miner_ After decades of obliterating our ability to focus, technology has a powerful new tool, LLMs — but unlocking their value requires the one skill we destroyed: attention. ## [Five things #0002](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/five-things-0002) _2024-04-30 · Max Miner_ 0002 — AI hires humans, Prophetic induces elation, Meta launches Llama 3, robots are on the rise, and a simple product design takes aim at illiteracy. ## [Five things (on my mind) #0001](https://mycrowdedmind.substack.com/p/five-things-on-my-mind-0001) _2024-04-19 · Max Miner_ #0001 — Exploring advances in AI: HAI's AI Index Report, empathetic AI, open source Devin, orchestrating agent crews, and AI assistants for education.