# dustin (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dustin. Page: Feed: --- ## [Good faces](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/good-faces/) _2026-08-20 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Pardon My Planet, 8/20/26 OK, here’s a sentence that I’m reasonably sure I’ve never written before, and probably \[…\] ## [Ominous developments](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/ominous-developments/) _2026-08-19 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Crankshaft, 8/19/26 The last time Crankshaft and Harry Dinkle started an adventure together, Crankshaft looked real cherry but \[…\] ## [Troubling youth, etc.](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/troubling-youth-etc/) _2026-08-18 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Pickles, 8/18/26 Not to sound old, but I do find someone replying “k” to me to be irritating \[…\] ## [Various disasters](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/various-disasters/) _2026-08-17 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dustin, 8/17/26 Hey kids! Do you remember the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that dumped 150 million gallons of \[…\] ## [Dawn Weston: Sadhorny Chronicles](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/dawn-weston-sadhorny-chronicles/) _2026-08-16 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Six Chix, 8/16/26 The Wednesday Chik has not given up on her mission to educate comics readers on \[ \] ## [Just make coffee at home, guys! It’s cheaper!!!!](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/just-make-coffee-at-home-guys-its-cheaper/) _2026-08-15 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Pluggers, 8/15/26 I m a guy who does not like fancy coffee drinks but I also have limitless disdain \[ \] ## [Metapost: It is time for the week’s top comments](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/metapost-it-is-time-for-the-weeks-top-comments/) _2026-08-14 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! This week s comment of the week: It is here, for you to enjoy. Pinocchio holds his own control \[ \] ## [Present and past](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/present-and-past/) _2026-08-14 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Lockhorns, 8/14/26 What with Leroy being a Millennial, you d think he d be on board with a work-from-home \[ \] ## [Life after and/or before death](https://joshreads.com/2026/08/life-after-and-or-before-death/) _2026-08-13 · Josh · The Comics Curmudgeon_ Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Gearhead Gertie, 8/13/26 The Golden Rule that you should treat others as you would like to be \[ \] ## [The Founder’s Pendulum: Why You Feel Like a Genius and a Fraud in the Same Month](https://dustinstout.com/the-founders-pendulum/) _2026-07-24 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post The Founder s Pendulum: Why You Feel Like a Genius and a Fraud in the Same Month appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . Eighteen months ago, if you d told me my company would cross a million dollars a year in revenue, I would have wept with joy. I m serious. I would have printed that sentence, framed it, and hung it over my desk like a diploma. This week, sitting comfortably… ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2X2w3XZOOZV9) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [Bolt-On AI Features Won’t Save These Billion-Dollar Business Categories](https://dustinstout.com/bolt-on-ai-features/) _2026-07-13 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post Bolt-On AI Features Won t Save These Billion-Dollar Business Categories appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . Somewhere in a product meeting right now, a team is celebrating a feature they just shipped. They bolted AI onto their app. A little sparkle icon in the corner. A chatbot that writes captions. A smart suggestions panel nobody asked for. They high-fived. They updated… ## [ChatGPT Isn’t an AI, Here’s What It Actually Is](https://dustinstout.com/ai-vs-app-difference/) _2026-07-01 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post ChatGPT Isn t an AI, Here s What It Actually Is appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . You ve been using AI for months. Maybe years. You ve got opinions about it. Preferences. You ve told people which one you like best. You ve recommended it to friends, defended it in arguments, and built parts of your workflow around it. And there s a decent chance you ve been confused about… ## [A 68-Year-Old Prediction Is Coming True Right Now in AI](https://dustinstout.com/predicting-ai-niches-downfall/) _2026-06-08 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post A 68-Year-Old Prediction Is Coming True Right Now in AI appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . Thousands of AI startups launched in the last two years. Most of them are already gone. Not because they had bad ideas. Not because they couldn t execute. Not because the big players crushed them. Because a British cyberneticist named W. Ross Ashby figured out their fate in 1956.… ## [The Hard Truth About AI Agents (And How to Fix It with VALUE)](https://dustinstout.com/ai-agents-value-framework/) _2026-06-04 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post The Hard Truth About AI Agents (And How to Fix It with VALUE) appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . Somebody you follow online has an AI agent that writes four blog posts a day. Fully researched. Cited sources. Embedded videos. Internal links. The whole production. And every time they show it off, the comments fill up with the same breathless reaction. This is insane. The… ## [Stop Counting AI Pennies. It’s Embarrassing.](https://dustinstout.com/stop-counting-ai-pennies/) _2026-05-19 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post Stop Counting AI Pennies. It s Embarrassing. appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . You re broke in your mind, not your wallet. That s the only explanation for what I keep seeing play out over and over again. Someone pays $20 a month for AI, uses it throughout the month, and then the moment their usage starts running low, the panic sets in. Suddenly they re rationing.… ## [Why People Actually Buy Products (And What Most Developers Get Wrong)](https://dustinstout.com/why-people-actually-buy-products/) _2026-04-27 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post Why People Actually Buy Products (And What Most Developers Get Wrong) appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . Someone called Magai a wrapper recently. I ve heard it before. I ll hear it again. And every time, it comes from the same place: a person who has spent so much time thinking in systems and architecture that they ve completely lost the plot on why humans actually open… ## [The Marketing Lie Killing Your Success](https://dustinstout.com/if-you-build-it-content-lie/) _2026-04-24 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post The Marketing Lie Killing Your Success appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . Every entrepreneur I talk to has the same marketing story. They hired someone to write blog posts. Or they committed to a YouTube channel. Or they spent three months building the perfect lead magnet. The PDF, the landing page, the welcome sequence, the follow-up drip, the whole architecture. They… ## [AI Killed the TikTok Star... and Every Job Imaginable](https://www.dustinalper.com/blog/ai-killed-the-tiktok-star) _2026-04-21 · Dustin Alper - Blog_ Somewhere between utopia and doom The future has never felt less clear to me than it does right now. I work at a fintech startup, purchased my first home over a year ago, I have a three-year-old, and another on the way. Every time I try to picture what the economy, or the job market, or daily lif... ## [Moats Don't Work When Bridges Are Free](https://www.dustinalper.com/blog/bridges-are-free) _2026-04-14 · Dustin Alper - Blog_ The prompt that changed my perspective I recently used Perplexity Computer to link my investment accounts together and build a portfolio tracker. Not a landing page. Not a toy. An actual working application that authenticated into multiple brokerages, pulled live holdings, and displayed it in a c... ## [The AI Cargo Cult: Why Millions of People Are Getting Results and Still Doing It Wrong](https://dustinstout.com/the-ai-cargo-cult/) _2026-04-10 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post The AI Cargo Cult: Why Millions of People Are Getting Results and Still Doing It Wrong appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . There is something deeply unsettling happening in the world of AI education right now. Not a scandal. Not a controversy. Something quieter. And far more dangerous. Millions of people are learning how to use AI from people who don t actually understand… ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/L6UVvWAf3aQb) _2026-04-10 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [OpenAI Just Killed Sora. Here’s Why You Should Have Seen It Coming.](https://dustinstout.com/openai-just-killed-sora/) _2026-03-26 · Dustin W. Stout · Dustin Stout_ The post OpenAI Just Killed Sora. Here s Why You Should Have Seen It Coming. appeared first on Dustin Stout by Dustin W. Stout . Six months. That s how long it took for OpenAI s standalone video app to go from most downloaded app in the App Store to we re saying goodbye. If that surprises you, we need to talk. Because this was one of the most predictable product deaths in recent tech history. And…