Personal
Nobody Is Teaching People How to Talk Anymore
Most conversations are two people waiting for their turn. The whole skill is a second question and a silence held a beat longer.
Between the Marks
My own writing, apart from the three companies.
Personal
On Restraint
Past a thousand bottles, the real discipline is mostly invisible. It shows up in everything tried once and never bought again.
Personal
What Acting Taught Me About Running Meetings
Acting class breaks the habit of planning your next line while someone else is still talking. Meetings changed once that habit did too.
Personal
The Case for Three Companies
Automation, fragrance, and film don't look related on paper. Each one is the same discipline, applied to a different material.
Additional Writing
Selected posts from Agent Micho, Society of Scents & Spirits, and Konkan Sun Productions.
Articles from Agent Micho, Society of Scents & Spirits, and Konkan Sun Productions get added here as each one publishes.
Agent Micho
AI automation, four recent posts
Agent Micho
Schools Still Haven't Figured Out AI. That's Your Problem Now.
67% of universities have no explicit AI policy and 95% of students use AI anyway. The graduates entering your organization learned from that incoherence.
Agent Micho
Four Governments, Four Different Bets on AI
China opens up, India builds infrastructure, the EU writes rules, the US steps back. Four different AI strategies and what each one means for a small business.
Agent Micho
The EU AI Act and Small Business
Article 50 transparency rules took effect August 2. If your business runs a chatbot or publishes AI content in the EU, this is the part that applies to you.
Agent Micho
Agentic AI: What to Build First
Agentic AI handles tasks where the input changes but the outcome stays the same. What shifted in eighteen months, and where to start building.
Society of Scents & Spirits
Fragrance and spirits, four recent posts
Society of Scents & Spirits
What Was Actually in the First Mai Tai
The rum in the first Mai Tai vanished within a decade. The real 1944 recipe, the myths around it, and three modern ways to build from it.
Society of Scents & Spirits
Special Occasion Fragrances
Room size and standing distance decide these picks, not fragrance families or seasons. Four occasions get a full recommendation, from a job interview to a wedding.
Society of Scents & Spirits
Part 2: Six Sours Beyond Whiskey
Whiskey isn't the only spirit that takes a sour build well. Six drinks, one per bottle: gin, vodka, tequila, mezcal, amaretto, and a true Italian amaro.
Society of Scents & Spirits
Part 1: Eight Whiskey Sours, One Scent, Four Exceptions
Thomas's 1862 guide has no whiskey sour in it, and egg white arrives decades after the drink does. Eight builds, one anchor fragrance, four departures.
Konkan Sun Productions
Video production, four recent posts
Konkan Sun Productions
Working with a Skeleton Crew: What You Can and Can't Cut
Every producer eventually gets asked to shoot with fewer people than the job needs. Which roles actually flex, and what it costs when you cut the wrong one.
Konkan Sun Productions
How to Produce a Film Like a Wall Street Financier
Twenty years in program management at three financial institutions, applied directly to how an independent production actually gets planned and run.
Konkan Sun Productions
The Real Job of a Line Producer
Line producer gets reduced to budget spreadsheet in most people's heads. The real job is triage, made fast, under pressure.
Konkan Sun Productions
What My First Day on Set Taught Me, From the Actor's Side
Being talent on someone else's set for the first time, and what that taught a production company founder about running his own.
