440 seats. 21 emails. Zero replies.
My software ran the press room at the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix. Five days. Over 400 journalists. The welcome queue cut in half. Zero seating errors. I built it alone, in a few months.
Then I wrote to 21 circuit press officers. Replies: zero. One tender, running on their calendar. One LinkedIn post that reached 3,261 impressions, where my usual posts reach 80.
Obsolete, episode 1, is about that gap. AI collapsed the cost of making things. It did not touch the cost of trusting things. The bottleneck left the workshop. It moved to the waiting room.
Six lessons. Six minutes. My voice, cloned.
Full episode: https://shows.acast.com/obsolete/obsolete-1-four-hundred-and-forty-seats-zero-replies
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