Articles at Andreas.com

• I post notes and updates at Blue Sky at @Andreas.com, Twitter at @andreas_ramos, and LinkedIn.
• If you see a useful article about AI, let me know.
• Updated August 9^th, 2025.

Articles for C-level

• Your Next CMO Will Be an AI. An AI can build the entire marketing strategy.
• How LLM AI works. Three pages in clear English written for my CSTU students.

Articles for Marketers and Practioners

• The AI chatbot on my website.
• You can use AI to make an app in less than seven minutes. No coding at all.
• People ask me, how to keep up? LLM genAI is evolving faster than HTML back in the mid-90s. I constantly talk with professors, students, developers, founders, investors, CEO, staff, and so on. I go to events and speak at events, I teach university courses; I watch webcasts, and I talk with lots of people. Yes, it's a lot of work.
• Twitter and Blue Sky are the main place for AI news. Stuff is announced or discussed in tweets. Here's my list of useful AI accounts in Twitter. I'm at Blue Sky at @Andreas.com
• AI Newsletters: AI News Digest ainewsdigest@substack.com, AI Tidbits Deep Dives, aitidbits+deep-dives@substack.com, AlphaSignal news@alphasignal.ai, Deeplearning hello@deeplearning.ai, TechTalks bdtechtalks@substack.com, The Batch thebatch@deeplearning.ai, The Deep View newsletter@thedeepview.co, The Neuron theneuron@newsletter.theneurondaily.com, The Rundown TheRundown.ai, Understanding AI understandingai@substack.com
• Events for AI: There are over 300 meetings or conferences for AI every month in Silicon Valley. There are also events in New York, Boston, Seattle, and London. Come to SV for five days, go to lots of events, and you'll learn more than a year elswhere. Find events at Jeremiah Owyang's List of AI Events and Agenda Hero.
• See the OpenAI's Forums OpenAI Forum for events and the OpenAI Developer Forum for discussion and questions.

Useful Books and Articles about AI

• God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn. Intelligence and sentience have a complex history in philosophy, theology, and science. What do these mean? The best book on the origins and implications of these ideas.
• Tim Lee explains LLMs in clear language. Large Language Models Explained. This is a Must-Read to get a basic understanding of AI LLM.
• Leopold Aschenbrenner's essay Situational Awareness. On AI, Silicon Valley, and militarization of AI.

My Courses for Digital Marketing and AI

• I teach DMAnc courses in AI for marketing, SEO and digital ads (Google Ads, which can also be used for Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.). These university-level courses are hands-on and practical. You get everything: prompts, results, code, examples, links, etc. I've been teaching AI since January 2023. These courses are constantly updated. See my DMAnc courses in AI for marketing.

The Current Best LLM AI (March 2025)

• In my course in AI for marketing, I show how to evaluate AI to find the best one for your field.
• If your office doesn't allow you to use AI because your work will be monitored by the Chinese Communist Party (unlikely) or Elon Musk (likely), just download an AI to your computer, laptop, or phone and use it without any connection. Your AI work is 100% private and secure. I show how to do this in my courses in AI.
• How to find the best AI or tool for anything? Ask Perplexity.ai, "What's the best AI for images / video / text / audio for our company (and describe what you do)."

Multi-Agent System (MAS)

• Multi-Agent System (MAS): Combine multiple AI persona to create virtual teams with roles such as CEO, CTO, CFO, directors, managers, reviewers, testing, documentation, and so on. The team of AI persona collaborates to process tasks and produce results.
• What can an MAS do? Here are two examples of using an MAS to create a translations company or a software company. See arxiv.org/pdf/2405.11804 and arxiv.org/abs/2307.07924.
• What does this mean for you? You'll be able to create an MAS agent to duplicate what you do. It can do your work, learn for you, attend meetings on your behalf, make decisions, receive and send messages, and produce reports, software, translations, and so on.
• How to create Multi Agent Systems MAS By me. Free ebook.
• Interesting papers on MAS: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18111, https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17017, https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03736, https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07769, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03578, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01108, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01968, https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12472
• See 800 research papers on MAS at arxiv.org

More Computer Stuff

• What I did for MIT OpencourseWare OCW.
• I'm often asked, "How can I make money with a blog?" Here's my payments from Google Adsense for my blog and Youtube videos.
• Google Gemini Pro lets you paste 1.1m tokens (about 5,000 pages or 33 books). I created a text file with 640 pages that you can open in your AI to ask questions, get summaries, look for trends, and so on.
• Why does Google, Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter allow fascists, nuts, and Russia to post? In 1996, dotcom lawyers added one line to 47 U.S.C. §230(c)(1) in the Communications Decency Act. That either launched the web or created the chaos.
• Did you know the Internet once ran on steam?
• Did you know Google was named after Barney Google?
• Although Google is the world's largest ad agency (7X larger than WPP), Google doesn't do much marketing. It has launched over Google 100 products without any marketing and they died.
• What is geodemographics?
• My laws of computering.
• How to prevent Repetitive Strain Injury RSI.
• FAQ on SSI.
• My HTML cheatsheet.
• How to use free cell phones for emergency 911 calls.
• How to recharge your cell phone with ordinary batteries.
• What are NFC Tags and how to make one.
• I made one of the first websites for PDAs (Personal Digital Assitants). See what the web was like before smart phones.
• How the police use Twitter.

Silicon Valley Startups and Jobs

• Silicon Valley and VC: How Venture Capital really works in Silicon Valley (April 2025).
• Build your own Silicon Valley startup.
• The Grandmother Pitch How to write an elevator pitch that really works.
• Photos of Silicon Valley for my book on startups.
• Research into viral marketing, virality, and word-of-mouth.
• How to find jobs in Silicon Valley.
• Writing your resume for Silicon Valley.
• Nick Corcodilos on how to interview.
• How overtime law in Silicon Valley was changed.
• Job opportunities in a Pandemic.

Personal Stuff

The following pages are my interests, travels, books, blog archives, cats, and so on.

Popular Stuff at my Website

• My eyewitness account of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (yes, I was there when the Berlin Wall fell).
• Hokusai (1760-1849), the Japanese artist, changed 20th century art. How you see art today came from his work. His inspiration? Dutch wrapping paper.
• Read a few poems by Mary Oliver.
• Why are Rodin's sculptures so popular? See what I wrote about Rodin's The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Three Shades, The Kiss, and Bellona, Goddess of War at Rodin.
• When did guys start wearing beards? See the origin of the fad for beards.
• A short history of the world, Europe, China, India, and the rest. Global history in three pages.
• A short summary of the Great Depression.

Travel Stuff

• What to see and do in Silicon Valley.
• What to see and do in San Francisco.
• Our trips to Shanghai and Beijing | Sichuan, China | France, Germany, and Denmark | Saudi Arabia | Bangalore (India).
• Driving the San Francisco Bay Area City Ring.

Photography Stuff

• How to take better photos with your cell phone.
• How to convert Minox slides into digital photos.
• GIF, JPG, or PNG image formats.

My Blog: 1994-2020

I started blogging in 1994 before there was even a word for it. For a long time, I created pages by hand in HTML. In 2003, I began to use Blogger, which later became Google Blogger. In the mid-2010s, I switched to Wordpress and after a few years, back to HTML and continued blogging by hand until 2020.

Today, I post updates and notes to Blue Sky at @andreas.com, Twitter at @andreas_ramos, or LinkedIn. I post longer items to my website.

Here are my blog postings for 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

Tip: Use the search box to look for stuff in the blog archives.

Words, Words, Words...

• How I published my book in Chinese.
• List of my favorite words.
• Top 1,000 words in the English language.
• Top 100 novels of the 1900s | Top 100 novels of the 1800s | top 100 novels of the 1700s.
• Where to get thousands of free ebooks.
• A very funny play by Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Rarely performed in the US (no wonder...).

Book Summaries

• Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty.
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
• The Big Ball of Wax by Shepherd Mead.
• High Stakes by Charles Ferguson.
• Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi.
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

Food, Recipes, and Restaurants

• My guide to breakfast in Silicon Valley, Happy Hour in Silicon Valley, and Late Night Food in Silicon Valley.
• Learn how to make Mayan Hot Chocolate, as in the movie Chocolat.
• Enough reading? How about some food? Recipes by Susan Steinsapir and Helen's Miso Salad Dressing.
• We reviewed the nine lunch cafeterias at Cisco. Which one has the best lunch?.
• Ray Bruman's The World Famous List of Weird and Disgusting Foods.

Cat Stuff

• My cat's website at Anaximander-Katzenjammer.com (and his Twitter page @AnaximanderKatz) (he has more followers than me).
• Here’s the CAT Users’ Manual (no, not Japanese robot cats).
• How I brought my cats to the US.

Stuff that Fits Nowhere Else...

• Thurston Howell the Third's Teddy Bear.
• The invititation to my Y2K Party.
• The invitation to our funeral for the Dotcom boom.
• And finally, my XML Sitemap. You may notice it includes web pages, images, and video.

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