Benjamin Houy shuts down Lorelight, arguing AI search doesn’t need stand-alone GEO tools. The decision sparks debate over measuring assistant visibility.
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Life’s Little Ironies
• It was thought dangerous that old-time car radios required attention to turning a dial. So push-buttons with memories were created to solve that when there were only about 12 AM radio stations available. Today, we have to push a spot on the screen, not a tactile button, and there are hundreds of available channels, plus Car Play, plus Sirius, plus personal playlists, and so on. Is that really safety progress?
• People pay for an airline seat that has a reclining capability, yet some sitting behind such recliners complain they should not be used.
• The framers never imagined that anyone would make serving in elected office a full-time career, but today we have many Representatives and Senators who have served longer than most European monarchs, from whom we sought to escape.
• I am unaware of any media sportscaster, “meteorologist,” or financial expert who has ever been fired for inaccurate and incorrect forecasts and advice.
• We want to stimulate innovation yet continually seek to raise taxes (“tax the rich”) on those whose very innovations have created societal improvements.
• The total endowments of the Ivy League universities alone is $185 billion. Yet their application acceptance rate is about five percent.
• The very men and women of both parties refusing to “open” the government and restore sorely needed services continue to be paid themselves since they wrote that exception into the law.
• Decades ago, Haloid, which became Xerox, was losing ground to competitor Kodak, until it successfully developed an approach that Kodak had and disdained: photocopying.
• In 2022, 25 people were injured and treated for burns after walking over hot coals to increase their self-esteem. I’m assuming they simply lacked sufficient motivation.
• Coca Cola has launched massive recycling campaigns and pledges, but it is the world’s largest plastic polluter.
• Maurizio Cattelan sold a piece called Comedian, which was a real banana duct taped to a wall (not a canvas) for $6.2 million. He is now selling a solid gold, working toilet at auction—that cost $12 million to create in actual costs—at Sotheby’s, which thinks it can make a profit on it.
• Neither the amount of money nor education one has accumulated has any direct correlation to intelligence, taste, or contribution to society.
• If someone is convicted of drunk driving in most states, no one checks to see if they also have a pilot’s license or boating license .
• Why do otherwise unmarked Rhode Isand state police cars boldly state “RI State Police” on the license plates?
• Those who have defined insanity as hereditary are partially correct. You get it from your kids.
The supreme irony in life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. —Robert Heinlein
The main business of lawyers is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything they touch. —Antonin Scalia
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. —Edmund Burke
2026 Zoom Workshops
January 6 Maximizing the coaching/advisory dynamic
February 3 Maximizing speaking spin-off business
March 3 Role-playing tough conversations
April 7 Maximizing workshop effectiveness spin-off
May 5 Maximizing current events potential
June 9 Role-playing tougher conversations
July 7 Maximizing low project labor practices
August 13 Maximizing panels—participant/moderator
September 8 Role-playing toughest conversations
October 6 Maximizing publishing potential
November 2 Maximizing lifestyle potential
December 8 Maximizing 2027 personally and professionally
All sessions are approximately 90 minutes beginning at 10:30 US eastern time. These sessions are $450 each, or the entire year for $5,000. Add three months of weekly 30-minute coaching for $2,500, a total of $7,500. (My cards are accepted for the full-year, and for the full-year and coaching options, not for individual sessions.) All sessions will include video recording, visual photos, and Zoom Companion summary.
Register before December 1 and receive a fourth month of weekly, 30-minute calls.
Register here: https://alanweiss.com/store/quick-pay/
The Fishbowl: In January I’ll be starting a year-long, monthly, “live” coaching session whereby one member of the group will be coached by me for 45 minutes on a current issue of theirs, we’ll deconstruct what happened, and then have 45 minutes of Q&A. This is a variation of the very popular “fishbowl” technique I ran a few years ago.
You may volunteer to be the person coached or simply watch. You needn’t attend every session and I will provide video to everyone afterwards along with written commentary. This should build your coaching prowess considerably.
This will be $500 for the year and I’m offering it to you, here, first, because I’ll obviously have limited participation. My offer to you is $400. (An hour of my “situational coaching” on my site is $2,500, so this is a hell of a deal if you choose to be coached or even just observe.)
You can register here: https://alanweiss.com/store/quick-pay/
I can only accept a few more and I’ll cut off registration on December 1, but if you wait and we’re filled, I can only put you on a waiting list.
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BOOK SPRINT begins Nov. 3, 60-minute weekly call to create a completed, professional book proposal in the following 60 days. I have an 80%+ record placing these books with publishers for the last five years. I will introduce the proposal to agents and publishers (and so can you) and provide an additional 30 days of support for the book. The fee is only $4,500. Stop procrastinating and produce your first (or next) book, which is how I’ve attracted well over 90% of my business over the years. Register here and I’ll send the simple prep work: https://alanweiss.com/store/quick-pay/ Note: I can take one more person and we begin in less than two weeks.
Zoom Workshops 2025: Join me on November 4 for our next installment, Questions You Always Wanted to Ask (Me). If you can’t attend “live” you’ll still receive the video and the AI Companion transcript. https://alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/zoom-workshops-2025/ I’ll take questions in writing in advance if you’d like to remain anonymous. $450. Consider it AI: Alan Intelligence® in person!!
Million Dollar Consulting® for the World: I’ve provided 14 modules with videos from me, from your colleagues globally, slides, and text. They include everything from launch to self-esteem, proposals to fees, closing business to creating a brand. No upsells! It’s only $115. What do you think about a 10,000:1 ROI? We have over 500 people from 47 countries. https://milliondollarconsultingcourse.com
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London: For those of you who read down here, a special offer. I’m planning to be in London in late May offering a 1.5-day program based on my new book The Seven-Figure Consultant (which will be released in February and which I’ll send for free to registrants at that time). The program is about the philosophy, leverage, and opportunity acquisition you need to make seven figures annually and sustain it. It is a brand new offering (it is not “Six Figures to Seven”). If you’re interested: The fee will be $4,500, which includes a reception evening, a light breakfast and lunch. If you register in November the fee is $3,500. Write me at alan@summitconsulting.com or register here: https://alanweiss.com/store/quick-pay/ Read this far? It’s May 18-19.
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Create a sustainable founder-led content model that balances authenticity, efficiency, and long-term brand impact.
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$100,000 Ain’t What It Used To Be.
Create a sustainable founder-led content model that balances authenticity, efficiency, and long-term brand impact.
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Create a sustainable founder-led content model that balances authenticity, efficiency, and long-term brand impact.
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Google says AI surfaces businesses the same way people do, by checking what others recommend online.
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