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Hello, I’m Jim Cuene

Founder, marketing leader, writer, investor. For years, I was a leader for organizations that are making a dent in the world. Founder at hellofahren.com. Formerly Gokart Labs, General Mills, Ameriprise, Amex.

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Some Recent Blog Posts

The Agentic Co-Workers Are Coming

I love the easy, calm way Anthropic talks about their agentic “coworker”. It all sounds so benign. Can you imagine all the bad emails that are going to go out as a result of this? How is using Cowork different from a regular conversation? In Cowork, you give Claude access to a folder of your…

How to Get Better at Reading (While Reading More)

From BookRiot, a discussion about how we can improve our reading. I’m doing a slow read of War and Peace, and while I’m enjoying the story, it’s good practice for improving my attention overall.

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