Ask the Cows — Five Questions Never to Ask AI When Starting Something, by Charles B. Fry. Interpretive Press. The cover shows a hand-drawn beast that is half horse, half dairy cow, with a head at each end.
Bloke down the road bought a robotic dairy.
Cost him six hundred grand.
Cows wouldn't use it.
He's back to milking by hand on the weekends
and the robot's a shed ornament.
He'd asked the rep if cows would like it.
The rep said yes.

A short book about the work that goes on before you build anything — and the five decisions you've probably already handed to a machine. Whether the idea's any good. Whether you're the one to do it. Who it's for. What to charge. Whether it's working.

The machine will answer all five, instantly, in clean confident paragraphs. It has never once paid for being wrong.

You can read it in a sitting or listen on one commute. It was written with a machine, honestly, and released cheap as an experiment — which is the whole method of the book, done to itself first.

Get the ebook

About the price of a coffee. An hour of your time. That's the bet.

Tell me what landed and what didn't

The bits you nodded at, and the bits where you thought, no, that's not how it works.
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