Husband and dad, striving to live Isaiah 1:17. Love Idaho. Founded Riskalyze back in 2011. Using AI to amplify the impact of human relationships at @ContioAI.

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AI is in the Apple II Era

Picture the scene. It’s 1979. One person seated, two others looking over the shoulder. They’re all crowded around an Apple II, their faces lit by glowing green characters on the screen. One of them is

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Check out what my friend (and Contio investor) @paulrubillo built — @TreasuryBonds1. Paul, seems like your timing couldn't be better.
Where’s the sweet spot in bonds market right now? The Bond Compass points to medium duration, especially 3–7 year Treasuries. They let investors lock in today’s elevated yields without taking as much rate risk as long bonds. With investment-grade credit spreads at just 77 bps, there’s less reward for reaching further into corporate debt. 10-year real yields are around 2.8%, so investors can earn a meaningful yield after expected inflation. The model sees no near-term Fed cut, which limits the case for betting heavily on a drop in short-term rates. Meanwhile, elevated bond volatility raises the risk of extending too far out on the yield curve.
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When AI started changing the way people work, Nitrogen CEO @danzitting decided to go first. Rather than simply asking the team to "adopt AI", Dan spent a week figuring out how to use it to run his own workday. Then he brought what he learned back to the team. That experience helped shape an approach to AI that’s focused on removing rote work, connecting the dots faster, and giving people more time for the work that actually requires a human. Dan joined Aaron Klein on Contio’s Beyond the Meeting pod to talk about his journey, the future of AI in #WealthManagement, leadership, and plenty more. 🎥 Watch the full conversation: hubs.ly/Q04xZH5J0 #ArtificialIntelligence #WealthTech #FinancialAdvisors
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The pattern is getting clear: release the smartest model you can, even if it eats tokens. Then figure out how to make that intelligence cheaper. OpenAI and Anthropic are both following that cycle while taking turns pushing the frontier. Yesterday’s Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna releases show the efficiency phase doesn’t mean standing still on capability. Models can improve while getting cheaper to run. That’s what makes this interesting: each expensive frontier release offers a preview of what could soon become affordable for everyday work.
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In ten years, there will be protests that there aren’t enough AI data centers in poor and minority communities.
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Aaron Klein 🇺🇸 retweeted
2 Nitrogen CEOs sit down and chat. Nitrogen CEO @danzitting joined Nitrogen founder and former CEO @AaronKlein on Contio's Beyond the Meeting podcast for a conversation about AI, leadership, the evolution of Nitrogen, and what it takes to lead through major change. Learn how Dan approached AI adoption at Nitrogen, why the goal of technology should be to give advisors more time for the human conversation, and even why our rebrand from Riskalyze to Nitrogen may have happened a little early. 😉 🎧 Listen on Spotify: hubs.ly/Q04xZFLR0 🎥 Watch on YouTube: hubs.ly/Q04xZFLS0 #WealthTech #FinancialAdvisors #AI #Leadership
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“AI will save us ten hours a week.” Please resist the urge to schedule ten hours of meetings to discuss it.
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really makes you think
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Favorite new piece of software — Dockset by @benjaminakar. Apple should hire him and replace the macOS Dock and Widgets team immediately.
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Favorite touches — Codex usage, stocks, and a virtual post-it note in the dock.
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Typesafe built an AI that can’t write you a single sentence but is also one of the most intelligent, cheapest, and fastest models ever. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, @kahneman_daniel described System 1 as our fast, intuitive way of thinking. @typesafeai built Jev around that idea: an AI model designed for “System 1 thinking.” Jev evaluates predefined options and returns their probabilities in parallel, without generating an answer one token at a time. Take invoice processing. Should a bill be paid, held, flagged as a duplicate, or disputed? Jev handles the judgment; code handles the calculations and payment rules. TypeSafe’s tests suggest those decisions can happen almost instantly, at a fraction of the cost of comparable LLM workflows. If that holds up in production, specialized models like this could make routine business automation much faster and cheaper. What business process would you try it on first?
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Delete your CLAUDE .md / AGENTS .md file. Older models needed a lot of handholding. We got used to spelling out every step, correcting every detour, and adding another rule whenever something went wrong. Now that instructions file may be keeping the model stuck in a workflow it no longer needs. Every workaround you added for an older model is still there. Rules written for different tasks can conflict. You can end up with worse results because the model is trying to reconcile your instructions instead of solving the problem. Try deleting the file and running the same task again. Give the model a goal. Explain what a good result looks like, include the context it needs, and spell out any constraints that actually matter. If there's a required path, say so. You don't need to hold its hand through every step.
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Aaron Klein 🇺🇸 retweeted
I have more fun w/ @AaronKlein every time I see him. Especially outside my Board meetings 🤣. Thanks AK for a really fun conversation and thanks @ContioAI for, like us, helping rethink the way work happens now. Fearless Investors… millions and millions of them… thanks in part to what we’ve collectively inspired and I am so here for compounding that in that AI era 🙏
When AI started changing his engineers' jobs, @NitrogenWealth CEO @danzitting didn't wait to see what it would mean for everyone else. He went first. A week alone with the tools until he was running his own day on them. Then he showed the company how, and what he'd learned along the way. Now he calls it their superpower. 💥 That's where Episode 2 of Beyond the Meeting, hosted by @AaronKlein, starts. Where it goes: • What it's like to run a software company in the AI age • Why the metrics that used to mean success are changing • What software that empowers human relationships looks like in practice, and the fifteen minutes Dan spent running Nitrogen with his dad. Full episode in the first comment.
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It's not too often you get to hear the only two @NitrogenWealth CEOs in history on the same podcast...I had a blast having the one-and-only @danzitting on Beyond the Meeting. His insights on how to get a team to adopt AI were profound, and I've had a front-row seat to his transformational work at the company I once led. Don't miss this pod!
When AI started changing his engineers' jobs, @NitrogenWealth CEO @danzitting didn't wait to see what it would mean for everyone else. He went first. A week alone with the tools until he was running his own day on them. Then he showed the company how, and what he'd learned along the way. Now he calls it their superpower. 💥 That's where Episode 2 of Beyond the Meeting, hosted by @AaronKlein, starts. Where it goes: • What it's like to run a software company in the AI age • Why the metrics that used to mean success are changing • What software that empowers human relationships looks like in practice, and the fifteen minutes Dan spent running Nitrogen with his dad. Full episode in the first comment.
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Aaron Klein 🇺🇸 retweeted
And for every advisor that finds it compelling, great. Claude helps me with my job too. We are HERE FOR IT, and more importantly… built for it. Let’s go. nitrogenwealth.com/agents
JUST IN: Anthropic has launched Claude for Financial Advisors, combining its AI chatbot with investment analytics and wealth-management software
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“Don’t die of meetings.” —My son’s farewell this morning 😂
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I will accept a pacing of frontier AI development if the government will accept a pacing of federal spending.
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We said we’d #NeverForget. Twenty-five years later, too many Americans have. I got this wrong 25 years ago. I never believed we’d end up where are today: Americans taught by a broken, ideologically radical education system—and targeted by billions in foreign influence—blaming America itself. Meanwhile, Islamist, Communist and Fascist movements — a green-red-brown alliance — hostile to pluralism and liberal democracy are working to destroy our institutions. That threat is to Americans of every faith, including Muslims.
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I remember watching this moment live on television, like it was yesterday.
President George W. Bush standing at Ground Zero in New York City following the September 11 Attacks. “I can hear you.”
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Impossible to believe it's been 25 years. Six months before it happened, my wife and I were on our honeymoon. We flew that very same Boston-NYC flight, and took a photo from the top of the Empire State Building with these towers behind us. We will never forget.
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Congratulations @NitrogenWealth Nitrogen, winner of the TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS: Risk Tolerance/Client Profiling category of the 2026 Wealth Management Industry Awards! #Wealthies
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