Hi, I'm Drew Breunig
I work at the intersection of cultural anthropology, computer science, and media.
I ran strategy, data science, and strategic client projects at PlaceIQ (acquired by Precisely). At Precisely, I help with strategy and positioning for their data integrity software, data, and services. I also lead their collaboration with the Overture Maps Foundation, focusing on the Global Entity Reference System.
I designed and built StepList, an app for managing routines. With Nicholas Felton, I co-founded and developed Reporter, an award-winning app for measuring and understanding yourself. I also advise companies with their positioning, marketing, and strategy, like Useful Sensors.
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Selected Writing
- Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era
- AI Search Apps Succeed Because of Their UI, Not their LLMs
- Generating Descriptive Weather Reports with LLMs
- The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs
- Wikidata is a Giant Crosswalk File
- Conflating Overture Places Using DuckDB, Ollama, Embeddings, and More
- What Remains After an AI Collapse?
- When is a Minicar as Dangerous as a 3-Ton Truck?
- We Need an Ari Emanuel for Small OSS
- The Right to Confront Your AI Accuser
- Domain Expertise is the Difference Maker for Data Scientists
- How to Build a Bigger Bubble
- More...