Articles on LLM AI for Digital Marketing

Here are pages about enterprise-level Applied AI for Digital Marketing with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Base (KB) and other items. Further down are a bunch of pages about other things.
I post updates at Blue Sky at @andreas.com, Twitter at @andreas_ramos, and LinkedIn/in/andreasramos.
Page updated April 20^th, 2026.

Articles for C-level

Your Next CMO Will Be an AI. An AI can build the entire marketing strategy.
How LLM AI works. Three pages in clear English written for my CSTU students.

Articles for Marketers and Practioners

Use PCTF, HCF, and IDLE to improve the quality of results in your AI
Matt Shumer wrote about OpenAI and Claude for coding. I asked AI "How does Gemini AI compare for marketing?"
A collection of video interviews with me about digital marketing plus notes for RAG and AI.
See my NotebookLM on how to use NotebookLM.
Short overview of retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
The AI chatbot on my website.
You can use AI to make an app in less than seven minutes. No coding at all.
If your office doesn't allow you to use AI because your work will be monitored by the Chinese Communist Party (unlikely) or Elon Musk (likely), just download an AI to your computer, laptop, or phone and use it without any connection. Your AI work is 100% private and secure. I show how to do this in my courses in AI.
How to find the best AI or tool for anything? Ask Perplexity.ai, "What's the best AI for images / video / text / audio for our company (and describe what you do)."

Resources for Digital Marketing and AI

God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn. Intelligence and sentience have a complex history in philosophy, theology, and science. What do these mean? The best book on the origins and implications of these ideas.
Tim Lee explains LLMs in clear language. Large Language Models Explained. This is a Must-Read to get a basic understanding of AI LLM.
Twitter and Blue Sky are the main place for AI news. Stuff is announced or discussed in tweets. Here's my list of useful AI accounts in Twitter. I'm at Blue Sky at @Andreas.com
AI Newsletters: AI News Digest ainewsdigest@substack.com, AI Tidbits Deep Dives, aitidbits+deep-dives@substack.com, AlphaSignal news@alphasignal.ai, Deeplearning hello@deeplearning.ai, TechTalks bdtechtalks@substack.com, The Batch thebatch@deeplearning.ai, The Deep View newsletter@thedeepview.co, The Neuron theneuron@newsletter.theneurondaily.com, The Rundown TheRundown.ai, Understanding AI understandingai@substack.com
Events for AI: There are over 300 meetings or conferences for AI every month in Silicon Valley. There are also events in New York, Boston, Seattle, and London. Come to SV for five days, go to lots of events, and you'll learn more than a year elswhere. Find events at Jeremiah Owyang's List of AI Events and Agenda Hero.
See the OpenAI's Forums OpenAI Forum for events and the OpenAI Developer Forum for discussion and questions.
Build your own Silicon Valley startup.

Additional Pages

The rest of this page is personal stuff about Silicon Valley, travel, words, food, cats, essays, and stuff.

I was born in Colombia and grew up in the US. I studied biology, chemistry, and physics in high school, where I won the state science fair. In the late 70s, I lived seven years in Germany, where I got a graduate degree at the Universität Heidelberg, where I studied hermeneutics in classes with Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, and Dieter Henrich, followed by year in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, and then seven years in Århus, Denmark, where I worked on a doctorate on Heidegger for a while, married a Danish girl for a while, and had a computer company for a while.

Because I've lived in so many places, I speak a bunch of languages. If you like words, here are some of my favorite words.

Want to see photos instead? Open my FB photo album.

I was in Berlin the night the Berlin Wall fell. There's plenty of photos of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, but I'm the only one who wrote what happened that night. My letter ended up being published in a number of history books and has become part of historical archives. In 1999, as part of the tenth anniversary, I was interviewed on nationwide radio. When that statue of Saddam was pulled down in Iraq, the BBC called up and we talked some more. I was interviewed again by the BBC for the 25th anniversary in 2014.

In the mid-90s, I got married again for a while. Here's a bit about Susan.

I got burnt out by all the big money in philosophy, so I came to Silicon Valley in the early 90s, where I worked at SUN, SGI, Brio, NTT, Oracle, Dialpad, and more than 25 startups. I even started a few companies.

I registered andreas.com on August 30, 1995, when there were just a handful of websites and you sent a email to a kid named Jerry in his dorm room so you could be listed on his page, which he named Yahoo just for fun (and it actually meant something). We were using fido.net and UseNet in the 80s. The web was cool because one could add pictures to it (okay, so it was mostly cat pictures).

I wrote one of the first books on web design. It sold tens of thousands of copies. I built websites for over a hundred Silicon Valley startups. I was the webmaster at a startup that grew to 16 million registered users and 60 million hits per day. At the time, it was the fastest growing website in the world. The startup's technology was v cool and all of you use it now. It burnt $70 million in VC funding and cratered. Yeah, I worked for a Silicon Valley dotcom and all I got was a lousy T-shirt.

In 1996, Ylva Hagner disappeared. She was part of a group of close friends. The police hasn't closed her case (2026).

I hosted a Y2K Millennial party at my house. Here was the invitation.

In 2001, after the web crashed, I held a funeral for the web, which we buried next to my Palo Alto garage. For a casket, we used a Webvan box and filled it with the Pets.com sockpuppet, along with AOL CDs, Netscape mouse pads, and all sorts of logo stuff from dotcoms. I invited Bill Gates, Marc Andreeasen, and Jim Clark and we held services. It kinda got out of hand. Four magazines and several newspapers covered the funeral and a bunch of people visited the website... oh, 100,000 per hour for a few days. In July 2002, another company bought the rights to the Pets.com spokespuppet and relaunched his career, so more press showed up.

I read a lot. Two or three books every week and often two per day. I have several thouand books, including Roman and Greek literature, classical and modern Chinese and Japanese novels, African literature, South American, India, and so on. I've written a bunch of books, including a few #1 Amazon Best Sellers. I'm working on more books.

In 1998, I bought a house in Palo Alto and did a lot of renovation. Many people say they rebuilt the fireplace; actually, they hired a carpenter. I rented a stone cutting machine, bought several hundred pounds of slate from India, set up a workshop in the backyard, and cut the stone myself. I also replaced all of the plumbing and wiring, plus built redwood decks around the house. In 2001, I bought a bunch of cedar planks and built a 1,000 gallon hot tub in the sideyard. I also set up a telescope in the backyard to look at planets and galaxies. These days, I'm playing around with a desktop digital microscope.

In 2012, I got married again. Anaximander Katzenjammer, our cat, is a great mouser and has his own website. Since I work all day on computers, I'm low-tech at home, not even a TV. A friend's ten-year old was sitting in our living room and said, "Where's the TV?" He couldn't believe I didn't have a TV. He saw the bookshelves and said, "Wow, you have a lot of DVDs!" I handed one to him and said, "Not DVDs. These are books." He looked at it for a while and asked, "Why are there no pictures?"

Computer Stuff

What I did for MIT OpencourseWare OCW.
I'm often asked, "Can I make money with a blog?" Here's the record of my payments from Google Adsense for my blog and Youtube videos.
I converted all of my blog articles into a 640-page text file that you can open in your AI to ask questions, look for trends, and so on.
Why does Google, Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter allow fascists, nuts, and Russia to post so much junk? In 1996, dotcom lawyers added one line to 47 U.S.C. §230(c)(1) in the Communications Decency Act. That launched the web or created the chaos.
Did you know the Internet once ran on steam?
Did you know Google was named after Barney Google?
Although Google is the world's largest ad agency (7X larger than WPP), Google doesn't do much marketing. It has launched over Google 100 products without any marketing and they died.
I'm often asked, "why do you use HTML to make your webpages? Why don't you use Wordpress?" Well, I was part of the team that made the first CMS system. We were doing this before Wordpress or Wix existed. Why does CMS exist? Because upper management wanted something so the secretary could update the website. CMS is
What is geodemographics?
My laws of computering.
How to prevent Repetitive Strain Injury RSI.
FAQ on SSI.
My HTML cheatsheet.
How to use free cell phones for emergency 911 calls.
How to recharge your cell phone with ordinary batteries.
What are NFC Tags and how to make one.
I made one of the first websites for PDAs (Personal Digital Assitants). See what the web was like on mobile before smart phones.
How the police use Twitter.

Silicon Valley Startups and Jobs

How Venture Capital VC really works in Silicon Valley (April 2025).
Build your own Silicon Valley startup.
The Grandmother Pitch How to write an elevator pitch that really works.
Photos of Silicon Valley for my book on startups.
Research into viral marketing, virality, and word-of-mouth.
How to find jobs in Silicon Valley.
Writing your resume for Silicon Valley.
Nick Corcodilos on how to interview.
How overtime law in Silicon Valley was changed.
Job opportunities in a Pandemic.

Popular Stuff

My eyewitness account of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (yes, I was there when the Berlin Wall fell).
Hokusai (1760-1849), the Japanese artist, changed 20th century art. How you see art today came from his work. His inspiration? Dutch wrapping paper.
Read a few poems by Mary Oliver.
Why are Rodin's sculptures so popular? See what I wrote about Rodin's The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Three Shades, The Kiss, and Bellona, Goddess of War at Rodin.
When did guys start wearing beards? See the origin of the fad for beards.
A short history of the world, Europe, China, India, and the rest. Global history in three pages.
A short summary of the Great Depression.

Travel Stuff

What to see and do in Silicon Valley.
What to see and do in San Francisco.
Our trips to Shanghai and Beijing | Sichuan, China | France, Germany, and Denmark | Saudi Arabia | Bangalore (India).
Driving the San Francisco Bay Area City Ring.

Photography

My Blog 1994-2020

I started blogging in 1994 before there was even a word for it. For a long time, I created pages by hand in HTML. In 2003, I began to use Blogger, which later became Google Blogger. In the mid-2010s, I switched to Wordpress and after a few years, back to HTML and continued blogging by hand until 2020.
Today, I post updates and notes to Blue Sky at @andreas.com, Twitter at @andreas_ramos, or LinkedIn. I post longer items to my website.
Here are my blog postings for 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

Words, Words, Words...

How I published my book in Chinese.
List of my favorite words.
Top 1,000 words in the English language.
Top 100 novels of the 1900s | Top 100 novels of the 1800s | top 100 novels of the 1700s.
Where to get thousands of free ebooks.
A very funny play by Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Rarely performed in the US (no wonder...).

Books

Food, Recipes, Restaurants

My guide to breakfast in Silicon Valley, Happy Hour in Silicon Valley, and Late Night Food in Silicon Valley.
Make Mayan Hot Chocolate, as in the movie Chocolat.
Enough reading? How about some food? Recipes by Susan Steinsapir and Helen's Miso Salad Dressing.
We reviewed the nine lunch cafeterias at Cisco. Which one has the best lunch?.
Ray Bruman's The World Famous List of Weird and Disgusting Foods.

Cat Stuff

My cat's website at Anaximander-Katzenjammer.com (and his Twitter page @AnaximanderKatz) (he has more followers than me).
Here’s the CAT Users’ Manual (no, not Japanese robot cats).
How I brought my cats to the US.

Stuff that Fits Nowhere Else...

Thurston Howell the Third's Teddy Bear.

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