Shopify CEO turned his wine cellar into an AI rack — and uses it to find his most stressful meetings
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A CEO wiring Fitbit data into a home AI rack to rank stressful meetings is a preview of personal infra for executive cognition, not a gimmick. Expect senior leaders to quietly adopt similar setups long before corporate IT has a policy for them.
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