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I. Author

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Veteran AI strategist providing actionable frameworks for mastering the AI revolution.

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About the Author E. F. Boyle brings decades of frontline experience to the challenge of navigating the AI Tsunami. His journey spans Stanford AI/Robotics, an Apple-backed AI startup (Symbolic AI), pioneering multimedia/multimodal projects, and a decade applying Machine Learning in quantitative finance. Now advising VCs and frontier tech companies (like Star Lab) on GenAI strategy, he provides practical, actionable frameworks for leaders moving beyond observation to execution. He shares insights and methodologies at Escher-ai.com.

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II. Book

Publication Details

  • Title: Riding the AI Tsunami
  • Subtitle: Join the Vibe Tribe - Democratizing AI Development for Leaders & Builders
  • Author: E. F. Boyle
  • Release Date: May 14, 2025
  • ISBN: 979-8-3165-5507-9 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: Escher Capital, Inc.
  • Page Count: 243 pages
  • Price: $30.00 USD
  • Formats: Paperback, Hardcover, eBook, Audible

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Author Website: Escher-ai.com

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Book Synopses

The AI Tsunami is HERE. Reshaping industries with unprecedented speed, it creates extinction-level threats and massive opportunities. Will your organization adapt or be swept away? Riding the AI Tsunami is the practical playbook for leaders ready to stop watching and start leading the Artificial Intelligence revolution. Cut through the hype with actionable frameworks based on decades of real-world experience navigating tech waves. Learn to assess your true AI readiness, strategically prioritize high-impact initiatives, and implement rapidly using the proven 6-Week GenAI Sprint. Packed with essential insights for entrepreneurs, executives, and innovators, this guide provides the tools to harness Generative AI effectively. Don't just adapt – lead. Get your copy today and ride the wave!

Key Ideas

  1. The AI Tsunami is Here & Requires Immediate Action: Generative AI represents an unprecedented wave of technological disruption, moving faster and impacting more broadly than previous shifts like the internet. Its speed and power create both immense opportunities and existential threats. Complacency or passive observation ("AI Voyeurism") is no longer viable; leaders must move decisively from watching the revolution to actively leading their organization's response.
  2. Assess True Readiness Before Acting (The AI Fitness Compass): Jumping into complex AI projects without understanding your starting point leads to failure. A critical first step is conducting a holistic AI Readiness Assessment (using frameworks like the AI Fitness Compass) across key dimensions: Strategic Vision, Business Processes, Data Readiness, Tech Infrastructure, People & Skills, Culture, Governance/Trust, and Productivity/KPIs. This identifies crucial gaps and informs realistic planning.
  3. Prioritize Strategically Using "Return on Intelligence" (RoI): Don't just chase shiny objects or easily measured cost savings. Effective prioritization requires moving beyond traditional ROI to consider AI's broader value (strategic positioning, capability building, customer/employee impact). Use structured frameworks (like Value-Effort-Risk analysis informed by readiness) to overcome cognitive biases and focus resources on initiatives delivering the highest overall Return on Intelligence.
  4. Implement at Speed with 6-Week Sprints & "Vibe Coding": Traditional development cycles are too slow for the GenAI era. Adopt rapid, iterative 6-Week GenAI Sprints focused on delivering Minimum Viable AI (MVAI) to accelerate learning and de-risk projects. Supercharge these sprints with AI-Assisted Development ("Vibe Coding") tools (like Cursor, Lovable, Replit) to dramatically reduce coding bottlenecks and enable hyper-fast prototyping.
  5. Focus on Augmentation, Not Just Automation: While AI can automate tasks, its greatest transformative potential often lies in augmenting human capabilities. Leverage AI's strengths (speed, scale, pattern recognition) to enhance human strengths (creativity, critical thinking, empathy, judgment). Design workflows around human-AI collaboration to drive innovation and top-line growth, not just bottom-line efficiency.
  6. Engineer for Sustainable Value (FaaS & GenAI Ops): Static AI systems degrade over time ("AI Drift"). Build for continuous evolution using models like Feature as a Service (FaaS) to deliver compounding intelligence. Implement robust GenAI Operations (extending MLOps) to reliably manage the lifecycle of LLMs, RAG systems, and agents, including prompt management, output evaluation, cost control, and responsible governance.
  7. Build an Adaptive Organization for the Future: Mastering GenAI adoption is the immediate challenge, but it's also foundational training for navigating future technological waves. True future-proofing involves building organizational adaptability – the capacity to continuously sense, learn, integrate, and leverage emerging technologies like advanced Robotics and Quantum Computing as they converge with AI.

Testimonial

During my years leading global marketing at Apple, I had the privilege of working with some of the best and brightest minds in technology — including pioneers like Kai-Fu Lee, one of the inventors of generalized AI speech recognition, and Steve Perlman, creator of QuickTime, one of the first digital video standards. Together, we laid the foundation for multimedia innovations that preceded the iPod audio player and iPhone by a decade. During my time working with Edward Boyle, he played a critical role in helping me and my fellow Apple C-suite leaders visualize how our clients could push Apple's nascent technologies to their limits — expanding our sense of what was possible. Today, Edward is bringing that same visionary approach to a much broader stage, at a pivotal moment in time, with this book. Riding the AI Tsunami isn't just theory — it's a practical, experience-forged playbook drawn from decades of working inside technology's most pivotal transformations. I look forward to applying many of Edward's insights in my own work as an Innovation Advisor, collaborating with top Silicon Valley and global leaders across both technology and social impact initiatives. For any leader seeking to understand the real threats and opportunities of GenAI and to build a truly adaptive organization, this book is essential reading. — Satjiv S. Chahil, Silicon Valley Social Entrepreneur and Innovations Advisor, former Apple Global Marketing Chief and Founder/GM of the New Media, Internet and Entertainment Division, once named "Silicon Valley's CMO" by Tony Perkins, founder of the prestigious Red Herring venture capital magazine

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III. Media

Media Contact

For interview requests and media inquiries:

Trish Boyle

Marketing Director, Escher AI

Phone: 203-493-1277

Email: press@escher-ai.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/edward-f-boyle

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW BOOK "RIDING THE AI TSUNAMI" LAUNCHES AS OPENAI'S $3B ACQUISITION SIGNALS MARKET MATURATION Westport, CT - May 14, 2025 - As OpenAI completes its landmark $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf, signaling a shift from technology creation to strategic market consolidation, author E. F. Boyle announces the timely release of "Riding the AI Tsunami: Join the Vibe Tribe - Democratizing AI Development for Leaders & Builders" (ISBN: 979-8-3165-5507-9). The comprehensive guide arrives at a critical inflection point in the Generative AI landscape, as the movement known as "Vibe Coding" goes mainstream and enterprise adoption accelerates. "The timing couldn't be more significant," says Boyle, who brings decades of experience across all four waves of AI evolution. "OpenAI's strategic acquisition of Windsurf demonstrates we've entered a new phase of market maturity. Organizations must now move beyond what I call 'AI Voyeurism' toward strategic implementation." "Riding the AI Tsunami" provides business leaders, strategists, and product managers with practical frameworks for accelerating AI adoption across entire organizations: The Minimum Viable AI: An intense, time-boxed approach to combat the Planning Fallacy and drive focused execution The Vibe Lightning Sprint: Leveraging AI-assisted development tools that compress traditional development cycles from weeks to days The AI Fitness Compass: A framework to audit organizational readiness across 8 critical dimensions The book addresses the rapidly shortening lifespan of S&P 500 companies, accelerated by successive technology waves, with forecasts suggesting further compression due to AI. Boyle argues that, like dinosaurs failing to adapt to rapid environmental change, businesses optimized for a pre-GenAI world face existential risk. While focusing on practical implementation, the book also explores emerging trends like autonomous AI agents, agent-to-agent collaboration, and the converging "tsunamis" of AI, advanced robotics, and quantum computing. "Riding the AI Tsunami" is available now in paperback, hardcover, eBook, and audiobook formats through major retailers and the author's website at Escher-ai.com. About the Author E. F. Boyle brings a unique perspective forged through direct experience in AI's four waves: from graduate work at Stanford and co-founding an Apple-backed AI startup in the late 80s, through collaborating with pioneers on precursors to multimodal AI in the 90s, to a decade as a "Quant" portfolio manager applying Deep Learning in high finance, to the current GenAI revolution. Contact Email: press@escher-ai.com Website: Escher-ai.com Mobile: 203 493 1277

Sample Q&A

Q1: Your book title uses the powerful metaphor of a "AI Tsunami." Why such a dramatic term, and what's the core message you want leaders to take away?

A: The Tsunami metaphor isn't for hyperbole; it's chosen deliberately to convey the sheer scale, speed, and transformative power of Generative AI. Unlike previous tech waves, GenAI's impact feels planetary, arriving with unprecedented velocity and fundamentally altering the business landscape – much like the dinosaur-ending impact created globe-spanning waves. The core message is urgency and action. This isn't a distant storm; it's here now. Complacency or passive observation ("AI Voyeurism") risks organizations being swept away, just as 71% of S&P 500 companies disappeared after the internet wave. The imperative is to stop watching and start actively learning to navigate this force – to build the capabilities needed to ride the wave for competitive advantage.

Q2: You have a unique background spanning multiple AI waves, from early work at Stanford/Apple to quant finance and current GenAI consulting. How does this long view inform the book's approach?

A: Having lived through the cycles – the initial excitement of Symbolic AI, the multimedia precursors to multimodal AI, the data-driven ML/Deep Learning revolution in high finance, even being co-located with Google as the foundational Transformer paper emerged – provides crucial perspective. It allows me to say with conviction that this GenAI wave is different in its speed, accessibility, and generative power. It also highlights recurring patterns: the dangers of hype cycles, the critical importance of practical implementation over pure theory, and the constant need for organizational adaptability. The book draws on lessons from all these waves but focuses squarely on the actionable strategies needed now, grounded in the reality that technology alone isn't enough; successful adoption requires addressing strategy, readiness, operations, and the human dimension holistically.

Speaking Engagements

E. F. Boyle is available for speaking engagements, panels, and workshops on the following topics:

  • Navigating the AI Revolution
  • AI Strategy for Business Leaders
  • The Future of Work in the Age of AI
  • Prompt Engineering Masterclass
  • AI in Quantitative Finance

For speaking inquiries, please contact speaking@escher-ai.com