The Mile Club - September 10th

Small, consistent improvements beat heroic spurts. Pick one friction point today and remove it (a calendar conflict, a messy doc, a slow approval).

🎯 Tactical Edge

Teams are automating meeting prep by piping calendar events into a notes app automatically—so agendas and prep checklists are waiting when the meeting starts. Zapier published a step-by-step workflow to create OneNote notes from Google Calendar events (or Outlook).

Why It Matters

Manual prep gets skipped when you’re busy; automation makes prep default.

Mile Advantage

Implement the “Calendar → OneNote” automation for recurring meetings today; tag notes by meeting name so they’re searchable later.

💻 Tech in Motion

OpenAI researchers argued that LLM “hallucinations” persist partly because current benchmarks reward guessing; they propose evals that penalize confident errors and give partial credit for uncertainty. TechCrunch covered the paper, and OpenAI posted the summary + PDF.

Why It Matters

Better evals → more reliable AI outputs for research, briefs, and decision support.

Mile Advantage

When using AI for facts, ask it to state confidence or cite sources; prefer models/workflows that allow abstaining.

🏃‍♂️ Macro Mile

After a weak U.S. jobs report, traders leaned harder toward a September Fed cut; global stocks rose, Treasury yields fell, and the dollar eased versus majors. Reuters has same-day wrapups plus Friday’s post-NFP move.

Why It Matters

A softer dollar can raise import costs but help U.S. exporters; lower yields reduce financing costs.

Mile Advantage

If you price in USD/EUR/JPY, recheck quotes; if you carry floating-rate debt, revisit refinancing windows.

🔭 Next Up

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The U.S. IPO window is re-opening; Crunchbase highlights likely candidates across AI, enterprise, health/biotech and consumer—an indicator that late-stage capital markets are thawing.

Why It Matters

A warming IPO market lifts late-stage valuations and can loosen venture funding downstream.

Mile Advantage

If you sell B2B to late-stage startups, refresh your target list against this pipeline and plan outreach.

🏅 Mile Marker

Automate the prep, question the output, watch the currency—and keep your pipeline pointed at where capital is going next.

📚 Sources

• “Create automatic event notes with OneNote and Google Calendar,” Zapier (Sept 8, 2025).

• TechCrunch coverage (Sept 7, 2025).

• OpenAI research summary + paper (Sept 5, 2025).

• Reuters market wrap (Sept 8, 2025)

• “The IPO Market Is Opening Up. These 14 Companies Could Be Next,” Crunchbase News (published within the last week).

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