Edo Segal

Edo Segal is the serial entrepreneur, inventor, and Chief Technology and Product Officer at Napster whose book You On AI (2026) provides the foundational phenomenological account of AI-augmented builder experience that Pang's framework then diagnoses. Segal's confession of working through the night over the Atlantic — writing past the point of creative engagement, the exhilaration long drained, unable to stop — is the representative experience of his cohort. His framing of AI as the amplifier that carries whatever signal you feed it, and his diagnostic use of question quality to distinguish flow from compulsion, give Pang the conceptual handles through which the rest framework enters the AI discourse. Where Segal describes the experience, Pang supplies the framework for understanding why it happens and what structural changes can prevent it.