Last week, 4,000 people at one company lost their jobs. At one time. Between the State of the Union speech and the U.S. and Israel attacking Iraq, maybe you missed Block CEO Jack Dorsey’s announcement that the company is laying off 40% of its workers. No. That’s not a typo. Read more
Think of something you love to do. What is your least favorite part of it? What’s the thing which deters you from doing the thing you love or that, if you could just fix one part of it, would mean you could do the thing you love even more? Have Read more
Recently, I’ve been quick to snap. I’ve felt stressed more often than not. Sharper, as a person dear to me described it. Why? Partially, it’s a self-imposed byproduct of working full time plus building my personal brand. I love all the work I get to do, but it all requires Read more
A whole lot of us are about to watch hours upon hours of live television. And none of us will be alone when we do it. From the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics plus everything else we stream, audio and video, it all generates profile data which our services Read more
Nuts. Another AI free trial is ending. This time it’s a tool I use frequently to capture meeting notes; Granola. I signed up for a free trial of its Business Plan months ago. I love the tool, as do many others. Understandably, owners have decided to monetize the audience they Read more
If you’ve read some of my past articles—like this or this—you won’t be surprised to hear I sometimes poke fun at myself by telling folks I’m wearing my tinfoil hat. Twice in the last couple weeks, people did not know what I meant by that term;“tinfoil hat.” That gave me Read more
Google’s enabled you to turn on its Gemini AI in every service to search across your ibox, calendar, files, etc. Seems like a good idea to some, but the privacy concerns should not be ignored. Claude is on everyone’s minds and in all the headlines for its incredible Code and Read more
Halfway through a first draft of a post about the importance of verifying every response you receive from generative AI, I checked my inbox. In a flash, my world flipped upside down. Down the rabbit hole I tumbled. When I came out the other side, I had made and deployed Read more
While wrapping Christmas presents, around the time Uncle Billy mistakenly dropped $8,000 in cash into Mister Potter’s lap and George Bailey’s Christmas Eve began to unravel, I realized none of the gifts in front of me needed to be charged. Not one of them required firmware updates. No batteries. No Read more
There is nothing quite as restorative as the smell of fresh-baked ginger snaps. So, on Saturday, instead of spending hours at a keyboard crafting some amazing new service, I baked. Measured the ingredients. Creamed the shortening and sugar. Mixed in the molasses, spices, and flour. Popped the first tray into Read more