What routine thing do you hate to do? Or, as Appalachia Technologies’ Chris Swecker put it at a recent conference, “What part of your job sucks?” Whether it takes longer than it should, it’s boring, or it’s just tedious, chances are you can figure out how to hand off that Read more
I talk about AI, Claude especially, a lot. What I use it for and the way I’m building my business with it are constant topics of conversation for me and my person. Some of it lands. Some of it doesn’t, which I get because I often go too deep into Read more
Really? Are we really going to trust him again? Are we going to allow Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company just agreed to pay a settlement worth up to $17.1 billion over 10 years for its addictive design and harm done to kids’ mental health, to sucker us into handing Read more
I did not expect the Terminator to show up at a sunny Friday afternoon happy hour, yet there it was, looming over all of us. Talk had turned to recent AI headlines including the OpenAI Hugging Face hack and mounting disclosures of additional containment breaches and hacks. Add to that Read more
While roasting poblanos and jalapenos for swiss chard enchiladas this weekend, listening to Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput in episode 237 of “The Artificial Intelligence Show” talk about a recent MIT report and its recommendation for core changes at the school, “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” Read more
What I’ve been doing in my basement lately is not pretty. The groaning. The straining. Sweat stinging my eyes. Yet four days a week, I walk down the basement stairs and spend 30 minutes alone. Because I know that committing to a strength training habit is as important to my future Read more
This is my work. These are my words. That is a promise I make to myself. I am 20 months into building a personal brand and a business while also living a full, rich life. A lovely relationship with a lovely woman. Family. Parents. Friends. A home. A career. You Read more
Note: This post was drafted with AI and edited by me. I’ve since changed how I do that. Here’s why. A few weeks ago at a Harrisburg Chamber coffee, I met a guy who works for a local print and promo shop. We had a good conversation, the kind you Read more
I traveled to Scotland with a friend years ago. We still love to talk about the Scotch tasting we enjoyed at the Balvenie distillery. Sitting around a table, sipping some amazing 30+ year old whisky, savoring the aromas and flavors, a person at our table described his dram more pretentiously Read more
“And what do you do at Dan Christ Digital Services?” he asked, leaning in and looking at my name tag in the middle of a Friday morning Chamber of Commerce mixer. This was it. The moment I’d known I needed to put myself in front of for months. Locking eyes Read more