You don’t need artificial intelligence to summarize an email thread or schedule a meeting, but it can make mundane tasks easier and faster. That’s fine, but there’s a benefit to using AI to help us think critically and to do things we couldn’t do alone. To challenge ourselves. To push Read more
A roller coaster. This week has been a roller coaster. It featured moments of fear, elation, and wonder crammed into five days. From a Monday morning email about my recent LinkedIn posts and comments about AI to a DM asking to connect about consulting opportunities to a conversation at the Read more
Picture this: It’s Sunday afternoon. You’re in the kitchen meal planning for the week and thinking about dinner. The phone rings. It’s your bank calling about a problem with your account. A Fraud Prevention team member asks if you authorized a transfer to a foreign account? No, of course not. Read more
Don’t use Comet, Perplexity’s web browser which it just released as a free install. Protecting your personal data is difficult enough. Scams are becoming more sophisticated and more prevalent. In the ever escalating battle to protect your information, your online safety, and your hard-earned money, do not willingly surrender access Read more
I used to work with a trainer. Jamel would meet me at the gym a few times a month. He’d run me through a workout, make sure I lifted with proper form, and give me instructions for the coming weeks. But we didn’t jump right into a workout when we Read more
I am occasionally my own worst enemy. I love figuring things out. I’m passionate about technology. And I can get drawn down a settings rabbit trail in the blink of an eye. While they’re usually positives, those three traits can combine into a dangerous mix. When what I want to Read more
What do you do when your technology throws you for a loop? All of a sudden, what worked yesterday no longer does, and you have no idea what to do. If we were working together on your personal technology, you could ask me for a hand. Assuming you’re not, though, Read more
Occasionally, we live up to our image of ourselves. The idealized picture of who we think we are in our hearts aligns with the one in our heads. Those are good days. On other days, we come up short. This is a story about both types of days, how I Read more
I recently drove to Cleveland for a content creator expo. It’s an easy five hour drive. A simple trip. Usually. Outside of Pittsburgh, approaching an exit, I did a double take. I couldn’t believe what I saw. A small black two-door sedan was heading TOWARDS ME. In the passing lane. Read more
You get to decide what you will accept an unknowable number of times every day. Will you wait in line at the grocery store or will you use the self checkout? Will you stay in your lane or switch to the open one beside you? Should you accept seeing ads Read more