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
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
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
I have little interest in drinking from the firehose of artificial intelligence news. Instead, I keep my ears peeled for signals in the noise. What information feels so counterintuitive that I have to stop and read it two or three times to attempt to understand what may be at play, Read more
I just read a line in Mark Schaefer’s new book, “How AI Changes Your Customers,” that transfixed me: “Brands need to be more human and authentic. They should stop trying to be perfect. Human-centric brands should treat customers as friends, becoming an integral part of their lifestyle. Brands should be more Read more
This Thanksgiving, among many other things, I am grateful for artificial intelligence. Not because it tells me I’m brilliant. ChatGPT, I’m looking at you. Not because it helps me work on my patience so I can be a better person. Yes, Copilot. I do mean you. As people across the Read more
New is fun. It’s exciting to install a new app, to start using a new service. But they all come with a checkbox. And all those little checkboxes come with terms, conditions, and policies which control how the app or service can use your information. When was the last time Read more
When Palmer Luckey claimed he got ChatGPT to list every alcoholic drink in a Jimmy Buffett song with a wacky, ridiculous prompt, the audience howled, I leaned in. When it comes to AI, you need to question everything. And you certainly need to question when a person claims they effortlessly Read more
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