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
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
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
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
If the headlines are to be believed, everyone loves artificial intelligence. Yet in a recent study, only 8% of U.S. adults said they’d pay extra to use AI features in a product or service. That’s a tiny number I tried to wrap my head around Sunday morning when AI helped Read more
Many people, including me, have written much lately about Google search. Briefly, they feel Google no longer wants to connect a user to a website other than Google. Through its use of AI Overviews to provide a narrative answer on the search results page, queries can often be satisfied without Read more
Because I found out a wellness app came with unacceptable data privacy gaps, I set out to make it easier for everyone to understand the risks and protect their data. In an earlier post, I described how I learned that all the information I shared with Noom – the meals Read more