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
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