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
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