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Hi, I’m Caelan.

I’m an American digital nomad living in New Zealand, and I have spent ten years running an online business while traveling the world with my young family.

I am a dynamic speaker, trainer, and business coach, who combines the skills of a theatrical performer and technical geek to make compelling virtual experiences.

My best work includes training teams on playful productivity and hybrid culture, and coaching business owners on how to get to the next level with their personal platform.

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Robots can now out-human humans. In a recent study, more than 1000 people at UC San Diego took part in a classic Turing test with four GenAI models. GPT-4.5 was selected as the real human 73% of the time, according to this preprint study [...]

ChatGPT’s New Image Generator & The Ghibli-fication Controversy

💡Creativity Is Shifting from Craft to Concept Have you tried ChatGPT's new Image Generator? It is miles beyond DALL-E. Some of the things it can do include: Consistent character generation across prompts Simple edits without revising the whole picture Text rendering without misspellings and [...]

5 Reasons Plato Would Be Skeptical About GenAI

‽ What Would Plato Say About AI? Here Are 5 Reasons He’d Have Doubts… When I was a young man in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I immersed myself in the Great Books of history. I studied the humanities intensely at St. John’s College. This [...]

GenAI: the $85 Billion Productivity Boost for New Zealand

📊 45% of respondents in Google’s survey, The ROI of GenAI, said using Generative AI doubled their productivity.¹ How much could you accomplish with double the productivity? Let's take a look at the value proposition. The average salary in New Zealand is $65,748.80. [...]

Technology changes exponentially. Guess what that means?

📊 AI synthesizes information faster than you can learn it. Have you heard of Martec's Law? It's a comparison of rates of change. Organisations change slowly, and technology changes exponentially. This creates a capability gap, which eventually requires a reset of the organisation. 💡 [...]

The Role of Humans with GenAI

✨ Humans are the magic in the last 5%. AI can handle 95% of the grind work - even for an S-1 IPO Prospectus. According to Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, this massive document used to take a six-person team multiple weeks to produce. [...]