For 2026, my word is Teach. The focus of my year will be teaching. Last year's pivot into Ai helped my identify my Ikigai.It's what I love doing (performing)That the world needs (education about Ai)And the world will pay for (experience using it)That I do well (creating a synthesis of complex information)Teaching people how to [...]
2025 Annual Review Table of Contents Every Annual Review that I publish on this blog contains 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone better? How many New Year’s Resolutions did I keep? What are my resolutions for next year? To see all of my annual reviews, click here. To use my workbook [...]
🪫 "ChatGPT-4 is the dumbest model any of you will ever, ever have to use again, by a lot.” - Sam Altman The Genesis Mission, a new Ai initiative launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, has been framed by the administration as comparable in scale to the Manhattan Project. The program aims to accelerate scientific discovery by [...]
‽ "Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." - Mark Twain  If you've tried to make an AI-generated image with Mickey Mouse or The X-Men, you've hit the copyright guardrails.  Content violations are a moving target, and it takes just as much [...]
🧠“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.” - James Clear  How was 2025 for you? Every year, I have published an Annual Review on my personal website. This annual ritual of introspection has given me: Reminders of what worked well Reflection on what could have gone better Collection of the metrics [...]
ä·ż "Context engineering is the systematic discipline of designing, constructing, and delivering a complete informational environment to an AI model prior to generation." - Antonio Gulli Even the best prompts will fail without the right context. Giving AI backstory and reference material will create a landscape that is suitable to your scenario. The art of [...]
 📊 “The AI displacement of white-collar jobs is upon us. The traditional career path is dying, and AI-driven productivity is redefining what’s possible.” - Peter Diamandis I am sure your inbox has been overflowing this past week! As a general rule, I habitually avoid Black Friday. My years as a marketer taught me that there [...]
 “Modern work demands knowledge transfer: the ability to apply knowledge to new situations and different domains.” - David Epstein  In his book Range, author David Epstein makes the case that shallow and wide generalists have become more powerful than narrow, deep specialists. Having access to a wide variety of different bodies of knowledge gives the [...]
🤖 “There will be two types of companies in the future: those who are leading with AI, and those who are irrelevant.” - Jeetu Patel, Cisco There’s a growing difference between people who use AI and people who think with it. That’s the difference between overwhelm and opportunity. Between playing catch-up and setting the pace. The AI F.A.S.T. Class Series is [...]
🤖 “Artificial intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence; it is a tool to amplify human creativity and ingenuity.” - Fei-Fei Li One of the questions I've been getting about the AI F.A.S.T. Class Series is - what is the workshop like? Are we listening to you talk, or are we getting hands-on, and actually doing [...]