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Caelan Huntress is an American digital nomad living in New Zealand, and has spent ten years running an online business while traveling the world with his young family. Caelan is a website designer, copywriter, and sales strategist who specializes in helping entrepreneurs make more money in less time through setting up smart marketing systems. Subscribe to Caelan's newsletter here.

🧠 FAQ: Everything You’ve Wanted to Ask About Learning AI (But Didn’t Want to Google)

By |2025-12-31T16:23:25+13:00October 31st, 2025|Articles, Business, Events, GenAI, Investment, Productivity|

šŸ“Š Practical, hands-on experience in using AI tools is the biggest predictor of success. Let’s be real: Everyone’s talking about AI, but most professionals are still experimenting blindly. If you’ve been wondering whether an AI workshop is worth your time — this one’s for you. Here are the most common questions I have been getting [...]

Before you waste another hour on ChatGPT…

By |2025-12-31T16:23:52+13:00October 20th, 2025|Uncategorized|

šŸŽ“ ā€œAI might take some jobs, but if you don’t learn AI, how are you going to be competitive?" - Michael Park What I hear from people, when they want to improve their AI skills, is that they don't know where to start. Because there's so many different tools, that can do so many different [...]

OpenAI’s Incredible New Announcements (+Announcing: The AI F.A.S.T. Class)

By |2025-12-31T16:25:06+13:00October 7th, 2025|Articles, GenAI|

šŸ“Š Microsoft estimates New Zealanders could save an average of 275 hours per year by using artificial intelligence. If you want to learn AI F.A.S.T. then I have the class for you. Participants in my workshops have demonstrated: šŸ“ˆĀ +45%Ā inĀ ConfidenceĀ in using AI tools for daily tasks šŸ› ļøĀ +56%Ā in ability to craft effective AIĀ Prompts ā€āš”Ā +65%Ā inĀ efficiencyĀ improvement on productivity šŸŽÆĀ +75%Ā in [...]

My Takeaways from the Aotearoa AI Summit 2025

By |2026-01-01T10:34:56+13:00September 23rd, 2025|Business, GenAI, New Zealand|

ā€œThe shape of the traditional hierarchy is going to change, especially as people become moderators of AI output.ā€ - Dr Amanda Williamson The #AotearoaAISummit hosted by the AI Forum NZ explored some really interesting conversations last week. Here are my takeaways: The emcee Megan Tapsell shared that what 5 BAs could do in 1 [...]

Learn AI with 30 AI Games in 30 Days

By |2025-12-31T16:25:31+13:00September 16th, 2025|Articles, GenAI, Play|

"We don't play games to avoid work; we play games to engage in well-designed work." - Dr Jason Fox If you gamify your work, you can get more done, in good cheer. That's the lesson learned from a recent AI Games Playtesting event I held in Christchurch. A dozen playtesters [...]

Avoid Hallucinations with the Accuracy Output Mandate

By |2025-12-31T16:26:00+13:00August 26th, 2025|Articles, Business, GenAI|

Ā "Vision without execution is hallucination."- Thomas EdisonWhat is a hallucination? It's not so trippy. With an LLM, a hallucination is a factual error asserted confidently.GPTs only create strings of words that sounds like language. If it doesn't know the facts, it fills in gaps with fiction.Responses are only accurate if you explicitly demand accuracy.Try this [...]

New AI Strategies from US and China – Zoomers vs Bloomers

By |2025-12-31T16:26:25+13:00August 19th, 2025|Articles, GenAI|

ā€œCensorship and political control of AI is a thousand times more dangerous than censorship and political control of social media, maybe a million times more dangerous.ā€ - Marc Andreessen There have been a lot of practical advances in AI tools recently, including: ChatGPT Agent - now it can do things, not just make things OpenAIĀ GPT-5Ā - [...]

7 Reasons the AI Forum’s Blueprint is the AI Strategy New Zealand Needs

By |2025-12-31T16:26:34+13:00July 22nd, 2025|Articles, Business, GenAI|

Ā  ā€œWe are the AI Generation.ā€ - Doreen Bogdan-Martin Last week I published a scathing teardown of the 22-page AI Strategy published by the New Zealand government. (Read that teardown here.) This failure reminds me of the stick-in-spokes meme, because there was already a lot of progress completed in creating a comprehensive AI strategy for [...]

New Zealand’s new AI strategy is AI slop

By |2025-12-31T16:26:41+13:00July 15th, 2025|Articles, Business, GenAI|

ā€œThe future belongs to those who can synthesize, not just analyze. The AI Generalist doesn’t compete with artificial intelligence—they choreograph it.ā€ - Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind As the only country in the OECD that had yet to publish an AI Strategy, New Zealand has finally published a 22-page document full of AI slop. [...]

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