At last night's Christchurch AI Meetup, we demonstrated how the barrier is collapsing between someone having an idea and building something useful. Greg Dickson demonstrated how to vibe code an app with Manus, and with just a few prompts, he created a dashboard for managing YouTube complicated YouTube workflows. It wasn't technical skill that enabled him to create [...]
I’ve been writing content on the Internet for a long time, and I must confess - I’m vain about what I publish. I have always produced a large volume of content. I was a marketing automation expert for a decade, so I can make a lot. I like making a lot. But the absolute last thing I [...]
Last week I was invited by Rita Cincotta onto the Deliberate Leader Podcast. If you don't know Rita, she is a is a leadership coach and who helps leaders grow through strengths-based practice, reflection, and deliberate action. She's also a trusted colleague and an old friend. We were able to quickly get into deep conversation about the overlap [...]
Last week at AgentCamp in Christchurch, hosted by Steve Knutson at Stratos Technology Partners, I spoke about a shift that is quietly transforming how people work with AI. Most people still think the secret to good AI output is writing a clever prompt, but the deeper truth is that prompting is only a small part of the equation. [...]
Giving your team Copilot licenses will not magically create AI transformation. That mindset is treating AI as a technology problem, when it is actually an operator problem. Most leaders I meet don't have a clear idea about what AI could do for their organization, or how to embed change at this scale. So they give new tools to [...]
📊 Build the capability of the future, together. If you've been following me for a while, you know my story. If not, here's the TL;DR - I ran away and joined the circus, and lived as a street performer, hitchhiking across the United States. I settled down and had kids, moved to Costa Rica, and started [...]
🪫 "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 [...]
䷿ "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 [...]