There's a point on every skill curve where dabbling doesn't work. You've watched the demos. Read the articles. Tried a few prompts that sort-of worked. Maybe you've even paid for a subscription that you forget to use. And somewhere in the back of your mind, a quiet voice is asking: am I actually getting better [...]
In my recent article for the Australian Institute of Training & Development, I used my 5-Step Creative Process to help Learning & Development practitioners redesign learning workflows around human judgment. If you've never seen my 5-Step Creative Process before, it goes like this: 🗑️ Collect 🗂️ Sort 🛠️ Craft ✨ Polish 📖 Publish When AI makes [...]
The future is coming fast. How long until you will level up? If you are serious about improving your AI skills, then consider joining the AI Campus in the AI Coaching Academy. 💡 The Founders of the AI Campus Earlier this year I launched the AI Coaching Academy to give ambitious professionals a place to practice [...]
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 [...]