‽ 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 eclectic school had no tests, no grades [...]
📊 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. According to StatsNZ, there are 2.9 million people [...]
✨ 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. Now, Generative AI can draft 95% of an S-1 IPO prospectus [...]
The replay is live! If you missed Be More Human: Do the Work that Matters Most with Generative AI, now’s your chance to catch up. In this session, we explored how to work smarter with AI—so you can amplify your creativity, streamline your workflow, and identify the human work that really [...]
🇳🇿 I am now a New Zealand citizen! It all started 15 years ago, when my young family and I left the United States to seek better fortunes abroad. First we went to Costa Rica for a few years, which had its pluses and its minuses. Ultimately, it wasn't a [...]
📊 More than 80% of people surveyed for Microsoft's Work Trends Index said that using GenAI made them more creative, and they also enjoyed their work more. When Jensen Huang took the stage last month at CES 2025, the world's largest consumer electronics expo, he called AI a "multi-trillion dollar opportunity. Source He shared [...]
📊 Prompting is the most important skill of the future. Good prompts get good outputs, and if you're not working on your prompting skills (promptly!) then you are falling behind. You know what they say, 'Garbage in, garbage out.' If your prompts are garbage, your results will be, too. But [...]
ChatGPT has me much less enthusiastic about writing and publishing. In the nearly two years since consumer-facing AI chatbot apps have been made available, as a writer, I have found my own interest in writing has been diminishing. I find it harder to send newsletters, write my next book, and post on social media, [...]
When a public speaker wants to charge professional rates, they need professional marketing collateral. In addition to a /speaking page on yourname.com, every professional speaker needs to have: 3-minute video demo reel Multi-page PDF Speaker Kit Media Kit with headshots, bio, and introduction Since I help people tell better stories using digital media, creating speaker [...]
What's the secret to getting more done? Is it: Working harder, or Working smarter? If you've ever hit burnout before, I'm sure you know the right answer. Sometimes the answer isn't in doing more, but in having less to do. One of the best ways you can do less, but still get everything done, is [...]