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

By |2025-10-28T02:38:56+13:00October 7th, 2025|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

Learn AI with 30 AI Games in 30 Days

By |2025-10-15T02:31:06+13:00September 16th, 2025|Uncategorized|

"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 [...]

New AI Strategies from US and China – Zoomers vs Bloomers

By |2025-08-24T20:55:18+12:00August 19th, 2025|Uncategorized|

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 - [...]

Pick the Right LLM with Parallel Prompting

By |2025-05-10T03:41:16+12:00May 6th, 2025|Uncategorized|

'The new workflow for me is I think with AI and work with my colleagues.' - Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft LLMs are changing fast. What worked well last week might be garbage to use today. If you're still using just one AI model for everything, it's like playing a round of golf with just [...]

Technology changes exponentially. Guess what that means?

By |2025-04-01T18:53:32+13:00March 4th, 2025|Uncategorized|

šŸ“Š AI synthesizes information faster than you can learn it. Have you heard of Martec's Law? It's a comparison of rates of change. Organisations change slowly, and technology changes exponentially. This creates a capability gap, which eventually requires a reset of the organisation. šŸ’” What does exponential change mean? We can't keep up by using [...]

What game are you playing?

By |2024-12-31T13:57:42+13:00January 31st, 2024|Articles, Productivity, Uncategorized|

People feel life is meaningless when they don’t haveĀ goals,Ā rules, andĀ feedback. (These are the 3 attributes of games, according toĀ Dr Jason Fox, that I describe in-depth in my short ebookĀ Gamify Your Work.) Playing the game of life, and doing work that supports your lifestyle, is only made meaningful if we haveĀ goalsĀ to achieve,Ā rulesĀ for how to play, andĀ feedbackĀ on [...]

Why You Should Attract Customers With Emotion But Close The Deal With Logic

By |2024-01-24T02:01:29+13:00December 25th, 2020|Articles, Sales, Uncategorized|

Sell to the heart before trying to convince the mind On my third day stranded in the airport, I began to make bad decisions. The kids were hungry — again. The healthy snacks my wife prepared had run out yesterday. The food choices near the gate looked appetising, despite the behaviour problems that we know [...]

The Unconventional Treasure Hunt 2014

By |2016-12-10T16:11:59+13:00September 18th, 2014|Pura Vida MultiMedia, Uncategorized|

ForĀ the World Domination Summit, I madeĀ an Unconventional Treasure Hunt at WDS 2014. It was a scavenger hunt of riddles throughout downtown Portland, each riddle leading toĀ clues hidden in small treasure chests throughout the city. MyĀ passion for treasure huntsĀ is pretty big. When I told the WDS Adventure Czar aboutĀ my idea, he thought it was bizarre and [...]

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