“Censorship 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.” - 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 OpenAI GPT-5 - [...]
“This is the last frontier of media - billions of people making high-end content.” - Chris Valenzuela, Runway CEO Prompt engineers are movie producers now. Producing video content used to require access to equipment, and talent, and funding. Not anymore. Now, you don't need a movie studio, or a graphics budget, or any [...]
'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 [...]
📊 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. 💡 What does exponential change mean? We can't keep up by using [...]
People feel life is meaningless when they don’t have goals, rules, and feedback. (These are the 3 attributes of games, according to Dr Jason Fox, that I describe in-depth in my short ebook Gamify Your Work.) Playing the game of life, and doing work that supports your lifestyle, is only made meaningful if we have goals to achieve, rules for how to play, and feedback on [...]
Create a pre-designed proposal template you can customise for every new client “Can you send me a proposal by the end of the day?” When I started my first web design agency in 2010, this question forced me into upgrading my business. I had only made four websites at that time, and a new client [...]
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 [...]
For the World Domination Summit, I made an Unconventional Treasure Hunt at WDS 2014. It was a scavenger hunt of riddles throughout downtown Portland, each riddle leading to clues hidden in small treasure chests throughout the city. My passion for treasure hunts is pretty big. When I told the WDS Adventure Czar about my idea, he thought it was bizarre and [...]
360-DISC is a series of 360˚ panoramas used as Digital Immersive Storytelling Capsules. Each DISC is an immersive digital experience, allowing the user to scroll in any direction to review the stories embedded in the panorama. Icons placed on objects in the panorama can launch text boxes, audio files, photos, or videos. Some videos can [...]