‽ 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 - we read challenging [...]
📊 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 working in New [...]
📊 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 [...]
✨ 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 matters. 🎬 Watch the [...]
🇳🇿 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 good fit for us. Eight [...]
📊 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 if you use a [...]
For 2025, my word is Faith. "Everything always works out for me." That's what my daughter says to herself, multiple times every day. When you have that fundamental belief in your own well-being, the universe conspires to support you in that belief. Repeating an affirmation trains your reticular activating system to identify any new [...]
2024 Annual Review Table of Contents Every Annual Review that I publish on this blog contains 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone better? How many New Year’s Resolutions did I keep? What are my resolutions for next year? To see all of my annual reviews, click here. To use my [...]