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[Citizenship Unlocked] I am the NEWEST Zealander!
🇳🇿 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 years ago we moved to New Zealand, and this week, we were awarded citizenship in our new home country. 💡 [...]
What is GenAI? (It’s the genie, and it’s out of the bottle.) 🧞♂️
📊 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 the 4 stages of AI development: Perception AI Generative AI ( ⬅️ we are here ) Agentic AI Physical AI This evolution shows how quickly [...]
🎯 Want to craft better GenAI prompts? Use the PILLARS framework.
📊 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 framework like PILLARS, you will clearly scope what you want a GPT model to produce for you. 💡 This structure will [...]
New Years Resolutions 2025
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 sensory inputs that are in keeping with that belief. I want that same perspective, which is one of the reasons I am choosing Faith for [...]
Annual Review 2024
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 workbook to create your own Annual Review, click here. Part 1 – What were my victories of 2024? 2024 was a [...]
GPT Block: Writing Has Gone From Art to Automation
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, because I have two choices: Continue writing by hand (which I love to do) and take more time about it than others do, or Use [...]