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Lessons from ‘Leadership in the Age of AI’ [REPLAY]
Last month at EPIC in Christchurch, I hosted a TechWeek panel on Leadership in the Age of AI with four local CEOs: Anya Anderson from RedSeed, Julie Ryan from CustomD, Ali Adams from ChristchurchNZ, and Brad Fraser from Agentic Intelligence. The conversation kept coming back to the human work of leadership: judgment, communication, trust, empathy, change management, and knowing when enough is enough. The kind of judgment only a human can make. AI is not making leadership less human. It's actually [...]
[REPLAY] Managing AI Agents – The Next High-Value Skill Set
TechWeek in New Zealand is a festival for celebrating technology in Aotearoa. I hosted a lot of AI events. The first day of TechWeek, I delivered a sold-out webinar, AI Agent Management: The Next High-Value Skill Set When I asked attendees for a 🔥 burning question 🔥 they had about AI agents, answers included: How do I build my own model and agent? How can you use AI agents safely? Are they expensive? How secure is an AI agent? How easy [...]
Marketers are smart losers.
It gives me no pride to say this, but when I look at the many hundreds (maybe thousands) of marketers that I know, there are three common characteristics all marketers share: they're smart they're creative and they're losers. Alex Bogusky took these photos because he learned the hard way. 💡 The Irony of Expertise Expertise is not developed from natural talent. Expertise is only earned through struggle. I’ve spent a lot of time in the expert community. My digital marketing [...]
The OpenClaw TED Talk (and Downtime)
Have you ever heard of the Diffusion of Innovation? It's a bell-curve distribution of how technology is adopted over time. OpenClaw is not cutting-edge technology. It is bleeding-edge technology. Using it is bloody and difficult. This is what the founder of OpenClaw, Peter Steinberger, published on his blog this week: When I had both of my OpenClaw agents running on 4.29, they were basically unusable. I was spending most of my time troubleshooting, which, I must admit: I'm not good at, [...]
Take a Tour of the AI Campus
There's a point on every skill curve where dabbling doesn't work. You've watched the demos. Read the articles. Tried a few prompts that sort-of worked. Maybe you've even paid for a subscription that you forget to use. And somewhere in the back of your mind, a quiet voice is asking: am I actually getting better at this, or am I just busy? Personally, I'm really good at getting busy. I'm a polymath, and I love learning different things. Dabbling is [...]
AI increases volume. Humans determine value.
In my recent article for the Australian Institute of Training & Development, I used my 5-Step Creative Process to help Learning & Development practitioners redesign learning workflows around human judgment. If you've never seen my 5-Step Creative Process before, it goes like this: 🗑️ Collect 🗂️ Sort 🛠️ Craft ✨ Polish 📖 Publish When AI makes creation cheap, that means judgment becomes more valuable. This was the focus of the article I wrote for AITD: Click to read the full article [...]