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5 Lessons from ‘Lead like a Human in the Age of AI’
Last week I was invited by Rita Cincotta onto the Deliberate Leader Podcast. If you don't know Rita, she is a is a leadership coach and who helps leaders grow through strengths-based practice, reflection, and deliberate action. She's also a trusted colleague and an old friend. We were able to quickly get into deep conversation about the overlap of our two worlds. Here are 5 takeaways we uncovered during our conversation, on Leadership in the Age of AI: 1. Use AI for the [...]
AI Play Every Day: The Habit That Turns Curiosity Into Capability
One of my core values is that learning should be fun. That’s why I use games to teach in my AI training workshops — so we can get more done in good cheer. Most people approach learning like it’s medicine. They expect serious work to feel heavy, and to wait for fun until after work is finished. But our near future won't reward endurance, it will reward curiosity. Throughout history, technology has steadily removed the physical labor required for survival. Machines replaced muscle, computers [...]
Context Engineering: Frame Everything Prior to the Prompt
Last week at AgentCamp in Christchurch, hosted by Steve Knutson at Stratos Technology Partners, I spoke about a shift that is quietly transforming how people work with AI. Most people still think the secret to good AI output is writing a clever prompt, but the deeper truth is that prompting is only a small part of the equation. The real leverage comes from context engineering—everything you frame up for a LLM, prior to the prompt. Antonio Gullí described context engineering as "the discipline of [...]
The OpenClaw moment 🦞
AI is having a moment right now, and it's because of OpenClaw. OpenClaw is an AI Agent that controls its own computer. This open-source AI agent can run on an old laptop, or a Mac mini, or a VPS, a Virtual Private Server. With its own hardware, email accounts, and web browser, its own memory and soul, installing OpenClaw creates a 24/7 AI assistant working on whatever you want. You don't want to run OpenClaw on your own machine - [...]
The Evaluation Loop: How AI Improves Its Own Output
AI is better at evaluating content than generating content. This makes sense, when you stop to think about it. For a large language model to interpret your instructions, and create output, all in the same step, it dilutes the same token budget over two requests. But if you have ask AI to evaluate its own outputs, it can focus all its attention on identifying how to improve. Then it can rewrite, separately. Here’s a simple copy/paste [...]
What’s working now with AI Enablement?
Giving your team Copilot licenses will not magically create AI transformation. That mindset is treating AI as a technology problem, when it is actually an operator problem. Most leaders I meet don't have a clear idea about what AI could do for their organization, or how to embed change at this scale. So they give new tools to untrained operators, and they just sit there, full of untapped potential. What I find works best is when people have three things: Sandbox: Create [...]