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The Amazon Coffee Rebellion
Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times Last month, rank-and-file employees at OpenAI vociferously lobbied for the return of their axed CEO. Fast-forward five tumultuous days. Sam Altman was back...
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The Dangerous Democratization of AI
Image from Craiyon In 2004, one of the world’s smartest techies made what seemed like a reasonable prediction. He promised that the powers that be would “solve” spam within two years. That luminary...
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Can AI improve atrocious writing?
Way back in May 2021, I wrote a post about how not to start a book. Although not even three years ago, my rant reflected a very different world. For starters, generative AI tools like ChaptGPT didn’t...
View ArticleTectonic Forces and Commerical Real Estate
Hybrid work. Dispersion. Employee empowerment. Thorny inflation and attendant interest-rate increases. These are just a few of the forces that I cover in The Nine. In the book, I describe how the...
View ArticleMac Power Hour
Back in 2010, a series of events made me ditch PCs once and for all. I made the jump to a Mac and never looked back. I even created a few amusing cartoons to chronicle my journey. It went well. One...
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The Nine Wins Two Axiom Awards
I am pleased to announce that The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace has won two Axiom awards: Gold, Business Technology Silver, Business Commentary This puts my total Axiom awards at...
View ArticleEpisode 82: A Personal Update
I’ve been on a self-imposed podcast hiatus since June of last year. In this quick episode, I tell you why I needed a break, what I’ve been up to, and my future plans for the pod. WANT EARLY ACCESS TO...
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Meet RacketHub
Over the past year or so, I’ve been building a system that makes lives easier for people involved in writing books. It’s called RacketHub and it’s now available for pubchase. Early feedback has been...
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Episode 83: Slack at Scale With Ksenia Boyer
Ksenia Boyer joins me to discuss about collaboration, culture, internal product management, and change management. WANT EARLY ACCESS TO PODCAST EPISODES? ➡️ The post Episode 83: Slack at Scale With...
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Does writing a book resemble the Waterfall method or Scrum? Yes.
I first started blogging and writing books in 2008. Since that time, I like to think that I’ve become a more effective writer. If I hadn’t, I would have thrown in the towel years ago. Cue Rocky IV...
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Notion and Slack for … Relationship Management?
Think about the tasks or goals you need to accomplish this weekend—that is, when you’re not on the clock. Maybe you’re planning a wedding or vacation? Writing a book or trying to shed 15 pounds?...
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Three Freelancing Models
Starting in my late twenties, I started doing freelance consulting work. Since that time, I’ve hopped in and out of full-time gigs—most recently as a college professor. Even then, I kept a few side...
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On AI, Psychedelics, and Spinal Tap
Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was hardly the only musician to take LSD back in the day. Psychedelics influenced Fish on Marillion’s epic Misplaced Childhood, Jim Morrison of The Doors, and countless...
View ArticleThe Miscellaneous Mindset
A month ago, a woman contacted me about writing some short- and long-form content for her company’s website and marketing department. The organization needed to find someone to generate quality blog...
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The Case for a Regular Tech Audit
After more than a year of chasing my tail, I finally determined the cause of several intermittent and vexing Mac Continuity problems. No, AI didn’t solve the issue, although that would have been nice....
View ArticleCrowdStrike Goes All Onion
Updated: 11:10 am, July 25, 2024 People of a certain age remember the popular 90s newspaper The Onion. For my money, it served up the smartest satire out there. A few of my faves included: Christ...
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Now Available: Simple Notion CRM & Project Tracker
I like to think that I’ve spent the past quarter-century-plus helping people improve their use of tech. Why stop now? Readers of my site know that I’ve become a smidge obsessed with the magnet app...
View ArticleNow Available: Custom Notion Development
Readers of Low-Code/No-Code and my blog know how much I’ve time I’ve been spending in the increasingly popular magnet app Notion. A little while ago, I even launched my magnum opus: a full-fledged...
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The Curiosity Dividend
A little over 25 years ago in my HR days, I started teaching myself a new software application. No one forced me to buy John Walkenbach’s massive Microsoft Access Bible and read about relational...
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Now Available: New Speaking Gig Task Database
Over the last two decades, I’ve done hundreds of speaking gigs. A few have gone off without a hitch. Probably half of them have posed thorny A/V issues. At different times, the following have also...
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