Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A week in my life with AI
My favourite Canadian products
I've been very touched to see American friends expressing their desire to buy Canadian as a way of showing solidarity in the face of Trump's destructive tariffs. While Tim Horton's is no longer Canadian (it's owned by the same folks who own Burger King and Popeyes),...
Your custom AI makes you a better speaker (or consultant)
Your pre-trained AI isn't just a resource for you: It's a resource for your clients. Here's an example of how I use the "Alexerizer," the custom AI that I talked about recently on HBR's Women at Work podcast. While the Alexerizer primarily exists to help me brainstorm...
What Jetpack social posts look like across platforms
Rather than choosing a new home on someone else's social network, can you use WordPress as a publishing hub for all your different networks? That's what I'm trying today. You can read the explanation of why I'm exploring this option in the post I used to test Jetpack...
Showers with robots 🤖🚿
What I learned from inviting ChatGPT to my final frontier
How to pick the right AI for each task
AIs, like humans, work best when you appreciate their differences.
4 Ways To Make Work Fit Your Unique Brain
You deserve the working arrangements that work for you.
That’s my kid!
"That's my kid!" These are the words my heart shouted when I saw Gus Walz shouting, "That's my Dad!" Like so many proud parents of hashtag#neurodivergent kids (many of whom are neurodivergent ourselves), I instantly saw my own 18-year-old son in that...
Escape overload with meta-work
7 ways to get better at the meta-work that makes your whole life easier.
How to run your own weekly accountability process with the help of A.I.
Click to download the guide as a PDF.
The Harvard Business Review
A week in my life with AI
My favourite Canadian products
I've been very touched to see American friends expressing their desire to buy Canadian as a way of showing solidarity in the face of Trump's destructive tariffs. While Tim Horton's is no longer Canadian (it's owned by the same folks who own Burger King and Popeyes),...
Your custom AI makes you a better speaker (or consultant)
Your pre-trained AI isn't just a resource for you: It's a resource for your clients. Here's an example of how I use the "Alexerizer," the custom AI that I talked about recently on HBR's Women at Work podcast. While the Alexerizer primarily exists to help me brainstorm...
What Jetpack social posts look like across platforms
Rather than choosing a new home on someone else's social network, can you use WordPress as a publishing hub for all your different networks? That's what I'm trying today. You can read the explanation of why I'm exploring this option in the post I used to test Jetpack...
Showers with robots 🤖🚿
What I learned from inviting ChatGPT to my final frontier
How to pick the right AI for each task
AIs, like humans, work best when you appreciate their differences.
4 Ways To Make Work Fit Your Unique Brain
You deserve the working arrangements that work for you.
That’s my kid!
"That's my kid!" These are the words my heart shouted when I saw Gus Walz shouting, "That's my Dad!" Like so many proud parents of hashtag#neurodivergent kids (many of whom are neurodivergent ourselves), I instantly saw my own 18-year-old son in that...
Escape overload with meta-work
7 ways to get better at the meta-work that makes your whole life easier.
How to run your own weekly accountability process with the help of A.I.
Click to download the guide as a PDF.
OneZero
Beat AI sycophancy with my “team of rivals” prompt
This prompt was featured in my Thrive at Work newsletter. Subscribe to this free biweekly newsletter to get practical, inspiring ideas for your digital working life. How do you get AI to tell you not just what you want to hear, but what you need to hear? In my...
Use AI to adjust the timing on your keynote, speech, workshop or meeting
AI can help you adjust your meeting or presentation on the fly—by preparing a game plan with alternate scenarios depending on how conversation unfolds. Use this prompt to generate a table like the one below, and then save a screenshot of that table to your phone or...
A week in my life with AI
My favourite Canadian products
I've been very touched to see American friends expressing their desire to buy Canadian as a way of showing solidarity in the face of Trump's destructive tariffs. While Tim Horton's is no longer Canadian (it's owned by the same folks who own Burger King and Popeyes),...
Your custom AI makes you a better speaker (or consultant)
Your pre-trained AI isn't just a resource for you: It's a resource for your clients. Here's an example of how I use the "Alexerizer," the custom AI that I talked about recently on HBR's Women at Work podcast. While the Alexerizer primarily exists to help me brainstorm...
What Jetpack social posts look like across platforms
Rather than choosing a new home on someone else's social network, can you use WordPress as a publishing hub for all your different networks? That's what I'm trying today. You can read the explanation of why I'm exploring this option in the post I used to test Jetpack...
Showers with robots 🤖🚿
What I learned from inviting ChatGPT to my final frontier
How to pick the right AI for each task
AIs, like humans, work best when you appreciate their differences.
JSTOR DAILY
Beat AI sycophancy with my “team of rivals” prompt
This prompt was featured in my Thrive at Work newsletter. Subscribe to this free biweekly newsletter to get practical, inspiring ideas for your digital working life. How do you get AI to tell you not just what you want to hear, but what you need to hear? In my...
Use AI to adjust the timing on your keynote, speech, workshop or meeting
AI can help you adjust your meeting or presentation on the fly—by preparing a game plan with alternate scenarios depending on how conversation unfolds. Use this prompt to generate a table like the one below, and then save a screenshot of that table to your phone or...
A week in my life with AI
My favourite Canadian products
I've been very touched to see American friends expressing their desire to buy Canadian as a way of showing solidarity in the face of Trump's destructive tariffs. While Tim Horton's is no longer Canadian (it's owned by the same folks who own Burger King and Popeyes),...
Your custom AI makes you a better speaker (or consultant)
Your pre-trained AI isn't just a resource for you: It's a resource for your clients. Here's an example of how I use the "Alexerizer," the custom AI that I talked about recently on HBR's Women at Work podcast. While the Alexerizer primarily exists to help me brainstorm...
What Jetpack social posts look like across platforms
Rather than choosing a new home on someone else's social network, can you use WordPress as a publishing hub for all your different networks? That's what I'm trying today. You can read the explanation of why I'm exploring this option in the post I used to test Jetpack...
Showers with robots 🤖🚿
What I learned from inviting ChatGPT to my final frontier
How to pick the right AI for each task
AIs, like humans, work best when you appreciate their differences.
THE VERGE
Make All The Things
How AI helps us reclaim human creativity If you're worried that AI is going to be the death of human creativity, there is something you can do about it: Go make something. Make a bookcase. Make a sweater. Make a song. Write a story, a poem, a program, or a text. Sit...
Meet your wellbeing mechanic
Hint: It doesn’t have hands…or a human brain. The speed of AI can feel overwhelming. But AI can also help with overwhelm, too—if you treat AI like a wellbeing mechanic, helping you with a tune-up, rather than a human therapist helping you do deep work on your...
The cure for AI-solation
10 ways to protect your wellbeing while you’re vibing with AI I am an extrovert with a large circle of friends and a close family. But it took only 18 months of talking to AI to plunge me into relative isolation… Talking to an AI every day satisfied my extrovert...
Skip the AI crisis
Reclaim the power to choose with Me + Viv. I'll say this in favor of crisis: It is a great simplifier. The phone rings with a call from the principal, and then you're in the car, racing to pick up a distraught child. The doorbell chimes, and you let the police into...