Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
4 ways to make work fun
So many of us now spend big portions of our working lives at home, but we’ve brought the office home with us — including a whole lot of outdated ideas about what’s professional or what work is supposed to look or feel like. But there is nothing unprofessional about...
Walk and Work with ChatGPT
6 Ways to Recharge
Watching The Lazarus Project is one the ways I recharge at the end of a workday We can only sustain our attention for so long before we need a cognitive break. That's one of the key points in Attention Span, by Gloria Mark. Her book takes decades of...
Get ready for upload
Hybrid work warmed us up for the world of generative AI in many ways: When you’re already used to interacting with your colleagues via chat rather than in person, it’s easier to get used to riffing with a chat-based AI. When you’re constantly overloaded by...
Pssst! Someone put a chip in your head.
I love implanting computer chips in my friends’ brains. At least, I did until recently, when Elon Musk announced he’d gotten in on my action by actually implanting the first Neuralink chip in a live human subject. That’s when I realized Elon had killed what has long...
How to train your own AI in 15 minutes
The non-geek’s starter guide to building the skillset of the future with a custom GPT Managing people has long been the path to advancement. Now, the same is true of managing AIs. In many professions, there’s a point at which the only way up or forward is if you take...
How to plan what you can’t imagine
What career or professional decisions would you have made in 2018, if you'd known that in just two years, the world of work would look dramatically different? There are no do-overs for us as prisoners of linear time, but we can use our pandemic-era experience of...
Collaboration lessons from Die Hard
This article is just one long spoiler for the movie Die Hard. If you haven’t seen it, you should—it’s a classic! Unless you hate seeing gunfire; then you should really not see it. We often talk as if online collaboration is a new challenge, one minted by hybrid...
Meet your new robot cheerleader
The best thing an AI can produce? Better, happier humans. We should expect nothing less. And that means harnessing AI for joy, as well as productivity. That begins with using AI to boost your own professional or personal motivation. Just last week, I stumbled onto a...
Your Cyber Monday gift guide
Our Family Throughout History I created this gift collage from images I made with MyHeritage.com's AI Time Machine. I love Cyber Monday because it combines three of my favorite things: Shopping, gifting, and of course, Cyber. To help you make the most of the...
The Harvard Business Review
4 ways to make work fun
So many of us now spend big portions of our working lives at home, but we’ve brought the office home with us — including a whole lot of outdated ideas about what’s professional or what work is supposed to look or feel like. But there is nothing unprofessional about...
Walk and Work with ChatGPT
6 Ways to Recharge
Watching The Lazarus Project is one the ways I recharge at the end of a workday We can only sustain our attention for so long before we need a cognitive break. That's one of the key points in Attention Span, by Gloria Mark. Her book takes decades of...
Get ready for upload
Hybrid work warmed us up for the world of generative AI in many ways: When you’re already used to interacting with your colleagues via chat rather than in person, it’s easier to get used to riffing with a chat-based AI. When you’re constantly overloaded by...
Pssst! Someone put a chip in your head.
I love implanting computer chips in my friends’ brains. At least, I did until recently, when Elon Musk announced he’d gotten in on my action by actually implanting the first Neuralink chip in a live human subject. That’s when I realized Elon had killed what has long...
How to train your own AI in 15 minutes
The non-geek’s starter guide to building the skillset of the future with a custom GPT Managing people has long been the path to advancement. Now, the same is true of managing AIs. In many professions, there’s a point at which the only way up or forward is if you take...
How to plan what you can’t imagine
What career or professional decisions would you have made in 2018, if you'd known that in just two years, the world of work would look dramatically different? There are no do-overs for us as prisoners of linear time, but we can use our pandemic-era experience of...
Collaboration lessons from Die Hard
This article is just one long spoiler for the movie Die Hard. If you haven’t seen it, you should—it’s a classic! Unless you hate seeing gunfire; then you should really not see it. We often talk as if online collaboration is a new challenge, one minted by hybrid...
Meet your new robot cheerleader
The best thing an AI can produce? Better, happier humans. We should expect nothing less. And that means harnessing AI for joy, as well as productivity. That begins with using AI to boost your own professional or personal motivation. Just last week, I stumbled onto a...
Your Cyber Monday gift guide
Our Family Throughout History I created this gift collage from images I made with MyHeritage.com's AI Time Machine. I love Cyber Monday because it combines three of my favorite things: Shopping, gifting, and of course, Cyber. To help you make the most of the...
OneZero
How to solve your work problems with AI
What can AI do for you, right now, to solve your immediate work problems? That’s the question I answer in my latest piece for The Wall Street Journal, in the cover story for their latest report on Artificial Intelligence. In 7 Everyday Work Problems AI Helps Me...
We are going to live forever in a post-carbon utopia
Great news! We are all going to live for many more long and healthy years, basking in the wealth and leisure of a society powered by abundant cheap energy and an explosion of medical and scientific miracles. That is seriously how I felt by the end of my week at...
I’m scared sh**tless
Confession: I’m scared shitless. Here’s what I’ve signed up for this Thursday afternoon: Sing out! This is your chance to be part of a very special TED Talk! Renowned Broadway director and TED speaker, Lear deBessonet and Broadway performer, Todd Almond will...
Take a peek backstage at TED2024
Take a peek backstage at #TED2024— thanks to an experience that may sound like your worst air-travel nightmare. You know, that nightmare where the person next to you on a long plane flight actually TALKS to you? That was me, a year ago, on a flight back from New York...
My AI-enabled Work Day
How can AI actually make your day-to-day work easier, more fun and more effective? This snapshot shows you a day in the life of working with AI.
5 ways to customize your work
It’s time to work like us There’s no one best way to work—but it’s not easy to figure out the work practices that align with our individual preferences and talents. How do creative thinkers find their own best way to work? What tactics and tools unlock their unique...
4 ways to make work fun
So many of us now spend big portions of our working lives at home, but we’ve brought the office home with us — including a whole lot of outdated ideas about what’s professional or what work is supposed to look or feel like. But there is nothing unprofessional about...
Walk and Work with ChatGPT
JSTOR DAILY
How to solve your work problems with AI
What can AI do for you, right now, to solve your immediate work problems? That’s the question I answer in my latest piece for The Wall Street Journal, in the cover story for their latest report on Artificial Intelligence. In 7 Everyday Work Problems AI Helps Me...
We are going to live forever in a post-carbon utopia
Great news! We are all going to live for many more long and healthy years, basking in the wealth and leisure of a society powered by abundant cheap energy and an explosion of medical and scientific miracles. That is seriously how I felt by the end of my week at...
I’m scared sh**tless
Confession: I’m scared shitless. Here’s what I’ve signed up for this Thursday afternoon: Sing out! This is your chance to be part of a very special TED Talk! Renowned Broadway director and TED speaker, Lear deBessonet and Broadway performer, Todd Almond will...
Take a peek backstage at TED2024
Take a peek backstage at #TED2024— thanks to an experience that may sound like your worst air-travel nightmare. You know, that nightmare where the person next to you on a long plane flight actually TALKS to you? That was me, a year ago, on a flight back from New York...
My AI-enabled Work Day
How can AI actually make your day-to-day work easier, more fun and more effective? This snapshot shows you a day in the life of working with AI.
5 ways to customize your work
It’s time to work like us There’s no one best way to work—but it’s not easy to figure out the work practices that align with our individual preferences and talents. How do creative thinkers find their own best way to work? What tactics and tools unlock their unique...
4 ways to make work fun
So many of us now spend big portions of our working lives at home, but we’ve brought the office home with us — including a whole lot of outdated ideas about what’s professional or what work is supposed to look or feel like. But there is nothing unprofessional about...
Walk and Work with ChatGPT
THE VERGE
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