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...

Inside You There Are Three A.I.s

Generative A.I. can boost your productivity and expand your creativity, but it becomes much more usable and powerful when you customize it for your own needs. And that’s very easy to do—no coding required!—with tools like OpenAI’s “Create a...

Learn to think visually with ChatGPT

I admire AI artists who can think of the right prompt to illustrate a concept or story. But I’m not a visual thinker, so the hardest part of image creation is often thinking about how to represent an idea visually. For my newsletter this week, I wanted a header...

Stop prompting. Start talking.

  Conversation is central to our working lives. It’s how we learn from one another, work through our own ideas, and perhaps most importantly, collaborate and co-create with others. Until a year or so ago, the creative and learning potential of conversation...

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...