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...

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...

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...

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...