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...

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...