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spend big portions of our working lives at home, but we’ve brought the office home with us — including a whole lot of outdated ideas about what’s professional or what work is supposed to look or feel like.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...

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...

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...

How to play your way to AI fluency

Can coat hooks level up your AI skills? I’ll admit it sounds like a stretch. But that’s exactly how I boosted my AI literacy over the summer, as an almost accidental by-product of our home improvements. In the course of replacing our entryway closet with coat hooks, I...