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Resources to make work fit your unique brain
Sep 3, 2024 | Neurosmart work
The latest issue of the Thrive at Work newsletter covers four ways to make work fit your unique brain. Sign up for Thrive at Work here. These additional resources are full of specific tactics and tools to support each of these four strategies. Calibrate your sensory...
How to run your own weekly accountability process with the help of A.I.
Jul 22, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Click to download the guide as a PDF.
Inside You There Are Three A.I.s
Jul 2, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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 GPT", Claude.ai's new...
Learn to think visually with ChatGPT
Jun 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
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 image...
Stop prompting. Start talking.
Jun 4, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Tech advice
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
May 21, 2024 | Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Productivity
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
May 7, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Newsletter, Tech advice, Productivity
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
Apr 23, 2024 | Newsletter
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
Apr 11, 2024 | Uncategorized, Newsletter
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
Apr 10, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Productivity
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.