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Take a peek backstage at TED2024
Apr 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
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.
5 ways to customize your work
Apr 9, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Newsletter, Tech advice, Productivity
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
Mar 26, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Newsletter, Hybrid and remote work
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spend big portions of our working lives at home, but we’ve brought the office home with us — including a whole lot of outdated ideas about what’s professional or what work is supposed to look or feel like.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...
6 Ways to Recharge
Mar 12, 2024 | Newsletter
Watching The Lazarus Project is one the ways I recharge at the end of a workday We can only sustain our attention for so long before we need a cognitive break. That's one of the key points in Attention Span, by Gloria Mark. Her book takes decades of...
Get ready for upload
Feb 27, 2024 | Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hybrid and remote work
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.
Feb 13, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Newsletter, Tech advice
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
Jan 30, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Newsletter, Tech advice
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
Jan 10, 2024 | Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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...
Collaboration lessons from Die Hard
Dec 26, 2023 | Newsletter, Hybrid and remote work, How to build community online
This article is just one long spoiler for the movie Die Hard. If you haven’t seen it, you should—it’s a classic! Unless you hate seeing gunfire; then you should really not see it. We often talk as if online collaboration is a new challenge, one minted by hybrid...