Oct 21, 2025 | Articles
🎓 “AI might take some jobs, but if you don’t learn AI, how are you going to be competitive?” – Michael Park Hello Reader, What I hear from people, when they want to improve their AI skills, is that they don’t know where to start. Because there’s so many different tools, that can do so many different things, it’s overwhelming. So they just pick one tool to learn how to do a thing or two, but they don’t have a structured learning plan to grow. I think people are probably worried about falling…
Oct 15, 2025 | Articles
🔮 The future isn’t AI-first – it’s human-first with AI-powered humans. Hello Reader, A lot of people think AI is coming for their jobs. They’re wrong. AI is coming for their tasks. But the work that matters — the uniquely human work — still belongs to us. What makes us human is what makes us valuable, in a world shared with AI. Emotional intelligence, creative taste, adaptability, and ethics are uniquely human, which makes them our survival skills for the future. Taste. Judgment. Empathy….
Oct 9, 2025 | Articles
📊 Microsoft estimates New Zealanders could save an average of 275 hours per year by using artificial intelligence. Hello Reader, If you want to learn AI F.A.S.T. then I have the class for you. Participants in my workshops have demonstrated: 📈 +45% in Confidence in using AI tools for daily tasks🛠️ +56% in ability to craft effective AI Prompts⚡ +65% in efficiency improvement on productivity🎯 +75% in AI’s impact on strategic decision-making🎨 +67% in AI’s role in work requiring creativity “This…
Sep 24, 2025 | Articles
“The shape of the traditional hierarchy is going to change, especially as people become moderators of AI output.” – Dr Amanda Williamson Hello Reader, The #AotearoaAISummit hosted by the AI Forum NZ explored some really interesting conversations last week. Here are my takeaways: The emcee Megan Tapsell shared that what 5 BAs could do in 1 year can now be accomplished in 1 day. The New Zealand Institute for Advanced Technology announced they would provide $231 million in funding over 4 years…
Sep 17, 2025 | Articles
“We don’t play games to avoid work; we play games to engage in well-designed work.” – Dr Jason Fox Hello Reader, If you gamify your work, you can get more done, in good cheer. That’s the lesson learned from a recent AI Games Playtesting event I held in Christchurch. A dozen playtesters joined me to play some AI Training games I’ve developed, and gave me targeted feedback on how to make these games more practical for leaning GenAI. Over the past six months, I’ve been teaching workshops using…
Aug 27, 2025 | Articles
“Vision without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas Edison Hello Reader, What is a hallucination? It’s not so trippy. With an LLM, a hallucination is a factual error asserted confidently. GPTs only create strings of words that sounds like language. If it doesn’t know the facts, it fills in gaps with fiction. Responses are only accurate if you explicitly demand accuracy. Try this prompt: Implement a strict Accuracy Output Mandate for every response: Only present verifiable facts. If you…
Aug 20, 2025 | Articles
“Censorship and political control of AI is a thousand times more dangerous than censorship and political control of social media, maybe a million times more dangerous.” – Marc Andreessen Hello Reader, There have been a lot of practical advances in AI tools recently, including: ChatGPT Agent – now it can do things, not just make things OpenAI GPT-5 – including a rollback for 4o nostalgists Grok Imagine – it’s like if Pinterest and Midjourney had a baby OpenAI gpt-oss – download and run a local…
Jul 23, 2025 | Articles
“We are the AI Generation.” – Doreen Bogdan-Martin Hello Reader, Last week I published a scathing teardown of the 22-page AI Strategy published by the New Zealand government. (Read that teardown here.) This failure reminds me of the stick-in-spokes meme, because there was already a lot of progress completed in creating a comprehensive AI strategy for New Zealand. The first version of the AI Blueprint for Aotearoa was published in July 2024, by the NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) the AI…
Jul 16, 2025 | Articles
“The future belongs to those who can synthesize, not just analyze. The AI Generalist doesn’t compete with artificial intelligence—they choreograph it.” – Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind Hello Reader, As the only country in the OECD that had yet to publish an AI Strategy, New Zealand has finally published a 22-page document full of AI slop. (This critique was written by hand, and not by AI. Because when something matters, you shouldn’t deliver your ideas via AI slop.) The title…
Jul 2, 2025 | Articles
“AI adoption is not just about the short-term gains. Organizations need to invest in the efficiency of the design, deployment, and integration of AI solutions to their operations that enable tracking of the impact.” – Fan Ho, ED/GM of Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo Asia Pacific Hello Reader, As an immigrant, I have an outsider’s perspective on New Zealand. (I recently received my citizenship, making me the Newest Zealander!) During the first workshop of the AI Training Programme I teach…
