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…
Jun 18, 2025 | Articles
“This is the last frontier of media – billions of people making high-end content.” – Chris Valenzuela, Runway CEO Hello Reader, Prompt engineers are movie producers now. Producing video content used to require access to equipment, and talent, and funding. Not anymore. Now, you don’t need a movie studio, or a graphics budget, or any skills. Just a good idea (and good taste!) can make a good movie, with a little prompting. Google’s new Veo 3 model has generated some amazing new videos on the…
Jun 4, 2025 | Articles
“AI is very good at content, but not context. Without context, it doesn’t know what to do, so it doesn’t have any purpose.” – Daniel Priestley Hello Reader, The quality of your AI outputs depends on the context you give it. What is Context with AI? Think of it like having a conversation. If your partner doesn’t know what you’ve been talking about, how can they respond well? Context is the information behind the content. Developing context is how I refine my prompts, shape my visuals, and…
May 30, 2025 | Tutorials
By using a metaprompt technique to adopt the role of a Chief Alignment Officer (CAO), you can create a strategic AI persona that can analyze, compare, and harmonize stakeholder perspectives with depth and clarity. Based on the original Meta-Prompting framework by...
May 28, 2025 | Articles
📊 “Generative AI is expected to give the average worker 275 additional hours per year to dedicate to high-value tasks, improving productivity 15.5% by 2038.” – p.13 of Microsoft’s report, ‘Economic Opportunity of Generative AI in New Zealand’ Hello Reader, Last week, I taught a bunch of workshops for TechWeekNZ. This was my 7th year teaching a workshop for TechWeek, but I taught more this week than ever before. In addition to the webinar Be More Human: Do the Work that Matters Most with…
May 21, 2025 | Articles
With infinite answers now available, asking the right question becomes priceless. Hello Reader, Most people think prompt engineering is about getting better at telling AI what to do. But the real power move is asking AI what it needs from you. With infinite information on tap, AI doesn’t struggle with answers. It struggles with ambiguity. Precision gives it power. The sharper your prompt, the smarter your AI responds. To get the smartest prompts, ask AI to generate the prompt for you. Then…
May 18, 2025 | Tutorials
Let’s run a complete social media audit using AI—analyzing a profile, comparing it to competitors, and generating a tailored content strategy for better growth and engagement. You can do all of this with just a few prompts and a single URL. 🔗 STEP 1: Get the URL...
