Sep 3, 2026 | Newsletters
🗄️ “Companies need to turn their workflows, domain knowledge, and accumulated judgment into AI systems that improve with each use. The companies that build this early will have an advantage that is hard to replicate, regardless of any new individual model capability.” – Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Hello Reader, The meat computers inside our skulls have a network, when working together on a team. The information stored on this network can be called institutional knowledge. The way the work…
Aug 27, 2026 | Newsletters
📑 “The key to content marketing is simple: all you have to do is show up and answer questions your right people are asking.” – Ash Ambirge Hello Reader, SEO gets your website listed in the directory, but AEO gets your website recommended by the concierge. In the previous decade, when you wanted your website to get found by your target market, you used Search Engine Optimisation to show on the first page of search results. I n the coming decade, people aren’t going to Google to ask their…
Aug 20, 2026 | Newsletters
🌱 “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.” – Ursula K Leguin…
Aug 13, 2026 | Newsletters
🗣️ “Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation.” – Peter Elbow Hello Reader, This past Monday I presented at the Christchurch AI Meetup. We meet the 2nd Monday of every month at EPIC Innovation. If you are a local, you can join our Meetup group to get notified of upcoming events. You can watch the replay here. We had 3 speakers presenting on…
Aug 6, 2026 | Newsletters
📊 “I honestly think ChatGPT Voice is one of the most important technology advancements of our lives.” – Alex Finn Hello Reader, If you tried ChatGPT Voice before, and you were unimpressed, try it again. The previous Voice experience was interesting, but awkward. It interrupted pauses. It misread the end of a sentence. It responded too quickly when you were still gathering your thoughts. Talking to it felt like you had to manage an over-caffeinated friend, who was too enthusiastic to…
Jul 30, 2026 | Newsletters
🍾 “AI does not automatically make you less busy. It removes constraints. That creates new work, and new choices.” – Dan Fowlie Hello Reader, We’ve got 350 members in the AI Coaching Academy. This is an online community for ambitious professionals who want to practice using the tools of the future. For those of you who have attended my free community events, or used the resources in the AI Playground, thanks for participating! For those who joined the AI Campus, the $100/month premium plan,…
