Jan 28, 2026 | Articles
đź“Š Build the capability of the future, together. Hello Reader, If you’ve been following me for a while, you know my story. If not, here’s the TL;DR – I ran away and joined the circus, and lived as a street performer, hitchhiking across the United States. I settled down and had kids, moved to Costa Rica, and started my own digital marketing agency. My family moved to New Zealand, where there are no natural predators. I wrote a book called Marketing Yourself, which helped thousands of experts…
Jan 21, 2026 | Articles
🧑💻 “The AI displacement of white-collar jobs is upon us. The traditional career path is dying, and AI-driven productivity is redefining what’s possible.” – Peter Diamandis Hello Reader, Artificial intelligence is changing all jobs this decade. You are either getting ready to change how you work, or you are getting ready to retire – whether you like it or not. AI is a twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Internet was the other one, and we know how that went. We’ve been fortunate enough, in our…
Jan 14, 2026 | Articles
🪄 “There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” — Norman Vincent Peale Hello Reader, If you haven’t been using Claude, it might be time to give it a try. Anthropic has released a bunch of new Claude features recently. Claude Code has Twitter in a tizzy the last couple of weeks, especially after somebody released the Ralph Wiggum plugin. Here’s a 10-minute video overview by Alex Finn. TL;DW – the Simpson’s character Ralph Wiggum (ha! ha!…
Jan 7, 2026 | Articles
🎂 Happy Birthday to me! Hello Reader, It’s my birthday today! If you’d like to give me a quick and easy gift, heres what I would find helpful and rewarding: Click a link below, and read something I’ve written. Leave a comment if you have an insight to share. My Best Articles of 2025 My Takeaways from the Aotearoa AI Summit 2025 New Zealand’s new AI strategy is AI slop Pick the Right LLM with Parallel Prompting An LLM has passed the Turing Test 5 Reasons Plato Would Be Skeptical About GenAI…
Jan 3, 2026 | Articles
🧠“Habit takes advantage of inattention.” – Benjamin Franklin Hello Reader, Every year, I publish an Annual Review on my personal website, as well as my New Year’s Resolutions. Read my 2025 Annual Review here. Read my 2026 New Year’s Resolutions here. On New Year’s Eve, I led an Annual Review Workshop, and guided participants through using my Annual Review Workbook, a Google Doc I use every year to go through the following 5 steps: Record. Collect your data, photos, and calendars. Review….
Dec 23, 2025 | Articles
đź“Š “The purpose of coaching is to close the gap between potential and performance.” – Keith Webb Hello Reader, Here’s a quick tutorial for you to send out last-minute Christmas cards. 🎅 Ho-ho-ho! 🎄 đź’ˇ Copy/paste this prompt Take the uploaded headshot and transform the person into a classic 1950s Coca-Cola style Santa Claus. Maintain the facial features of the individual but age them appropriately to match the traditional Santa look: rosy cheeks, kind eyes, full white beard, and round glasses….
Dec 19, 2025 | Articles
🪫 “ChatGPT-4 is the dumbest model any of you will ever, ever have to use again, by a lot.” – Sam Altman Hello Reader, The Genesis Mission, a new Ai initiative launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, has been framed by the administration as comparable in scale to the Manhattan Project. The program aims to accelerate scientific discovery by combining artificial intelligence with large federal research datasets. The effort will apply Ai systems to data from agencies including NASA, the National…
Dec 16, 2025 | Articles
‽ “Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” – Mark Twain Hello Reader, If you’ve tried to make an AI-generated image with Mickey Mouse or The X-Men, you’ve hit the copyright guardrails. Content violations are a moving target, and it takes just as much luck as prompting skill to try and evade these guardrails. You may be aware that Steamboat Willie (an early iteration of Mickey mouse) recently entered the Public Domain, which lifts some of…
Dec 12, 2025 | Articles
🧠“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.” – James Clear Hello Reader, How was 2025 for you? Every year, I have published an Annual Review on my personal website. This annual ritual of introspection has given me: Reminders of what worked well Reflection on what could have gone better Collection of the metrics that matter An artifact to preserve my progress Every year, my Annual Review contains 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone…
Dec 10, 2025 | Articles
ä·ż “Context engineering is the systematic discipline of designing, constructing, and delivering a complete informational environment to an AI model prior to generation.” – Antonio Gulli Hello Reader, Even the best prompts will fail without the right context. Giving AI backstory and reference material will create a landscape that is suitable to your scenario. The art of Context Engineering is providing enough material to an LLM so that it can provide you with better results. In a session with…
