Notion
What Else Can I Automate?
A simple question driving much of my work these days led to some useful Notion additions.
Phil Simon
Phil Simon is probably the world's leading independent expert on workplace collaboration and tech. He is a frequent keynote speaker and the award-winning author of 14 books, most recently The Nine.
Claude
Finding the Right Tech Ingredients
Solving a vexing automation problem required some experimentation and resurrecting a reliable tool from long ago.
AI
The Accidental Committer
Claude Code has awakened my inner open-source beast.
Notion
Parallels Between Ghostwriting and Notion Development
Thoughts about two ostensibily disparate services I provide.
Notion
Early Notion Worker Lessons
What I've learned noodling with this powerful new functionality.
Enterprise Systems
The Acme of Tech Cluelessness
A recent interaction with an ancient organization reminded me of a longstanding truism.
AI
On AI, Automation, and Critical Thinking
Today's tools can build workable replacements, but always question their initial recommendations.
AI
More Multimodal AI Adventures
Buoyed by my success in creating AI-generated audio files, I gave text-to-video a try.
AI
Adventures in Multimodal AI
Thoughts on the transformative and unprecedented power of today's tools.
Claude
On Golf Clubs and AI Tools
What should you do when a vendor's native features fail you and you despise manual work? Go to the bag.
LCNC book
Vibe Coding Band-Aids
Citizen developers can now access a powerful new tool when their existing applications don't work as expected.
Claude
No API? No Problem.
Exploring a newish way that non-developers can use AI to efficiently answer complicated questions.
AI
My Furniture Fiasco
Enshittification is everywhere today, especially in customer service.
AI
Which Software Vendors Will Survive the AI Disruption Tsunami?
Thoughts on the stickiness levels.
AI
Thoughts on Zapier's Al Fluency Rubric
Impressive grids on employee expectations won't deliver results without proper employee training.
AI
Two Claude Prompts for a Blurry World
Tool demarcation is eroding. Ask AI a few early questions if you want to minimize rework.
AI
Anthropic's New Feature Frenzy
Can't keep up with the company's dizzying pace of innovation? Take some solace in the fact that you're hardly alone.
AI
Claude: The Ultimate Utility Player
My favorite AI tool helped me quickly solve four very different problemsโall before 10 am one March morning.
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