Communication
The Year's Laziest Marketing Email
If you're going to engage with potential customers, offer something other than a transparent, pathetic reminder that you exist.
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.
Email
Adiós, Algorithms. Hello, Email. Remember Me?
My custom system for consuming information wasn't ideal. I solved the problem by reevaluating my relationship with my longtime foe.
Enterprise Systems
The Flip Side of Forced System Migrations
A sanguine post on the upside of tech change.
AI
AI as an English-to-English Translator
Claude helped me solve a longstanding problem.
Notion
How I Use Notion
The popular tool serves many simple purposes. Trust me, though. You're probably missing out on some less obvious ones.
Communication
Citation Sloths
Quoting a stat in a post or video? Great. Respect your audience by bringing your receipts.
AI
Battle of the LLMs
To answer a simple basketball question, I pitted Claude and ChatGPT-5 against each other. Let's see which tool won and what we can learn from the exercise.
AI
ChatGPT-5 Still Makes Egregious Errors
OpenAI's new model is supposed to represent an improvement over its predecessor. Maybe it is, but it's nowhere near perfect.
Ghost
Moving From WordPress to Ghost: The Verdict
The new content management system has rekindled my love of writing.
AI
Will AI Make Us All Line Judges?
Not that long ago, the idea of a machine making tennis calls seemed far fetched. Now, thanks to a narrow form of AI, it's the norm.
AI
The Nvidia Arrow
What if we're looking at the relationship between company success and remote work wrong?
AI
The AI Goldilocks Test
Thoughts on the right way to use Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT.
AI
One AI Tool, One Simple Question, Two Different Answers
A simple exercise undermines a fundamental, scary LLM limitation.
AI
On Thermostats and AI Hallucinations
A recent interaction with Claude left me profoundly perplexed.
AI
The Forthcoming Wave of AI Mop-Up Jobs
Get your buckets ready. Plenty of rework is coming.
AI
The Harold Baines AI Hallucination
A recent experiment only underscores the need to question LLMs' responses.
Dataviz
AI Dataviz Abominations
Claude knows a great many things, but it conveniently ignores the basics of creating simple charts.
AI
AI's Promethean Moment
As a 2023 tragedy manifsted, we're not remotely prepared for what's here, never mind what's coming.
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