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Home: Phil Simon
I wear a few different hats.
I write accessible non-fiction books and give dynamic keynote talks. Organizations, teams, and individuals hire me because of my technology chops to do all sorts of interesting things. Finally, I ghostwrite others' titles and run Racket Publishing.
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Books
Five of my 14 titles have won awards, including my latest—The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace. It is the fourth installment in my series on the future of work.
LEARN MORETechnology is wonderful when it isn't in the way.
—Steve Hogarth, Marillion, "Montreal"
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Keynotes
Both in person and virtually, I regularly speak to organizations of all types and sizes. Since 1997, I have given more than 400 talks, presentations, and workshops to more than 40,000 people on three continents and in eight countries. Topics include the future of work, low-code/no-code, Big Data, analytics, communication, and collaboration
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Home Section 4: Services, Quotes, & Blog
The costs of inaction exceed the costs of action.
Services
LEARN MOREAll companies are tech companies. Some just haven’t realized it yet.
Blog
I write about AI, the future of work, low-code/no-code, collaboration, communication, platforms, technology, and other topics. I pepper my posts with humor and pop-culture references. Oh, and I freakin’ despise jargon.
Since 2008, I’ve penned thousands of posts, more than 1,500 of which live on this site.
Blog
Most Popular
AI
What Every Software Vendor Should Learn From This Glorious Ghost Alert
Recent notifications from Google Gemini and Notion prove that they are generally a hot mess. There's hope, though: it's a fixable problem.
Communication
The Miscellaneous Mindset
A post on the benefits of not staying in your lane.
AI
Does writing a book resemble the Waterfall method or Scrum? Yes.
A book is that rare breed of product that fuses two very different ways to build a mousetrap.
AI
On AI, Priorities, and Product Development
Thoughts on ignoring a popular product's glaring weakness to pursue sexy new features.
AI
What I Really Want From AI
In the name of all that is holy, can someone please invent a better computer diagnostic tool?
Announcements
Looking for My Next Ghostwriting Project
Want to write a kick-ass book and need an experienced hand?
Recent Posts
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.
AI
AI's Promethean Moment
As a 2023 tragedy manifsted, we're not remotely prepared for what's here, never mind what's coming.
AI
Lessons From My Accounting System's Sudden Crash
A case study in how not to run a software company and the current limitations of AI.
Google
Web Browsing Is About to Get Much More Interesting
Forget the marginal improvements we've seen over the past decade. Big changes are coming.
AI
The Generative AI Tool That's Blowing My Mind
Citizen developers' toolboxes just exploded. Arthur C. Clarke's words are ringing truer than ever.