The Nine
Black Book Friday Sale
Time to pare down my excess book inventory.
Tag: AI
Posts on this topic examine the revolution that currently taking place with an emhpasis on the world of work.
AI
The AI-Bayes Cocktail
A centuries-old mathematical formula and some new tech confirmed my hunch about a suspicious email.
AI
AI Product Feature Amnesia
A software vendor's not-so-smart companion does the unthinkable.
Strategy
An Open Letter to Zoom Management
The case to untangle today's most vexing and bloated Frankenstein app.
AI
How AI Helps Me Understand My Author Royalty Statements
Thanks to today's tools, it's never been easier to derive insights from long, complicated PDFs and other unstructured data.
Book Reviews
Superbloom
A belated look at Nicholas Carr's timely new book.
Jargon
How Not to Write Marketing Copy
Revisiting the source of surprisingly toxic tech jargon and the perils of the single, bloated sentence.
AI
Equal-Opportunity Hallucinator
Deloitte's irresponsible use of AI serves as a valuable and embarrassing reminder of its limitations.
Citizen Development
A Case Study in No-Code Failure
Tried-and-true organizational and human factors often cause new creations to falter.
AI
On Employee Expenses, Lazy Managers, and AI Agents
Today's tech would have prevented a nasty dustup with my boss in 2000.
AI
The AI Slop Paradox
Drivel is everywhere today, and the problem will only intensify. AI is both a cause and a solution.
AI
AI Book Settlement Tracker
This new Notion template lets authors track key information about their pirated works.
AI
Maslow Revisited
Launching new AI features is all fine and dandy, but companies would do well to remember the basics.
AI
Vibe Coding With Opal
Experiments with Google's new no-code app creator and why AI deniers are in for a wake-up call.
AI
AI as an English-to-English Translator
Claude helped me solve a longstanding problem.
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.