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.
How Not to Write Marketing Copy
Revisiting the source of surprisingly toxic tech jargon and the perils of the single, bloated sentence.
Equal-Opportunity Hallucinator
Deloitte's irresponsible use of AI serves as a valuable and embarrassing reminder of its limitations.
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A Case Study in No-Code Failure
Tried-and-true organizational and human factors often cause new creations to falter.
On Employee Expenses, Lazy Managers, and AI Agents
Today's tech would have prevented a nasty dustup with my boss in 2000.
The AI Slop Paradox
Drivel is everywhere today, and the problem will only intensify. AI is both a cause and a solution.
AI Book Settlement Tracker
This new Notion template lets authors track key information about their pirated works.
Maslow Revisited
Launching new AI features is all fine and dandy, but companies would do well to remember the basics.
Vibe Coding With Opal
Experiments with Google's new no-code app creator and why AI deniers are in for a wake-up call.
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Citation Sloths
Quoting a stat in a post or video? Great. Respect your audience by bringing your receipts.
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.
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.
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.
The Nvidia Arrow
What if we're looking at the relationship between company success and remote work wrong?
The AI Goldilocks Test
Thoughts on the right way to use Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT.
One AI Tool, One Simple Question, Two Different Answers
A simple exercise undermines a fundamental, scary LLM limitation.
