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Rumor has it that Steve Jobs would corner Apple employees in the elevator and ask them to explain their job in seven words or less. Miss, and you might be out. It's a terrifying management tactic — and, it turns out, a pretty good argument for killing the elevator pitch. Here's what to use instead.
"People don't drive around with their windows down anymore, and it shows." ### This is my latest profound hot take, which might not actually be that profound, but hear me out. Back in the "late…
LinkedIn just added its fun and totally not controversial at all "Seems like AI slop" button. This is fun timing for me. For the last 3 weeks, I have been collecting posts off of the platform and…
“Oh, the places you’ll go.” You know it’s really hard to predict where you’ll be in 10 years, and with the way the world is changing, it’s getting harder to predict where you’ll be in 6 months. But…
Every nonprofit conference I have gone to recently, nonprofits are being told to adopt AI. The message is similar across different segments of our industry: move faster, automate, do more with less.…
I said it last week in my talk at the AFP Orange County Chapter meeting, and I'm becoming more convinced that the conversation I'm particularly invested in having these days is how we make real,…
I have been thinking a lot about writing these days and I think the question people are asking more and more is, "did a person write this or is this just some more AI-generated slop." We know AI is…
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