I am no football expert. But I am a student of leadership. And we have an excellent case study right down the road from me in Massachusetts: the long successful reign and ignominious end of 24-year Patriots coach Bill Belichick. There’s a strong argument that Belichick is the greatest NFL football coach of all time….
There are now multiple lawsuits in which owners of copyrighted material — books and articles, fiction and nonfiction — claim that entities using large language models (LLMs) from Microsoft and OpenAI have violated their copyrights. But at what point in the process does the alleged copyright violation occur? Let’s examine the process of creating and…
Newsletter 26: Incumbent vs. incumbent, writing better than machines, Amazon under fire, three people to follow, three books to read, and the gathering of the ghosts. The easiest election choice ever We are about to enter the extended, loud, contentious, and tedious US presidential election season. In some election years this is a difficult choice….
In the nine years I’ve been freelancing, I’ve chosen not to work with a number of potential clients. There were also a few I probably shouldn’t have worked with. I thought you might benefit from seeing why I say no to business. To be clear, these are a small percentage of the opportunities I see….
Could you use triage make more customers happier? Based on my recent experience with urgent health care, maybe you could. My visit to Urgent Care This weekend, while attempting to open some stubborn product packaging with a scissors, I stupidly managed to gouge a half-inch cut in the palm of my left hand. Being a…
Experts, speakers, authors, and other thought leaders: are you still harping on the same concepts as last year and the year before? Warning signs: Time to head out into new territory What should you concentrate on next? Your own clients will tell you. Consider the questions they ask for which you have no answers. Consider…
I’m disciplined and strategic about meetings. Reflecting on that, I’ve realized just how much it improves the quality of my client relationships and the work I do. For context, I’m a freelance writer and editor. But these principles may be helpful to you as a creative worker, regardless of what you create. Your meeting strategy…
Newsletter 24: Why Claudine Gay had to go, a Mickey Mouse horror film, Tolkien’s victorious ghost, plus three people to follow, three books to read, and how to successfully write your book in 2024. Reflections on the plagiarism that brought down Harvard president Claudine Gay Harvard president Claudine Gay has now resigned. She made the…
If you are writing a nonfiction book in a corporate setting, it’s likely you’ll have multiple reviewers for everything you write. This applies regardless of whether you’re the author or a ghost writer. And if it’s not managed carefully, this situation has the potential to significantly multiply the workload, reduce your final quality, and blow…