Last weekend, the two people I live with were sick. I wasn’t, but despite taking precautions to avoid infecting each other, it was pretty clear what was coming. Sure enough, I got sick on Monday and tested positive for flu. It’s sweeping the country. I suppose this is what I get for trying so hard…
Newsletter 130. I, Robot. Plus why spiking that “60 Minutes” story backfired, what people do when they should be reading books, three people to follow and three books to read. Why I turned myself into a chatbot My mission is simple: I’ve wanted to write a book since I first learned to read. Helping others…
It always pays to look back at your work for the year and see what you’ve learned, how you’ve grown, and what you like doing most. As a freelancer who carefully tracks my business, I’m in an ideal position to do a retrospective. I hope you can learn a bit from my own reflections on…
Yeah, she’s a little bit tilted. Imperfect, but still standing. Just like the rest of us. See you tomorrow.
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“I’d like you to speak at our event,” you ask, and I might agree. But there are ways to do this and appear professional, and ways that mark you as unserious and a questionable partner. A little context. There was a time, when I was a Forrester analyst, when people were paying $15,000 a speech…
Most of what you read about writers using AI has a bias. It’s filled with writers who like to shout about what they think. Social media algorithms reward the shouting, and you get one of two impressions, depending on your friends: Everyone is using AI for everything, or AI is going to cause the downfall…
There are a lot of people, mostly in Silicon Valley, who knew Shel Israel better than I did. But Shel made a positive impression on me and so many others, so I wanted to pay tribute as best I could, now that he’s gone. In 2006, Shel and Robert Scoble published Naked Conversations: How Blogs…