I’m not a habitual procrastinator. But when there is time before the deadline for a project, sometimes I put it off. (You know, just like everyone else.) Here are bad reasons to procrastinate: Good reasons to procrastinate (and what to do about them) Here are good reasons to procrastinate: That last reason is the interesting…
In the classic Star Trek episode, “The Day of the Dove,” the crew of the Enterprise and a group of Klingons are pitted against each other. Forced into sharing a small space with equal numbers on a ship they no longer control, they find their passions inflamed. Stratagems are employed. Weapons are wielded. Members of…
Two recent developments are pointing the way towards a web-wide content licensing and payment trend for AI training. Two days ago, publishers including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, Ziff-Davis and O’Reilly announced support for RSL (really simple licensing), a scheme by which site owners could include AI licensing terms in their site’s robots.txt file. Shelly Palmer’s…
It’s certainly fun to interview people doing interesting things and write up their experiences in your nonfiction book. Case studies about individuals who gained influence or clever marketing programs hold plenty of interest. But when it’s time to write about the CEOs of multi-billion-dollar companies, you’re going to need a different strategy. I’m about to…
Newsletter 110. Dead people I once knew are still making me smarter — and kinder. Plus, debunking the MIT study about failed AI projects, the Anthropic piracy settlement on hold, three people to follow, and three books to read. I see dead people I’m older than most of you. Retirement age (but I’m not retiring)….
Every day you have decisions to make. Often those decisions are easy. When the choice to do the right thing is also the profitable choice, it’s easy to choose. But lots of decisions aren’t like that. For most decisions, there are two choices: For example: If you’ve got a mortgage to pay, a kid who…
You probably heard that on Friday, Anthropic, parent company of the AI large language model Claude, settled a lawsuit brought by author groups. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per book for approximately 500,000 books. Does this mean that authors are safe from having their books used as AI training materials without permission? No! Anthropic is paying…
Yesterday President Trump issued an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to “Department of War.” It was a refreshingly direct description of what the department actually does (or more accurately, the parts of what it does that the Trump administration would like you to focus on). In that spirit, can you identify the renamed…
I’ll help you write a book proposal. I’ve been pretty good at that, and I’ve recently helped some interesting authors get book contracts. I’ll even make some connections for you with agents and publishers. I’ve had some success with that recently, too. Since I’m ready to show your proposal to publishers, doesn’t that make me…