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Pssst! Someone put a chip in your head.
Feb 13, 2024 | Tech advice, Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
I love implanting computer chips in my friends’ brains. At least, I did until recently, when Elon Musk announced he’d gotten in on my action by actually implanting the first Neuralink chip in a live human subject. That’s when I realized Elon had killed what has long...
How to train your own AI in 15 minutes
Jan 30, 2024 | Tech advice, Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The non-geek’s starter guide to building the skillset of the future with a custom GPT Managing people has long been the path to advancement. Now, the same is true of managing AIs. In many professions, there’s a point at which the only way up or forward is if you take...
How to plan what you can’t imagine
Jan 10, 2024 | Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What career or professional decisions would you have made in 2018, if you'd known that in just two years, the world of work would look dramatically different? There are no do-overs for us as prisoners of linear time, but we can use our pandemic-era experience of...
Collaboration lessons from Die Hard
Dec 26, 2023 | How to build community online, Hybrid and remote work, Newsletter
This article is just one long spoiler for the movie Die Hard. If you haven’t seen it, you should—it’s a classic! Unless you hate seeing gunfire; then you should really not see it. We often talk as if online collaboration is a new challenge, one minted by hybrid...
Meet your new robot cheerleader
Nov 28, 2023 | Tech advice, Family Tech, Clips WSJ, Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The best thing an AI can produce? Better, happier humans. We should expect nothing less. And that means harnessing AI for joy, as well as productivity. That begins with using AI to boost your own professional or personal motivation. Just last week, I stumbled onto a...
Your Cyber Monday gift guide
Nov 27, 2023 | Tech advice, Newsletter, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Our Family Throughout History I created this gift collage from images I made with MyHeritage.com's AI Time Machine. I love Cyber Monday because it combines three of my favorite things: Shopping, gifting, and of course, Cyber. To help you make the most of the...
How to work when your life is a mess
Nov 14, 2023 | Hybrid and remote work, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, About our family, Career, Family
This is the time of year when I often hear from other parents with autistic kids, or kids with other kinds of complex challenges. It’s the same time of year that often found our own family in crisis: Far enough into the school year that classroom meltdowns or calls...
The 3 meetings you need on your calendar
Oct 31, 2023 | Newsletter, Clips HBR, Hybrid and remote work
At their core, meetings are about relationship enablement. That’s the argument I make in my piece for the Harvard Business Review, 3 Project Management Strategies for a Hybrid Workplace. As I write in HBR: When so many of us have packed calendars, it’s tempting to...
The paradox of hybrid work
Oct 17, 2023 | Hybrid and remote work, Newsletter
At long last, I have Covid. Our family had eluded the plague all this time, largely because we entered lockdown already optimized for isolation: Rob and I both worked from home, and one of our kids is homeschooled. I got Covid the way I expected: speaking to a roomful...
How to foster culture on hybrid teams
Oct 3, 2023 | Clips HBR, Clips WSJ, Hybrid and remote work, Newsletter, Productivity
At its best, hybrid work not only boosts your employees’ individual effectiveness; it also strengthens your organization and team culture. But “culture” means different things to different people, partly because we tend to be a little fuzzy about defining it (is it...