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Org AI Literacy Step 2: Clarity in the destination, not the path
I learned about a year ago that making detailed strategic plans had become an exercise in futility. It started with corporate acknowledgement that the stalwart annual operational planning…
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Org AI Literacy Step 1: Changes start at the top
Framework-makers are gonna framework, and last week I introduced one for boosting organizational AI literacy. Hint: It’s more than providing shiny new tools. ICYMI, the upshot is that…
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Why your org needs to be as AI-literate as you are
AI literacy is coming soon to your role guidelines, if it’s not there already. Software engineers have already had this awhile now, and it’s a fair expectation of…
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Does fortune favor the bold? I guess we’ll see
A lot of companies are making a lot of bold moves of late. Bold moves that are even bolder than all the other bold moves we’ve gotten used…
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Your AI learning curve is tech-ier than just the AI
As workers at tech companies are sometimes wont to do — even in non-tech roles like mine — I had occasion last week to audit 1,500 Git repository…
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In the face of adversity, Integrity triumphs
One of my many dreams when I was little was to become an astronaut. At some point, I realized math and physical fitness were involved and decided my…
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AI can (and will) change your work, but your value stays the same
The concept of “value” keeps coming up everywhere I look, and not in the purely economic sense. It started with a research report Anthropic released last month, which…
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Buckle up because the plan is there’s no plan
I’m kinda fond of planning ahead. Not the part where you whip out Jira and start assigning tasks and setting up sprint boards like a madman. More so…
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March Madness edition: Roundup of the outr-AI-geous
I’ve come to the conclusion that a bizarre celestial alignment is behind the slew of questionable AI-related business decisions cropping up in my news feeds. This isn’t the…
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The problem with not seeing the whole problem
We made the mistake of choosing a Saturday for the quarterly trip to Costco to pick up our cat’s asthma medication. Low, low warehouse prices had also lured…