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CoPilot Washed My Deck!
If you've followed me for any length of time - or ever heard me talk about AI - you know that I'm not a fan of CoPilot. And every time I think I might be actually becoming a fan of CoPilot we have a day like yesterday where we had the following conversation...
I can’t wait!
It's Monday. I'm on a plane home from our Ireland vacation. Two things are going through my mind: I’m so grateful for the wonderful vacation with my wife and youngest son. I can't wait to get home and see the dogs. Ten days ago I was grateful for the AI audience in...
5 AI Lessons from the Pope That Got Me Thinking
This morning I fed Pope Leo XIV's new letter on artificial intelligence into NotebookLM and asked for a summary. The summary was fine. The ideas were better. I'm not Catholic. But I found myself nodding along as I read it. What caught my attention wasn't theology. It...
I Lost My Job. I Didn’t Expect to Find This.
When I was in my 30s, I lost my job. What I found instead changed everything. At the time, we had a five-year-old, a two-year-old, and another one on the way.The company I worked for got acquired. The new company didn’t need two Human Resource IT Managers. They gave...
The Day I Asked AI to Hurt My Feelings
If you’ve heard me speak, you know one of my issues with AI is that I’ve inadvertently trained it to...
Frying “Imposter Ivan” in the Age of AI
AI has changed how much I can get done—and how quickly I can do it. Not in small, incremental ways. In big ones. The kind that make you pause and ask an uncomfortable question: If the tool did that much of the work, what was my role?
That’s when Imposter Ivan showed up. He’s loud. He’s confident. And he’s quick to remind you that maybe the AI is smarter than you are. But here’s what I’ve learned after months of real-world experimentation: AI doesn’t replace creativity—it removes friction. And those two things are not the same.
This post isn’t about hype or shortcuts. It’s about how to use AI without handing over the steering wheel—and why keeping the human element front and center is the difference between leverage and regret.
Everything I Needed to Know About AI, I Learned From a Singing Puppy
This post shares a real, behind-the-scenes example of how AI can be used to remove friction, save time, and turn everyday moments into usable work—without losing the human part. Using a simple 15-minute test and an unexpected singing puppy, it shows what “using AI well” actually looks like in real life.
The Talking Dog Was a Joke. The Lesson Wasn’t.
“Why are you doing this?” — Fearful Freddy“It’s a waste of time!” — Nasty Negative Nelly“Stay in your lane!” — Cynical Cedric (That’s the chickens talking.) It started as a joke. Could I make my puppy talk using AI? I know that sounds obvious. But every time I post a...
The Great AirPod Buzzing Mystery — and the Thing Only One AI Got Right
Phil Barth’s 30 Days of AI Experiments begins with a buzzing AirPod, six chatbots, and one brave AI that finally says what the others wouldn’t. Turns out, AI has chickens too—and a thing or two to teach us about truthful communication.