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My Rise to the Top of the Rubber Chicken World
I’m honored to announce that I’ve been named one of the world’s top ten rubber chicken influencers. It’s a prestigious distinction. An international honor. A recognition of years of dedication to carrying squeaky poultry through airport security. And I earned it the...
AI Will Make Business Analysts More Important Than Ever
Part three of the series "AI is going to solve a huge IT problem". See Part Two Here For decades, Business Analysts have helped translate what the business needs into something IT can actually build. Think of them as interpreters. Except instead of translating English...
What If We’ve Been Training IT People Backward?
AI is changing IT careers. But maybe the solution isn’t to stop hiring entry-level technology professionals. Maybe it’s to change how we train them. What if future IT professionals learned the business before they started building its technology?
AI Is Going to Solve a Huge IT Problem
AI is changing the future of IT, but it might also solve a problem that’s frustrated companies for decades: technically brilliant people who don’t understand the business.
As AI takes on more entry-level programming tasks, companies face a difficult question: Where will tomorrow’s experienced IT professionals come from?
Maybe it’s time to rethink how we develop IT talent. And maybe AI will finally force us to do something we should have done a long time ago.
How a 5x Fee Increase Turned Me Into an Accidental AI Developer
A speaker's fee automation software raised its prices by 500%. Here's how I replaced it in an afternoon using Claude — and what it taught me about Human-First AI. The Fee Increase For years, I used a piece of software to handle invoicing for my speaking business —...
It’s time to turn off the computer and pick up your pen
The University of Toronto’s law program will have handwritten notes this September. No computers. (Note: It won’t be every class – each professor gets to decide.) But they are doing it for a very good reason. The school's argument is essentially: Typing = recording...
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...