Category: Borrowing fame
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Using AI to Learn How to Communicate
This is what I want to be doing with AI. Dustin Stout's blog: Teaching My Kids About AI: Lessons That Changed How I Think About Technology, 2025-May-25 by Dustin Stout The Plot Twist That Changed Everything After months of our AI education experiment, I noticed something. My kids weren’t just better at using AI. They…
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A Better Way to Think about Technology and the Future
In working with other people, I find they often expect I know how to make something, prefer I knew how to make it, or wish I would make it so they don't have to do so themselves. That's the burden of living in a world full of technology. The following rant from Ursula LeGuin was…
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Using the attention we earn
I think we often forget to PLAN on building trust and sharing our stories. Seth's blog: Making your case, 2019-Dec-20 by Seth Godin How it actually works: Earn attention from precisely the right people. Gain trust. Tell a story. Create tension. Relieve the tension by gaining commitment. Deliver work that’s remarkable. They spread the word.
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Recognition and loyalty
In the future, I want to commit to making this blog more and more about dispensing loyalty and recognition to others. Zabar's delicatessen represents so much of what I love about New York. It's a symbol more than a store. It turns out the most recent heir (of many) to this family business is also…
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May as well post to the blog. Or not.
Dave Winer was one of the first bloggers, and he doesn't take it seriously. Just words. May as well put them out there. So I guess I'll keep doing it, just as he does. Scripting News: Blogs are little things, 2019-Oct-11 by Dave Winer I know what a blog is, behind the scenes. It isn't…
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Replace walls and safety nets with bridges and launch pads, says John Hagel
Recently John Hagel, Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, recommended we stop talking about walls and safety nets, and instead focus on bridges and launch pads. So here goes! Here are some places to learn more about bridges: U.S. State Department's web page on U.S. Relations with Mexico University of Texas at El…
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How to maximize the value of an email newsletter…
From the inimitable Ann Handley: "The most important part of the newsletter isn't the news. The most important part of the newsletter is the letter." The purpose of sending a newsletter is to make connections with people. If you're not connecting, you're not doing it right.
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How Prime has helped make Amazon into everyone’s competitor
I find it hard to believe that Amazon's growing power will not create negative side effects for consumers. The purpose of "locking in" is to enable exploitation. First, the competitors are eliminated, then the customers are trapped. Government regulation is a normal, but not inevitable, response. Hacker Noon: A Map of Amazon and Modern Marketing,…
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Purpose = behavior, as David Allen and Neil Perkin remind us
Articulating a company's purpose may or not be a good idea. What's essential is acting with purpose. One of the things I like about David Allen's Natural Planning Model, which I keep in my notebook at all times, is the first point: "Why is this being done? What would "on purpose" really mean?" Only Dead…
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Profitless to compete with Amazon?
Speculation about how Amazon will change Whole Foods is running rampant. I click on news stories only to find that experts are being quoted who have absolutely no real information about what Amazon plans to do. Why would Amazon tip their hand at this point anyway?? One thing is clear. The grocery business will be…
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