Category: Worthy of imitation
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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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Community comes before strategy
NY Times: To Take on Trump, Think Like a Lion, 2025-05-28 by Carl Safina, an ecologist and professor at Stony Brook University. Like those waking lions, we don’t know how the coming challenges will play out. We know that there will be failures and that success is possible. But it’s important that we now reaffirm…
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What to expect about today’s media landscape
I'd like to apologize the Byrne for lifting so much of this blog post, but I need to remember this stuff. The Diff: AI's Impact on the Written Word is Vastly Overstated, 2025-Mar-3 by Byrne Hobart If you look at the media environment once printing was established, it actually feels quite familiar: Daniel Defoe of…
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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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How culture drives strategy
All my career, I've observed culture driving strategy, and now someone has EXPLAINED! Harvard Business Review: Build a Corporate Culture that Works, 2024-July/August by Erin Meyer Ever since Peter Drucker famously declared that “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” there has been a widespread understanding that managing corporate culture is key to business success. Yet few…
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Leveraging our observations as creators
Ann Handley interviewed BJ Novack, and I learned this tip… Just like BJ I used to take notes, but I never went back over them…. I could DO that! Total Annarchy: 10 ways to be more creative: My interview with actor, writer BJ Novak, 2024-05-12 by Ann Handley Prepare for inspiration; plan for execution.…
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How to do things if you’re not that smart and don’t have any talent
Adaobi has many great suggestions about how to make a difference on a team. Here's just one of the great ones. Adaobi's Substack: How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent, 2024-Jan-28 by Adaobi Adibe Most people are super sensitive to being seen as annoying, and that’s the primary…
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Made me laugh, and made me think, too!
I have to share this quote which struck me as SO funny and SO insightful. We "know" things based on our experience. And yet, our experience is not universal. The best way to make it more universal is to share it. Think about it! How many times have you swallowed your opinion when you ought…
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Better Storytelling with 3 Reveals, from Ann Handley
I'm still on the road to become a good storyteller, and Ann Handley recently offered a great tip. (A-ha: better way to connect with the reader.) Total Annarchy newsletter: Yes, You Did See Me on MasterChef, 2023-Jun-4 by Ann Handley Every story should reveal three truths. I call this the 3 Reveals (because I'm not…
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