August 2016. Northern New Mexico. I was deep into a five-day silent meditation retreat, surrounded by quaking aspens, mountain air, and breathtaking wilderness. But my brain wouldn’t shut up. I couldn’t tame my creative mind. On the outside, I was […]
I get some of my best ideas from my clients. (That’s because consulting—when I listen well—is a two-way street!) So I wasn’t surprised when, during a recent debrief, a client mentioned a simple way to improve the human spectrogram maps […]
I recently came across the poem Sacred Ground, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. She reminded me that everywhere is holy. It’s easy for me to see aspects of my life as mundane. When I do, I gloss over the present moment, […]
The corporate-owned platforms we rely on for professional and personal communities are increasingly failing to meet our needs. Major social media networks have become saturated with advertisements, data mining, and algorithmic controls that hinder authentic engagement. This shift poses significant […]
The social media platforms we once relied on for authentic connection are disintegrating. My ikigai—the reason I get up in the morning—is facilitating connection. But today’s major social media platforms—Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, et al.—are all owned by […]
Liz Latham, co-founder of Club Ichi and a brilliant event marketer, recently shared an intriguing idea she plans to test to increase attendance at her free events. Having registrants not show up has become a big problem for the meeting […]
What ChatGPT doesn’t know about me could fill a book—or at least the extensive neural network of an LLM. As people increasingly experiment with asking LLMs personal questions, some have taken the trend a step further, suggesting that we ask […]
Why are people raving about the conversations produced by Google NotebookLM‘s Audio Overview? Because Google’s Audio Overview is an AI love-bath! I can’t take credit for characterizing Audio Overview’s appeal like this. Kudos to Johnnie Moore, who responded to my […]
Here we go again—another generative AI service churning out plausible-sounding, but misleading content. This time it’s Google’s NotebookLM, branded as “your personalized AI research assistant powered by Google’s most capable model, Gemini 1.5 Pro”. It now includes Audio Overview, which […]