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ChatGPT-5 Still Makes Egregious Errors
OpenAI's new model is supposed to represent an improvement over its predecessor. Maybe it is, but it's nowhere near perfect.
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I'm one of the world's foremost experts on workplace tech. Organizations hire me to give keynote talks, usually after someone reads one of my books. I also build custom systems and tools in Notion. Finally, successful professionals hire me to ghostwrite their nonfiction books. We then take them to market through Racket, my Notion-based hybrid publisher.
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Five of my 14 titles have won awards, including my latest—The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace. It is the fourth installment in my series on the future of work.
LEARN MORETechnology is wonderful when it isn't in the way.
—Steve Hogarth, Marillion, "Montreal"
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Keynotes
Both in person and virtually, I regularly speak to organizations of all types and sizes. Since 1997, I have given more than 400 talks, presentations, and workshops to more than 40,000 people on three continents and in eight countries. Topics include the future of work, low-code/no-code, Big Data, analytics, communication, and collaboration
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The costs of inaction exceed the costs of action.
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LEARN MOREAll companies are tech companies. Some just haven’t realized it yet.
Blog
I write about AI, the future of work, low-code/no-code, collaboration, communication, platforms, technology, and other topics. I pepper my posts with humor and pop-culture references. Oh, and I freakin’ despise jargon.
Since 2008, I’ve penned thousands of posts, more than 1,500 of which live on this site.
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AI
What Every Software Vendor Should Learn From This Glorious Ghost Alert
Recent notifications from Google Gemini and Notion prove that they are generally a hot mess. There's hope, though: it's a fixable problem.
Communication
The Miscellaneous Mindset
A post on the benefits of not staying in your lane.
AI
Does Writing a Book Resemble the Waterfall Method or Scrum? Yes.
A book is that rare breed of product that fuses two very different ways to build a mousetrap.
AI
On AI, Priorities, and Product Development
Thoughts on ignoring a popular product's glaring weakness to pursue sexy new features.
AI
What I Really Want From AI
In the name of all that is holy, can someone please invent a better computer diagnostic tool?
Announcements
Looking for My Next Ghostwriting Project
Want to write a kick-ass book and need an experienced hand?
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AI
How AI Helps Me Understand My Author Royalty Statements
Thanks to today's tools, it's never been easier to derive insights from long, complicated PDFs and other unstructured data.
Book Reviews
Superbloom
A belated look at Nicholas Carr's timely new book.
Jargon
How Not to Write Marketing Copy
Revisiting the source of surprisingly toxic tech jargon and the perils of the single, bloated sentence.
AI
Equal-Opportunity Hallucinator
Deloitte's irresponsible use of AI serves as a valuable and embarrassing reminder of its limitations.
Citizen Development
A Case Study in No-Code Failure
Tried-and-true organizational and human factors often cause new creations to falter.
AI
On Employee Expenses, Lazy Managers, and AI Agents
Today's tech would have prevented a nasty dustup with my boss in 2000.
AI
The AI Slop Paradox
Drivel is everywhere today, and the problem will only intensify. AI is both a cause and a solution.