Essays

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  6 TV Shows That Get Technology So RightJanuary 17, 2025

  Television has a rocky relationship with technology. This is a list of six shows that capture the complexity, absurdity, and humanity in our relationship with it.

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  Be More Daring Than AIOctober 7, 2024

  LLMs are talented at consensus, which means a flood of boring, derivative ideas. Humans have no choice but to take risks.

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  LLMs are very good at Family Feud.October 4, 2024

  Large language models are very good at one kind of answer, the consensus answer. Used correctly, they are an amplifier for human creativity.

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  5 Ways to Force AI to Color Outside the LinesSeptember 4, 2024

  Five prompting strategies for pushing LLMs past consensus answers and conventional thinking.

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  9 Ways To Jump-start Communication At Your CompanyJuly 8, 2024

  Nine ways to jump-start communication at your company, from informal channels to no-meeting days.

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  Unconventional Results Require Unconventional StrategyMarch 14, 2024

  If you want unconventional results, you have to do unconventional things. A story about two front page articles in the Las Vegas Sun.

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  Four Stocks You Can’t BuyMay 6, 2023

  Four privately held companies I wish I could own stock in: Cox Enterprises, Enterprise Rent A Car, EssilorLuxottica, and In-N-Out Burger.