📊 45% of business leaders report employee productivity has doubled with GenAI. Hello Reader, When Google Cloud released their report, The ROI of Gen AI: a global survey of adoption and value, my jaw dropped. 45% of the 2500 business leaders surveyed estimated that their workforces had doubled their productivity! This may be why, according to CB Insights, AI-powered companies are valued 59% higher than their peers. Imagine what you could do with twice the output you have now. All you have to...
5 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, The replay is live! If you missed Be More Human: Do the Work that Matters Most with Generative AI, now’s your chance to catch up. In this session, we explored how to work smarter with AI—so you can amplify your creativity, streamline your workflow, and identify the human work that really matters. 🎬 Watch the replay here: Want the TL;DR? Here’s a quick summary with timestamps so you can jump to the good stuff: Warm-Up & Audience Engagement (00:01) The Urgency of AI Adoption...
9 days ago • 1 min read
📊 AI synthesizes information faster than you can learn it. Hello Reader, Have you heard of Martec's Law? It's a comparison of rates of change. Organisations change slowly, and technology changes exponentially. This creates a capability gap, which eventually requires a reset of the organisation. 💡 What does exponential change mean? We can't keep up by using simple systems. We have to use exponential systems to get ahead.In the age of Generative AI, it's more important that we focus our...
13 days ago • 2 min read
✨ Humans are the magic in the last 5%. Hello Reader, AI can handle 95% of the grind work - even for an S-1 IPO Prospectus. According to Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, this massive document used to take a six-person team multiple weeks to produce. Now, Generative AI can draft 95% of an S-1 IPO prospectus in minutes. Prompt: Rockwell style painting of 6 office workers overwhelmed by towers of paperwork But here’s the kicker. Solomon told the Financial Times, “The last 5% now matters, because...
19 days ago • 1 min read
🇳🇿 I am now a New Zealand citizen! Hello Reader, It all started 15 years ago, when my young family and I left the United States to seek better fortunes abroad. First we went to Costa Rica for a few years, which had its pluses and its minuses. Ultimately, it wasn't a good fit for us. Eight years ago we moved to New Zealand, and this week, we were awarded citizenship in our new home country. 💡 Why .co.nz ? When I pivoted my business from a digital marketing agency that helps experts and...
26 days ago • 2 min read
📊 Prompting is the most important skill of the future. Hello Reader, Good prompts get good outputs, and if you're not working on your prompting skills (promptly!) then you are falling behind. You know what they say, 'Garbage in, garbage out.' If your prompts are garbage, your results will be, too. But if you use a framework like PILLARS, you will clearly scope what you want a GPT model to produce for you. 💡 This structure will transform your outputs. Let’s break it down. 🧵👇 1/ Persona Who is...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
📊 More than 80% of people surveyed for Microsoft's Work Trends Index said that using GenAI made them more creative, and they also enjoyed their work more. ‽ Hey, this is a new newsletter! That's right! The Stellar Platforms Newsletter and Playful Productivity newsletter are both retired. The author, Caelan Huntress, is pivoting into GenAI. Give this new newsletter a read, and unsubscribe at the bottom if it's not for you. Or keep reading, if you like it. Hello Reader, When Jensen Huang took...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, This year, I’m pivoting my business to teaching Generative AI. Training knowledge workers on how to use these new AI tools is a massive opportunity, and there is a lot of demand for it. According to KPMG, 70% of CEOs say that AI is their #1 investment priority. A survey across 16 countries found that GenAI training is the top request by employees, but only 39% of workers had received any training. The Future of Jobs Report for 2025 predicts 92 million jobs will be displaced by...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, For eleven years and counting, every year I have published an Annual Review and my New Years Resolutions on my blog. TL;DR - 2024 was a good year. The highlight was moving to Christchurch. My biggest wins were: Unpacking the family storage unit after 13 years Celebrating my 20-year wedding anniversary Recording and publishing the audiobook of Marketing Yourself Traveling to Australia twice, once for pleasure and once for business Mastering my new instrument, the juggledrum, to...
2 months ago • 1 min read