Conversations about Flow state raged for years – how to get there, how to always be in the zone, how to reduce your context switching so you could stay in it – blogs were built around this topic. AI is always in a state of Flow, it has no context switching, and if it does, it’s not showing up. So the next time you’re in a work call and everyone’s freaking out about AI, remind…

As much as you try to avoid it. Sometimes you need to investigate a problem line by line. Similar to when you’re trying to find the connecting electrical wire, you need to investigate each one, line by line. There will always be a need to diligently, logically, and carefully identify and walk through a problem. Line by Line doesn’t go away, it just evolves into the next line by line search.

AI is reshaping how we do our work. I was just at the age where I could apply the internet immediately to what I was doing when it took off.  I started coding HTML and learning how to make things work, and from there went into JavaScript and many other lovely languages 🙂 My work wasn’t reshaped at that point; it just took on this “thing” called the “Internet”. But now I’m embedded, now I’ve…

I can’t remember when or where, but at some place I worked, someone put this sign up as they were doing stuff. The person, in general, was anything but a genius, and I think this made them feel good about doing “genius” style work. Truth of the matter, we don’t need more “genius, half-created, kind of works, skunkworks” work – we need good quality work, that makes sense, that has value, that builds confidence. That’s…