Make it easy to ship story-first graphics with Whether you write consistently or not, you need to compelling visuals to get attention. I’ve noticed the most effective illustrations are simple, well-produced graphics that look like hand-crafted slide deck graphics.…
Moving from “what’s going on” to “what does it mean” For a good portion of my career, I’ve been waiting for a robot to build me slides in a slide presentation. Not just any slides, but the kind of infographics…
3 ways to make sure your knowledge base performs better with AI Answering customer questions with AI is a hot topic these days. Set the context of your company, ingest some content from a knowledge base or documentation site, and…
libraries like Chart.js + simple weather data combine with a prompt to compare weather data in two sample cities Effective dashboards mean answering a small set of questions exceptionally well. You can have a beautiful design that progressively reveals information…
Chatbot outputs sometime seem like magic. The first time you feed a PDF to Google’s Notebook LLM tool and get a podcast that explains the document to you, it feels like magic. The second time you do the same thing,…
Build a trust flywheel with customers by reinforcing the link between intent and location We’ve all been there. You start using a product and get an email that arrvives so that you can finish verifying your account. Clicking the link…
What does it look like to rollout your AI systems with a curiosity mindset? Have you tried to roll out an AI program at work? I think traditional policy-first approaches to AI adoption fail because they prioritize control over curiosity.…
Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash You’ve seen this movie before when you arrive again at your AI assistant home page. It’s really easy to find a number of a half-finished chat that never turned into anything useful (and reusable).…
Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash One of the biggest “tells” of AI use is the overabundance of elipsis (”…”), em-dash (–), and groups of three comparisons. I wrote this myself but you’d be forgiven if you immediately jumped to…
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash What’s striking to me is that the gap between thinking “I could connect this bit of data with that over there and do it on a schedule” is shrinking rapidly. Pretty soon we’re going…
