Determining the skills for the future of work in an AI world is showing up everywhere right now. If you know me, you’ll understand that seeing reading and writing listed as one of the most out-of-focus skills gave me some pause. I’m not suggesting that future knowledge workers will be spending their workdays reading in…
I see a lot of people thinking of AI as a solution to avoid missing out on meetings or email responses. While this isn’t necessarily a bad idea, it can be problematic if the time saved just gets spent on more meetings and emails. The challenge is the Infinite Buffer Problem: in organizations of a…
AI notetaking bots weird me out. Not logically, but emotionally. I appreciate their value and I don’t really worry about them doing anything harmful. Something about the current UI experience where bots join as equivalent to human users causes me to anthropomorphize them more than I would like. What’s this creeper doing sitting silently in…
Artificial Intelligence is going to change our world. There are many hypotheses on how, but no one really knows. In the meantime, here are some resources that helped me better understand what’s happening and what may be possible. I hope this helps you take agency in your own change and helps you guide your connections…
In this final video, we pull a bunch of steps together and update an entire YouTube channel’s worth of videos for SEO. Previous Steps: AI and Automation to add YouTube Video Description and Keywords VidIQ Keyword Automation Part1 Automating YouTube Keywords with VidIQ Score Part 2 Tools used: High-Level Steps
Me: “what are some good books to read for black history month?” GenAI starts listing some books like it normally would, then…the response got erased and I was left with. GenAI: “Hmm…it looks like I can’t chat about this. Let’s try a different topic.” This was weird and disturbing. I had to double-check what I…
This video builds off of the previous part 1 video. We are starting with a list of AI generated keywords for a YouTube video. We will sort them based on their VidIQ score and pick the top 8. Previously we had to manually create the record for each keyword with its score. Now, we will…
Starting with a list of keywords, we sort them by their VidIQ scores and select the top 8. In the previous video ( • AI and Automation to add YouTube Vide… ), we asked GenAI to give us 6-8 tags. In this case, we ask for 30 potential keywords that we will whittle down to 8. We start with those keywords in cell A1….
Here is a short video showing how I leveraged AI and automation to reduce the amount of work I need to do to put out content. In this example I start with a text transcript of a video that I uploaded to YouTube. I ask generative AI to create a description and keywords, then run…
If you are already on the cusp of burnout and you simply use AI to do the same things faster, your problem will only get worse. I have noticed more and more people offering consulting services on how to use AI to create better work-life balance. While I don’t know the full extent of their…