Where Intelligence Becomes Imagination, & Imagination Shapes the Future
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The Mentor in the Machine
How ChatGPT 5 shifts from generic chatbot to trusted expert partner for Fortune 500 teams and utility field crews—expanding context, reasoning, vision, and reliability.
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Practical On-Prem AI: What OpenAI’s GPT-OSS 20B & 120B Mean for Utilities
How GPT-OSS 20B & 120B shift practical on-prem AI for utilities: capabilities, safety framing, infrastructure sizing, and concrete field automation patterns.
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Building a Lego Cat
Examining the transformative impact of AI on enterprise workforce roles and highlighting strategies to navigate this transition effectively.
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Rooted in Resilience
Exploring how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing enterprise SaaS and what utilities and large organizations must do to thrive in this new landscape of just-in-time software solutions.
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Learning by Doing
Exploring how the principles of Scout camp—personalized guidance, real-world practice, and adaptive learning—can transform how we approach AI training and integration in the workplace.
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Riding the AI Wave
Exploring Mary Meeker's latest AI trends report through the lens of a father-son camping trip, examining how unprecedented AI adoption rates are transforming workplaces and what it means for employees across all industries.
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Details on the WINs Network
A comprehensive guide to the WINS (Words, Images, Numbers, Sounds) framework for evaluating AI opportunities in organizational workflows, including practical categorization methods and strategic implementation guidance.
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Beyond the Boundaries: Leading in a Post-AI Era
A contemplative exploration of how AI's dissolution of traditional work boundaries between words, images, numbers, and sounds creates new opportunities for distinctly human leadership grounded in empathy, wisdom, and connection.
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The Student Who Taught Herself
Watching my daughter learn math reminded me of a breakthrough in AI—AZR, a self-teaching model that reasons and grows without external data. This post reflects on learning, AI, and grace.
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Unlocking Corporate Learning with AI Simulations
Explore how recursion principles guide the design of AI-driven corporate simulations, creating meaningful practice opportunities for essential business skills through thoughtful, iterative dialogue between learners and AI mentors.
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Lighting the Trail
A personal case study of using AI to develop and execute a complete Cub Scout Arrow of Light curriculum, demonstrating how artificial intelligence can support human leadership in training and ceremony design while maintaining cultural sensitivity and educational effectiveness.
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The Salmon Made Me Do It
A personal story about using AI to cook a family salmon dinner that reveals deeper insights about how enterprises can build employee trust in AI through small, safe experimentation rather than diving into high-stakes applications.
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From Chaos to Clarity
A practical demonstration of how AI prompt engineering can extract clear business requirements from cluttered meeting transcripts, showing how three carefully crafted prompts can transform chaos into clarity, empathy, and actionable insights.
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Crucial Prompting
A framework for AI prompting based on crucial conversation principles, teaching how to structure effective prompts using the 'building' metaphor with foundation, framework, and finishing layers for clearer, more useful AI interactions.
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Crafting Conversations with AI
A comprehensive guide to crafting effective AI prompts for enterprise architecture work, providing a structured framework for creating prompts that deliver technically accurate, business-aligned responses for IT reviews and architectural thinking.
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The Human Edge
Exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on industries, employment, healthcare, and the human experience.
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Bridging the Uncanny
An exploration of the uncanny valley in AI voice technology, examining how nearly human AI voices challenge our understanding of authenticity and what makes us uniquely human in an age of advanced artificial intelligence.
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The Quiet Revolution
An exploration of how GPT-4.5's advanced capabilities are quietly transforming modern workplace dynamics, reshaping roles while elevating uniquely human contributions of creativity, empathy, and strategic thinking.
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AI in Software Development - Breaking Myths and Building Teams
AI in software development isn’t about replacing developers or making them code faster. It’s about transforming teams, fostering collaboration, and expanding who can contribute to software creation.
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The 1% Catalyst
An analysis of Sam Altman's insights on AI progress and their application to the energy sector, exploring how exponential innovation, cost transformation, and small changes can drive massive impact in utility operations and leadership.
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Details on DeepSeek: Step 1 through 5
A comprehensive technical breakdown of DeepSeek R1's revolutionary five-step training methodology, explaining how the first open-weight reasoning model was built from scratch using reinforcement learning, with accessible dog training metaphors to illustrate complex AI concepts.
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Project Stargate Unveiled: OpenAI’s $500 Billion Bet on an AI-Driven Future
Explore the scale, ambition, and global impact of OpenAI’s Project Stargate, the $500 billion data center set to power the next generation of artificial intelligence.
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Tell Me if Anything was Ever Done
Explore how Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished works and perfectionism offer timeless lessons for creators. Learn why shipping your ideas, even when imperfect, can inspire the world and leave a lasting legacy.
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Superagents: The Next Big Leap in Technology
A comprehensive analysis of AI superagents from four key sources, exploring their technological capabilities, economic implications, and geopolitical significance as the next major leap in artificial intelligence.
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Barrels, Ammunition, & the Future of AI in the Electric Utility Industry
Explore how utilities can leverage AI by investing in cross-functional talent, modern infrastructure, and collaborative strategies.
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Custom Communication Styles in AI
Learn how to identify your unique communication style and use prompt engineering to make AI tools adapt to your preferences.
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Custom Writing Styles in Copilot
A step-by-step guide to training Copilot to write in your personal voice by analyzing your past writing samples and creating reusable style prompts for consistent, authentic AI-generated content.
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Custom Writing Styles in AI
Learn how to capture your unique writing style and use AI to generate content that sounds like you.
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What AI in 2024 Means for Us in 2025
An analysis of how 2024's AI breakthroughs translate into practical opportunities and challenges for electric utilities and IT organizations in 2025, focusing on operational efficiency, customer experience, and strategic implementation.
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AI in 2024: A Year in Review
A comprehensive review of AI advancements in 2024, including breakthrough models, dramatic cost reductions, accessibility improvements, and multimodal capabilities that are reshaping the industry landscape.
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AI User Interfaces and Experiences in 2023
An in-depth analysis of Google's response to the AI competition and its impact on the tech landscape. Exploring the shift from traditional search to AI-driven solutions, the article delves into the battle between Google, OpenAI, and other tech giants. It also reflects on the evolution of user interfaces, from printers to text boxes, and the fundamental role of search in our daily lives. With insights into Google's product strategies, the text questions if the company can reclaim its edge in the new era of AI-driven answers.
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Getting an AI to Run Your Next TTRPG
How I have used AI Chatbots to help generate content and ideas for Table Top Role Playing Games.