Category: Random

Have you read through all 201 pages of Forerunner’s 2024 trend report? It’s a report that bucks all ideas that long-form content doesn’t work or isn’t good –– and that content needs to be gated to be effective.

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Gmail revolutionized email with fast search and a whole gigabyte of storage. But where’s it headed next?

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Large grocery retailers took advantage of supply chain disruptions to beat out smaller rivals and protect their profits during the pandemic, according to a report released by the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday.

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Whether it’s resumes or reports, budgets or broadsides, I’m pretty regularly sent working documents from a wide range of people, and over the years I’ve noticed some consistent patterns that lead those documents to be less effective than they should be. Even very smart, capable communicators routinely send important documents that distract from, or even undermine, their goals.

This isn’t too surprising; we almost never actually teach people how to use the ordinary tools of business communication in more effective ways. So, I’m gathering some advice that I regularly share with people, in hopes that this helps you get your messages across more effectively. All of this is advice that should apply regardless of whether you’re using tools like Google Docs (uh… Workspace?), Microsoft Office (or 365 or something?) or whatever else.

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This weekend I realized that I’m kind of burned out: agitated, stressed about nothing in particular, and peculiarly sleepless. It took a little introspection to figure out what was really going on.

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In my previous blog post about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, I demoed the power of ChatGPT system prompts. System prompts, a notable feature present in the ChatGPT API, allows developers to control the “persona” of the LLM output, including special rules and constraints.

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Today let’s step outside the news cycle and turn our attention toward a topic I’m deeply invested in but only rarely write about: productivity platforms. For decades now, software tools have promised to make working life easier.

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Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them unreadable. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing to decipher them.

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I’m bad at journaling, and I’ve never been able to maintain a diary. I recognize the value in those practices, and related exercises like “morning pages.

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James Presbitero Jr. Have you ever read an article that made you say “This was made by AI”?

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