When you don’t have skill, AI looks like magic. If we are to derive productivity gains from AI, we must value hard-earned skills, treat AI use as a means, not an end, and call out slop each time we see it.

We’re still in the age of AI theatre. Output quality and results still seem to matter less than “AI adoption.”

I write because I enjoy writing. This is a key reason I don’t see a reason to delegate my writing to AI. There are, however, four use cases when I use AI for writing.

You can convey information in the workplace using several mechanisms. A presentation is a powerful storytelling and influence tool that you must employ only when you need it.

While death by PowerPoint has been a much-talked-about phenomenon for decades, collaborative slideware and AI have elevated slideuments, Frankendecks and the resulting poor presentations to epidemic proportions. I’m starting a new writing project to address these problems of the workplace and provide readers with simple, actionable advice to elevate the way they tell visual stories and convey information to their colleagues.