I share this at this morning’s Tourism Industry Association of Alberta (TIAA) keynote: The distance to done is getting shorter by the day. Basic workflows in tools like ChatGPT get things done faster than without, for many tasks. Gems, GPTs, n8ns, makes, etc. all shorten that distance, accelerating progress. But agents? Agents are the fastest…
Summary In today's episode, I explore how to leverage AI for better time management by connecting large language models to your existing productivity tools. Here's what this means for you. You gain the ability to reduce cognitive overhead and automate tedious administrative tasks through natural language interaction. You'll also learn these concepts: how to use…
Here’s a quick refresher on agents vs. skills in AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Qwen Code, etc. An agent is an autonomous version of the AI typically pre-prompted to do a specific kind of task: debugging, acting as the voice of the customer, being a co-CEO. If you’re familiar with GPTs from…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through the new plugins feature in Claude Co-Work and explain how agents, skills, commands, and hooks bundle into deployable packages. Here's what this means for you. You gain a practical, no-code way to extend Claude with marketing, sales, and productivity workflows that connect to tools you already use. You'll…
Here’s 2 people fully harvesting 30 acres of wheat in an hour. That’s a John Deere X9 1100 Combine Harvester. It’s gigantic, the width of a small house. It cuts, threshes, and winnows all in one step, pouring the finished grain into a grain hopper. For those unfamiliar, harvesting wheat is a pain in the…
Plan big, act small has never been more important. This is Principle 27 in my book, Almost Timeless: 48 Foundation Principles of Generative AI. In the last month, we’ve had 3 MAJOR foundation model releases: GPT-5.1, Gemini 3, Claude Ops 4.5. These new models are incredibly capable. They’re super smart. They’re also really compute and…
OpenAI is declaring Code Red, but they’re boxed in. Literally. ChatGPT and similar products exist in a box that isn’t connected by default to anything. Anthropic wisely has cozied up hard to Microsoft, with MS Office documents as part of their native skills and connectors to everything they can possibly connect to. And Google… well,…
Context engineering is data management. That’s anticlimactic, isn’t it? You hear everyone from Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO) to AI bros hyping “context engineering” as the next big thing. It’s data management. If prompt engineering is building great recipes, context engineering is building great ingredients. Even the most decorated Michelin-starred chef can’t make rotted, spoiled food…
If farming automation allowed farmers to compress 4,200 hours of labor into 2 hours, increase yields 10x through loss reduction, and dramatically expand their farms’ production, why aren’t farmers rich? Well… there are a variety of reasons. They don’t own the means of production. The John Deere X9 1100 I mentioned in my last post…
