Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. Your AI Output Is Useless Until You Do This If you’ve been using ChatGPT for any length of time, you’ve probably had this experience: You ask a question. You get a beautifully written answer. You nod in approval… and then mo

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. Everyone’s Hiring AI Engineers. But Who’s Preparing the Humans? A recent Business Insider  article (“The hottest tech job candidates in America”) reported that the most in-demand job candidates in America right now are AI en

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. MIT Says 95% of AI Investments Fail to Deliver ROI. Here’s What They Missed This summer, MIT’s NANDA Initiative released a new report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.  Its headline finding is hard to ignore:

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. L&D Is the R&D of Human Potential… and AI Is the Catalyst Somewhere along the way, Learning and Development got lost. It began as a strategic business function, a mechanism for growing the human capacity behind innovation, p

The other day a client asked me how I would design a “Job Architecture” that includes AI-enabled tools. Traditionally, job architecture operates on job descriptions, pay grades, titles, and roles. It gives structure, but not growth. It tells people where they sit on the org chart. Employees start to see their career as “my job at ACME”, not “my career journey at ACME”.  Instead of traditional job architecture, it’s time for Human Potential Architecture (HPA) . What Human Pote

Somewhere along the way, Learning and Development got lost. It began as a strategic business function, a mechanism for growing the human capacity behind innovation, product development, and organizational growth. It was the function that turned people into the engines of progress. As companies expanded and structures formalized, L&D naturally became part of HR, the function responsible for people, culture, and compliance. But over time, L&D’s work became defined by programs a

A dangerous question is now starting to hit the airwaves: Is AI making us stupid? This weekend, a story in the   Guardian   by Sophie McBain commented on a recent report by MIT that suggested that AI is making us cognitively weaker, potentially creating what one expert calls a "stupidogenic society." The MIT study which involved 54 participants and has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that people using ChatGPT to write essays displayed significantly reduced brain activity an

The biggest shift needed in the AI era isn’t learning to use the technology. It’s learning to change how we think. That skill will determine who thrives as AI becomes embedded in everything we do. haveLAB’s  Second Brain collaboration approach exists to teach exactly that: how to collaborate with AI to transform your thinking, not just your workflow. When you use AI as a collaborator on a regular basis, your brain rewires and expands. You see patterns you couldn’t see before.

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