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Humans&
Is It Worth More?
The AI Programmer Debate
Moonshot
Be the Person
To Whom Do You Complain
Exit Strategy
Pop Culture Terminology Vs Professional Culture Terminology
Just Make the AI Work Smarter Not Harder
Is AI Really Increasing Productivity?
Just the Way You Want It
How to Make Day 1 Successful
A Clean Slate
Move Fast and Break Things vs Slow and Steady
Wagging the Dog
Pay Now or Pay Later
The AI Paradox
Realizable New Years Resolutions — A Summary
Realizable New Years Resolutions — Still Be You
Realizable New Years Resolutions — Taking on One (Tiny) New Thing
Realizable New Years Resolutions — Habits vs Outcomes
Realizable New Years Resolutions — Environment vs Willpower
Realizable New Year’s Resolutions (A Miniseries)
2026
A Million Ways to Sunday
How to Talk to AI — A Primer and Guide
Happy New Year — About The250
The Last Page of the Story
The Value Story
Give It a Date
Sameness
Producing Amongst the Consumers
Your Resolutions Are Already Underway
A Silent Night and a Talking Machine
Control and Data Flow
Reflection and Revising
Decision-Making 101
The Snowball
Being and Becoming
A Shot and a Prompt
AI Artistry
So Help
So Give
Seeing the Certainty
AI Carpentry
Planned Obsolescence
The Tilly Norwood Problem
Dancing with the Instant Gratification Monkey
Money — A Number and a Feeling
What Products Want
The Laws They Don’t Teach in School
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (Wrapping it Up)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (Specific Templatized Output)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (Test and Interview Prep)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (Navigating a Government System)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (The Procedural or Recipe Framework)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (The Fact Checker)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (Expert Panel)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (Persona and Expertise)
How to Talk to AI: Prompt Templates (A Series)
Flush Your 5-Year Plan
On Gratitude…
The Requirements Crutch
What’s Inside the Black Box
Should AI Run the Human Resource Department?
Being Impressed
Systemic Intertia — Mobile Phone Carrier Edition
You Should Jump More
The Pause
The Teeter-Totter
AI and Calculating Risk
Staring Into the Unknown
Building Professional Teams
The Problem with a Gravel Driveway
Optimizing the Funnel
What’s Needed Right Now
The Bottom of the Hole
90% of the Work
Dancing Bears
Playing One On TV
Hammers and Nails
How To Talk to AI — Some Final Thoughts
How To Talk to AI — Use My Voice
How To Talk To AI — Iteration Beats Perfection
How To Talk to AI — Coach the Process
How To Talk to AI — Slow It Down
How To Talk to AI — Suggestions and Several Versions
How To Talk to AI — Clarity and Ask Me Questions
How to Talk to AI — If You Don’t Say It, It Won’t Know (More Words, Please)
How to Talk to AI — Roles, Goals, and Structure
How to Talk to AI to Get What You Want (A Series)
More is More with AI
The Echo Chamber
The Spinning Compass
The Crooked Frame
The Wobbly Table
New Roads
What is Successful?
Not There Yet
What AI Can’t Help You Do
Working Smarter and Longer
Everything is a Story
Artisans are Still Artisans
Damn Thing
The First One Should Suck
The Shortcut Tax
You Only Get 150 — Use Them Wisely
Revisiting autobizinabox.ai (How close are we?)
Getting Starting with AI Agents
Have You Heard About AI Agents?
Price and Better
Burn the Manual
100/0
Take a Day of Learning
Too Good To Be True
But Is It Better?
The Straight Line Paradox
What She Said
Playing the Hand
The Second Bounce
Turning the Corner
Dancing Around the Hook
Co-…
Borrowing a Flashlight
Only You