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261 posts tagged "insights"

Most Multi-Agent AI Collaboration is Faking It.

insightsJan 9, 2026

I remember the first time I did a job interview with a panel. It was intense. Each person was reacting from their own perspective, looking from their own background, either nodding in agreement or tilting their head with a pending question. No one was waiting their turn. No one asked permission to observe. They were...

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Your AI Knows the Rules. It Doesn't Know Why They Exist.

insightsJan 5, 2026

Rule engines capture what you decided. AI agents need to know why. A story about how perfect rule execution cost one company millions in lost revenue.

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How to Use AI as Your Editor Without Losing Your Voice

insightsJan 3, 2026

Use AI as your Editor without the stress of losing your voice.

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Why Great Leaders Focus on Destinations, Not Directions

coachingMay 5, 2025

Do you find yourself micromanaging your team's every move? Are you frustrated when people don't follow your exact instructions? Do you wonder why brilliant employees seem disengaged when given detailed step-by-step procedures? If you've experienced any of these situations, you're likely falling into a common leadership trap: confusing the destination with the journey. The Destination...

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Do you know your focus toggle?

insightsOct 10, 2023

I couldn't get my camera to focus by pressing the shutter button down half-way. It has always worked in the past. I didn't understand what had happened. I started with checking the modes - was I in a different mode than normal? Nope. Then I went to the settings. I set the focus setting correctly.

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Learning Something New

insightsAug 29, 2023

I graduated college 30 years ago. Email wasn't a big thing, and the web (and YouTube) didn't really exist. So imagine what it took, how much work was involved, to learn something new. I'm not saying I walked to school in the snow, uphill both ways. But learning something new meant either finding a mentor...

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Grow Your Business Profits in 2023

agency-adviceDec 26, 2022

If you're looking to grow profits next year, you've likely already made your plans for the new year. I get that. And it's the last days of this year, so you've stopped reading blogs. I get that too. But there's a good chance that while you've used one or a couple of the strategies below...

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Want Different Results? Change The Game

insightsApr 26, 2022

A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego - a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms, right on the sand, and invited everyone to just keep working on what they'd been...

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Changing Things Up

insightsApr 20, 2022

Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research lab. It's where I started working on web technologies in 1994. Not even a year...

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Mini Habits & Repetition

insightsJan 5, 2022

The first time my wife walked into my office crying, I knew two things. First, I knew something bad had happened (like she'd made some mistake she felt awful about). Second, I knew that adding my own emotions wouldn't help anything. So I told myself, repeating over and over in my head, \"stay calm.\" That's...

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