Using AI work without getting in trouble
It is a Tuesday morning. Half your coworkers are quietly using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to draft emails, summarize meetings, and clean up reports. Most…
Category: Personal Development
How to say “I don’t know” gracefully
Few professional moments feel worse than getting a question you cannot answer in front of your boss or a roomful of strangers. The instinct is to fake it….
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Small smart things about AI at work. The Handshake Test There is one rule that will keep you out of trouble with AI at work, and you can use it in under…
Your first job is a classroom
You spent years in school learning how to think, write, analyze, and perform. Then you landed a job, and discovered that none of that fully prepared you…
The art of taking initiative
Taking initiative is one of the most valued qualities in any workplace. It is also one of the easiest to get wrong. Done well, it looks like this: you…
What not to say in your first weeks on the job
A new job is an audition. The role has been offered, yes, but whether it becomes a career depends largely on what happens in the first ninety days. A few…
Spring clean your workspace, spring clean your head
Something about spring and cleaning goes hand in hand, and it’s not just closets and garages that benefit from the treatment. Your workspace, whether it’s…
The follow-through gap
Most people are not short on ideas. They have plans, intentions, good resolutions, and moments of genuine inspiration. What stops them isn’t talent or…
The one habit that separates productive people from busy ones
Here is the problem with multitasking: it doesn’t actually exist. What the brain does when we think we’re multitasking is switch rapidly between tasks,…
Change your Google habits
By now, you have seen the AI answers pop up on Google when you search. And it’s high time to treat Google more like an AI and less like a search engine….