I actually have the opposite perspective - My Substack is all about using AI in my business, and I try to be as specific as possible, since that’s what makes for good writing.
The downside is that means I’m actively giving out helpful advice to anybody, including any competitors who come across it.
I figure the odds are none of them will (and I own brands that sell on Amazon, so even if a few do the market’s plenty big that it won’t actually affect me). But if LLMs pick it up then suddenly people asking ChatGPT might get my helpful advice, and naturally there’s a lot more people talking to ChatGPT than reading my Substack.
Not a big enough concern to stop me from writing, but an interesting thing to think about.
I loved this column for its perspective and shared insight. I went early into SEO in 96, and worked at bringing my colleagues mentally locked into print understanding for community newspapers and magazines to deploy their content resources to be found, if not first, at least visible. I write more for fun now, and have been in a high-tech Fintech start-up for a decade, so I lost my SEO cred just as content positioning got replaced by cited references, which was the game all along. Actually.
Loved reading from your perspective. I am now developing a new life with CoWork, which is really like the copy editor I took instruction from on the newspaper hierarchy when I started as a cub reporter. A 50-year circle of life.
I am working within two start-ups facing daunting challenges to scale and to close gaps in capacity without hiring legions of do'ers.
My role is primarily as a Board member and shareholder, but I'm active in supporting my younger founders as CEOs/CTOs by championing the risk of new and unproven tactics.
I will share more as I progress, as I am attempting to encourage those in my age group, as well as in my civic life, not to give up on growing their capacity to learn as they seek golden retirement years. Even my younger cohorts are expressing that they don't have time to learn new tricks like AI as a technique expansion of their talent.
First is the main focus of filling a gap with Claude in our Fintech company, enabling agents to analyze the vast amount of data our software platform generates in completing AP transactions and build out a monitoring, auditing and reporting function as a key administration gap between our sales efforts in onboarding clients and new financial partners.
A multitude of entities that require trusted reporting of transactions and the sharing of fee formulas in support of a contractual agreement to jointly service clients efficiently.
The use of Claude is now expanding from the coding side into the business admin side of task management, project management, coordination and communication, as well as message development. This includes individuals using Claude tools as a clarity editorial assistant to communicate more concisely and completely, and following a schedule to keep everyone on the same page at literally the same time.
The second start-up challenge is a company in Fishtech to design, build, and populate a giant ocean industry database for deep-sea fishing vessels and ownership data, and to deploy a wireless or ropeless alternative to fishing trap lines. The new tech is FishSafe for ocean-species harvesting, as well as coastal harbour security, using sensors from geomatics on the ocean floor with Rope on Demand, automatically triggered buoys, and anchor mechanisms.
The giant data schema I am design-building with daily Claude CoWork input is not only a CRM for sales and marketing, but an integrated data capture of all ocean sensor data, as well as profiling and listing all the stakeholders that are impacted by a sea change, literally in the use of modern ropeless buoy deployments to save the whales and other species from entanglement with plastic sea waste, etc.
That's the overview of my interests: I am self-teaching a new skill set through experimentation and expressing enthusiasm for the productivity enhancements I am identifying and promoting for adoption within our management teams. I will follow along for a while and eventually become a subscriber because I think you will accelerate my understanding. Thanks for asking.
Your style is impeccable as always, Charlie. Read the whole article in one breath and while you do raise fairly agreeable points, ones which I've stumbled upon on my line of work too, there's a significant technology adoption curve where we're still on the lower flat end & slightly curving upward.
The way I can foresee AI development going through is with the addition of human data; ie citations work for SEO because you're funneling authority to the web property you own -> a positive evaluation (thumbs up) on a answer that has surpassed the prompt's expectations, is on a similar note, internal training feedback. That's not to say that human touch or oversight is key; rather machine algorithms haven't built the assessment skills required for independent self development, yet.
Hello, fellow human person.
I can---without delving deeper---affirm that I, too, am a human like you. Not a bot. Not an AI. Just a person.
What you share is valuable and insightful. I will ponder it at length.
Bleep boop.
I actually have the opposite perspective - My Substack is all about using AI in my business, and I try to be as specific as possible, since that’s what makes for good writing.
The downside is that means I’m actively giving out helpful advice to anybody, including any competitors who come across it.
I figure the odds are none of them will (and I own brands that sell on Amazon, so even if a few do the market’s plenty big that it won’t actually affect me). But if LLMs pick it up then suddenly people asking ChatGPT might get my helpful advice, and naturally there’s a lot more people talking to ChatGPT than reading my Substack.
Not a big enough concern to stop me from writing, but an interesting thing to think about.
I loved this column for its perspective and shared insight. I went early into SEO in 96, and worked at bringing my colleagues mentally locked into print understanding for community newspapers and magazines to deploy their content resources to be found, if not first, at least visible. I write more for fun now, and have been in a high-tech Fintech start-up for a decade, so I lost my SEO cred just as content positioning got replaced by cited references, which was the game all along. Actually.
Loved reading from your perspective. I am now developing a new life with CoWork, which is really like the copy editor I took instruction from on the newspaper hierarchy when I started as a cub reporter. A 50-year circle of life.
I'd love to hear more about how you're evolving your own workflows with AI tools as a veteran of the media world.
I am working within two start-ups facing daunting challenges to scale and to close gaps in capacity without hiring legions of do'ers.
My role is primarily as a Board member and shareholder, but I'm active in supporting my younger founders as CEOs/CTOs by championing the risk of new and unproven tactics.
I will share more as I progress, as I am attempting to encourage those in my age group, as well as in my civic life, not to give up on growing their capacity to learn as they seek golden retirement years. Even my younger cohorts are expressing that they don't have time to learn new tricks like AI as a technique expansion of their talent.
First is the main focus of filling a gap with Claude in our Fintech company, enabling agents to analyze the vast amount of data our software platform generates in completing AP transactions and build out a monitoring, auditing and reporting function as a key administration gap between our sales efforts in onboarding clients and new financial partners.
A multitude of entities that require trusted reporting of transactions and the sharing of fee formulas in support of a contractual agreement to jointly service clients efficiently.
The use of Claude is now expanding from the coding side into the business admin side of task management, project management, coordination and communication, as well as message development. This includes individuals using Claude tools as a clarity editorial assistant to communicate more concisely and completely, and following a schedule to keep everyone on the same page at literally the same time.
The second start-up challenge is a company in Fishtech to design, build, and populate a giant ocean industry database for deep-sea fishing vessels and ownership data, and to deploy a wireless or ropeless alternative to fishing trap lines. The new tech is FishSafe for ocean-species harvesting, as well as coastal harbour security, using sensors from geomatics on the ocean floor with Rope on Demand, automatically triggered buoys, and anchor mechanisms.
The giant data schema I am design-building with daily Claude CoWork input is not only a CRM for sales and marketing, but an integrated data capture of all ocean sensor data, as well as profiling and listing all the stakeholders that are impacted by a sea change, literally in the use of modern ropeless buoy deployments to save the whales and other species from entanglement with plastic sea waste, etc.
That's the overview of my interests: I am self-teaching a new skill set through experimentation and expressing enthusiasm for the productivity enhancements I am identifying and promoting for adoption within our management teams. I will follow along for a while and eventually become a subscriber because I think you will accelerate my understanding. Thanks for asking.
Your style is impeccable as always, Charlie. Read the whole article in one breath and while you do raise fairly agreeable points, ones which I've stumbled upon on my line of work too, there's a significant technology adoption curve where we're still on the lower flat end & slightly curving upward.
The way I can foresee AI development going through is with the addition of human data; ie citations work for SEO because you're funneling authority to the web property you own -> a positive evaluation (thumbs up) on a answer that has surpassed the prompt's expectations, is on a similar note, internal training feedback. That's not to say that human touch or oversight is key; rather machine algorithms haven't built the assessment skills required for independent self development, yet.