AI Fundamentals — What's Actually Happening Under the Hood
Part 1 of 5 in the series: AI at Work — A Professional's Field Guide What is a large language model, and why does it matter for professionals? Every AI tool you use (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or your firm's assistant) runs on a large language model: a
You're Using AI Wrong at Work. Here's How to Fix It.
What is the biggest mistake professionals make with AI at work? Treating AI like a search engine: typing a vague question and hoping for the best. The fix is a repeatable prompt structure and knowing which tool (internal, public, or embedded) to use for each task, so you get client-
Setup Docassemble Document Automation Locally
In this guide, we will setup our system to run docassemble without using the playground or a server. This allows us to use a regular text editor, save our work so we can collaborate on interviews with colleagues and we get an easier way to use MS docx templates with
Setup a self-hosted Ghost CMS on CapRover
Ghost CMS is a simpler and faster WordPress alternative with a big problem: the price ($29 – 299/month!). In this guide, I share an easy way to set up Ghost CMS on your own server using CapRover. At the end of this guide, you can have a website like Buffer’
How to Sync Logseq Notes Across Windows, Mac and Mobile
A painful problem with Logseq is: the iOS mobile app needs iCloud to sync to your notes. On my other devices I prefer and use Dropbox. Let’s fix it. In this guide, I will share how to sync your notes from Dropbox (or Google Drive) on your other devices
Connect VS Code to GitHub for Legal Coding
If you’re a legal professional and want to automate your document assembling process at the unbeatable price of FREE, you’re in the right place. Tools like theformtool, HotDocs, Pythagoras, etc have comparable feature, the cost adds up. And for docassemble there’s a catch: The learning curve is
Learning to Learn
What counts as interesting? When’s the last time you learned something useful? Something that really shifted your knowledge and made a difference. How about the last time you found something “interesting” online—or several “interesting” things online? Every day, you make this choice on your time: * Sink it in
The Art of Thinking Poorly
What does good thinking look like? Thinking is hard work. To write well, you must think well, that’s more work. And that’s a start. To write well, read a lot. This helps you see what good writing looks like. You know what to steal and how to craft
The Focus Problem
winning the war of art It’s hard seeing things through. Since I heard of the magpie, when someone hops from one thing to the next, I think of this bird. The magpie is a very intelligent, like many. It collects shiny things, like many. And like many, it doesn’
You, Inc.
Is anything else more important than you? This year, protect your best asset: you. No matter how productive, inventive or anything else you might be, the best thing you can do for yourself is to take care of the only thing that is irreplaceable—yourself. I don’t mean hire
