Thoughts Brewing Blog

A lot of people choose to skip writing a business plan. Technically, you don’t need one.  

If your “happy place” is anywhere but your life, maybe it’s time to plant some new seeds.  

Answering your questions about business and technology

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There are differences between GPT-5 and the old models that I am used to using.  Do you have a framework that I can use with GPT-5 to help structure my prompts to get consistently better results?~ Joe

If you aren’t using AI tools to accelerate and personalize your learning, you are missing out on a massive opportunity.

Every “innovative” idea we’ve had started the same way: with people.

Yesterday was the first day of the second half of the year (well, it was when I wrote it on July 1, 2025). A little mind-boggling, but it's a time when many of us check in on ourselves to see how we are progressing towards the goals we have set.

Taking time to look back and reflect is a way to “stop and smell the roses”.  Basically, slow down for a period of time and have gratitude for the things that you appreciate.

You can use an AI tool like ChatGPT to help you with this process. You might even be motivated to...

Most people blame ChatGPT for bad answers. The real problem? Your question sucked.

The heading pretty much covers the main point so I will get right into it.  OpenAI believes that “AI should help solve humanity’s hardest problems, and that (they) should listen to and learn from organizations already leading that work on the frontlines”.  

To me, book summaries are like buying a ticket to Disney World and then only riding the monorail while still thinking you got the entire magical experience.