Have you ever gotten into your car, typed nothing into the GPS, but still expected it to show you the way to somewhere useful? That’s how most people use AI chatbot tools like Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT.

I recently spent an embarrassing amount of time setting up an automation I was convinced would save me hours.

A researcher we know used to spend hours copy-pasting quotes from PDFs and websites into a Word doc.

Answering your questions about business and technology

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I use a lot of my notebooks in Gemini Notebook throughout the day so they get jumbled up.  Is there a way that I can keep the ones that I want at the top of the list all the time?~ Bruce

I know, I know, another AI platform. It still might be appealing though.

Editing is often harder than writing. We get attached to the sentences we wrote. We feel bad about cutting them. But sometimes we gotta do the hard thing to improve the final output.