• Avanceé Reads for 4 Oct 24 🔗

    The fragility in the connections between our wellness and our evolving productivity has been a connective thread in the reads this week. Whether folks are resilient enough, or have built the structures to be more resilient in the face of trauma and change is another thread to this. Also published: … read more

  • How to AI

    There’s something of a running joke in tech-corporate settings where there’s this bastardizing of the terminology of a new tool or method which breaks forth. It’s really bad, and wouldn’t be as funny if it weren’t true. Now, there are several reasons for this, part of it having to do with the way we … read more

  • Avanceé Reads for 27 Sept 24 🔗

    The closing of the month and changing season sure seems to have brought out every kind of thing. No industry or community seems to be spared from revelations about almost anything. More than how we respond to these, will be how we connect the dots between these ite,a now, and what’s come before. … read more

  • Notes from Humane AiPin Use

    sharing from my AiPin journal an item which has been a part of “what can the AiPin do better” stream of thoughts Thinking about the survey from the other day, and some of the other convos, I’m back to chewing on “what about email do I want from the AiPin?” A further reflection refined from a piece … read more

  • Avanceé Reads for 20 Sept 24 🔗

    For those new to Avanceé, each week we post a snapshot of notable reads on a whiteboard/infinite canvas. These are items which have stood out or contributed to various projects and discussions. And compared to many who share their weekly reads, we don’t want your email address in order for you to … read more

  • Are Websites Still Needed

    A few conversations recently brought back to the surface an older topic: is a website really needed? To be frank, am speaking of persons who are not selling products but are offering a service, or displaying a competency so that they can be utilized for some type of knowledge expertise. What is the … read more

  • Avanceé Reads for 13 Sept 24 🔗

    The “work” in between working with you is making connections between what you see, and what isn’t seen. Everything threads. Also published: Conceptualizarion as a Superpower read more

  • Collaborative Notebook for Hands-On Workshop

    Read more on how this was used read more

  • Conceptualization as a Superpower

    For a little more than a decade, taught a number of “corporate education” courses with the intention of helping to raise the floor of internal teams as it related to content management and data analytics. One of the more surprising bits of information learned across the years of doing this was a … read more

  • Avanceé Reads for 6 Sept 24 🔗

    ”…the issue with complexity: it is unsustainable without effort.” - Farnham Street Also published: Incompatible with Current Working Behaviors read more

  • Thought: Incompatible with Current Working Behaviors

    One of the threads connecting our research with sales/opportunities is a framework where this work is based on a different approach to screens and input than most are accustomed. Utilizing a mobile and tablet for the better part of 15 -20 years as a primary computer is something of an alternate … read more

  • Avancee Reads for 30 Aug 24 🔗

    Had a thought this week. A potential tweak to this initiative: What if your vision had a concierge? Some kind of guide to the future you envision - but they aren’t taking you there. They are merely informed-enough of the possibilities and then you could “rub the bottle” for that insight to be … read more

  • Avanceé Reads for 23 Aug 24 🤧 🤒

    Got knocked down by something today. Hit so fast Oura didn’t even catch it. Speed… speed to connecting to relevant data is key to a lot of this. That’s not artificial intelligence, just values and priorities. Also published: Read the Terms of Service Is There A Difference Now for Social Computing … read more

  • Is There A Difference Now for Social Computing Devices

    Context: Sitting in the usual cafe-office, looking at the devices on the table and recalling a friend’s mention about new wallpaper on their mobiles…sharing wallpapers is such a social thing. If this were the “social computing” setup, I wonder what the “sharing wallpaper” moments would be? In the … read more

  • Read the Terms of Service

    Was introduced to a new-to-me web service the other day. As with many, it was “Al” related. So I did my usual… I went to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to see what is going on behind the marketing. In this case, the TOS was not all that… good. So, took at look at … read more

  • Avanceé Reads for 16 Aug 24 🔗

    Am not even sure most are paying attention… can we get away with saying anything? With releasing anything? With restricting… what is actually being attended to? Need to check out the terms of service for the days and times. There’s something afoot. Also published: How Avanceé is Using AI/ML Today read more

  • How is Avanceé Using AI/ML Today

    The straightforward answer is there isn’t a daily use case which is centered around “productivity.” There are the near-invisible cases such as memo-writing based off of feedback from items which come to mind or recent conversations, but these don’t move the needle to what many have talked about … read more

  • Avanceé Reads for 9 Aug 24 🔗

    The rest of summer is unfolding with some uneasy intensity. It’s gonna be interesting to fill out the rest of the season, and what that might mean for fall. Also published: Why Origami? Complications and Re-Engineering AL/ML Complexity read more

  • Complications and Re-Engineering AL/ML Complexity

    A part of the work posted during some of the weekly “notable reads“ lives in the attention paid to augmented/artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Much of this is because this is a popular topic, and there’s much worth investigating behind the hype and ”transformative actions” at … read more

  • Why Origami?

    At a Bowie Baysox game, got a chance to have a table and engage with some folks around this initiative. It’s not necessarily the best place for talking about re-engineering complexity through coaching and consulting, but was an opportunity and a lot of lessons were learned. One of the more obscure … read more