A couple of years ago I fell in love with a tool called x.ai, which uses artificial intelligence to act as a scheduling assistant. If you want to find a time to meet with someone, you just copy a “person” named Amy (or Andrew), and the artificial intelligence tool goes back and forth with your colleague or colleagues to find …
Your Questions… Answered at Last!
Oh you guys… I have to apologize. We get questions about apps all the time, and here’s what happens: I see the question. I ponder the question. I start looking up the answer to the question (click here to see how crazy that process is). Life happens… The presentation starts The cat jumps on my lap The plane starts boarding …
How I research your questions
Sometimes I can pop an answer off the top of my head, but often I have to dig around to give you the right info. That’s what takes so long because I have to find the time to dig around. 🙂 Here’s a real-time account of what it’s like when I figure out an answer. Poor Kristina had to listen …
Five Fun Fiverr Projects
Fiverr is my secret weapon for creating unique projects and products. Here are five of my favorite projects and the artists behind them. ONE: Explain Artificial Intelligence with Old Man Steve I’m doing a new session on AI, and I wanted a way to explain the concept without having me just blab away about it. So I wrote a script …
You’re Already Using AI, and It Can Beat You at Ms. Pac-Man
This week a deep learning company that Microsoft purchased this January revealed that a computer earned the highest score ever achieved on Ms. Pac-Man. On the surface, this victory seems pretty silly. Who cares about a little video game? But what it represents has far-reaching implications for the field of Artificial Intelligence. The company taught a computer to break down …
Let Charlie do your research for you: Automated contact briefings
When you’re meeting with a prospective client, employer or just a new contact, it’s best to do your homework. You should take a few minutes to read through the company profile, the LinkedIn facts and other interesting tidbits that will show your contact that you’re paying attention. But if you’re like me, you will run out of time before you …
Nerdwords: Top 10 Office Apps
A guest post from Molly Gardner, Beth Z’s business manager. Working for Beth, a lot of apps and tools come across my desk. The ones you see here are my favorite tools that I use in the office day in and day out. This is the technology that keeps Nerd Headquarters running smoothly and Beth on the road bringing new ideas …
Follow up from x.ai
Before Thanksgiving I published the results of an extensive test of an artificial intelligence tool called x.ai. I had some concerns about the functionality, and I received this letter from the x.ai staff with thorough and thoughtful answers to my points. Yea for customer service! See below for the letter in its entirety. More x.ai updates: I ended up scheduling …
High-tech cookies? Maybe not
My sister and I used to bake thousands of Christmas cookies every year. My parents would give them out as holiday gifts, so Sarah and I would make them buy the ingredients, eat half the product then charge our folks $2 a gift for shipping and handling. Not a bad racket, huh? (Our cookies never looked like the ones in …
Spoil.io: Send cupcakes and more to people you love
Those of you who know me well will understand my obsession with cupcakes. So you know how excited I was when I found a new service that promises to send anyone in the US a cupcake (and other treats) within a couple of hours. Spoil.io is an app (iOS only right now) that lets you quickly order treats around the …
How I Write the Book
I’m hidden in my office this summer working on book #4! This one will have more apps than ever before. I made a quick video to explain how I do my research and evaluate thousands and thousands of apps… one by one by one.
Caregiver Technology
A Guest Post from our Business Manager… After months of searching for a diagnosis, my mom was given the news that she has ALS. It is heartbreaking…and feels foreign. We find ourselves in a new world of navigating each day to ensure my mom, Mickey, has the very best care available and that each day is lived to it’s fullest! Countless times I’ve …
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