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Buy outcomes, not software! How a nonprofit flipped a crisis into proof of culture

What happens when a vendor relationship is built on rhythms, trust, and behavior—not features and billable hours When Furniture Bank's payment processor collapsed, tens of thousands of dollars were frozen overnight. They had days—not months—to...

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Humans Are The Loop

How to use AI to develop self-awareness, emotional navigation, and (hopefully) be a better human I use AI to write emails faster and summarize...

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The Intent Test: Are You Using AI to Improve, or to Win?

The intent test is simple: before you use AI on a conflict, ask yourself whether you're trying to respond or trying to win. That single question...

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How Dana Snyder Built A $100k App In 5 Months

Dana Snyder had never committed a Git in her life when we started working together in September 2025. Tomorrow she is shipping a full-stack app that...

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Success With A Side Of Software

The sector doesn't need better fundraising software. It needs more successful fundraisers. AI will create both. And an early example is Practivated.

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More Than A Score: Why AI Cred Matters

How self-assessment, context, and brutal honesty unlock real AI fluency You finish the AI Cred assessment and the score appears. Maybe it's lower...

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Why AI fluency—not literacy—is the real unlock

A thousand people took the AI Cred fluency test; the average score was ~3 out of 10. The average score for AI Cred is about 3/10. Before you dismiss...

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Thinking about the box: how cognitive diversity shapes AI adoption

Why collaboration, not conformity, drives the human side of AI transformation Every time I try to explain something that feels obvious in my head,...

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If you're human, you're a lazy prompter! (It's a feature not a bug)

Accepting your laziness is the secret of better AI outputs Every January, someone somewhere resolves to "get better at prompting AI." By February,...

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