Digg is dead. Again. And this time, the killer was not a redesign, not a competitor, and not the slow bleed of irrelevance. This time, AI bots showed up within ...
Angela Lipps has never been on an airplane. She has spent nearly her entire life in north-central Tennessee, raising three kids and spoiling five grandchildren....
I woke up last Wednesday to find that an AI agent had reorganized my entire content calendar, drafted three client proposals, and flagged two invoices that were...
I have been writing about AI for a while now, and I thought I had developed a pretty thick skin for big numbers. Billion-dollar valuations. Hundred-billion-doll...
It started with a simple question from my business partner, Claire. We run a small content agency — twelve people, mostly remote, operating out of coffee shop...
My neighbor Lisa runs a bakery. Twelve employees, two locations, open six days a week. Last September, she cornered me at a block party and said something that ...
I want to tell you about Mira, James, and Priya. They run a marketing agency called Canopy Digital out of Austin, Texas. Three people. No interns. No contractor...
You've heard the pitch a hundred times: "AI will automate your workflow!" And then you sign up for another tool, connect it to your email, and watch it send an ...
Last month I did something that would have been science fiction five years ago: I fed 30 minutes of my own voice recordings into seven different AI voice genera...
Last October, our customer support queue hit 847 unresolved tickets. Our team of four was drowning. Response times had ballooned to 18 hours. Customer satisfact...
I have a confession. I've spent more hours of my life staring at blank PowerPoint slides than I'd like to admit. You know that moment where you've got a big pit...
Three weeks ago, my client asked me to produce a 30-second product video. Budget? Zero dollars. Timeline? Yesterday. And honestly? The video I delivered — mad...
Three months ago, a client asked me to create 50 product mockups for their e-commerce launch. My first instinct was to hire a designer. Then I thought: what if ...
My client needed a marketing plan by Friday. It was Wednesday at 4 PM. Normally, a solid marketing plan takes me two to three weeks. Market research, competito...
I almost fired my virtual assistant last March. Not because she was bad at her job — she was great. But because an AI tool I'd been testing for two weeks was ...
I wrote 50 blog posts using 10 different AI writing tools over the past three months. Some of those posts got thousands of views. Others were so bad I deleted t...