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You Think It Understands You. That's the Problem.

What if the most dangerous thing about AI is how human it feels? Your brain names it understanding. Your AI produced a prediction. Here's what that gap is costing you. Sit with this for a moment. You open your AI tool, describe a complex project situation, and receive

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The Unnamed PM Brain Problem

anthropomorphism — the cognitive tendency to attribute human intentions, feelings, and motivations to things and situations that haven't communicated any.

28 Jul 2026 4 min read

The Credibility Moment

Most AI training for project managers fails before anyone opens a laptop. The failure point is sequence, not content quality.

21 Jul 2026 3 min read

The Experience Maker's Question

You are always making an experience for your team. The question is whether you're doing it on purpose.

14 Jul 2026 4 min read

How Markdown Has Come to Rule the World

What if the tool you're already using spoke a language you've never learned? The format that powers GitHub, Obsidian, and every AI model you've ever used — and why project managers need to know it. You've already seen it hundreds of times. Maybe

07 Jul 2026 4 min read

The Distinction Almost Nobody Is Teaching

Are you using AI to go faster or to think better? So you have been using GenAI for a while now. A year. Two years. Three years. You run everything through it. Status reports, meeting prep, email drafts, risk summaries. You have excelled at prompting. Your outputs are consistent. Your

30 Jun 2026 4 min read

The Ladder Most PMs Don't Know They're On

What if your AI already knew your project? Project managers have been using (or trying to use) GenAI for a few years now. Status reports, meeting prep, risk summaries, funder updates. It saves time. The outputs are decent. We keep using it. But...is that beginning to bother you? Do

23 Jun 2026 5 min read

Two Ways Project Managers See AI — And Why It Matters

The word “artificial intelligence” contains a hidden diagnostic. Which word do you land on first? Do you emphasize the ARTIFICIAL of Artificial Intelligence? Or do you emphasize the INTELLIGENCE of Artificial Intelligence? Pay attention to how your colleagues talk about AI. Some say “it doesn’t really understand anything — it’

09 Jun 2026 6 min read

What would change if you held your AI tools to the same standard you're held to?

Seven principles. In my experience, most tools fall short on at least three. Here's what you have the right to expect. Here's a scenario. Six months ago you signed up for a new AI tool. You asked all the right questions first: Does it integrate with

19 May 2026 5 min read

The AI mode that makes you harder to blindside

Most PMs only prepare for the pushback they expect. Telescope Mode changes that. You prepared for the two stakeholders you knew would push back. You rehearsed the counterarguments. You had answers ready for the timeline concerns, the scope questions, the budget skepticism. And then the VP of Operations (the one

12 May 2026 4 min read

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You already know how to start a prompt. You just don't know it yet.

One phrase that ends the blank-box paralysis for good. Here's a question I get all the time: "I know I should be using AI. But when I open it up... I just stare at the box. I don't know what to type." Sound

24 Mar 2026 4 min read

Prompt Generator

A prompt to generate other prompts. This is the Prompting Power Move. You can prompt your way to creating a prompt generator on your own. It is worth the effort! BUT, you could also use the one I created below. How to use: Copy the text between within the box

02 Feb 2026 3 min read

The 10 Principles of Intentional Intelligence

As I spent time thinking of ways to present ways of working with Generative AI, I had a few convictions. First and foremost, I still wanted to move project managers out of bureaucracy into leadership. And in the world of GenAI, that is still my goal. GenAI can help you

13 Jan 2026 2 min read

Validate. Verify. Authenticate.

Your critical thinking skills are extremely important in the age of AI. Why It Matters: Your ability to employ critical thinking protects you from any crazy AI answers or nefarious deep fakes. It also makes you a better user of AI tools. The words form a mantra in your brain

06 Jan 2026 2 min read

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