Hi folks I'm the Vice President of GLAWS.Org, the Greater Los Angeles Writer's Society. We do "Special speaker events" once a month, where we help people with the craft and business of writing. "Writing helping writers". Unfortunately, I've had a speaker drop out so I could use some experts that could talk on AI and writing in person in SoCal (Sherman Oaks) for an hour or two. This month, next Sunday the 22nd, we are hosting a free, in person panel in Sherman Oaks on AI and the Singularity. It'll start at 2:00PM. I'll give an overview of AI and the Singularity for about an hour, then we'll do a round table type discussion. We'll finish up by about 5, although we have the space all day. Street parking is free, and for a speaker I think the host can get you into the parking garage (tbd). You are free to market your services to the writers who attend, and I can send a bio and contact info to our large mailing list as a gesture of appreciation; we don't charge admission so there's no speaker's fees (yet) Please email me at info@glaws.org if you're interested. Thank you

Madison Chock & Evan Bates stepped off the ice last night in Milan believing they'd just skated the performance of their lives. 3-time reigning world champions. A decade-plus partnership. They lost the Gold anyway. The French duo that beat them ... Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Guillaume Cizeron ... had been skating together less than a year. They made visible errors. Wobbly step sequences. Messy twizzles. Yet, the judges still gave them the edge. "It's a subjective sport," Bates said. Hard to argue with that. Here's what stopped me cold (pun intended) Chock nailed it when she said through tears: "There needs to be some sort of judgment for the judges. So that we know we're getting the best from the judges & have a level and fair playing field." She's not just talking about figure skating. She's talking about Your company. Right now, most organizations are "judging" their AI transformation the same way Olympic ice dance judges score a free dance ... subjectively. Gut feel. Vibes. Someone in the C-suite says "I think it's going well" & everyone nods along. That's how you lose the Gold. Here's the pivot. When you're rolling out AI across your organization, you need to judge the judges. Meaning: who is evaluating whether your AI initiatives are actually working? What are they measuring? And are those metrics fair across every team? 3 things to do over the next week: (1) Pick one AI initiative in your company. Just one. Ask the person leading it: "How do we know this is working?" If the answer sounds like an ice dance score ... vague, subjective, open to interpretation ... you've got a problem. (2) Define what a "perfect skate" looks like before anyone hits the ice. The clearest signal of a broken evaluation system is one where the criteria get decided after the performance. Set your success metrics before you launch, not after. (3) Watch for the "French judge" problem. In the Olympics, people immediately questioned whether national bias influenced the scoring. In your company, the equivalent is the executive who champions a tool & then "evaluates" its success. Separate the sponsor from the scorekeeper.

You have them. In your organization. Right now. They're going to hold back your AI transformation. Here's precisely what to do with your AI Resisters.

The #1 thing you can do to safeguard your career right now? Invest 1 hour per day learning, experimenting with, and using AI tools. One. Hour. I know that sounds dramatic. But I've been recruiting for 30 years. Which means I'm old enough to have watched these tech waves roll through ... dot-com, mobile, social, and more. And here's what I've seen every single time: the people who are last to jump on the adoption curve often don't make it. Management Teams do the math. They look at the cost of driving behavior change in someone who's resistant ... and decide it's easier to just hire someone who already gets it. I'm no tech genius. Yet I can assure you the tools are far easier to use than you might think. You need not become an expert. But by now, it's clear that AI is not going away. Becoming proficient is the single best thing you can do to protect your (current) job & your (future) career. And if you happen to become excellent at it? Perhaps even enjoy it? Then, position yourself as an AI Champion within your department, your team, your company. You'll be seen as a leader. Looked to for guidance & expertise. 1 hour per day. That's it. p.s. If you're currently not working, I'd up it to 2 hours.