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  • Hi I’m Tris, and I’m a prompt hoarder
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    Hi I’m Tris, and I’m a prompt hoarder

    ByTris August 19, 2025October 15, 2025

    Endless inspiration, but you have to give back too I love finding and collecting prompts. Organizing them is something else entirely—I’m using Javelin now, tried NotebookLM, might try Obsidian next—often am looking for a prompt thinking “I know I have a prompt for this…”, and that’s how this story started out. I’m sure I have…

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  • Smashing the Machines in Portland Won’t Stop the Future
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    Smashing the Machines in Portland Won’t Stop the Future

    ByTris August 18, 2025October 15, 2025

    Smashing the Machines in Portland Won’t Stop the Future Last week in Portland, Oregon, something happened that felt ripped from the history books. A reactionary response to society, technology, and the people associated with it. Something that, I hope, isn’t a sign of things to come, but given the state of things in the world,…

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  • We need more than AI answers, we need AI guides
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    We need more than AI answers, we need AI guides

    ByTris August 12, 2025October 15, 2025

    We aren’t going to get better AI adoption by just winging it Navigating the AI Maze: Why Every Marketing Team Needs a Guide A couple of fantastic posts from my friends: David by DesignIntelligent Wealth vs. Cognitive DebtAmerica has lived with a wealth gap for decades. In 1971, six in ten Americans sat in the…

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  • ChatGPT-5 Is Here, But Let’s Not Distracted by the Shiny New Thing
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    ChatGPT-5 Is Here, But Let’s Not Distracted by the Shiny New Thing

    ByTris August 9, 2025October 15, 2025

    Just because because the hammer is fancy, doesn’t mean it’s better Disclosure: I created a prompt do be a co-writer for me. It’s trained on my style, my quirks, eight years of blog posts, and the entirety of the last book I wrote (435 pages). I asked it, as a test, to write something for…

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  • Announcing My First Hands-on AI Workshop
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    Announcing My First Hands-on AI Workshop

    ByTris June 27, 2025August 6, 2025

    I am extremely excited to announce the official launch of my hands-on AI for Content Marketers Workshop. This workshop was born out of the work I did developing my Content Marketing Kickstart program. I’ve been refining prompts I use to do the in-depth Brand Voice Guide, Comprehensive Content Audit, and Content Plans and thought, why…

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  • Vibe coding games isn’t frivolous, it’s essential
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    Vibe coding games isn’t frivolous, it’s essential

    ByTris June 2, 2025June 2, 2025

    Learning by doing to see what’s possible I started “vibe coding” before I even knew the term. My first foray was moving multivariate stats analysis of podcast data from Copilot to VS Code so the (stupid) charts would render. Then I used it to parse and re-write a WordPress XML export file to fix some…

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  • Solving My Problems First
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    Solving My Problems First

    ByTris May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

    If you want to really understand what AI can do, you have to do it for yourself first. No, this post isn’t about me working through mental/emotional baggage to be a better person—though the title could work for that too—this is about my approach to learning any new tech I come across. Ever since my…

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  • Are you a carriage maker or a car dealer?
    AI | Content Marketing & Strategy | Generative AI | Work

    Are you a carriage maker or a car dealer?

    ByTris May 4, 2025May 4, 2025

    Like it or not AI is changing the entire nature of work. The question is, will you keep making carriages, or will you start selling cars.

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  • Hiring today is like playing darts blindfolded
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    Hiring today is like playing darts blindfolded

    ByTris May 2, 2025May 2, 2025

    The job of finding a job and hiring for a job is harder and more complex than ever. And AI is only going to make it worse. Just not how you think.

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  • There is No Such Thing as a Secure Encryption Backdoor
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    There is No Such Thing as a Secure Encryption Backdoor

    ByTris April 22, 2025April 22, 2025

    Nothing is secure online if there are backdoors into encryption tools.

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