It started with a tickle in my throat. Friday morning. First sore throat of the year. I was furious. I’d made it almost twelve months without a single cold (a personal record) and now my immune system had decided to clock off early. But instead of sulking, I decided to experiment. What if I used AI to get over my cold faster? I opened Consensus.app , which scans academic journals for actual research (not influencer opinions). I set it to M edical mode (searching ONLY medical journals) and...

Today's newsletter is a triple-threat (or perhaps more accurately, broken into three parts). 1. Winner winner chicken dinner So last night, I was a finalist in the Australian AI Awards and holy crap, I won AI Consultant of the Year. I was stoked just to be a finalist (and yes, I know that's what everyone who has ever been up for an award says, but seriously: legit happy). Anyway, I was in total shock when my name got called out and have absolutely no idea what words came out of my mouth when...

Have you been getting buried under an avalanche of polished-looking documents that turn out to be total rubbish? You're not going mad – AI slop is officially everywhere, and it's making our workdays a nightmare. What the hell is "AI Slop"? Think of AI slop as the workplace equivalent of junk food – it looks appealing from the outside, but there's zero nutritional value. It's those 10-page documents that someone clearly pumped out in five minutes using ChatGPT, complete with fancy formatting...