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of Coffee Break Newsletter. I’m writing here to share my experiences and help you cut through the noise.Newsletter contents
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I write here about a wide range of topics aligned with my broad professional and personal experience and passions. Sections of this newsletter include agile (with a “little A”), Business, Culture, Data, Equity, and Technology. (I also now have a Substacking section, which is about using Substack effectively.) Subscriptions to sections can be managed individually, if you like; instructions are here.
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If you’re interested in even more on data and AI (“all AI, all the time”), check out 6 ‘P’s in AI Pods. I run this newsletter too, and I write in it about ethical AI, together with a few collaborators. We go deeper on how ethical principles and how use and misuse of AI and data affect Products, Platforms, People, Places, Practices, and Processes.
My Publishing Policies
Use of AI for ‘writing’ articles and posts has become common. Not here.
I’m committing that every newsletter post I publish will be 100% hand-written by me, not generated by any AI tool. Here’s why.
I don’t use AI-based image generators that aren’t ethically trained. This post explains why. (Same goes for music or video.)
The tools I do use are listed here.
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