OMGosh. We are living in the future.

I majored in computer science because I believed computers would improve our world in dramatic and important ways. I remember being introduced to the Unix operating system at my first job. At that moment, I knew everything I imagined computers could do would come true in my lifetime.

On my day job laptop, there’s a screensaver that asks, “Did you use GenAI today?” This week, I saw it and realized I had been using GenAI all day. I was working on something, and then I used it again at lunch for a creative project. Soon after OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, I wrote on LinkedIn, “As a writer, you’re either going to be using AI or you’ll be lying.”

GenAI is unlike the last user adoption evangelism I embraced. In the past decade, I was an outspoken advocate for Enterprise users adopting social collaboration tools. I launched two businesses dedicated to this cause. We had a hard time inspiring corporate employees to adopt social tools in their day jobs. Much of that content has been removed from the internet, but here’s a long post detailing that struggle. The author mentions the 9x problem Andrew McAfee referenced in one of his early posts. That era focused on changing behaviors to accelerate sharing and openness in large companies. GenAI is a horse of a different color. You might say GenAI is a horse of all the colors, all the time, and in all the…