In Case You Missed Them: Top 5 Articles Worth Sharing in 2023

This year I found all kinds of stuff worth sharing, from the cosmic & philosophical to the nitty-gritty &  practical. In case you missed them, here are my picks for the top five articles I posted in 2023. Hope you find them interesting!

Inside the Black Box: Thoughts on Judgement, Intuition, Synthesis & Artificial Intelligence

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The end of 2022 (November 30, to be exact) saw the introduction of Chat GPT. After playing around with it a while, I shared my reactions and discussed what I saw as the implications for content creators. See: Inside the Black Box: Thoughts on Judgement, Intuition, Synthesis & Artificial Intelligence

Bonus: Check out ChatGPT is one year old. Here’s how it changed the tech world. from Ars Technica.

Smart speaker not useful? Give it more smart things to control!

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As my wife will tell you, I am a super-geeky early adopter of all kinds of tech gizmos and gadgets. Some are productivity enhancers and others are just cool, fun conveniences to have in our house. Given my own relationship with smart things, I am always amazed when someone says, "I got one of those smart speakers [Google Home, Amazon Echo, etc.] and I don't think it's all that useful."  My reaction: "What!! Well, you need to fire up your imagination and put these things to work for your family!"

In the article Smart speaker not useful? Give it more smart things to control! I share a typical "day in the life..." of our smart speakers & connected devices. It's loaded with practical, real-world applications that you can apply to your home to make your smart things more useful.  

A Curated, 21-Video Study Guide for Absolute AI (Artificial Intelligence) Newbies: What It Is, Where You Can Play with It & How We Might Want to Shape Its Role in Our Lives

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The title says it all: This is my easy-to-assimilate video intro to AI (artificial intelligence).  

One Year Later: How Our Chromebook is Working Out

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That graphic above tells the story: No Windows, Only Chromebook: 1 Year Later.  This is my review of our new life without Windows in Google's Chrome OS world. (Spoiler: It's just fine!)

My Three Websites: A Lot of Stuff Worth Sharing

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In this article, I remind readers that I have a couple of other "frozen" websites that are loaded with tools and information to help manage projects and teams. 

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So that's it. Just wanted to make sure you didn't miss these articles that you might find useful or thought-provoking. 

Happy Holidays!

My Three Websites: A Lot of Stuff Worth Sharing

My websites: 1 active & 2 archived ("frozen")

Over five years ago I launched this website, Mike Greer's WORTH SHARING. In doing so, I decided to "freeze" a couple of my other websites in order to focus on more eclectic, wide-ranging topics that sparked my interest. At the same time, I wanted to make sure that all the content previously assembled for helping new project managers and their teams would remain easily accessible. 

The bottom line: All my new stuff is available right here at my WORTH SHARING website, while PM resources and inspirational tools and media for teams remain available at the two "frozen" sites. At the time of the "freezing" I explained the distinctions here.

Today, the only way you might know that these sites still exist (and that they have good stuff to share!) is if you happen to see the understated menu links under "Go to My Other Websites" on this site's home screen. So, in case you missed them, I hereby re-introduce you to my three websites, all of which include good stuff worth sharing!  Enjoy! 

Screwed up projects? Here's a PM Minimalist quick fix strategy!

The PM Minimalist Quick Start Checklist: Helping You Solve Your PM Puzzle!

Budget overruns, schedule delays, unsatisfied customers, low quality deliverables... Whether it's a DIY project at home or a complex new initiative for your organization these symptoms of poor project management (PM) are the same. But you don't need PMP certification or extensive training in project management to address these problems and make sure your projects run smoothly.  In fact, you can make substantial improvements with a quick and easy-to-use one page checklist! 

When I first introduced the PM Minimalist approach I developed this checklist so that PM newbies could ease themselves into taking charge of their projects. Check out the article below, from my PM Resources Archives website, for details. It will help you unscramble your project puzzles and make the pieces fit!

NOTE Regarding Updated Links

You might find a few "dead links" to the free PM Minimalist tools referenced in the archived article linked below. Some of the stuff has moved since this was first published. Not to worry! Below is an updated list of links where you can download all the documents from my PM Minimalist collection at Internet Archive as free PDFs, including the entire PM Minimalist book. 

• The PM Minimalist Quick Start Guide: The Absolute Least You Can Do -- Includes 1-page Quick Start Checklist, Quick Start Post Mortem Worksheet and other quick-references and tools.
• The Project Management Minimalist: Just Enough PM to Rock Your Projects! [2nd Edition] -- The entire book in PDF form, absolutely free! It contains 122 succinct pages of PM guidance, including 35 PM tools with PM "Minimalist Squeeze" strategies for tightening up your PM, and more! 
• ALL PM Minimalist References, Media & Tools, free at my Internet Archives "Favorites" Collection -- All the PM Minimalist stuff, including videos, audios, coaching guidelines and even a do-it-yourself PM workshop outline. 

Click the image below to go to the archived article & video overview. 

Interested in more PM tools, videos and lots of other free stuff? 

• Check out the complete inventory of resources at my PM Resources Archives website. 
• Check out this list of all my archived publications, stashed forever and downloadable, at Internet Archives.

Enjoy!