I discounted Chat GPT when it first came out a few months ago when it reported errors in my own biography including that I graduated from Michigan (Ohio State), received my doctorate at Illinois (Nebraska) and was a professor at CMU (TCU). I came back to it recently and realized that the term “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” is not the correct description for this new technology. A better term is “Generative Intelligence (GI),” These programs work by adding new data and...

I recently spoke with an attorney regarding working with one of his client’s family business’. He described some friction between the family patriarch and his daughter, who was heiress apparent. When I insisted, throughout several preliminary meetings, that I would have to talk with the owner before we proceeded, he told me it was not necessary and he could set everything up. At that point, I told him I was not the right person for the job,  he became a...

I was born into a successful family business that thrived for many years until it all went wrong in the worst possible way. My father’s mother had built a thriving wholesale paint business in New York City, supplying paint to building contractors, paint retailers, and even the State, which used it to paint the iconic George Washington Bridge. Sadly, when my grandmother passed away and the five family members attempted to restructure the business, things began to unravel. Greed took...

As I’ve shared before, my wife Sheila is an amazing dancer, writer, singer, and improvisational performer. She is a “creative.” One of the most wonderful things about living with an artist is that we always live with beauty around us. The downside of living with an artist is that we always live with beauty around us. Of course, for me, who did not grow up in an artistic home, this has all been a fantastic journey to understanding a part...

After last week’s Resilient Wednesday, I got several requests asking for accountability for my mistakes.  My brother, Chuck, asked me to send him a list of my indiscretions, if I could keep it under ten pages. An impossible task. I can, however, share my latest error in judgment. Almost three weeks ago, I had surgery to repair a hernia. While the surgery is routine and relatively straightforward, it does require general anesthetic and intubation.  I had the procedure done laparoscopically...

Although, there have been many times I’ve been wrong, this Resilient Wednesday is not about me. In last Sunday’s New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristoff acknowledged a mistake he made in vilifying President Bush during his term in office.  He shared that it was a tough column for a liberal to write in recognizing that Bush may have started the single best policy of any president in his lifetime. It is the 20th anniversary of George Bush’s program to fight...