Every fall, my desktop turns into a trend-report graveyard — PDFs from Whole Foods, Conagra, and every forecasting firm fighting for my attention. This year, I handed the chaos to AI. In minutes, ChatGPT helped me turn hundreds of pages of data into five clear editorial pillars for 2026. The result? Less overwhelm, more insight — and a living roadmap for smarter, story-driven content planning.

A few days ago, the Superhuman newsletter mentioned a free AI Workplace Proficiency Course, and I figured, why not? It looked like it covered things I already knew. Turns out, I didn't know everything.

I'm learning about zero-shot, few-shot and chain-of-thought prompting techniques, but the one that really intrigued me was the tree-of-thoughts.

Last week, I watched Alina Zhang’s LinkedIn Learning class, “Build Your Own GPTs.” Learning the pentagram framework was helpful for me to remember when structuring and training my prompt to provide more accurate responses.

This week, I learned more about Adobe Firefly.