During the Spring of 2025, I put this prompt into ChatGPT: “Draft a blog post on realtor associations and financial sustainability during a time on potential consolidation, risks to the industry, negative media coverage, and potential loss of revenue from MLS decoupling and the removal of the NAR three way agreement” I deliberately wrote...
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New ways to look at content management: ProcessWire
Another way of looking at WordPress’ usage showing it on more than 25% of all websites on earth is that about 75% of all websites on earth are running something else. That should be enough of an incentive to pique a designer’s or developer’s curiosity. Because I love dabbling in language, I also like...
Will Jane Austen Pay my Taxes?
Scammers are stealing your money, angry taxpayers complain about paying taxes, and people disagree about, well, everything. Reality is never what it seems....
Where’s My Wow? Behind the rejection of an enterprise software sales pitch
Someone in my professional network once told me that his company had just declined to purchase a major enterprise software solution which, he admits, the company urgently needed. The software solution covered accounting, cash management, inventory control and procurement. All critical functions. It would have replaced their existing management software which was buggy and...
How my two least favorite words actually tell your story the best
I learned the word “curator” as a kid in elementary school while reading a fictional story about an art heist at a museum. The museum’s curator wasn’t happy about that. The word “curate” has since been used in many – too many – other ways. I thought it was an overdone example of storytelling...