Each month I try to share something I learned. This month the lesson did not come from a data set or a client engagement. It came from a small wooden house full of children’s books. Since 2018, Holland’s two Rotary clubs have partnered with Herrick...
Don’t Overthink It: Building Your First AI Agent in Claude Cowork This month Andy Bass of InnovateAI led a hands-on lunch and learn on building AI agents in the SURGE Training Room at The Next Center in Holland. It drew such interest that he gave it twice, on...
For the past couple of years, most of us have gotten used to a certain rhythm with AI: you ask it a question, it gives you an answer, and the exchange ends there. That is the chatbot model, and it has already changed how I research and write. But a newer term is...
What a 1977 Science Fiction Novel Can Teach Economic Developers Today Nearly fifty years ago, author Thomas J. Ryan imagined a computer program that escaped the boundaries its creator intended for it. In his 1977 novel, The Adolescence of P-1, Ryan introduced P-1, a...
Every economic development professional builds a private mythology around the yes: the signed retainer, the board vote that went our way, the prospect that finally called back. We talk less about the no, which actually fills more of the calendar. I had a clean one...
