The Big Shift Part 3 – The Prototype

As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve started work on a PerformaGo prototype. Had I been working on it this time last year, the prototyping process would have been much less AI assisted than it is right now. Love it or loathe it, AI continues to change and improve at pace. I’m generally trying […]

The Big Shift Part 2 – The Foundational Thinking

The world of EdTech is littered with less than prestigious applications and tools. The majority have some success, a small band of avid users but never get any significant traction. Rather depressingly, a tiny minority become quite successful even though, in my humble opinion, they are not very good. A similar small number are actually […]

The Big Shift Part 1 – The Tech

When I started the PerformaGo Diary last summer, it was all about the AI. The vision was to create an AI-first performance support tool for learning and development. Consequently, many of the posts I wrote during the second half of last year were tech (and more specifically) AI-focused. If you look back and go through […]

Where Did Andrew Go?

The keen-eyed amongst you will have realised that it’s been several months since I last posted in the PerformaGo Diary. Which may have left you wondering, ‘Where did Andrew go?’ Not an unreasonable question, under the circumstances. Well, there’s been a lot going on, that’s for sure. And in case you are wondering, PerformaGo is […]

What Lunch with an AI Mentor Taught Me About Prompt Design

In last week’s post, I wrote about my lunch with AI maestro Scott Schang; and how AI had helped me choose a suitable restaurant for our meet up. I teased about the conversation we’d had and promised to fill in some of the details this week. There’s way too much to go into a single […]

The Lunch That Reopened an AI Door

A few weeks back, an AI mentor of mine landed in London for a few days. I was lucky enough to spend a couple of hours over lunch with Scott Schang, discussing all-things AI; plus a few other interesting topics, too. We went to a great Italian restaurant in the West End called Mortimer House […]

The Determinism Dilemma: Making AI More Reliable

A couple of weeks back, I spent two days in Manchester attending an event organised by Amazon Web Services (AWS) which was all about – yes, you guessed it – AI. Nothing to do with L&D. Actually, quite techie-focused with the opportunity to gets hands-on practice using some of the new tools they have launched […]

In Awe of the Math I’ll Never Do

I recently took something called the PXT Assessment. It’s one of those personality-style assessments often used in HR-Land. In years gone by, I would have been thoroughly sceptical and avoided taking such an assessment like the plague. However, over the years, I have been persuaded to take a few different assessments (like Kolbe, for example) […]

Building Better GPTs: Lessons from ‘Secret Weapons’ in Software

I feel like I discovered some buried treasure this week. What do I mean by this? Software’s buried treasure Well, for a long time, I’ve felt that one of the problems with a lot of technology, software tools and apps is that their real strength and power gets buried away in all the gloss of […]