InnerVentures

  • Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft – round two

    A lot can happen in 31 months. I first wrote about this on February the 4th 2023: Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft Designer. I’ve been using both tools since and one of them has come an extremely long way. But how do they stack up today? I’m not going to go…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Ode to Cape Town and OuterVentures

    Time out from work on vacation is so precious and can have so many amazing benefits. Especially when you do it right. There are many ingredients to doing it right. I’m so grateful for the vacation I was able to take with my family recently. I captured some aspects of it and the ingredients and…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Designing messages for impact

    It’s something that arguably is going to be taken over by AI in the not-too-distant future, but the discerning human eye will always be needed to finetune things. Or so I believe. This post is about the various aspects of design I have been playing with alongside AI to determine the current possibilities. From a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Video for communicating with attention sapped employees

    As if TikTok, Instagram’s Reels, and Snapchat haven’t zapped Gen Z’s attention spans enough, YouTube is now experimenting with a feature that allows users to automatically jump to the best parts of a video. How to create effective employee communications in light of such an environment is what prompted this post. I work with customers on many aspects…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Seeds of potentiality and growth mindset then lived experience

    “Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.” This is a quote from W.H. Murray, penned during or after a Scottish Himalayan expedition he was on and it’s a fitting…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • In an age of more the value of less

    As the featured image suggests, this is a thought rocket, some sensemaking on the fly – essentially some quick thoughts on a recent development, announcement, something random, etc. In this post, it’s the latter, and I’m experimenting with a new format. The format is basically an Instagram post with multiple images I created, in a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • A fire in my head

    I’ve been writing a lot about AI recently. I work with the technology every day and I’m doing research for a new trend report on the subject. I’m drowning in AI. This post is about writing, creativity, ideas and the importance of this faced with an onslaught of AI. I often write to sense make.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Dont outsource all reasoning and communication to AI

    Charlie Munger (may he RIP) once said on AI: ‘I think old-fashioned intelligence works pretty well’. He was well known to have been sceptical of many things related to AI. Think what you may of him, he was a rather successful businessman who made many good decisions in his life, so I’d be inclined to…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The powers and limitations of generative AI in writing

    I think there are broadly three areas in which Generative AI is having an impact on creativity and/or productivity at work. I asked ChatGPT to elaborate on the three and the result I got is below. A great result if I may say and far better than I could have done in the time. So…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Homo Sapiens – the rise to AI and beyond

    One of the most talked about impacts of AI that I have been reading about, is on the creative side. That is, the ability of AI to produce creative work and replace humans in that area, e.g. marketers, copywriters, designers, artists, musicians, etc. I write about creativity a lot being of the type, or so…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • When life and the Bots beat down – Art

    We are going through trying times – economically, politically, environmentally, etc. While these times should pass, at least in some areas, the pace of technological change likely wont. If anything, it will speed up. A case in point, recent announcements in AI which I am writing about. As much as I am a technophile, it…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Poll of Life – where do you stand

    There’s nothing worse than going through difficult times and we sure are going through one of those at the moment. It’s bad no doubt about it and could still get worse. I’m referring to the war in Ukraine of course, the economy, the cost of living crisis, the layoffs, take your pick. And this is…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft Designer

    ℹ️ NOTE: Read this updated post for changes, exactly 31 months after the first post below: Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft – round two. I’ve been using Canva for many years now and pay for the Pro version. £9.99 per month is not that cheap but I have definitely received value from my…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Digital Transformation and the human wall of resistance

    This DanelDoodle is a play on an original Tom Gauld cartoon and I create it with the utmost respect for a master doodler and sense maker. His cartoon, which I cannot find on his site that I linked to, was around (social) revolution – part in brackets mine. Mine focuses on an area of work…

    Stephen Danelutti