Ask Rands

Happy Monday.

I continue to avidly play with the robots on a daily basis. One of the more helpful use cases is summarization. Plop in the long, useless marketing email from United and figure out if there's something useful in my endless quest for airline status. The answer: it usually finds something worth my time. More importantly, I don't have to read a long, useless email.

Over on the Rands Leadership Slack, I get a lot of questions about "Did you write about wolves at some point?" Which I did, and I'm happy to share that link, but through the gift of the robots, I've now built a tool that will answer these questions and more.

https://randsinrepose.com/ask/

Grumbles is the anthropomorphized robot that lives on my Mac Studio, and he's sassy. I like that he has a backstory. I asked him to answer your questions, and he does... reluctantly.

Important to note: Grumbles only synthesizes from what he's handed from the Rands writing corpus. He's not using general knowledge except to understand how to read and what words mean — the thoughts, strategy, and content are all mine. The snark is his, and I love it.

This is version two of this toy. I shared version one on Rands Leadership Slack last week, and they greatly improved the service.

Please feel free to ask me or Grumbles questions.

Rands.