Holiday season is in full swing… Santa has come and gone but there's still enough champagne in the fridge for New Year's!

Took an interesting "course" with Jeremy Utley - it reinforced my recent learning and thinking about AI: you need to work with it everyday. Not just as a tool but as a sounding board, an idea generator, a constructive critic (although it's so damn positive it's a bit weak at that). In other words as a partner.

I started a conversation yesterday with my AI (tweaked for what I think is important) about goals, personal and professional, for 2026. This conversation will continue all year I suspect… and it really is a conversation. To heck with typing - it's too artificial. People (at least me) talk! So, we're talking.

This begs the Turing test issue but that's for another day.

And for you project managers out there: I just responded to a PMI poll about what is my number one PM priority. There were five options. "Mastering AI tools for PM" is in first place with 64.7% of the vote… next closest is 11.8%… so, AI and PM is NOT going away in 2026!