Scott S Nelson
@scottsnelson1.bsky.social
An accidental IT guy that is happy with the accident.
Efficiency often becomes a trap where new tools increase the workload rather than the quality of life.
This post explores the historical pattern of labor saving technology, from the plow to the AI agent, and explains why we must break the cycle of the 72-hour work week.
This post explores the historical pattern of labor saving technology, from the plow to the AI agent, and explains why we must break the cycle of the 72-hour work week.
A Silver Bullet should Break Golden Chains
So why do we keep missing?
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February 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Efficiency often becomes a trap where new tools increase the workload rather than the quality of life.
This post explores the historical pattern of labor saving technology, from the plow to the AI agent, and explains why we must break the cycle of the 72-hour work week.
This post explores the historical pattern of labor saving technology, from the plow to the AI agent, and explains why we must break the cycle of the 72-hour work week.
Is "frictionless" AI in schools empowering us, or just engineering our own atrophy? If the machine does the mental heavy lifting, what’s left for us? theitsolutionist.com/2026/01/26/t...
The Frictionless Trap: AI’s Greatest Benefit is also a Hidden Risk
I’m a big fan of classic sci-fi, but recent news about AI in schools feels less like Heinlein and more like H.G. Wells. If we use AI to remove every hurdle in learning, are we empowering ourselves or ...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Is "frictionless" AI in schools empowering us, or just engineering our own atrophy? If the machine does the mental heavy lifting, what’s left for us? theitsolutionist.com/2026/01/26/t...
The AI disruption hasn't cycled to disruptors with AI...yet
Why Bigger Companies Move Faster than You in the AI Adoption Race theitsolutionist.com/2026/01/21/w...
Why Bigger Companies Move Faster than You in the AI Adoption Race theitsolutionist.com/2026/01/21/w...
Why Bigger Companies Move Faster than You in the AI Adoption Race
It’s a common myth that small companies always win the tech adoption race. With Generative AI, the opposite is true. Explore why billion-dollar enterprises are productionizing AI agents at record spee...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The AI disruption hasn't cycled to disruptors with AI...yet
Why Bigger Companies Move Faster than You in the AI Adoption Race theitsolutionist.com/2026/01/21/w...
Why Bigger Companies Move Faster than You in the AI Adoption Race theitsolutionist.com/2026/01/21/w...
Blurring the conceptual lines between NLP 🤖 and NLP 🤯: scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/mll-metaph...
MLL: Metaphorical Language License
That headline is an epic fail at being clever. Clearly no AI there. Going to go with it anyway to make a point or two.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Blurring the conceptual lines between NLP 🤖 and NLP 🤯: scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/mll-metaph...
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The Richest Man in Babylon
Rooted in evergreen principles rather than get-rich-quick gimmicks, is an indispensable read, providing solid, simple guidance on how to achieve financial security and success.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Help with your New Year's finance resolution for $2: amzn.to/3L3Kq7g
Ran across this while cleaning out my DESK money.theitsolutionist.com/children-ret...
Children, return to your DESK - Cheap, Lazy, Investor
One thing I do offline is regularly review my strategy for each of my holdings. That is a C. And...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Ran across this while cleaning out my DESK money.theitsolutionist.com/children-ret...
If you follow my investing blog, it's changing.
If you don't follow my investing blog...it's changing!
#2026newyou
Happy New You money.theitsolutionist.com/happy-new-you/
If you don't follow my investing blog...it's changing!
#2026newyou
Happy New You money.theitsolutionist.com/happy-new-you/
Happy New You - Cheap, Lazy, Investor
Happy New Year investing blog post on discipline, independent stock entries, and ticker-tagged content to help readers track performance and follow along with future market insights and portfolio upda...
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January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
If you follow my investing blog, it's changing.
If you don't follow my investing blog...it's changing!
#2026newyou
Happy New You money.theitsolutionist.com/happy-new-you/
If you don't follow my investing blog...it's changing!
#2026newyou
Happy New You money.theitsolutionist.com/happy-new-you/
Even the most common tools evolve...when the user do, too.
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When everyone has a hammer…
Getting down to the basics of tools
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January 4, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Even the most common tools evolve...when the user do, too.
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Get Certified as an Agentforce Specialist theitsolutionist.com/2025/12/19/g...
Get Certified as an Agentforce Specialist
Most readers of this post will be too late to take the exam for free . . . which is why I am writing it. I’ve been following the Salesforce Quests for years now. I first became aware of them… <p clas...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Get Certified as an Agentforce Specialist theitsolutionist.com/2025/12/19/g...
I usually will write something as a blog post first, but this started as a short LinkedIn post, which received two likes in less than 10 minutes after posting, so I decided to re-post it here.
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Is Your Team Focused or Fragmented?
and why?
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December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I usually will write something as a blog post first, but this started as a short LinkedIn post, which received two likes in less than 10 minutes after posting, so I decided to re-post it here.
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If you build it, will they use it? Do they even want it?
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How to Foster AI Adoption from the Bottom Up
Top down thinking about the bottom line
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December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you build it, will they use it? Do they even want it?
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For those who don't use Alexa, you can also search for "thank my driver" on the website and click the link at the top of the results.
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Amazon's Thank My Driver feature: How it works and how you can show appreciation all year long
Customers can thank their driver for their most recent delivery while shopping on Amazon or on Alexa-enabled devices.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For those who don't use Alexa, you can also search for "thank my driver" on the website and click the link at the top of the results.
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Reposted by Scott S Nelson
New ebook edition of my Hugo Award-nominated ROLLBACK, a novel about love — and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New ebook edition of my Hugo Award-nominated ROLLBACK, a novel about love — and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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How not to actively manage your portfolio:
PagerDuty, Inc. (PD) money.theitsolutionist.com/pd/
PagerDuty, Inc. (PD) money.theitsolutionist.com/pd/
PagerDuty, Inc. (PD) - Cheap, Lazy, Investor
In at $11.39 today. Setting an alert for 10% either way to consider my approach further. I made some mistakes...
money.theitsolutionist.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
How not to actively manage your portfolio:
PagerDuty, Inc. (PD) money.theitsolutionist.com/pd/
PagerDuty, Inc. (PD) money.theitsolutionist.com/pd/
Pushing the limits of AI augmented authorship.
scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/ai-vs-ai
scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/ai-vs-ai
AI vs AI
Confessions of a wannabe slopper
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November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Pushing the limits of AI augmented authorship.
scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/ai-vs-ai
scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/ai-vs-ai
Another dumpster-diving success story:
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (MLTX) money.theitsolutionist.com/mltx/
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (MLTX) money.theitsolutionist.com/mltx/
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (MLTX) - Cheap, Lazy, Investor
Another dumpster-diving success story. In on 9-29-25 at $6.66 (was it a sign)? Today it doubled, so set a stop...
money.theitsolutionist.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Another dumpster-diving success story:
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (MLTX) money.theitsolutionist.com/mltx/
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (MLTX) money.theitsolutionist.com/mltx/
I'm kind of glad that I ran in to another real-world example of deceptive AI, because it gave me a chance to finally create a feature image with Generative AI to accompany the post that came out like I wanted it to 😁
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If you fail, you must prevail!
How one LLM took this as a command
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November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'm kind of glad that I ran in to another real-world example of deceptive AI, because it gave me a chance to finally create a feature image with Generative AI to accompany the post that came out like I wanted it to 😁
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My first website was nothing but science fiction book reviews, and this book reminded me how satisfying that can be. scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/a-quick-re...
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My first website was nothing but science fiction book reviews, and this book reminded me how satisfying that can be. scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/a-quick-re...
A CLI win with COMPASS Pathways plc (CMPS) money.theitsolutionist.com/cmps/
COMPASS Pathways plc (CMPS) - Cheap, Lazy, Investor
Another Bargain Basement biotech buy where dumpster-diving paid off...Worse that can happen now is breaking even...or not making as much if it takes off, depending how you look at it.
money.theitsolutionist.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A CLI win with COMPASS Pathways plc (CMPS) money.theitsolutionist.com/cmps/
Back to posting to the Cheap, Lazy Investor:
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November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Back to posting to the Cheap, Lazy Investor:
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This is what happens when you forget to include "cite your sources" in the prompt!
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An Example of Deceptive AI
Do AIs dream of wireless lie detectors?
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October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is what happens when you forget to include "cite your sources" in the prompt!
scottsnelson1.substack.com/p/an-example...
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