I have been known to ask customers and associates, “What was the best thing you learned?” at regular intervals. Jack Gates asked me what I would post as the best thing I had learned in 2010 as we were setting blogging goals for next year. Here are three.
Many Landing Pages - When I figure out something to add to a landing page like my Google Profile, I should think about adding it others, like the Dick Davies Website. People join the conversation from all over.
Browser Hypnosis – There is no substitute for the incredible bandwidth of face-to-face contact. Not every touch, but often.
Best Practices – Real best practices are either blindingly obvious or they are probably not best practices.
What were the best things you learned in 2010?
I tested GPT-5's coding skills, and it was so bad that I'm sticking with
GPT-4o (for now)
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According to my LLM testing, ChatGPT has been the gold standard of
programming tools, but GPT-5 stumbled badly, delivering broken plugins,
flawed scripts, ...