Welcome to the first post of (what I hope to be) a successful project. I wanted to start a blog to share what I’ve learned from using AI, my thoughts on teaching college, and where I feel the world and workforce are moving regarding the emerging technology of AI.

It’s important to state from the onset that the thoughts shared here, on this platform, are my own. Also, I am not using any AI generation to write blog posts. What you read is me…a human, and more than likely, making some human errors in English grammar. I’ve been known to make a lot of those.

How did I get to this point in my life where I wanted to start a blog? Great question. Here’s some context.

In the Summer of 2024, I spent a few days at Harvard Business School. While there, I got in a side conversation with a faculty member who mentioned in their twenty years at HBS, they’ve never seen a job market like the current one for new MBA grads. Bluntly, the future job market is not nearly as good as used to be for Harvard MBAs. What was going on? The suspected culprit was the rise in artificial intelligence and its ability to augment certain human-driven tasks. Newly minted MBAs were not in demand as much at large banks and investment firms to do the “grunt” work.

This really got me thinking (and I am still thinking about this). Am I, as a college professor, preparing my students for their career the best way possible?

At the end of the day, I would argue that most college degree programs graduate students to be “problem solvers.” With the disruption of AI on the horizon, how can students disrupt anything with they are being disrupted themselves?

So, here we are. I created a blog called Tenure and Tech with my buddy JD, where we want to share what we have found exploring the changing world of AI, and how we can better prepare our students across colleges and universities across the world.

To echo what Bruce Lee said, “To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.” Let’s explore these opportunities together.