Tech-Neill-ogy #134 - 10 May 2026

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
May 13, 2026

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Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #134!

I’m here in Sesimbra, Portugal for the annual BMI-Times Higher Education Global Counselor Workshop & Forum. It brings together some 100+ counselors from around the world with nearly 100 universities for some PD sessions and 1v1 meetings. It’s a really amazing event! If you want to be invited, be sure to complete the BMI-THE Counselor Accreditation Program (CAP)! I think it is well worth the time.

And sorry for the lateness of this one!

Anyway, lots of moving parts this week, but I hope you enjoy the newsletter!

Write docs 4x faster. Without hating every second.

Nobody became a developer to write documentation. But the docs still need to get written — PRDs, README updates, architecture decisions, onboarding guides.

Wispr Flow lets you talk through it instead. Speak naturally about what the code does, how it works, and why you built it that way. Flow formats everything into clean, professional text you can paste into Notion, Confluence, or GitHub.

Used by engineering teams at OpenAI, Vercel, and Clay. 89% of messages sent with zero edits. Works system-wide on Mac, Windows, and iPhone.

Study Explores AI-Written Admissions Essays

A review of tens of thousands of admissions essays at a selective college show an increase in homogeneous language after AI tools became available in 2022.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • Johanna Alonso

A Third Way: Rethinking how we structure school in the age of AI.

A proposal for how we can both protect cognitive resilience and take advantage of the benefits of AI for our students.

Jeff Lippman

Get WhatsApp alerts for emails that match keywords in Gmail

Sometimes there actually is a good reason to get more notifications, especially when it helps you avoid opening a busy inbox.

zapier.com/blog/how-to-connect-gmail-to-whatsapp

Using Gemini AI To Prepare For Standardized Tests

Google’s Gemini can provide free, vetted SAT practice tests with real-time feedback. It’s one of the latest AI tutoring features unveiled by the tech giant.

Tech & Learning

Blocking Mobile Internet Boosts Well-being and Attention

467 people turned their iPhones into dumb phones for 2 weeks. Calls and texts only. The results were closer to "new medication" than "digital detox." Here's what the researchers actually did…

LinkedIn

Trickle AI

Turn your ideas into live apps and websites with AI.

trickle.so

JustTheRecipe

A free tool to get just the ingredients and instructions for any recipe page. No life story, popups, or other clutter.

www.justtherecipe.com

Klap | Turn videos into viral TikToks, Reels & Shorts

Klap turns long videos, podcasts and webinars into ready-to-post TikToks, Reels and YouTube Shorts in one click — with AI captions, smart reframing and viral-score insights.

Klap

didocs.ai - Your digital documents powered by AI

Analyze thousands of documents in seconds with intelligent AI assistants - didocs.ai

didocs.ai

Scrybe

Grow your LinkedIn following in less than 5 minutes a day

Scrybe

AI Alone Can’t Run Revenue

Finance doesn’t run on “mostly right.” It runs on math.

In The Architecture Behind AI-Native Revenue Automation, Tabs’s CTO breaks down why LLMs alone aren’t enough—and what it actually takes to build audit-ready, AI-driven contract-to-cash systems for modern B2B teams.

https://www.edficacy.co/ - Tell them Jeff sent you!

I’ll be honest. I use this one all of the time for presentations. I use it so much that ChatGPT knows to make my images in 16:9 format for slide decks. 

Create an image to help me visualize [concept].

Here’s the result from replacing [concept] with “the US style of holistic admissions”:

Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

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Webinars & Live Events Page

Look here for upcoming webinars and other events (and recorded ones) by the College Essay Guy! New events are happening all the time…

www.collegeessayguy.com/webinars-live-events

That’s it for this week, but first…

Five Techniques for Finding Summer Writing Motivation (opinion)

Here are five techniques for refocusing your mind and getting motivated to write this summer, K. Anne Amienne and Daniela Blei write.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs • K. Anne Amienne,Daniela Blei

This week’s non-tech article is a bit different, but I like it. I hope you do, too!

Happy counseling!

Jeff