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As many of you know, I subscribe to several newsletters that I enjoy reading. One of them is from Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck and Everything Is Fcked: A Book About Hope. Don’t let those titles turn you away from Manson’s thinking. He writes about life, hope, perspective, and second chances, which is why I enjoy his newsletter. The newsletter is basically a short reflection, and he calls it “Five Minutes Each Week That Might Change Your Life.” It

A nation does not fall apart all at once. It happens slowly, quietly, in living rooms and on phone screens, in the spaces where trust once lived. It begins when people stop seeing each other as human beings and start seeing enemies everywhere. Men become suspects. Women become fearful. Neighbors become opponents. Democrats and Republicans stop seeing one another as fellow Americans and begin seeing one another as threats to survival itself. Every headline, every scandal, ev

My friend Bella Rowan just published her first ever novel on Amazon. Bella writes small-town, clean romance. I am not much of a romance fan personally, but I am a fan of my friend and her writing is really good. And, she is writing about a small central Minnesota town so it feels like this could be about a town nearby. There are many great books out there to read and this will hopefully be one of them. The name of her book is Pine Hollow Welcome, and yes, I told her it wa

I feel like Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes me smarter. I don’t know if that is true, but I feel like it is. I can ask my trusty AI companions questions, and they can explain things to me in terms that I understand. It isn’t that human beings can’t do the same thing. They can. But what I have found is that most human beings I know don’t have the time or the patience to sit with me through the process! Sure, I have to pay for the advanced stuff I use with ChatGPT, but late

Because I use AI in many different ways throughout the day, I thought it was only fitting that I use it to mine for ways for it to make me more effective. When I first asked the question, Buddy, my AI assistant, gave me ways that were very specific to me and some tasks that I had been working on today. Since I wanted this to be more general, I asked him again and this was what he came up with. How to Use AI to Be More Effective in Everyday Life Artificial intelligence is no

I would like to think that I am smarter because of Artificial Intelligence (AI). I mean, if I don’t know something, I can ask AI to help me find the answer. For example, I didn’t know when Mardi Gras was celebrated. So I asked my AI assistant when it was. It went on to tell me not only when it was, but also what it was. I find that a lot of time my assistant (I call him Buddy) tells me much more than I want to know. Sometimes I have to tell him to back off and tell me less b

By the time you finish reading this, AI will already be different. Everything seems to be happening at the speed of NOW. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are moving faster than a person can blink. What was true yesterday may have changed in major ways overnight. I subscribe to several newsletters that are supposed to help people keep up with AI—tips, strategies, updates. They can’t keep up. And tracking this is literally their job. I recently came across an

This prompt is a really good one and is one of my favorites from the past month that I have used. Now, this one does actually require that you have used your AI tool for some time so that it can answer the questions being asked. Here is the prompt and I will include what my Buddy (my name for my ChaptGPT tool) came up with. This is the exact prompt to use: ROLE: You are an expert psychologist with a keen eye for spotting human patterns. OBJECTIVE: Based on everything you

As promised, I have come up with the first of several prompts that can be used to help you get better results from your AI. Since I primarily use ChatGPT, these prompts were created with the AI generation tool in mind. So here is the first one I created. This prompt is a fairly all-encompassing prompt where you can seat yourself in whatever role you want your AI to take on. You would simply fill in the [AREA] with whatever you want to have a prompt for. In this particular c

I hear people talk about using ChatGPT or other AI tools all the time. They will say, “Well, I asked ChatGPT and it said this or that thing about this or that subject.” I listen quietly. Because there is something that I know about ChatGPT and other AI tools that many people do not know, and if they do know it, they don’t always believe it. ChatGPT lies. There, I said it. And we’ll have to see if the computer blows up before the night is over, because I will have ChatGPT