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Most people don’t realize that they are not limited to “plain text” output from text-based AI tools like ChatGPT.

Here is a line directly from OpenAI’s documentation about ChatGPT:“ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers…”

If you are an artist, graphic designer, or someone else who needs a unique creative piece of work, you can use AI tools to generate initial ideas or even images.

If you have a long online document or PDF, you can use an AI tool like ChatGPT to review the entire piece and give you a summary.  This can be useful with large or complex documents.

ChatGPT was designed to assume information that is not given.  This is what the documentation says:

A persona in this case is simply a role.

Adding a persona to your prompt will give context for the type of response that you are looking for.  

Consider the following prompts

A lot of people will try an AI tool like ChatGPT a few times, not like the results that they get, and never use the tool again.  Don’t be one of those people.

While the tools are designed to be used by “non-techie” people, there is still a learning curve and you won’t get...

Kahneman talks about two selves in how we experience the world—the experiencing self (essentially the “being present” self) and the remembering self (essentially the “living in the past” self). 

Damien and I just had a most interesting philosophical conversation about knowledge. 

We talked about something random, and he said (jokingly), “Everybody knows that.” 

It got me thinking: is there any universal knowledge that “everybody” actually knows?

After much thought...

I am always looking for new methods to improve my time management. It is almost to a level of fascination to me when I find a new tip or trick that saves me time—even if it is just a small amount. So when I found Dave Crenshaw’s training videos on LinkedIn, I was hooked!