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Art as Transformation: timthinks.xyz

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Fake authors and Fake Stories: timthinks.xyz

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AI as a Teammate: timthinks.xyz

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@plante.bsky.social I can second pikapods, it’s a good service

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@plante.bsky.social Rooting for you, good luck!

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Finished reading: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut 📚

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Leadership North Stars: timthinks.xyz

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Productivity Trap with Oliver Burkeman - Big Think: timthinks.xyz

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A good piece by Taylor Lorenz on the responses to the healthcare CEO shooting. Link www.usermag.co/p/yes-we-…

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A short pedantic explainer on why Sam Altman’s note-taking advice is trash. Perfect holiday week content. www.theverge.com/2024/11/2…

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You can now search the web in ChatGPT and it works pretty well on a first impression! Lots of legal and financial issues open ai will need to solve but it is really easy and quick for the user. I’ll be using this a lot!

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I came across this old article in HBR about leaders being good at strategy or execution. They state, “only 16% of top leaders were rated very effective at either strategy or execution.” But look at the chart–it is also possible that people just don’t like their CEOs!

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I just realized that my Reader app (by Readwise) can make quote images–cool! And I just found the new mission statement of my blog! Link

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Here is a great write up from Elena Rossini on her reasons for being wary of the big social media platforms. A nice nugget:

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Social connections became gamified and quantified for the purposes of surveillance capitalism, mediated by Big Tech companies; platforms gave the illusion of offering a service that connects people but made their money from tracking them and serving them ads. People online are “users” (the same language used to describe drug addicts) and content appears in “feeds” (language employed to describe livestock).⁠⁠

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Link here

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The Pudding tested Claude AI to see how well it could replace their work writing data-intensive essays. A fun read that mirrors my experience: the AIs are great at outlining and prototyping ideas but they need a lot of editing to get across the finish line.

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Regarding using AI for translation:

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Another tool it’s developing takes Reels and automatically dubs them into another language, maintaining the creator’s voice and even changing the movements of their mouth to match

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I’ve been waiting for this to happen ever since I first used chatGPT. I’m excited for this to be everywhere. Translation is one of the best features of current AI and is something so obviously beneficial to the world. From the verge

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It basically gives anyone a simple way to do “power user” things on their mac just by typing in whatever they want–it makes my work life far easier and quicker... timthinks.xyz","summary":"","url":"https://timthinks.xyz/2024/09/25/raycast-is-probably.html","date_published":"2024-09-25T15:25:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Tim Molloy","url":"https://timthinks.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F06%2F1649254.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"timthinks"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-25 15:25","date_timestamp":1727277919,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@timthinks/113198885831279417"]}},{"id":"46172577","content_html":"\"Morning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way like this – a ritual, in a deep sense of that word, because what’s key is the observance, not harnessing that observance for some particular outcome. Everyone should have one or two such rituals, if you ask me, to help unclench one’s agitated grip on the world and to encounter reality as it is.\n\nBut in hinting that Morning Pages might improve your life, I’ve already said too much: now there’s a risk you’ll try them in order to achieve that goal. 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Planning is a form of agency, where the AI arrives at conclusions about how to solve a problem on its own, without our help. You can see from the video above that the AI does so much thinking and heavy lifting, churning out complete results, that my role as a human partner feels diminished. It just does its thing and hands me an answer. Sure, I can sift through its pages of reasoning to spot mistakes, but I no longer feel as connected to the AI output, or that I am playing... timthinks.xyz","summary":"","url":"https://timthinks.xyz/2024/09/13/ethan-mollick-on.html","date_published":"2024-09-13T15:34:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Tim Molloy","url":"https://timthinks.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F06%2F1649254.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"timthinks"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-13 15:34","date_timestamp":1726241696,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@timthinks/113130976011165576"]}},{"id":"45387553","content_html":"From Ken Saxon’s newsletter\n\n\"I forgot how challenging it can be to receive a big download of anonymous feedback, and to try to make constructive use of it. As I’ve done my whole life, I skipped right past all the nice things people said and focused on the critiques. When I do that, I find it’s easy to fall into defensiveness or make excuses.\n\nFortunately, I had an executive coach who debriefed the assessment with me. She made sure I took in the complimentary feedback, and she helped me process the critical feedback in the constructive way it was intended — to support my development and our organizat... timthinks.xyz","summary":"","url":"https://timthinks.xyz/2024/09/12/from-ken-saxons.html","date_published":"2024-09-13T01:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Tim Molloy","url":"https://timthinks.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F06%2F1649254.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"timthinks"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-13 01:00","date_timestamp":1726189200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@timthinks/113127536251891390"]}},{"id":"45376112","content_html":"

Getting Podcast Transcripts: timthinks.xyz

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The best RSS and feed app, Reeder, just announced a new version! It seems like it’s an everything feed app, which is a course change for them. I’m excited to try it iOS App Store link

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AI apps and API: timthinks.xyz

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We need a story about when times were hard and showed no sense of ever getting easier, and the heroic path was to believe against all evidence that they would. A story about the fact that there is nothing trite about everyday happiness, and that such happiness persists even when everything else declines. That the Dawnless Days will be followed by a sunrise if we just keep going, keep going, keep going.

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Discussing Tolkien in 2021, in light of the pandemic. Makes me want to read the books again! Link

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Just testing using micro.publish with Obsidian.

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Just testing using micro.piblish with Obsidian.

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