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AI Wants to Do Your Writing: Here’s Where I Say No
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Writing It Yourself Becomes the Opt-Out Having AI write for us is not only an option in most apps, but in some it’s now the default. For instance, in the Superhuman email app, an email that’s in your inbox will be analyzed by the AI, and it will automatically provide several replies that you …
Your Values Need a Verb
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we think of values, we typically think of them as nouns. For example, we talk about integrity, honesty, or family as values. But values as nouns often don’t lead to actions or tell you what you need to do. For that to happen, we need to turn values into verbs. I recently read a …
You’re Not Winging It Wrong
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Lie We All Believe About Everyone Else All of us feel like we’re winging it through life. We feel we don’t have it together, but everyone else does. We look at other people, and especially people we look up to, like creators, productivity gurus, spiritual leaders, and believe they have it all together. We …
The Missing Layer: How Journaling Makes Claude Cowork Smarter
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently, I started using Claude Cowork. I use it for everything from doing research and helping edit blog posts to planning my week, reviewing my day, week, month, and quarter, and publishing my blog posts to WordPress. I’ve been using my journaling in the Day One app as a part of several Claude Cowork skills. …
What to Do When Someone You Love Is Hurting
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Love Isn’t Enough I felt helpless. About six months ago, my wife’s shoulder and arm started to hurt more and more. It got to the point where, for several months, she was in agony. Her arm and shoulder throbbed, and nothing — not hot pads, not cold pads, not medication — seemed to help. …
The AI Revolution is Now: Using The Robot Assistant Field Guide & Claude Cowork to do Your Donkey Work
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Chat Box Era Is Over Until two months ago, the only way we had to interact with AI was to have a conversation. We’d ask it questions, and it would give us answers. The focus was entirely on “prompt engineering,” which was the way you asked questions. We used AI primarily to look up …
Stop Searching for Your One True Purpose
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne Purpose, One Life — Who Invented That Rule? For years, I couldn’t figure out my life purpose. Everyone seemed to have one. I didn’t. That bothered me. When I was growing up, there was an assumption that everyone had a specific life purpose to discover and follow. According to this viewpoint, you were expected …
Updates: What I’ve Been Reading, How I’m using AI, My Writing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve updated my “Updates” page today. I try to update it at least once a month or so. If you are interested in what I’ve been doing this past month, this is the place to go! Subscribe Subscribe to get our latest content by email. We don’t share your information. Subscribe We respect your …
When Too Many Choices Stop Us Cold
Reading Time: 4 minutesA Simple Mug, an Overcomplicated Decision I decide I want to buy a new coffee mug. Seems simple, right? But there are endless options to choose from. What capacity mug do I want? Do I want a ceramic mug? If so, what color? What design? Do I want a heavy one or a light one? …