Sometimes I have trouble sleeping through the night. Often, the only thing that helps me lull back to sleep is to listen to an audiobook. There are nights I have to start my audiobook several times. Wouldn’t it be interesting, I thought, to track how often this happens per night and when? Unfortunately, Audible doesn’t…
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Use ChatGPT calculate your training plan
When it comes to running, I’ve gotten injuries before because I have increased my mileage too fast. They say you should increase the distance and intensity no more than 10% a week. Right now, I’m at around 5 Kilometers per Week and I want to run a 16k (10 miles) race in May. I’m terrible…
Use ChatGPT for ideas for a yearly reflection
I have my own set of questions and prompts that I ask myself at the end of every year to look back. Those include: One can, of course, also ask ChatGPT for reflective questions, and I did. Prompt What are some good reflection questions at the end of the year? Answer from ChatGPT Reflecting at…
A New and Better Way to Track Habits: The Life Dashboard
Looking for a more comprehensive way to track your habits and behaviors? The Life Dashboard offers both yes/no tracking and effort rating to give you a full picture of your progress.
The AI Revolution is Here – Right At My Doorstep
Moments before I finished typing up my experience of having an artificial intelligence (AI) generate a hundred portraits of me, an e-mail arrived in my inbox: I was allowed early access to a text editor with an integrated AI for writing. I played around with it and soon found, with amazement, that the software was…
An AI Created 112 Portraits of Me – It’s Quite Uncanny
One day last week, I got up early, started brewing some coffee and sat down at my desk to write. And then proceeded to spend the next 45 minutes uploading 20 photos of me from different angles so an Artificial Intelligence (AI) could generate 112 portraits of me. The morning didn’t go as planned, and…
How Hundreds of Strangers Helped Me Write My Bachelor Thesis
I wish I had had the guts to do it. Earlier this year I handed in my Bachelor thesis and got it back with the top grade. What a success for a procrastinator like me! Alas, in my acknowledgements I left out some of the most important contributors to my success: My virtual coworkers at…
Feeling inadequate? Think about how long it took us to invent the wheeled suitcase
Human progress is amazing. We’ve come from living in cages to building space rockets and a global communication network that allows two people on opposite ends of the planet to have a real time, visual conversation thanks to supercomputers that fit into our pockets. Many innovations were inevitable. If, for example, whoever invented the wheel…
I declare Netflix Bankruptcy
There used to be a time where a good TV show was a cultural happening. Whenever it was on, people would gather around the apparatus, eyes glued to the screen. A good series stood out because the medium was dominated by mediocre programmes, so it was obvious what could not be missed. Those days are…
First Brainers vs. Second Brainers – or: how important is memory?
I frequent a corner of the internet where people are occupied with figuring out the best ways to organize their personal knowledge. This includes finding the perfect software to take notes, strategies for making information more useful and also ways to leverage your own memory. But, when it comes to memory, there is some disagreement…