Category: Persuasive Professional
Power of Incantations
I’ve been playing around with YouTube shorts which are 15-60 seconds long. Thought I’d turn some of my bazillion tweets into shorts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In the most recent one I talk about what “abracadabra” & “I can’t find my keys” have in common. Give it a watch. 59 seconds. BAM! Best thoughts,~Jonathan
Genie Stories
How do you feel about stories where someone gets exactly what they ask for but in a twisted way that nobody would ever want? I kind of like them. Sure, they’re mostly moralizing tales warning us against the dangers of greed & avarice. But it sure is fun seeing that twist at the end. Schadenfreude,…
Your Own Personal AI Assistant
Last week’s video about using ChatGPT to code an app I’ve always wanted went viral (for me at 1400 views). And life moves fast. See, ChatGPT needs a $20/month subscription & the engineers make sure to keep the AI on the “only acceptable answers about approved topics” track. Not any more. There’s a mad genius…
What Do You Need Online?
When it comes to staying in touch with friends, what tools do you need? I’d like to chat with one friend (Direct Messages). I’d like to chat with more than one friend (Chat Room). I’d like to have a place where we could all share our thoughts in longform format (blog/notebook). I’d like to keep…
The Hidden Lesson Behind Today’s Video
New video is up & ready to watch! There’s a huge lesson that I don’t talk about in the video and that’s the power of figuring out how to use tools to build processes that suit you & your needs. The focus of the video is how I built a personal journal / database that…
The Whole Stack
Hope you had a great Easter; I certainly did. And now it’s back to the topic at hand: fixing the internet. If we want new online networks we need new protocols. If we want new protocols we need new servers. If we want new servers we need new programming languages. If we want new programming…
Better Is Bigger
It’s a rainy morning today, and the baby’s down for her nap so I’m sneaking a hot second to shoot you a note. Even though I’ve taken several days to go over the origins of our internet problems, there’s still a lot we haven’t gone over, but you get the idea: the problems we’re experiencing…
Why Does It Matter If They Own My Data?
Before I got distracted with Chat GPT, we were talking about how Facebook is simple enough for Grandma to use it but it comes with the Faustian bargain that every single interaction and every single detail about every interaction is the property of Facebook. Some of the things they keep track of: All this information…
It’s A Hit!
1,400+ views on my Chat GPT 4 video in under 24 hours. That’s a new record for me. And I’ve gotten a lot of DMs, emails, and comments from people who had no idea it could do stuff like that. Exactly why I do this! I love helping people recognize their creative potential with new…
My Favorite Question
Somewhere along the line I remember hearing: “The harder it is to explain your line of work, the more money you make.” ~Somebody somewhere sometime probably I don’t think it’s true in 100% of cases, but I find it more true than not. Which brings me to how I explain what in the world I…