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Aspiring artists share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not yet turned pro.
“Aspiring artists share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not yet turned pro. The moment an artist turns pro is as epochal as the birth of his first child. With one stroke, everything changes.” Make 2025 the year that you turn pro in whatever your art may be. Take it seriously. Put…
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VidIQ Keyword Automation Part 1
Starting with a list of keywords, we sort them by their VidIQ scores and select the top 8. In the previous video ( • AI and Automation to add YouTube Vide… ), we asked GenAI to give us 6-8 tags. In this case, we ask for 30 potential keywords that we will whittle down to 8. We start with those keywords in cell A1.…
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Reading Recap: December 2024
Wrapping up December with five more book to reach an even 60 for the year. 🎉 🩹Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath Why do we remember some ideas and why do we immediately forget others. This book covers techniques to create and examples of ideas that people will remember. 🏫Deschooling Society by…
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Suffering. Perspective. Gratitude.
How we suffer tends to adapt to our reality. If we become accustomed to first-class travel, we may suffer when sitting in coach. This isn’t something wrong with us, it’s human nature. We need to watch out for hedonic adaptation and choose our comforts wisely. It has been quite cold where I live this week.…
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AI and Automation to add YouTube Video Description and Keywords
Here is a short video showing how I leveraged AI and automation to reduce the amount of work I need to do to put out content. In this example I start with a text transcript of a video that I uploaded to YouTube. I ask generative AI to create a description and keywords, then run…
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Is Your Manager a Grinch?
Get them the perfect stocking suffer: my book, People Management from the Ground Up. Reading it may or may not cause their heart to grow two sizes, but it will help them balance their many responsibilities. That’s a recipe for a more joyous season for all. This book isn’t just for Grinchy managers; it’s for…
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A Natural Public Speaker
No one was calling me this when my voice cracked, my face flushed, and I tried to hide my sweat and discomfort. I wasn’t afraid of public speaking, my body just refused to let me do it the way I wanted to. I have some unique perspectives, we all do. But those perspectives can’t affect…
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AI Will Accelerate Your Burnout
If you are already on the cusp of burnout and you simply use AI to do the same things faster, your problem will only get worse. I have noticed more and more people offering consulting services on how to use AI to create better work-life balance. While I don’t know the full extent of their…
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Reading Recap: November 2024
Back on track with five down in November and only five more to go in December to hit my goal of 60 books in 2024! Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferris The sheer size of this book is intimidating, but I actually found it to be one of my easiest reads of the year. Short…
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Let the machines write for each other
Writing my own words to communicate to another human being is a sacred act. My thoughtful effort and time investment demonstrate that I value to recipient. Generative AI’s writing capability threatens this social contract if we are not thoughtful about how and when we use it. Like many of us, I am figuring out where…