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Awakening Your Dormant Talents
Do you have a talent that you no longer develop? Do you have some potential that you are no longer using? I wrote about this topic years ago. At that time, I wrote that my dormant talent was coding. I have a background in computer science, but at that time I hadn’t developed an app…

Strategy and Tactics: Two Essential Keys to Success
I recently read Outlive by Peter Attia. It’s a book about longevity that I found insightful. It contains many lessons about different aspects of health. However, what I’d like to share with you here isn’t the health lessons from the book. Instead, it’s a quote by Sun Tzu that I found there: Strategy without tactics…

The Power of Preparation: The Nvidia Story
For the past few months, I’ve been following the world of AI. The development in the field has been accelerating since the launch of ChatGPT in November last year. Bill Gates wrote back in March that the age of AI has begun. One of the winners of this AI boom is Nvidia. Its chips power…

Introducing Bing Chat Masterclass: ChatGPT on Steroids
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a new AI course. Today I’m happy to announce that Bing Chat Masterclass: ChatGPT on Steroids is now available! It’s a course about how to make the most out of Bing Chat, Microsoft’s free AI chatbot. I’m excited about the course because I believe that Bing…

The Coming Threats of Generative AI and What to Do
In my last post, I wrote that there is currently an emergence of AI tools that can create new content, called generative AI. These tools can generate emails, poems, images, and more based on your input (known as prompts). This is a recent development because the tools emerged only in 2022. The underlying technologies have…

Maximizing Your Personal Effectiveness With AI Tools: 4 Tips
Have you noticed a recent trend? More and better AI tools are becoming available. While AI (artificial intelligence) has been around for some time, the tools that came out recently are smarter than ever. DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, for instance, can generate relevant images based on your text prompts. And ChatGPT is surprisingly good at…