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The Sunday Summary: Galaxy Z Fold8, Machines of Connection, and Google Local results are becoming AI-powered

Reading Time: 2 minutes Here s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past week Noteworthy articles that I read Books that I m reading I read for a total of 9:54 last week with the following: Tech Rec Stealing the idea from my friends [ ]

Will AI help to preserve knowledge?

Reading Time: 2 minutes I love being able to look at photos and videos of my children, and I always try to remember that for nearly all of history, that was impossible. If someone was gone (whether passed away or simply out of the room), all you had was your memory, and memories tend to fade. I m so thankful [ ]

Machines of Connection

Reading Time: 2 minutes As time goes by, I find myself using AI more and more often to connect with other people? AI is certainly going to cost jobs and cause some degree of problems around the world, but you have a choice as to whether you use it to connect more with others or put more distance between [ ]

Captivate, by Vanessa Van Edwards

Reading Time: 2 minutes Now that I’m using Reading Refresh to keep myself up to date on books I’ve read in the past, I thought I’d share some of them as they came back up. Today is Vanessa Van Edwards’ “Captivate“. This book is also available as a free flashcard deck on Ripple Recall. Vanessa Van Edwards has written [ ]

Google Local results are becoming AI-driven

Reading Time: 2 minutes For quite a few years now companies would track how they ranked in Google across their local area, using tools like this to show their rank in different parts of their city. The reliability of these has faded a bit over the years, as Google increasingly customized search results, but now their reliability might be [ ]

5 Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell

Reading Time: 2 minutes Now that I’m using Reading Refresh to keep myself up to date on books I’ve read in the past, I thought I’d share some of them as they came back up. Today is 5 Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell, which I first read back in 2020. This book is also available as a free [ ]

The Galaxy Z Fold8

Reading Time: 2 minutes I ve been a fan of folding phones for a while now, going back to the first Pixel Fold in 2023. In a way, with this new phone, I ve just gone back to that. The first Pixel Fold was a passport -style phone, where it was a bit shorter and wider than other phones. This made the [ ]

The Sunday Summary: Better analytics, query fan-outs, and an amazingly weird phone from Samsung

Reading Time: 2 minutes Here s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past week Noteworthy articles that I read Books that I m reading I read for a total of 8:20 last week with the following: Tech Rec Stealing the idea from my friends [ ]

Yelp is becoming huge for ChatGPT

Reading Time: 1 minute As Google continues to slowly tighten up access for tools like ChatGPT and Claude, those tools are working to find other ways to bring in more content for their models. ChatGPT has recently partnered with Yelp to bring real-time local recommendations to their AI engine, so if you have a business it would be wise [ ]

Tracking the “query fan-out”

Reading Time: 2 minutes When you type a search query into a traditional Google search, it searches for your query. The words that you type in are the words that it uses. Pretty simple stuff. When you type a search into an AI tool like ChatGPT, though, it quietly runs a bunch of different searches in the background to [ ]