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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, by Eric Jorgenson

Reading Time: 4 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 Eric Jorgenson’s “Almanack of Naval Ravikant“. This book is also available as a free flashcard deck on Ripple Recall. “The Almanack of […]

Google doesn’t care about Claude’s watermark

Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the big AI items that is getting a lot of press over the past few weeks is the news that Claude is watermarking their text output so it can be identified as AI when published. Specifically, they say: When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the […]

Twelve and a Half by Gary Vaynerchuk

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 Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Twelve and a Half”. This book is also available as a free flashcard deck on Ripple Recall. Gary Vee has […]

Adding more context to flashcards

Reading Time: 2 minutes A few months ago I had the opportunity to chat with Victoria Groce, one of the winningest Jeopardy players of all time. I was excited to chat with her, because many people think I’m obsessed with reading and flashcards (which isn’t untrue), but Victoria puts in 10x the work that I do (and it pays […]

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 […]