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I’ve Got The Fire Of Hell In My Eyes– And It’s ChatGPT
“— says the song ‘in the style of Nick Cave’, and that’s kind of true. I have got the fire of hell in my eyes – and it’s ChatGPT.” Nick Cave from The Red Hand Files Nick Cave is a treasure and has long been a massive inspiration and influence on me ever since my…
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Dreams
While I’m waiting for my old camera to be fixed, I’m using a FujiFilm X-T30 to take some photos and get back in the swing of using a camera. One of the tips I picked up this week was to take pictures using a digital camera’s automated settings and see what ISO, Aperture, and shutter…
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Photography School and Tools
Since I’ve decided to get back into photography this year, I picked up where I left off by brushing off my Minolta SRT-201 that I used in college for my photojournalism classes. Even when I got it in college, it was already “old”, so now it’s a freaking antique. Having been an early adopter of…
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A New Year For Old Loves
Looking back to look ahead in ’23. Right before the end of the year, I got a message on Linkedin from a person who, like me, had graduated from the Communications program at the University of Tennessee. While many years apart, we both had the good fortune of taking classes from Professor Robert Heller and…
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Town Squares
If Twitter is a “town square”, then the last month has been like a western movie where some bad guy and his band of hoods rode into Twitter Town, bought it and the locals freaked the f&%k out. Many of us have fled to the dense woods of Mastodon or opted for the sparsely regulated…
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How Bad Is Your Spotify?
Turns out mine is bad. I’m also uncool and old. More on that in a bit. Let me tell you how I found out… I’m a big fan of Pudding.cool. I love their visual storytelling. It’s one of the handful worth typing in by URL. If nothing else, you should sign up for their Winning…
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On Grinding
Really enjoyed Fred Wilson‘s post “Grinding“. Everyone wants to talk about “hustle” when building a company. In reality it is usually more of a grind day in, day out until you figure it out – or die. I especially appreciated how he addressed the “magic bullet” theory to fixing company issues in this line: But…
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Think
You better think (think)Think about what you’re trying to do to meThink (think, think)Let your mind go, let yourself be free “Think” by and co-written by Aretha Frankin So I was thinking about a bunch of stuff this weekend. I spent a lot of time thinking about Aretha. I even made my kids watch The…
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It’s Not A Two Horse Race For Voice Assistants And Chatbots Aren’t Dying
Our early virtual assistants are kind of janky. That’s okay! Three predictions on virtual assistants in a week full of predictions — from folks like us who actually build them. As voice assistants dominated CES last week, people are asking “is every toaster, microwave and car really going to talk to me now?” Or are virtual assistants just a…
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