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Be Careful What You Expect
There is a lesson that I learn over and over and over again, a lesson so ubiquitous in my life that it's starting to feel personal. Here it is: First, you make your beliefs, then your beliefs make you. As Iain McGilchrist puts it: "Our minds are
Some of The Best Things I've Read About A.I.
People have a lot of feelings about A.I. As with most emotionally-charged subjects, it can be hard to have an actual conversation with someone about A.I. For one, "A.I." is, itself, often very loosely-defined, and participants in these conversations often have very different (and specific)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Complexity
"The more complex the problem, the simpler the solution must be." - Dr. Eli Goldratt Imagine two systems. System A: System B: Which is more complex? Our first answer might be that "A" is more complex. After all, it has more pieces. Not only that, all
Tutorial: Using Zapier and OpenAI to Process Your Snail Mail
Another experiment with OpenAI, because why not? There's lots of hype about using AI to write blog posts and long-form content, but I actually think most of that is overblown. Who wants to read the world's most vanilla content? Who wants to read something where the
No Straight Lines
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Tutorial: Automating PPC Client Reports Using Zapier and OpenAI
Last week we talked about Freud. This week? We're talking Droid. I've been doing quite a bit of work lately on automating client reports. See, most of our clients are NOT technical. We send them a dashboard of all their campaign stats, but it looks like
The Secret at the Heart of Psychoanalysis
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Get Smart
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