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Content is about networking, not views. Everyone obsesses over metrics. "My post flopped." "Only 100 views." "The Algorithm hates me." My first article took hours to write. It got maybe 200 views. It felt like such a waste of time, I remember thinking “why would I even write another one?”

When people hear "AI email agent" they think it means letting some app summarize and send out AI slop messages Try using a tool like @perplexity assistant to organize your messages, no drafting required If you aren't using a tool to auto label & color code your inbox, you are missing out

Career goals: work at a company where the technical people teach you how to code with @cursor ✔️

The best AI product no one talks about: @perplexity email assistant -conversational scheduling -auto labels your inbox (color coded!) -can handle replies directly or draft suggestions Bonus: put /commands in the instructions to create repeatable actions

The menu's in @google products are difficult to navigate Now you can just ask Gemini in the sidebar how to do things or where to find them in menus The next level: "now do that" & Gemini executes. It's not there yet in most Google Apps I use

Messing with DNS settings and authoritative name servers on web pages is intimidating Let @perplexity Comet browser do it for you

One of the most underrated Claude features that saves me time & keeps me organized: Drop a screenshot of any invite → instant calendar event with all the details pulled out. Date, time, location, notes. All from a quick photo and a simple prompt like “put this on my calendar.” No sticking

One of the signs that @google is winning the AI integration race: They can plug all their tools into the places where everyone is ALREADY working. Example: Google Slides now has built in image generation/editing with Nano Banana just by clicking an image

My wish list for the browser wars: Sync across devices and iOS app @perplexity Comet is now halfway there

I used to stuff custom GPTs with all the instructions they can hold Now I use a /command mapped to a knowledge file structure that is more effective AND easier to create. A contractor who helped build the Custom GPT product at OpenAI did a webinar on this but I've never been able to find a record

My first try with Notebook LM creating an infographic clearly showed it's not using the same model as creating infographics natively in @google Gemini This frame is just a fraction of the whole infographic, and is riddled with misspellings and classic "AI image generated text slop"

Black Friday morning: some are camping outside Best Buy for doorbuster deals. Me? I spent 15 minutes haggling with a Gen Z chatbot from Kimi K2 to unlock a $0.99/month AI subscription. *Yes, I did get it down to 99 cents, and yes I subscribed!

All I want for Christmas is iMessage to allow sending contacts. We can send Game Pigeon invites and memojis, but not contacts?

"Which fancy equipment should I buy to start making videos?" People ask me this question all the time, and my answer will never change Use the phone or camera you already have and make 100 videos before you buy a single thing I made most of my videos on a 1-2 year old iPhone with a $15 mou

Nano Banana Pro is unbelievably good at creating infographics Step 1: @descript transcribed the audio of a four hour long workshop Step 2: Underlord created a detailed prompt for an image generation based on the transcript summary & some specifics I wanted Step 3: Nano Banana Pro generated

The @google Nano Banana Pro hype is...real! There is no other image model that can do: -search realtime data -incorporate landmarks -nail a style from a text prompt AND -create accurate and consistent text in complex ways

The longer you use AI tools, the more clearly you see connections to where your work lives being far more valuable than model hype or benchmarks.

One of my favorite rituals prepping for a workshop or conference talk is grabbing the hand in the middle of this diagram and spinning it For today's AI training, it is clear that @google gets the honor!

Markdown is a great format to write with, but terrible to read & navigate in a .md file (I usually do this in @windsurf ) So with one prompt I made a simple web app in @figma Make that turns .md files into nested tabs that are color coded and easy to navigate link to rough draft: https://need-

Someone needs to disconnect my PerplexityAI email assistant This thing is too much fun! Here's an example: someone shares slides, I reply to @ perplexity assistant and tell it to thank him, say i'm excited for Thursday, and insert a knock-knock joke about Gen X needing tech help at Thanksgivin

People have no clue how much data their @apple or @google maps applications have on them

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You don't have to be a "technical" person to shape how our world does or does not use AI There has always been a place for others (read: people in the humanities!) to weigh in on how technologies are applied You don't have to be a mechanic to drive a car, or an electrical engineer to use a lig

AI is everywhere, even in places where the "I don't use AI" people hang out

I mean, I have an identical twin But this was still confusing and funny at the same time!

Is anyone else "over" slides? Giving presentations or doing live webinars with a whiteboard style format is more functional and open-ended Shoutout @figma FigJam for being the best at this

After 6 hours of recording, Rode Wireless Pro II mic still has 22% battery, impressive! Everyone giving a talk or presentation should capture it and transcribe or audiogram it for content

I was skeptical that @perplexity_ai assistant could handle email requests for meetings on its own After trying it out, I'm convinced everyone should have their own executive assistant managing their emails & calendar It responded to a request for a meeting, offered openings on my calendar, the

"But how are AI agent browsers ACTUALLY useful?" Good question! Here is one of my favorites: when context is spread out across browser tabs, have the agent do the work without copy & pasting it all yourself Example: I have a 7 post thread in @chatgptapp Canvas in one tab But I want it draft

@OpenAI has been releasing new features and products like crazy But this is the single best @chatgptapp update that no-one is using Now we just need the chats nested under the main branch in the sidebar instead of duplicating the chat name exactly

I have officially reached the "making Descript videos about Descript videos" stage No need to send help

It's not "agentic", but @notion 's AI agent is the best built in chat tool I've ever used + can be customized with a system prompt + has a modal to change underlying model + knows how to use the Notion platform (so many other built in AI tools can't use their own app well) + bonus points for c

Teach your children generative AI Go into debt if you have to... Wait, it's free on code .org

I want my phone to look cool vs. be readable, something @apple users have been battling since the new OS launched. Now iOS 26.1 beta 4 adds a Liquid Glass menu that lets you choose how the effect appears. Clear makes the layer more transparent so the content beneath shows through. Tinted i

Today's @awscloud is a reminder of 2 things: 1) the internet is so centralized it's insane 2) sometimes you just have to do work locally or go touch grass for a day

Which AI apps have the best iOS widgets? @claudeai @perplexity_ai @chatgptapp

First time not paying for ChatGPT Plus since Feb 2023. GPTs were a rug pull with no updates or monetization. Voice mode declined while Perplexity passed it. Got Enterprise through work. OpenAI seems focused on flooding the web with AI slop via Sora. Done.

POV: you work in tech now and they actually respond to tech requests in a timely manner In the education world: this would never get approved AND if it did, it would take 14 messages in a thread and 5 meetings over 4 months

This note from a young person is better than any paycheck. Here's the lesson he & I have both learned: If you aren't willing to climb Cringe Mountain™️, you will always be stuck at the bottom I'm a big believer in "behaving your way into success" It's easy to see what it takes to be success

I had no clue @figma had these gen AI image models built into FigJam Not sure clip art & stock photos are necessary these days

This is a sign that your art style is awesome: you build a web app that lets users create their own personas in your style @notion and people actually use it

Your AI hype vocab word of the day is: "sloptimized" Definition= unapologetically AI generated content that exists purely to occupy algorithmic attention spans First VEO, now Sora. These tools exist and CAN do a lot of things. But what SHOULD we use them for?

OpenAI launched apps inside ChatGPT yesterday. The Figma integration is useful but also weird: you can now create FigJam files on mobile through ChatGPT…but not through Figma’s own mobile app.

POV: you have two separate agent tools tagging and managing your gmail inbox There's no way they can peacefully co-exist

The iOS App Store is a great barometer for where culture is trending And the current outlook is…interesting

You hear a lot about people having an AI-first mindset with their work. But what about building your websites and products to be AI-first? Here's a good example: Having an open-in menu on your web page that allows users to take things directly to their LLM of choice or export the content as a ma

As much as I love @figma, I'm sticking with @canva for slides Solely based on the remote presentation feature which lets you run slides, see notes, and do screen effects from your phone Do any other presentation platforms have this feature?