Tag: Technology
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My work as a freelancer has changed in ways I didn’t quite anticipate. When I first encountered AI tools at work, my job was straightforward—I did all the prompting, fed in the inputs, and let the AI generate the writing and the images. I was the one steering, doing half the work while the AI…
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Today, I decided to declutter my phonebook and ended up deleting ~200 contacts. I was even surprised that I didn’t recognize some of the names anymore. Some of the phone numbers were ones I acquired and saved back in college—numbers of classmates I haven’t been in contact with since graduation. I can’t imagine how different…
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I have already written 1,393 blog posts here and for sure, there are things that I have said that do not resonate with me anymore or even represent who I am today. But if I erase those ideas that I no longer hold, am I erasing a truth about who I was? Or am I…
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I grew up in a neighborhood where your neighbor would call out for you on Christmas day with containers filled with Filipino Spaghetti, Macaroni Salad, and Buko Salad, and where finding someone’s lost cat was as much your responsibility as your own. It was a place where you are a part of a community that…
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Been thinking about discipline lately, mostly because I feel like I am losing grasp of it, especially in moments when I surrender my autonomy to mindless media consumption as if saying to the tech, “Here are all my human capabilities, take them down to the drain.“ These days, lacking discipline means losing control over what…
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I have been following AI updates to stay in the know, although I don’t delve deeply into the technical discussions—closest would be reading Ethan Mollick’s regular newsletters on “the implications of AI for work, education, and life.“ When I stumbled upon this video yesterday, I was amazed how I had a “shared experience” with Seth…
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I really find AI tools empowering, enabling me to perform tasks and produce better results than I would on my own. As Ethan Mollick puts it: Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience The Cybernetic Teammate But like in this TED Talk, Mark Hoffman compares artificial intelligence…