Month of Mar 2025
Hackathon and Building AI Products
//Generated with ChatGPT’s new 4o model and a faceswap
Theme of the Month - Hackathon and Building AI Products
The questions/thoughts that led me to the posts for Mar 2025 were:
What bugs you?
What classes do you want Evie to take?
How was the Pacific Northwest trip in 2016?
If you were in Severance, what would be your wellness facts?
Why message your friends?
Spring break love. Spent most of it either in the water, in the sun, or just playing around with some AI tools. There’s always a need for my Severance vacation-me to see the light of day. I may look like this:
Speaking of weird AI stuff - I’ve said it in many of my AI presentations - Conversational-based exploration of ideas is very different and much more effective than search queries. When you are querying, you feel like you have to use the right search terms to see the result of the right websites to give you information. In the prompting case, the AI is helping you write better and more nuanced queries and possibly diving deeper into further chain of thought reasoning combinations.
The LLM finalizing the image also allows for creation of additional contexts for further refinement. There’s a future list of 30 here related to AI buzzwords or more features. I’m very excited for the practical impact to Marketing. I’ve already has it generate ideas for posts for a whole month. Some of them look like this:
//Generated with ChatGPT-4o sharing the DIN logo and asking for different ideas of where to put the logo. Look at that logo angle and gritty overlay.
What does this mean? Digital content will be saturated with misinformation even more than before. We will question reality and hopefully treasure the human premium of seeing people IRL On a positive light, perhaps this makes people a little bit more disconnected from the digital. Why post at all? What’s the point if no one can tell it’s my life anymore. Do I go full private accounts everywhere?
The blogposts I’ve published this month were:
One of my favorite posts in my first book “My Life in Lists of 30” is 30 Pet Peeves. I extended this to the modern time and thought about it like a comedian.
Severance love. Incredible Season 2 finale. My Outie loves writing lists of 30.
![[Travel Advice] Pacific Northwest roadtrip](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaadafaa-1546-4763-a8f8-1332b8ad9726_660x371.jpeg)
Pacific Northwest rocks. I can’t wait to do another trip over there. Maybe for our decade wedding anniversary?
One of the Dads asked me what I would put my daughter into for summer or after school activities. I think we’re at an age to just throw anything at them and see what sticks.
I don’t think we need a reason to write to our friends, but it doesn’t hurt to have some random ideas of what might solidify your brand and help others feel less lonely.
Some ideas for Apr 2025?
30 Signs of AGI - I think this will happen slowly as humans lose our ability to reason (just like we’ve lost our ability to memorize phone numbers in our contacts).
30 More AI Buzzwords - Latest buzzwords from reading some different research papers and looking at headlines.
30 New AI Careers - Rethinking our post-labor economic jobs. Let’s all switch to the gig economy.
Reflecting on 10 years of writing lists of 30 - I still love writing lists of 30! It’ll define my whole life.
30 Future Decade Goals - We split the next 30 years into goals per decade as mapped out by Evie’s age. This was a great activity in long term planning for her ages 6-16, 16-26, and 26-36.
30 Ways to Stretch Time - Wealth doesn’t mean money, but time. It’s our only limited resource.
30 Things I do for Self Care - We all need to figure out what restores our energy and keeps us sane.
Kicking off “Her Life in Lists of 30” - I think I have enough material from my monthly lists of 30s to cover this and launch it in 2024. Maybe I’ll find a publisher for this book? I think I’ll be happy with more substack subscribers than a single book defining a decade. If it’s popular, maybe I’ll do a book tour!
Thank you for reading and I hope everyone stays safe! See y’all in the new year!
Please suggest a list of 30 and I’ll write it! I’ve written 300+ lists of 30 and only publish ones that I think other people would enjoy. It’s my fun brainstorming routine.
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