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Repost: The path you trace on your journey – Daily PPILL #276

Repost: The path you trace on your journey – Daily PPILL #276

We change, and the world changes around us, but here are certain themes that remain constant. A year ago, I published this post. I still love the image of every step taken actually creating the path. A year ago, I was still in Florida. Yesterday, I was at a trail,...
Artificial Trust – The Daily PPILL #275

Artificial Trust – The Daily PPILL #275

I have been experimenting with ChatGPT lately, trying to find some useful application for it. In that process, I try to run some of my searches both through a search engine and also ask the bot for it. In one of my last tests, I asked ChatGPT to cite its sources, and...
Agency – The Daily PPILL #274

Agency – The Daily PPILL #274

To change behavior, there must be a certain degree of agency. If there is no influence in the outcome, there is no point to change. The residents of my current city are great. Rugged, hard working and mostly respectful of their fellow human beings. But when you move...
Listening to criticism – The Daily PPILL #273

Listening to criticism – The Daily PPILL #273

This is one of the most sound advice I have heard, when it comes to dealing with criticism. I heard it from non other than Reid Hoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn. Not everybody comes from the same frame of reference, and they interpret things differently. So it...
Virtually Accepted – The Daily PPILL #271

Virtually Accepted – The Daily PPILL #271

Some innovations that are appearing over the horizon look to most us someway weird. We go “no way”. We presume they are fads and we’ll never use them. It always have been like that. Just a few years ago, the answer that met some of these innovations went something...