Ok - I admit it. I'm not reading as much as I wanted to on this break. Why? Because I've been caught up in learning ChatGPT and writing some booklets. It's really sparked my creative process and kept me busy. But I have a million books I want to read - many of them involvng AI.
I'm familiar with the Superlearner materal. I think I did a Udemy class years ago, when was on an improve-your-memory kick. Or maybe when I was on a speed-reading kick. Whichever. I've not stuck with either plan. Maybe this time...
In any case, I found this book, and plan to see what the authors have to say!
It just arrived! I nearly bought a ChatGPT-for-Python-Programmers book instead, but it was a year old. Considering how quickly ChatGPT evolves, I figured that'd be nearly (if not completely) outdated by now, so I opted for this one. Just came out in April. I can't really give much info about it, as I'm just starting, but it exists, and considering I'm a professional computer toucher and am pursuing a masters in Data Science (read "AI") it seemed like something I should start to understand.
This is a book often recommended in the shopping addiction FB group I read. The book says that about 5.8% of people were shopping addicts in 2006. I'm guessing that it's much higher today. Especially given the claimed they couldn't benefit from learning to better effects of the pandemic. I'd find it suspect if anyone control their spending impulses.
An article from Scott Young's blog - if you haven't heard of him before, you should really check him out! He's really got a lot of info to share on learning, habit creation, and productivity. This one talks about how many habits we fall off of, despite using all the right tools to cement the habit in place. Answered a lot of questions for me!
I didn't just read this, but I was writing too much about it on the article entry below and decided it needed its own entry. For the past several years I've had a membership to Blinkist. It's a subscription service that has 15-minute summaries of about a billion different books - many many of them self-help. Anyhow, one of the best Blinks I read was of this book.
Full disclosure: I did not read the whole book. Just the Blink was enough to change the way I do everything! Now, rather than planning New Year's Resolutions for Jan 1 every year and falling off by mid-February, just to say "oh, well - there's always next year!", I plan a "new year" for one week, and then make as much progress as I can for the next 12-weeks. This allows for four "years" per most people's one! It's really great, because it's easier to make myself keep focus for 12 weeks than a full year. If I fall off there's another "year" coming along in just a few weeks (sometimes, if I fall off everything, I just start a new year the next date that makes sense), and I can start again much sooner. If I don't fall off, though, 12 weeks is long enough to make some really good progress. I've used this technique with my diet and exercise goals, as well as my classes and a bunch of other things, for the past several years.
If you read above about the blink of The 12-Week Year, you'll know I'm on a 12-week cycle. For a while I was going season-to-season, but during my Statistics class I fell off every other thing I was trying to do. So, since the class ends this weekend, and since it's June 1, and since I just got a whole new webspace with a blog yesterday ($14 for the first year includes my domain. It'll be around $200 if I want to keep it next year, so we shall see...), I decided to start a new year today.
I've been dieting for the past few years, and have lost a good bit of weight. Sometimes I lose more, sometimes I lose less, sometimes I just maintain for a few. Recently I've been losing about 1 1/2 lbs each month. When I was losing more, I was on keto along with Intermittent Fasting. I've decided to go back to keto for a while. I was gonna just take a day off each week and "carbo-load", but then I saw this article. 3 days a week, keto. 3 days a week, moderate carbs. 1 day a week, go for it! Since I'm neither a man nor a body builder, I'll be keeping vague track of my calories and making my fasting window longer (at least 17 hours, but probably 18). We'll see if I have to do more, but I really prefer maintainable. I'm in this for the long run!
What did I just watch?
Youtube
"How to learn anything with ChatGPT"
"25 Things You Didn't Know ChatGPT Could Do"
"10 ChatGPT Prompts School Doesn’t Want You to Know About"