The Best AI Prompt Ever
TMRW/TDY TMRW’s Insights TDY Read time: 6 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀The Best AI Prompt Ever – Too many people cannot claim their true power because they have forgotten who they are. Remember this passage from the Lion King? Hits deep doesn’t it? Divorced from themselves, others, nature, and their own true work in this life. They have become extras in the movie of their own life. This is the modern human condition. So how can AI help? Well, if you have been taking my advice to treat Chat GPT et al…
The Power of Quitting, Art, and of Self-Belief
TMRW/TDY TMRW’s Ideas TDY Read time: 6 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀The Power of Quitting – My long term readers know I am a big advocate of effectiveness and not just efficiency in life. More important to do the right things as opposed to doing all things faster. But our hyper-productivity, multi-tasking, grit above all society wants the latest edge, hack or podcast that will provide more success. This New Yorker profile about the writings of Oliver Burkeman show that sometimes the path forward to…
Choice Curation , Sustained Excellence, and the AI Secrets of your Kitchen
TMRW/TDY TMRW’s Insights TDY Read time: 4 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀The Psychology of Excellence – Becoming excellent is one thing, sustaining excellence is another thing entirely. The grind, self-doubt, added responsibilities, shifting priorities and the profound impact of setbacks and failures all become central challenges. Strategic psychologist Brad Stulburg who has worked 100’s of elite athletes outlines the shift in mindset needed to remain excellent. 💡 You never fully arrive. Or rather you…
What Super Mario Bros and Creativity, “Wellness+,” & the “AI class”
TMRW/TDY Insights of TMRW to Enhance Your TDY Read time: 6 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀ Super Mario Brothers & Creativity – Zelda, Donkey Kong and Super Mario brothers are all iconic characters created by Nintendo’s legendary chief creative Miyamoto. In this New York Times article, he outlines the history and future of Nintendo. In the middle of the article he drops a hidden nugget about the essence of innovation: “Mr. Yamauchi back in the day would tell us that we are not good at fighting: ‘We are…
Dopamine, Darkness and the Best 60 Seconds Online Ever
TMRW/TDY Ideas from TMRW to enhance your TDY Read time: 4 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀The Source of Your Discontent- Graham Weaver, Stanford business lecturer and Alpine Investor, posted what may be the best 60 seconds online you’ll ever come across. And it’s on the nature of suffering. The answer is not what you might expect. 💡What you resists persists. Leaning into discomfort is the path through it. ⏀Dopamine Culture – Much has been written about the cheap thrills in our society leading to a surge…
AI and Democracy; Longevity; and Why you Should Wear 2 Watches
TMRW/TDY Insights of TMRW to Enhance Your TDY Read time: 4 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀Intimacy, AI and Democracy – One of my favorite thinkers, Yuval Noah Hariri, opines about AI in his new book Nexus. In essence, he argues that information technology has been essential to democracy since the beginning. AI, however, with it’s ability to manipulate human emotion threatens to end human history and democracy entirely – though not for the reason you might think. Read more in his recent NYT op-ed In…
5 AI Apps to Rule the World & 5 Currencies to Transform your Life
TMRW/TDY Insights of TMRW to Enhance your TDY Read time: 5 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀ Idea I’m mulling – The Five Currencies of Life: Mindset, Time, Health Wealth and Love. Collectively they all create “energy.” Mindset is the most important because it determines the experience you have of life itself. It is the only thing that gives meaning to the other three. Why are they currencies specifically? 1) Currencies are currents. And just as in physics, they enhance in value the more they circulate. A…
The Meaning of Work, the Ritz Carlton Rule, and #Inspo
TMRW/TDY Insights of TMRW to Enhance your TDY Read time: 4 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀ Ritz Carlton Rule – The “Ritz” is arguable the most storied brand in luxury hotel and hospitality. How did it get this way? The $2,000 rule: The Ritz-Carlton has a $2,000 rule.(And it’s been in place since the 80s)’The rule is a customer service policythat empowers the hotel’s employees,referred to as “ladies and gentlemen,”to spend up to $2,000 per day, per guest,without seeking approval from their superiors,to…
Emotional Athletes, Starbucks and AI in Healthcare
TMRW/TDY Ideas of TMRW to enhance your TDY Read time: 4 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀ Emotional Athletes – FOMO, mid-life crisis, trauma, work-life balance and more – all of these characterize life. David Brooks of the NYT eloquently argues that navigating life’s challenges requires being an emotional athlete (as opposed to just emotional intelligence). And yet, our schools, our economy, and our jobs are oriented around the brain as a logical machine. Physicians know the limitations of this paradigm…
Gamblers, Olympians, and the Super Wealthy esp Mark Cuban
TMRW/TDY Ideas of TMRW to Enhance your TDY Read time: 5 minutes Hey Reader, ⏀ The Future of the Economy -It is no secret that we are living through one of the most transformational and disruptive periods in civilization. Globalization, the internet, and now AI all promise or threaten to change our way of living. Nate Silver, famed statistician of Five Thirty Eight and his political predictions, has a new book the On the Edge: the Art of Risking Everything. While I haven’t read the book (yet),…
