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⏀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 as a relationship more than a mere tool, then use the following prompt and see what comes up
From all our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself? How can I use this information to improve [x] in my life?
💡 Self knowledge is the true super power. AI may help you overcome your blind spots.
⏀Medicine is Getting Harder – This recent WSJ article talks about the difficulties keeping up with ever changing “living guidelines” for medical care, especially for highly complicated and specialty driven conditions like oncology. Specialization among providers is the driver of better medical outcomes for patients but limits how many patients can have access to that care. It’s the problem of healthcare delivery that our system has yet to solve.
💡All patients deserve a “tumor board” if you will, but we lack the resources to provide that to all patients. This may be a role for AI in healthcare.
⏀Idea I’m mulling– “It’s never too late.” Simple but brilliant advice from Pharrell, all around cool guy and creative director for Louis Vuitton in this short Tik Tok.
💡It’s never too late. Ever. So go for it.
⏀Quote I’m pondering– This passage from David Foster Wallace on technology has never rung more true:
“I think one of the reasons that I feel empty after watching a lot of TV, and one of the things that makes TV seductive, is that it gives the illusion of relationships with people. It’s a way to have people in the room talking and being entertaining, but it doesn’t require anything of me. I mean, I can see them, they can’t see me. And, and, they’re there for me, and I can, I can receive from the TV, I can receive entertainment and stimulation. Without having to give anything back but the most tangential kind of attention. And that is very seductive.
The problem is it’s also very empty. Because one of the differences about having a real person there is that number one, I’ve gotta do some work. Like, he pays attention to me, I gotta pay attention to him. You know: I watch him, he watches me. The stress level goes up. But there’s also, there’s something nourishing about it, because I think like as creatures, we’ve all got to figure out how to be together in the same room.
And so TV is like candy in that it’s more pleasurable and easier than the real food. But it also doesn’t have any of the nourishment of real food. And the thing, what the book is supposed to be about is, What has happened to us, that I’m now willing–and I do this too–that I’m willing to derive enormous amounts of my sense of community and awareness of other people, from television? But I’m not willing to undergo the stress and awkwardness and potential shit of dealing with real people.
And that as the Internet grows, and as our ability to be linked up, like–I mean, you and I coulda done this through e-mail, and I never woulda had to meet you, and that woulda been easier for me. Right? Like, at a certain point, we’re gonna have to build some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.”
💡We are replacing human connection with pseudo-relationships: virtual relationships that are seductive because they are so easy. It is demoralizing our society from the inside out.
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