Gemini images are amazing for sales kit. The watermark isn’t. Cropping sometimes cuts off information. Turns out Windows and Mac both have free AI erasers built in.
Fear is not unpleasant. Safety is not always pleasant. Anxiety arises when you test yourself against yourself
恐懼並非令人不悅，安全並非令人愉悅。當你挑戰自我十，就會產生焦慮。
Life might not feel great, it might be repetitive or lack meaning. Find your thing to live for and it will renew your lease on life.
The joy when we give it our all
即使有許多不如意，但也無法剝奪我們盡全力時感受到的快樂
When it comes to limiting my phone use, I tried them all.
But I always find ways to revoke it.
The frustration came from a 2 hour Saturday night doom scroll YouTube on Safari (It’s always Safari).
I decided to make the cost of revoke much higher and add enforce a replacing pattern. I asked my daughter to change the screen time passcode. And forget about it.
In a situation that I need to use the browser, I need to go through the process of passcode recovery. It’s a lot of work.
For replacement, I made podcast and Kindle obvious on the home screen.
Result
I think one of the reasons why these lessons are unteachable is because they’re too
broad. They have to be applied in context.
A number of the ones that you laid out contradict each other. Like spend more time with your parents and you know don’t work so hard but you know at the same time you do want to be successful, right?
…it’s like if you went to school and you just studied philosophy for four years you would not know how to live life because you wouldn’t know which philosophical doctrine to apply in which circumstance.
You have to actually live life go through all of the issues to figure out what it is that you want. What’s the context in which some of these things apply and some of them don’t……that said, I would argue that **once you figure it out for yourself, you can kind of carve these variations on these maxims that apply to you and then you’ll have a specific experience that helps you remember it and actually execute on it**. And you can also phrase it in a way where it’s not trite anymore.
Both Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kloen and Jeff Su’s YouTube talked swipe file. Swipe file allows me to apply creativity from those who have already done it, to my context.
Great outline takes time. Like most people, I don’t work in the cutting edge technology or the top tech companies. I don’t always have time to think about the perfect story. BTW likely don’t exist.
Step 1> Extract pattern from notable keynotes
Step 2> Add my context
This step takes few back and forth to build the context for LLM.
Step 3> Output for Gamma friendly style input
I’m not necessarily using the Gamma slides, but it turns text into visual. Visualization builds imagination.
The lonely chapter describes a time in your life where you’re so developed that you can’t really resonate with your old set of friends, but you’re not yet sufficiently developed that you’ve built a new set of friends……for you to pull away from that, you’re going to have to do stuff usually that makes you more different, more easy to be mocked, and more alone. And the initial sad reality is that on your journey of personal growth, at some point you may need to leave a group of friends behind who aren’t growing at the same pace as you. But the really sad reality is that if you do it a lot, you may have to do this multiple times throughout your life. And it’s not a value judgment about who’s better or who’s worse. It’s just a stark reality of what happens when you start to make changes in your life.
If you learn rapidly, you can win no matter what happens with the technology. And what are those three skills?
I previously wrote about reverse engineering visual backgrounds for my slide use.
Similar technique applies to key visual too. The example in this case:
The problem:
Platform: Gemini
Step 1> Reverse engineer the source image into possible prompt
Step 2> Change the elements in the prompt
A photorealistic studio portrait of a young Black man with a short beard looking directly at the camera, wearing a grey t-shirt……
A photorealistic studio portrait of a young white woman in business wear looking directly at the camera……
Step 3> Open new chat, select Nano Banana and paste the prompt.
Block-style background is popular way to visual listing.
It is also time consuming. And either designers are occupied or not every slide requires designer to step in.
First, the result.
The problems:
Here’s how.
Step 1> Strip off the elements from the source image
Step 2> Decide the number of blocks
Tip: choose a source image with similar number of blocks.
Step 3> Apply brand guideline
I completed 11K Standard Chartered Charity Taipei Marathon, the result was 3 minutes short of my goal.
The problem wasn’t the lack of ability. The problem was the easily fall into the crowd. The excuse levitates the pain to fight through the crowd. Excuse sounds much easier.
Our brain defaults to avoid pain. I could iterate by: