REPEAT: Career Building: Wonder Tools: 23 Ways To Boost Your Productivity and Creativity

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Welcome. Thank you for being here. I'm excited to see you all. And I want to invite you to join this quick slider warmup poll. I know we're not quite at 230 Yet at 230. I'm gonna dive right in to make the most of your time and our time together. But you can get started a little early a minute or so early. Just by sharing how you're feeling at the moment. I just had a delicious mango sticky rice pop. I don't know if anyone got to the ice cream bar. But that was really, really a great, great addition to substitute for my lunch actually. But yeah, just share it. Just share it just for a warm up just share how you're how you're doing at the moment and then I'll show on the screen what that word cloud looks like. Just to see what the vibe of the room is at the moment as we were beginning.

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Okay, so, welcome again, those of you just came in. I'm going to shift over here to show you a couple of things one is the results of the little slider poll we have gotten here. And you can see that people are feeling freezing Yeah, sorry about the AC I wish I could have some influence on that out of my control but also feeling inspired and content and great. Some people are feeling hungry. I'm with you on that one. Calm fine. Interests interesting. someone's feeling hot and someone's feeling freezing. overstimulated reinvigorated, etc. However, you're feeling you are welcome here. I'm glad you're here. And if you have anything to say along the way, feel free to interrupt me jump in and chime in. Put your hand up for a clarifying question. Just a couple of things if you haven't, haven't, if we haven't met you may not know that I talked really fast. And partly that's because I want to make the most of your time and it's probably because I'm just really excited. I love this subject matter. I love these tools. I find that they really are helpful to me and I hope they'll be helpful to you. But if I say something that's not clear or it doesn't make sense, or you want to correct it or update it or or clarify it, please do interrupt me. There's also though a tab on this slideshow that's a q&a tab. And there's also a tab on the on the slide out that's a an ideas tab because you all have great tools and resources and tips to share with each other as well. You'll notice if you go to those that they're actually pre populated now, because there was a session yesterday, as you probably know, so the session yesterday had a lot of q&a questions. And I promise that group of people as I'll promise you that I'll answer every one of those questions even if I don't get to it now. I'll do it later today, or tonight. So you'll see quite questions and you'll see my answers to those questions, at least quick answers. They're not all as thorough as I might like, because they're very difficult. Some of them are very difficult, complicated questions that require more of a conversation. But in any case, I'm just mentioning that to say if you have a question, you can put it in that q&a tab if you have an idea to share, you can put it in that idea tab. And and thank you for sharing this. One other quick poll question as we get going, is about how you're feeling about your tech toolkit. So I think we each have our own toolkit, right whether we think of it has a toolkit or not. We have one right, which includes our notes that includes our docs. It includes our tasks, it includes our contacts. It includes all the tools we use to organize projects. It includes all the tools we use to do our journalism analysis, and to handle meetings and all sorts of things that we do on a daily or weekly basis. So is this Do you feel like you've got it all down? Pat, you are a superstar as far as your own system, how you feel about it. It's not an external judgment. It's how you feel about it that I'm really asking, or do you feel like you're really kind of needing some improvement, some sharpening and you're more on this side of the frowny side of the spectrum looks like a lot of people are on the three side. Some people scattered across that, the rest of that spectrum as well. And my quick thought on this is that while a lot of people are in the middle of the road, and I think we're all on this journey, right? So one one thought I want to leave you with is like, to me our toolkits are constant work in progress, right. So wherever we are with one we might feel really great about how we use notes or tasks or projects are super organized, but we're kind of not sure we're organizing our documents really well or we may not have great tools for making the most of our meetings or whatever else. So my aim in this session is to give you at least one thing that can make a practical, actionable, useful difference in your daily workflow. So if you get one thing that you can actually use and apply and actually add to your toolkit to me, that's a that's a win. I mentioned a lot of things some of them may be more relevant than others. But if you could take away one thing that you can actually use and help with your workflow. To me, that's a great investment of time and a great accomplishment. So I'm going to shift gears I hope that noise isn't distracting. I guess there's a lot of sessions going on simultaneously. I want to point out another thing though, actually, before I shift into the the next phase is actually showing you demoing live this tool called blocks. So what I just did was I recorded a little bit of that opening right and this is a live meeting recording tool. I call it bionic transcription, because it's not just transcribing the session. It's also adding some intelligence. So if I click over here, you'll see it just finalize the notes. And now it's only been a few minutes, right. So it's just summarizing essentially what's happened. So far, in this session in this meeting, and it's giving me as you notice a quick summary up top. And then it's giving me some bullet points. Like this was an introduction. The speaker welcome people. There's a warm up poll, there's a discussion structure. There's q&a and ideas, tabs, participant introduction, etc. Right? So it's giving me a quick overview of this. It also by the way, has a full transcript. So if I want to dig in further I can. But one of the cool things is I can actually ask blocks now to do something with this, right so like compose a blog post about this. I don't know why I would want to create a blog post about the first five minutes per session, but you get the idea, right? If you're if you're working on something or having discussion, you might want to do something with that. But you can actually do your own prompt as well. Right? So you could envision having some other kind of Custom Prompt, and you can do that and you can even just ask for a new summary a different summary, compose an email to people in the meeting, right? That's a common scenario. Here's what we just talked about. Here's a quick summary of that, right? So it's giving me that and then I can start over I can revise it, I can tell it to shorten it, or I can just accept it. I can copy the text or create a separate note. And and then I'm kind of done with that. So this is a really interesting new approach to taking notes on meeting sticking bionic notes, as I call them. And one of the interesting things is that it actually will connect to if you want it to your email into your calendar. So you can look back at your contacts and say these are the summary from the last five meetings I had with Samantha Right. Or a meeting with Joan tomorrow. Like let me just look at the quick summaries of last couple of meetings we've had and our one on ones. So you can use it as more than just a single purpose tool for summarizing meetings and more to sort of enhance the ongoing notes that you're taking on a regular basis. I'm actually going to turn it on again, just because I'll record the rest of the meeting. And in case we want to see that at the end. Sure. Yes, absolutely. In fact, it's going to come up in the slides so you'll see it again. But it's called blocks B L Okay. S dot app. B L Okay, as an admin, it's actually completely free for now, which is always a nice bonus. It works. What's that? Oh, on the on the recognition? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure. There's it didn't recognize my name appropriately. Apparently. I don't know. I didn't notice that. But sometimes there's quirks with any transcription kind of service. One other thing I'll show you just because you may have noticed it up here. This is a little time tracker called tick time. And it's something I found really useful because I realized I wasn't always good at keeping track of time and we're about all of you, but I lose track of time. And so what it does is it has a counting up stopwatch or I can shift it to one side it's giving me a 10 minute timer. So when there's 10 minutes before the session, I was on that side, a one minute timer, a three minute timer if I turn this side up, etc. So you can use it to time one minute, three minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes or Pomodoro like 25 minutes of work, five minutes break which is kind of handy. Or you can just use it as a stopwatch like basically to count up. So that just helps me as a time tracking thing when I'm working to not lose track of time completely. And, and it's a little thing that I can carry with me so Okay, so today I'm gonna share 23 tools, if I in fact, make it all the way through and then we're gonna have a few minutes hopefully for q&a, and I'll share a handout with you that has all of the tools and and and the side things that I'm mentioning as well, so that you can refer back to them later. And if one bite goes by really quick, it's okay. You can refer back to it later. And I will also share my email address and I answer every single one of the emails that I get. Not always immediately especially like day like today. It's crazy. We're all running over different sessions, but I will eventually answer you if you have a question that doesn't get resolved today or if you think of something next week. That's that's important to me. And another thing I'll say briefly, is that I'm assuming some level of tech familiarity, right? So some things may be a little bit quick or I may not explain something fully and that's something you can follow up with, but my assumption is a lot of folks here are pretty well advanced in their tool usage or kind of want to amp up a toolkit that they already have. What you're seeing now is another live demo. This is called timeout. You see how it's kind of like blocking my screen. That's because just for seven seconds, did you see that if you will catch that. So that's because in my day to day basis, I'm often sitting staring at my laptop, hour after hour, and I noticed my eyes would sometimes you know feel tired or I would just feel like probably not a good thing for my eyes. So I said it you can set it you can custom set it. I said it such that every 15 minutes it

it comes up on the screen for seven seconds and then every hour it gives me a one minute break. You can set it whatever you want, but that I found useful and I forced myself to not just ignore it. You can press ignore if you're middle of something really pressing right but I generally force myself not to ignore it so that I actually do take those one minute breaks and just like roll my shoulders and stand up and take a breath and look out the window and that kind of stuff. This is a just if anyone's interested in the live workshops that I'm doing this fall of a bunch of different people that are joining me for live when I call them show and tell us where we talk about tools we show things we talked about how we're working with them. And that's first subscribers are paid members of the Wonder tools newsletter and you can join that for three months for free if you're interested in that this fall. With that and I'll show that the end again. The newsletter is also completely free if you want to read it free. And if you want more explanation on a lot of tools, that's a place to go because I've written about most of these tools and I break them down a little bit more detail and specific use cases etc. This is tapa style. As you can see. I'm going to go through a bunch of tools as we go so pretty quick on each one. This is a program that I run entrepreneurial journalism Creators Program. So I help journalists around the world along with our team and everyone else at the school to create new entrepreneurial journalism ventures niche ventures like newsletters, podcasts, niche websites, and we've worked with about 150 journalists from 37 Different countries over the last couple of years in six cohorts and it's a 100 day program. It's online only. And we are really excited to help people in lots of different ways. And some of these tools become really helpful when you're a single person trying to do a lot of different things. We're trying to create visuals more creatively or efficiently, or just work more productively with a small team if anyone's interested feel free to stop by afterwards and chat about it are recruiting right now. That's why I'm mentioning it for the next cohort. This is my family. This is the three things that are most important to me in my life. And I was a journalist. I was a violinist then I was a journalist. Now I'm primarily an educator. So I spend my time thinking about the next generation of journalists and how I can be helpful to them and to learn from them and to help teach and those are my two daughters and my wife and that's me. This is the newsletter in case you haven't seen it and I'm going to start with the morning so this the frame for this is kind of like a day in the life right? These are some things I might use in the typical morning in a commute when I'm traveling over to the office and then at the office doing actual work and then in the evening when I'm trying to be a little creative and do something different. So that's that's the sort of frame I'm going to use. So Oasis, this is a another kind of bionic transcription tool. But I use it very differently from blocks, which I showed a few moments ago. And to show you this, I actually want to do a live demo, which yesterday the internet actually wasn't working at 1130 that anyone noticed that? So I was attempting to do a live demo yesterday. But today, I'm hopeful that this will actually work. Because the internet I think is responsive enough. So I'm using the arc browser, which we'll talk about in a minute. But for now, I'm just going to show you a mesa so I'm going to actually record something new. I can write something now with it but I'm actually going to record something. So Oasis is a baryonic transcription tool that basically allows you to use your voice to think out loud. You're sharing thoughts that you might not have fully organized quite yet in detail, and you're thinking through what are some of the key points you want to make? So if I wanted to tell you about Oasis, I would tell you that I can use it to generate initial drafts of articles that I'm working on, or lesson plans for classes that I'm preparing for, or drafts of talks that I'm preparing for or detailed emails that I know I need to send or virtually anything I want to create. I find it easy to talk through those things with my voice because sometimes when I sit down to type them out, or even write them out, it takes me more time where I just have a slower time getting that thought from my brain out. So for me I like just walking around. I was doing this recently in Central Park just taking a walk and literally with my phone using the Oasis app just talking like I'm talking now and getting the ideas out right so that I could then say okay, here's the structure of this thing that I'm working on. Right I was working on a video series. So here's the structure here are the different points I'm going to make in each of these videos. And an oasis is great for that. It also has a bunch of useful features that take it beyond just transcription. So it can take the raw audio gives you a transcription. It'll give you a summary of that if you want. It'll give you an outline. It'll give you also a video script out of that. If you've given it a custom prompt to do that, or an email or anything else. And I'm going to show you right now. So I've recorded for how long a minute 30 seconds, right. So I'm going to click stop. Now I've already given it some instructions as to which kinds of outputs I'm looking for. And it's basically going to take maybe 15, maybe 30 seconds to do that. And here you see the transcript and you see the raw audio. So I still have that material if I want to download it, use it for something I can, but it's also doing a couple other things it's putting into an outline, which for me in this video series was really helpful. It's also doing some funny things if I want to just be funny or try to have fun or experiment. But most importantly, it's giving me an outline. It's giving me a blog post version. It's giving me a professional email version. Explain like I'm five. So if I wanted to really explain Oasis to somebody else and I've been talking about it for 90 seconds, I can just send them this little thing, right. And actually, one of the ones that I turned off I guess is the is the video scripts because that's actually useful for me to have it put out in a video format. And I think I can show you an example of one of these. These are some of the other things I was working on. Yeah, here's a video script example. So I was working on, you know, AI for writing feedback and an educational context. How could we use AI to help people help themselves? So it generated a script for me, right? Which I could use in generating and creating one of the videos also gave me an outline, which was useful when I was looking back and saying, Okay, what are the main points I'm making here? But I didn't have to do that manually. I basically just talked, right I just talked out loud and for me, that was a very efficient way to accomplish this. This goal. There's another tool like this called Audio pen. And I'll just do a quick version of this. I'm not going to go through a 92nd one. And audio pen is similar to oasis. It's like a Coke and Pepsi kind of thing. But it has a bunch of different features. So if you're interested in this, and this feels like a tool that's useful to you, I'd encourage you to always experiment with a couple things. And this one is clean. It's well designed, they're adding a lot of new features, but the free version is kind of limited. Oasis free version you can do pretty much everything you can with the pro version. I now pay five bucks a month for Oasis just if you're interested in that sort of cost. Audio pen, I believe cost $75 For the year, so it's kind of similar. So I'm going to click stop. And it's going to upload it's going to give me just a quick summary and because I'm only on the free plan here, it's just going to give me a short little summary and that's basically it. So I personally prefer Oasis but just wanted to show both of those in case they're of interest to people. And move onward. Locks you've already seen, right? This is another version of the of the Banach app just to clarify a couple things about blocks. I use it only for meetings. It's really best in that kind of context Oasis has a more. It's more it's best use case is like when I'm recording my own ideas. And one thing about blocks which somebody asked me about before is if you're doing if you're using blocks one nice thing about it, unlike a lot of the other meeting recording tools or meeting AI tools, it doesn't show up in the meeting. Right? So like otter bot shows up in the meeting or supranormal or any of these other tools. They show up in the meeting, right blocks just lives on your computer. So that's why I can record any session in this conference for example, right or I can record this session or record any online meeting no matter what platform it's on because it doesn't have to be invited into the meeting. Does that make sense? Whereas these other tools, you have to have them actually like join the meeting. So that's a distinction that's sometimes a significant one for for making things easy, but however, you should always ask people, right that's something that I was talking to someone earlier like you should say like hey, I'd like to transcribe this meeting. So I can share a summary with everyone afterwards. Is that okay? Or does anyone have any concerns about that? Right? That's a simple, prompt or whatever statement to make, to share with people just so that everyone's on board. I made that mistake once early on when I was testing this, just because I didn't think of it right. It was meeting with someone and I was like, Oh, this could be useful. I'll send them a summary afterwards because we're talking to a lot of things. And then afterwards, they're like, Oh, I didn't know you were transcribing that. So that was an error on my part. And I learned from that. Yep.

Is there any way that it can distinguish different voices? It does, it does reasonably well. Yeah. Surprisingly. Each of these tools each of these AI meeting tools, and I'll show you a couple more quickly, does does it differently and I'm sort of continually testing to see which is doing that well, and better than others. They all make some mistakes like with spellings of names right? So that's, that's just to be expected. This is another one I really like. called 4140 nine.ai. The advantage here is that it generates a Google doc summary that you can query. So there was a session that I led a class session where somebody was talking about burnout, but I missed what they said that one of the guest speakers I had, and I queried the Google doc afterwards and I said basically asking 4149 What did what was what was that person saying about burnout? And it gave me that section of the thing, right? And then I was like, what else can I ask it? And I was like, Oh, well, what were some of the other interesting comments that students made during the session? Right, and it gave me several interesting comments. And each time I asked something, I'm surprised how good the answers actually are, and how useful it is because it's like having a assistant who knows everything about every session, which is really quite useful. It even they're working on a new feature they're testing where it sends you a follow up afterwards. These are some topics that came up. Here's some relevant resources. So acting as an assistant who's proactively sending you relevant material. Another one that's useful in this realm that does something slightly different, is fathom it gives you a time coded summary. So after an hour long meeting I was in recently, it broke down that into basically like 10 little chunks, so and so talked about this timecode so and so talked about that timecode super helpful to be able to just point people to the part of the meeting that was relevant, right in a matter of moments because it also had the video recording it and had the Summarized transcript. So it was super helpful and we don't need the full transcripts. Right. No one's going to go through the full transcript in my experience, right for the most part. supranormal also does meeting summaries does the quality of the summary is just excellent, and you can customize them. So one of the challenges here is this is like Wild West. There's so many tools doing this. And so this is partly a matter again, like Coke and Pepsi. It's partly a matter of your preference, right and partly a matter which interface you like. But they each do something slightly different. Yes.

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No, they. Yeah, so that's a great question. And they're each slightly different. They're each kind of like adding new features continually. They're all in beta. Every single one of these is basically in beta. One of the tools you can upload audio to is OASAS, which is a new feature they added recently, which is really nice. So you don't have to record live, you can record in voice memos or have a you know, any kind of recording and upload it to Oasis and some of the other tools are starting to enable that as well. Green is another one that allows you to actually just highlight sections of the transcript and create a video of highlights, which is kind of cool. One of the ways I use the transcripts afterwards is with Claude. So I think I will show you a live example of this. So Claude is a great alternative to chat. GPT right. All of us probably know Chad GPT quite well, Claude allows you to ingest 75,000 words. So an hour long transcript is like no problem at all. So actually, let me show you an example. So I'm going to open up Claude and and this is workshop summary from a little while ago, I do these, as I mentioned showing all kinds of sessions. So basically, I pasted in the transcripts, right, which I had of that session. And that's what's up here and I asked Claude to summarize the chat material chat material actually, and then, and then give me a summary of the key points from the chat. And then what were comments in the transcript that were interesting and then summaries the transcript and highlight five The most notable moments the live session, and then create a table of all the sites, apps and plugins that I mentioned. So it creates a table which is actually really helpful. That was that would be time consuming. I've made those in the past manually. It's time consuming for me. And then it added the links to that. So it's an iterative process. And then this is to me a real time saver because I could then use this and share this out with people who were attending so they could get a quick summary without having to spend, you know, multiple hours doing that. So that was really quite useful and a real use case for me

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know that's a great point. Yes, thank you. You actually beat me to beat me to the punch that that is one limitation. So the links I had to double check some of them interestingly it got right. But some of them it did not. Right. So with the hallucinates or confabulate it's the links as well as Confederates other things, right. So the the kind of content engine that it has is really good but the knowledge engine is not that makes sense. So it's good at sort of formulating the text, understanding the text and summarizing the text but it's not good at sort of knowing things right? It confabulate it's we're in this fourth era right? So to me, quad etcetera is like part of like this whole process of using words on screen writing, editing, that kind of stuff, right? We started with WordStar WordPerfect, Microsoft Word right and moved on to Google Docs. I still remember the first time I used Google Docs that was like a funny moment. Being able to edit anything, anywhere. share with anyone we're kind of collaboratively Oh, that was really powerful. And then Coda notion other tools where you can embed video and maps and other things into the materials. So you could see everything visually in a document or a table, all sorts of stuff inside. And now it's really an assistant that's helping you edit things. Or helping you think about what's actually in the material you're writing. There's so many ways we can use as journalists. There are other sessions on this, so I'm not going to focus too much but to me, these are for the core areas, helps us with analysis. Find what's actually in here that's interesting or noteworthy or outliers in this data, helps us with writing clarify the sentences strengthen the word choice that we're using pick headlines, right? I like using it to generate potential headlines or subject lines for something I'm working on multimedia images for our newsletter posts, for example, or thumbnails for material that we're working on. And just general productivity, like the meeting tools that I mentioned. I'm gonna skip through this part just for time sake. Superhuman is the email I use. So we're still in the morning, right? I've had a couple of meetings, recorded some ideas, right. And now I'm going through email so lots and lots of email I got a peek into my inbox yesterday at some point is like, wow, this is going to require a lot of catch up time later. And for me, superhuman helps make that a lot faster. It's expensive. So that's a big caveat right up front, it's $30 a month unless you're an educator or nonprofit or student, in which case it's $10 That's what I pay. But it's expensive. I think it's worth the investment. But not everyone can make that investment. It's got a lot of advantages. I won't go through them in detail. It's very fast. So if you save a few seconds on a batch of email that you're working on and you do email several times a day or spend a couple of hours in emails, many of us do, that adds up right to two minutes, maybe dozens of minutes, maybe more so. So that's a big one for me, gives you Senator info on the side so I can see a little bit of contextual information about the person. The founder created something called reported years ago, which allows you to basically just by the sender's name and email address recognizes their public, LinkedIn or the blog posts or whatever else, which is helpful in knowing who's sending something to you. And now it has an AI component as well. So it can help generate API responses if you want. This is a new feature where you can sort of add to your calendar right from within an email message right, which is helpful so you don't have to keep going back and forth. And it has a lot of those time saving kinds of features. Another great alternative if you want something a little more affordable and you can use the free version of this is shortwave. If I were starting over, this is one I might go with a team is amazing. They've got an incredible group of people and they have added a whole bunch of really useful features there. They're innovating a lot faster than superhuman, actually, at this point, in my view, and it's really it's a it's a great tool and it works across platforms. The tool that I use daily for non work kind of writing is day one. So each morning I'm trying typically to share at least one thought with my journal. When I'm doing something at work. I also do share like a project thought afterwards. So if I'm presenting I'll share a thought about the presentation afterwards. If I'm reading a book, I have a BLB a bob, which is a book of books so I'll share a thought to my journal about that book. And day one is the tool that I found most useful for that has a bunch of different features, which include being able to keep multiple journals. So I have a journal of books, a journal for work a journal for creative ideas, etc. You can add audio and video to journal entries. Now you can set up templates. You can email stuff in so if you'd like working from your email or you want to forward something in that somebody shared with you or something like that. I printed books every couple years, so I like having a physical version of my journal because it's otherwise it's just sort of in the ether somewhere which is kind of nice to have printed version and it prints out really nicely. It's good quality and the automation so it pulls in ever resonance journal if anyone's familiar with that concept, it's a sharing things that resonate with you or have meaning to you. So it pulls in YouTube videos I've liked or Spotify songs or tweets or anything I've liked. And that's an automation. So if you're familiar with Zapier or IFTT, you can set up a link basically it's a way of linking to apps or to services. You set up a link and people have already created them. So you don't have to create them. You just say oh yeah, I want that service. So anytime you like the YouTube video, it will make a little note of that and link into that specific journal on day one. Which basically automates you have a whole resonance journal of all the things you've liked automatically, that you can look back on. This is just an example of the visual side of it. So this is my family and family pictures and stuff and I like being able to see the visual side not just the words, and it just has a nice design. It feels nice. I just like using it. This is a quick one I just use for exercise just has little gifts. So it's like one minute 30 seconds, three minutes, and it shows you a GIF of normal people doing some normal kind of little exercise that you can do at your desk, or a standing desk or sitting down. It's really fast. Really easy, really fun. Okay, we're on to the commute. And a couple of things I use on the commute one is snipped. This is a podcast app. I used to use Castro. There's lots and lots of ordinary podcast apps they're all fine. The thing that's amazing about snipped is it actually gives you a preview of the chapters in any podcast. So I have so many podcasts, I can't keep up with them. But I can use snip to see what's actually in a particular episode and decide whether I want to listen to it. It also allows you to highlight things with your air pods or your your phones or whatever you use and you just click on it and it creates a highlight. So if you want to remember something from the podcast, which is often tricky if you're on the go, it saves all the highlights for you. And then it even emails you a list of the highlights from that episode, which is kind of handy and it also stores them and you can import them into your notes and stuff like that. It's really, really kind of handy. Another thing I use when I'm commuting is a reader. So many people are familiar with pocket or Instapaper other tools like that. This one has replaced those for me because it performs so many different functions. It acts as an RSS reader. It acts as a YouTube catcher. So you can read and highlight your YouTube videos. Anything you can organize your newsletters since you subscribe to newsletters with it, it gives you a distinct email address so you can have newsletters that you want not in your inbox. Go directly into your reader. It has highlights so that anything you've highlighted can be stored like and saved for later. YouTube notes as I mentioned, so you can highlight something in YouTube video it shows you the YouTube video and then the transcript below and you can highlight parts of this transcript to return to later. It has an AI feature called Ghost reader. So anything you ingest into it, you can bring a PDF in or long email. It will summarize that for you if you want it to. You can subscribe to things via RSS it works great on mobile, you can email things in if you have a long email thread. You want to read it later or just have it streamlined. The other commuting app I use if I'm trying to read books, which I'm trying to do more of is Libby a couple of Libby fans here. Yeah, Libby is awesome. It's an old tool, but it's a classic. And it's free. I'm still amazed. You can read any book in the world practically on lebih and any audio book and now magazines, and it's all right there. It's all completely free. You can read the books on your Kindle or your Kindle app. So it's really really handy. It's fast. It's free. It's well designed. It's great. We listen to audiobooks now as a family on the car. We don't need to pay for Audible. Sorry, Audible, but this is like better, I think, at least for me for us.

One more on the commute. Side. I'm preparing for the day. There's gonna be some meetings, more meetings. We have so many meetings, right? This gives me a preview of who I'm meeting with that day. It's kind of like a CRM, a social CRM, you could think of it as so it gives you a preview of who you're meeting with, and it gives you information about them from your email past emails, their public tweets are LinkedIn. And you can also use it it has a new AI feature as everything does, where you can search and say, Hey, I'm going to Philadelphia who are some of my contacts that are working there that I haven't been in touch with for a while, something like that. You can sort of pose natural language questions about your own contacts. And it's really easy to use, it's fine. It's well designed. And you can also set it up to remind you to be in touch with certain people at certain intervals if you want and it's got a weird URL, which is clay dot Earth. I don't know where they came up with that. I've never seen another Has anyone seen a dot Earth? But that's a cool little distinction. They have. Okay, we're at the office now. And I use mark as my browser. It is phenomenal for a lot of reasons. I won't go into too much depth about it. It's cleaner than Chrome. It's got spaces. So I've got a space for a certain class that I teach. I've got a space for my newsletter. I've got a space for a couple different things a volunteering project that I'm doing and they each have different bookmarks or tabs. They also have different logins. So I don't know how many of you have multiple Google accounts. Two people have that I have one for work and then have one for that is a separate one that I use for the volunteering thing that that's where I have my YouTube prime account or premium, whatever pro it's called so it strips out the ads. And but that has to be in a different that space needs that account. But a different space at work needs a different Google account. So rather than having to log back in and in different spaces, you just have the spaces for whatever you need them for. Chrome doesn't really enable that at least not easily. Split View you can look at two websites side by side and add data from one to one tab to another really easily. It's got easels and notes. It's got a lot of nice features. If you're in a meeting, it'll show the picture in picture. You can customize the way websites look with boosts. It's compatible with all the chrome bookmarks and plugins and you can import everything. And it's got a nice new mobile app. This is just an example of like what that the little easels look like. So you just grab a snapshot of different websites and it creates this little cool easel of a collection of all the stuff you're looking at. You can annotate it. A lot of people use Calendly and I've long recommended Calendly it's a fantastic tool and there's now a free alternative to it because it's it's not something people not everyone can afford. So this is a free alternative and what it does is essentially save you from the drag the drudgery the menial back and forth email scheduling dance, right can you meet next week? Well, no, not Tuesday, but Thursday, what about Wednesday and Friday at five? No, I can't do then that whole thing that we do so often, at least I end up having to do in the past. Now it's just sending someone a link. So here's my here's my meeting link. Feel free to pick a time that works for you. So I'm using this for example, as a teacher a bunch of guest speakers this coming term, I sent them a link with information about the class etc. And they can pick the date and time and it just goes on their calendar goes on my calendar, it's done. We don't have to have 27 different emails back and forth. And Zico allows you to do it completely for free. It's super easy. You can set it up in like 15 minutes if you don't have one. If you already have Calendly you may not need it. But it's got some nice features including you can put a video on your page like if you want to explain something to people. Lots of tools we can use for all sorts of other work things. I'm not going to go through them in detail for time sake but one principle I tend to follow is simplicity where possible. So I do believe in using a lot of different tools as you may have noticed, just like in the kitchen, I don't believe in using one pot for every single thing I'm gonna cook, right. There's different kinds of things that require if sometimes you might need a crepe pan, or sometimes you might need a pasta thing to boil pasta, right. So there are a lot of tools that have specialized purposes, right because we're doing a lot of specialized work. So I don't need one tool that does everything. However, I also don't want every tool to be super complicated. So for tasks, I will often just use something very simple like reminders. In fact, that's my go to at this point, right? And I'll say remind me tomorrow to update the handout with anything I forgot to put in there. And that's in there. And I use that throughout the day just to have stuff on a simple list, right, a simple current task list, right, which is just current tasks for this week. And it's there. And I don't have to think about I don't have to type anything. It's just there. It's on my computer. It's on my phone. So I just like the simplicity of that. There's a million tasks, apps that do all sorts of fancy things. I don't need most of that. And same thing with calendar like I generally find Google Calendar is fine. I'm testing a couple other ones once called Vim, Cal. They allow you to do some fancy stuff, but I think with a lot of tools simplicity is fine. Along those lines, one of the most simple Writing Tools is called IA writer. It's anyone used this one before. It is what it shows, right? Nothing no menus, no complexity, just beautiful, clean interface where you can just focus on words one sentence at a time, right? I see one one fan in there, right? And it is just nice to do one thing which is to focus on what you're actually writing, and not be distracted. By menus or clutter. It can do some fancy other tricks like it can. You can have a highlight all the adverbs in a certain color or adjectives or verbs or it can look for cliches, right? Point out cliches or redundancies or repeat words. So sometimes we'll turn on those modes just to get a different view of what I'm writing or to improve or edit. But generally, it's just super simple place to write. This is one for sentence level editing. It's AI based editing. Deep L is actually a fantastic translation tool, but they have this new writing capability. So if you want to improve some piece of writing, you can basically pasted in there and then will give you different alternatives to that sentence. You're still choosing what you want to a word or two a sentence, but it's just helping you kind of think about different options for sentences that you might want to improve. That's also free for a variety of different kinds of notes and resources that I create, I use craft, including the handout that I'll share with you at the end of the session. Craft is to me the best design note taking tool or kind of document sharing tool resource sharing tool. And this is what the interface looks like when you're working in it. This is actually a mobile example but it works beautifully in mobile, tablet, desktop, whatever you're working on. And these cards are what I really love most. So these preview cards, each of those cards has something underneath it right like a sub page kind of thing. But it allows you to create something that's just really looks attractive in my view. And you don't have to be a designer because it's just designed to create really nice looking stuff. I didn't realize before I used it how important the aesthetic of a tool like this is to me. There's 1,000,001 notes tools, but a lot of them look very functional. And this one feels actually beautiful and nice to work with and well designed. And it just works really well. It's free for educators and students. And it's actually very low cost for everyone else. And it's actually free if you have the set app subscription. So set app is a collection of 240 plus apps that if you buy this $10 month bundle you get all of those including timeout, that little screen thing, craft clean my Mac or whatever that thing is called that sort of keeps your system clean and bunch of other useful stuff. So I recommend that I don't work for any of these companies by the way, and I don't get I don't have any relationship with them. I just find stuff that's useful for me and for my students and colleagues and readers. Another tool I use for documents is a little bit under appreciated my view so a lot of people talk about notion it's become a multi billion dollar company. Coda is fantastically useful and fantastically powerful and I think people don't know enough about it. There's more than I'll have time to share with you right now. But one of the great things about coda is that it creates interactive documents. So you can have things like this little interactive table in a document where people can respond to it in a meeting or if you share a document with people you can have sub pages. So you have one Coda doc and it can have a Google doc inside of it a Google sheet inside of it. YouTube videos, air tables, it can have all sorts of stuff inside of it. And basically is a anything tool, right? You can put anything into a CODA and it looks nice, it's organized it functions like a Google doc so you can collaborate with other people on it. But it does so many more things than a Google doc like embedding interactive material or embedding videos or other kinds of content and having sub pages. So one of the use cases for me is I don't know about all of you. I have many different meetings, and I've meeting notes documents with all of these different collaborators and partners and colleagues and people I'm working with. And I put all of them into one Coda doc, so one could a doc that has all my different notes documents, so that centralizes and helps organize all of that. You can see this is the longer break, right? So this would be a typical one. Full one minute. Break that that happens basically once an hour.

And now of course, I'm not finding the mouse. There we go. Okay, so we're nearing the end and then we're going to pause and stop for questions shortly. memed on AI is a new notetaking tool that's AI based, open AI invested in one notes company, as far as I know. And it was men and men basically allows you to query your own notes as you would query chat GPT for example. So you can put anything you want to into ma'am I use it by email, lots of email in material into meme. You can text stuff into meme, you can clip stuff from the web into meme, or you can use it as you would any other notetaking tool, enter open it up and type notes in right. And unlike other notes, tools, you can chat with it you can say what were the most recent notes I wrote about such and such a topic, or you can start writing something and it will surface on the right side here are related notes. So it looks like you're typing a note about this topic. Here are four other notes that are relevant to that right using AI so it's so it's really quite a smart and efficient system. And you can use it completely for free for now for the basic side and they're charging a subscription fee for the AI features. Another next generation notes tool and the reason these are important, by the way, I don't how many Evernotes people there are in here, but Evernotes laid off their entire US staff recently right and they're owned by a European company called bending spoons and we don't know what the future that is might be very bright but it might not be. So there are other notes tools, including craft, including mem and tonna. So Teyonah is a little bit more sophisticated one I'd say it's kind of an advanced level notes, service. And it is incredibly powerful in the sense that it's focused on simple backlinked note structure, which to put in simple terms basically allows you to start with like a command line or a bullet point you can type anything you want. You don't have to think about what folder you're putting something into or open up a particular document, you just start typing. And then you might add some tags, right. So I'm meeting with John, and we're talking about AI. And he's mentioning something about Chicago, and we're talking about a certain restaurant, I can add those tags and then it lives in all of those places. Right? So if I'm looking for all this stuff about Chicago, it's already there. I'm looking at all the stuff related to John, it's already there. And so rather than having something that's hierarchically organized, where a note just lives in one folder or one particular place, this is everything is connected. Everything is back linked, right. So it's a new approach to thinking about how notes are structured, which I think is quite helpful and quite powerful. Has a lot more to it than that. But it's it's just just beginning to spread beyond the early adopters. So Mark my words and a couple couple of years you'll be hearing a lot more about town if you haven't already. Much like notion, you know, started as a sort of obscure kind of cult and now it's very mainstream popular tool. Okay, last few ones creativity. Making slides is something I love to do. I find slides to be a really creative space and you can use slides for lots of different things. In video and posters and documents and in presentations obviously, and beautiful that AI is the best one in terms of incorporating AI and making it really easy to design really elegant professional looking slides. Anytime you add something into a beautiful day. document it everything else reflows automatically. So with PowerPoint, if you add something or Google Slides you have to sort of drag everything around and reflow everything manually. If you add a person here it just reflows if you change something, it will just automatically if you add another number, it will automatically reflow everything will reformat automatically for you and a really nice elegant way that's easy. To use has a whole range of other powerful things that I love about it. If I want a quote with a particular kind of data. There's all different kinds of preset templates. I can just pick one, right and change change some detail of it. There's a few other slide making tools that I love. This one called Pitch is fantastic. All the templates are professionally designed Google Slides as convenient as it is and free as it is a lot of the templates are kind of clip arty or amateurish in terms of how they're designed actually, but this is really professional looking kind of slide templates, and it's great for collaboration. One other one that I really love is made by the same people make it a writer. It's called a presenter. And the distinction here is you can just start with text. So a lot of slide tools assume you've got some like great visuals to work with. Right? But in many cases we just want to explain some core concepts. We don't necessarily want to focus on the visuals. And so what it does is allow you to start with the text, just type three dashes and it will create a new slide right but to separate your slides, and then they look like this right they have these beautiful like text designs. You can add images if you want but I often am using a just with text just for core ideas. We're just going to talk about these five concepts, right and it's just and then it has a nice function where you can see all of the texts you've written, but you can choose that only some of it shows up on the slide. So it actually acts as a teleprompter for you which is actually been really handy for remote presentations for me. This is another really powerful one called gamma. This does a lot of cool AI stuff. Here's an example of what that looks like. Just show you a short clip of this as an example. Generating the slides for you essentially and then you can edit it

and then you can decide you want a different look. Different format or a different template.

And then you can ask for additional changes and they'll give you different options. So you can switch things around. So that's a theme. I think with a lot of tools, you're gonna see a co pilot mode, which basically means you can just chat with it and it will improve it for you or help you improve it. And I'll show you another example of that in a moment. One nice thing about gamma, by the way is not everything has to be a rectangle, right? So if you have something you want to show a long web page and middle of a presentation, you can do that or if you want to show some smaller series of embeds all on one page. You can do that. So it sort of breaks the rectangle expectation which I find kind of helpful in some cases. Eagle is just a really cool place for storing your images and stuff on your on your computer. It's local storage. So it's fully secure, fully private, and you basically can then search all of the stuff you have in all sorts of different ways you can look for just portrait style images that are certain color that were screenshots or something you can create all sorts of interesting ways to organize your your stuff and it's designed for images, but actually, I know people who now use it for all their PDFs and all their other documents that just were like scattered all over their computer. And when I bought it, it was 20 bucks. I don't know if it's still somewhere. It's very cheap, cheap purchase, and it's a permanent purchase. It's not a subscription, which is nice. caprine is a new video site that I'm really excited about. It's web based video editing. So if you're doing any kind of web based video work I encourage you to check out what they're doing. So this is another example of the copilot so I'll just show you this is like a quick example of how this copilot will work with with video.

Just talk directly to the copilot able to achieve quality levels, review that edit backgrounds add overlays and add elements or extend and trim footage and that's all computer eventually just described the video and they will work.

I'm not sure about the last part. I'm skeptical about that last part but the other part I'm with them right Give me a transition change the lighting, bring the music down like if it can do that and I don't have to go in there and find those menus. I think in a few years we're going to think of some of that menial kind of editing work we do as stuff that we just expect the tool to do for us. It at least if we're not a pro editor if you're pro editor you want to do everything by hand. That's great. But for those of us who are just doing occasional video editing, we're just going to expect to use a co pilot and this is kind of a preview of what that will be like. Couple last ones interactive stuff that you want to make. If you don't know we just have flash everyone anyone remember flash. It's like old historic thing now right? But if you want to make something that's actually interactive that has a button or does something or has audio that plays or handouts or other kinds of things that are interactive, genially is a really underappreciated tool, particularly for news purposes. If you're creating any kind of news game or news interactive, it's a really nice way to create that has all sorts of functionality. I don't think they've marketed it that well, or at least people don't seem to know about it as much as they should. But I find it to be really, really useful for creating things pretty easily. runway is an amazing tool and company. If you're interested in video, check out what they're doing. It's incredible. You can just type in a phrase of how you want to transform one video into the look of another video or a picture in the style of this other video. These incredible ways of re mixing and rethinking visuals and making it really accessible is something they're doing really, really well and you can start for free just experimenting. Just creating a four second video out of a prompt line is a really fun experiment. And just like blows your mind in terms of what you can actually create with just a text prompt. The last one is a simple one mail brew. So we're in the evening I want to check out what happened today that I missed because I was doing these different things. Mailbird is a customized email that you get basically, you can view it on the web, but I just view it as a digest of what happened during the day or what happened during the week. You can customize the frequency so you can get it once a week or once a day or twice a day or whatever frequency you want. You can decide what goes in it. So any RSS feeds, any Twitter accounts, any newsletters, any YouTube channels, I use it for Product Hunt. I'm curious what products or new things are coming out that day or that week. And you can even have you know really whatever you want into your digest. And so I like being able to customize it and not have to rely just on what somebody else wants to show me. So that's, that's, that's it. We've got a few minutes, about 10 minutes for q&a and questions. I'm going to pull up the questions that are up here in case anyone added them and I also want to share the handout with you. So this is the handout. Now I'll come back to the questions. So you can point at the the QR code if you want you can use the bitly link if that's helpful. And this has all of the links that I shared with you if it doesn't let me know. What's that? I think it does, yes, it should have all the ones I skipped over as well. But if it doesn't, let me know. And I will add that I added a reminder right to add anything that I didn't have. So I will go over them and make sure I have everything in there. Let me show you what that looks like. Has everyone had a chance to get a screen shot if you want so I'm going to click over here to show you what that actually looks like. And this will give you a sense of craft as well. So this is craft this is made manually somebody yesterday said how did you do that with AI I did not do this with AI. I made this although it was very easy because craft is really nice. So these are cards and they have this little slight effect or drawer effect. So basically you just click on a section and you see what's in it. In this case, I didn't include a lot of other text, but I could add additional text if I want to. In this case I included a few wonder tools posts with a little bit more information about some of the apps. And that's it. So it's just one page. So an alternative to this. And what I've done in the past sometimes is like a long Google Doc, right? If you've gotten those it's like a lot of stuff and that's fine. But I like the visual feel of this a little bit more. So this is the handout and this is craft and let me pull up the questions and welcome any questions from you about anything that I've shared and also stay afterwards. I know you all may have sessions to go to that's fine, but if you want to stay afterwards, I'm going to stick around and answer questions. And I'm going to open up the q&a tab. So I can see if there's anything in particular that when asked, but go ahead. Thanks. This was like

this is gonna help transform my scattered brain. So appreciate it. But I also do a lot of online trainings. And you know, you send out the deck and the recording but no, I don't think anyone actually watches like our 90 minute long great to find negativity. Yeah. It seems like a bunch of these tools can be really helpful. Yes. Locks and releases. Yeah. Are there specific tools you recommend for or even, I guess battle

to Yeah, yeah, any of those. So this is a this is an area where, you know, it's a little bit personal preference. It's a little bit budget, some of them are free, some have a little cost. And there's also a matter of the privacy policies. So people who are concerned about that want to look at the privacy policies, where are they storing their data? Do they guarantee that they're not feeding back? Ai generated data back into open AI, this database, for example, to train its data on your data? Many of them will have a function where essentially, they're using open API's model, that large language model, but they're not giving your data back to the open AI to train its next generation engine. Right. So you may want to look into that. But yes, to answer your question, yes. And in fact, for me, as someone who's trying to share material with students or people I'm meeting with, I have a pet peeve about meetings where like people don't remember don't follow up. Don't do anything with it, right? Because our time is so valuable, right? Our lives are so short. If we spend hour an hour together, like let's make something of it, let's remember let's act on it. Right? So for me being able to have a summary that I share with people that I don't have to spend a half an hour each time working on manually. That's a huge win. So yes, blocks. I've used it numerous times for that, and exactly the way I showed you, so I'll just turn it on, right? Ask the person is this okay, here's why I'm using it. Here's what it's for. Here's what it does. Actually blocks is interesting. It does not permanently save any record like audio or video or anything like that just uses the audio to generate the transcript and then it deletes the audio locally. So it just gives you the transcript and it does not feed the transcript to open AI or anything like that. So I could then copy the transcripts or the summary. I usually don't share the whole transcript. I show the summary with the person I just met with here's a summary of our meeting just in case this is useful. So and that's fast and easy. And people sometimes you know, it's helpful

to record internal audio that you have to have to put me on

speakerphone or how you can record audio like in this room. So it's just using the record.

Record that audio.

Yes, yeah. So I'm using like Google meat or something like that. It's Yes, it's recording through the sound card. Okay. Yeah. Just

the fabric also thinking. Can you just talk a little bit about your concept of notes because like, these are tools that are doing what they're designed to do, but we don't maybe are thinking like in terms of notes and recording and doing things for posterity, and in a way that may not totally, I kept thinking like I'm doing like one way to go tomorrow. I write emails and Google Docs and I have like different things that I do reasons. But I just say to everything and like, over time, I'm just like, I'm trying everything in there. Yeah, forever. And then later on, say,

how you want to use it or? Yeah, yeah. So So I think where you're going with this and or at least this is something that resonates with me is this idea that like, ideally don't want to have to look in 20 places for something, right? If I was thinking about something or come up with ideas, I want that to be easy for me to find later, easy to put in and easy to get out. So I'm continually moving towards a system. Right. Thiago forte has a nice book called building a second brain. Some of you may be familiar with a new book. And this concept of a second brain is essentially a place where you can put things that you can come back you know, you can put things in, you can come back and get get them out, right. But what, what right now is the challenge is that it could be in a lot of places, right? So there's two potential solutions to that. One is to use one app that can you can put everything and some people try to do that. So they try to use ton of for example, for everything, anything they do with goes in town or anything they do. It goes Ma'am, I'm not like there quite yet. Because I like using the journal for some things. It has certain features. So I use day one for certain things. I like writing and I a writer because it's clean. And then I'll put that into a notebook, let's say or I'll put that into an email. So I'm not quite there in terms of having everything fully streamlined. But I do think we're moving towards a future where it's not the first thing not one to use for everything. But there's a link between all these things. And it might be an agent, we call an agent which is like a service that essentially you know helps you collect things from across services. So whether like take a service like Claude, if Claude were to perform that or pi, or po or one of these other AI engines. You could essentially say hey, I was writing something about you know, next year's vacation plans. Can you find that I was in one of my notes tools, right and it just will find it for you. And it could be in Google Docs. It could be in your notion, but it will kind of like just find it for you. So that I think is an interesting future where it doesn't matter so much where things are, it'll just kind of find it for you. I think that will be a nice, handy help for those of us who aren't always organized in terms of like putting knowing exactly how we're going to use something right away in advance. Yes.

privacy concerns

Yeah.

In some of these places, is it possible they regurgitate someone else? Someone else is very near and dear.

Yeah. So increasingly, like people have woken up to the fact that like, they don't want everything to be fed into open AI or to anthropic which is the company makes Claude and So increasingly, those companies have said okay, we promise not to train on your data unless you have specifically opted in or your partner in this specific way. So increasingly, there are starting to be some walls. It's not perfect. And there's also other third party tools that may not have those kinds of standards that they're following. So I do think it's something to be mindful of and conscious of, and I would say, you know, general, people often say like, don't put stuff in there that you would feel concerned about if some day that we're in a leak database or something, right, because we've seen so many leaked databases, etc. So I do think there's reason for caution. But I also think for the most part, there are some guidelines in place and I'm not as worried as some people are about, you know, using it for ordinary day to day kinds of things. Yeah. Somebody else yeah.

Is it safe to assume that the editing features in English?

Yes, some of them are increasingly starting to open up to other languages. Actually, I'm planning to do something about that because I've been getting that like a lot of people are interested in that topic, and I'm getting that question. And, but, but increasingly, what I've spoken to several founders, they're like, yeah, what language language is coming? Like that's, that's like a frequent thing I've been hearing. So right now the interface is in English. And mostly they're tuned on English. So they're assuming the language they're transcribing or summarizing is English. But increasingly, they're what I'm hearing is, yeah, we're going to be able to soon take in any of the major languages at the very least, if not all of the languages that open AI services, which is like ridiculous number of languages. In fact, there was a story about how opening I didn't realize that ChaCha PT could understand one particular language to people remember this story? They sort of didn't know how they hadn't trained it on this particular language intentionally, but it sort of knew one of these languages. And it was kind of a mystery to the researchers, which I thought was interesting. Anyway, there's more languages coming but many of the tools have focused first on English because they see that as a larger market initially. Other Other questions? Yes.

Any other new transcription tool? Are you having the same audio?

Yeah. Yeah. So that's another feature that they've asked about, like they people have asked for, and I know it's on the roadmap at places like supranormal and 4140 nine.ai. And I don't know about fab them, but yes, that's coming. I don't I don't I haven't used that in that way. Right now, like pulling old zoom recordings and pulling them in that way. But I mean, you can use D script for that kind of thing in some cases, right. So you can just upload a video or audio file for use D script. So the script is another transcription service for editing audio and video. And you can use actually D script to pull up an old audio file or video file and transcribe it. It won't do the summary for you, because it doesn't have that particular function, but it will give you the transcript. And then you can take that transcript and put it into chat GPT or to Claude or to any of the other services. Right, that's true, right? So you could play the recording and just record it through blogs or any other app that's recording your, your sound. Yeah. So yeah, once again, if you're interested in the live events, stuff that I'm doing this fall, and we're going to do these pretty regularly. This is a way to get a free paid subscription, where you can just subscribe at Wonder tools dot sub sect are common. You can look back at the archive if there are particular tools you're interested in. There's probably a post about about those as well. I'll stick around the time is up. So I'm gonna let you go to whatever you have next. Um, thank you for being here. Thank you for being interested in this topic. If I can answer questions, that is my email on the other slide. Yeah, here's my email. If I can answer questions that you didn't get answered today, or if you try to use something and you run into roadblocks or if I can be helpful in some way with you or your organization, feel free to email me or if you want to collaborate on something. I'm always interested in having new collaborators to work with that's that's a big objective of mine. So I'm always looking forward to to finding new ways we can work together. So thanks for your interest and for being here.

I wear a lot of different hats. So I'm a journalist and a trainer and I'm I'm just

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Yeah, but yeah, this was like a game changer for me. I'm like starting to work.