The Sunday Summary: Traveling light, eliminating hurry, and who should do the thinking?

Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!

Blog posts from the past week

• The year at a glance. This is a very simple (and free!) little calendar that puts a unique perspective on your year.
• Let AI increase your creativity. AI actually increases creativity because it will increase the percentage of ideas that people have in their heads that they will then be able to manifest regardless of what their skills are or not. And I love that.
• Travel Light. You’ll likely be switching AI tools in the coming years, maybe multiple times, so it’s worth planning ahead a bit to be prepared for that kind of move.
• Notes from “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry”. A great books with thoughts on how to slow down and simplify your life.
• You should do the thinking, machines should do the labor. “You’re going to have the machine do all of the thinking for you so you can do all the labor. You have this opposite, friends. Humans should do the thinking. The machine should do the labor. So you’re kind of giving up. You’re just saying I don’t want to think anymore, I just want to be hands, and you’re just quickening the speed in which we reach the matrix where we’re just human batteries.”
• Don’t be a sharecropper with your content. “Facebook and other social platforms seem like a shortcut, because they make it apparently easy to reach new people. But the tradeoff is that you’re a sharecropper. It’s not your land. You don’t have permission to contact people; they do. You don’t own an asset; they do.“

Books that I’m reading

• Continued reading “How to Know a Person“
• Continued reading “Dare to Serve“
• Started reading “Better Ways to Read the Bible“
• Started reading “Unoffendable“

Tech Rec

Stealing the idea from my friends at the Tech Talk Y’all podcast, I’ll drop in some tech recommendation every week as well.

• I mentioned the BookFusion app a few weeks ago, and it’s becoming my main tool for reading. You can load books into it, and then use it most anywhere; they have a web app for reading on your computer, as well as apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Even better, I’m on one of their paid plans and it costs just $1.99/mo. The challenge is getting your books in a clean format that they can support, but it’s well worth the effort.

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I hope you found some value in this. If you ever have questions, ideas, or disagreements regarding anything I write, please don’t hesitate to reach out.