Z's 3-in-3 ⇨ AI-powered tool that will change the way you work ⋆ Most people would rather be more productive than happier ⋆ Humans are masters of creativity (for now)

By Zvonimir Fras • Issue #41 • View online

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AI-powered tool that will change the way you work
Most people would rather be more productive than happier?
Humans are masters of creativity (for now)

I’m speaking at WeaveSphere next week and I’m super excited and nervous. If you’re around Toronto on Thursday, come say “Hi” 🙂

Thing 1 - AI-powered tool that will change the way you work

I kept you up to date with some important advances in AI (whisper, DALL-E, Alpha code, GitHub Copilot, robots with guns) over the year.

It’s about time we put it at your fingertips.

Requirements

can type
know English
have Internet connection

You have all 3? Good.

Bearly AI

Don’t let the name distract you, this is the one that inspired this whole thing.

Consider Bearly your personal AI butler, always a Cmd+Shift+P away.

Bearly AI screenshot

It has 15 tools, 14 are FREE.

But that’s beside the point.

This. Is. Good.

I’ve discovered some fresh ideas and perspectives just by prompting Bearly. The “Counter Argument” tool had a lot to do with that. Even the general prompt does wonders.

Example

Me: Tell me about AI content generation

Bearly

2 out of 4 paragraphs of Bearly's reply to my question

Just try it yourself.

There’s even a Chrome plugin to help with reading comprehension.

Playground AI

Find art that’s close to what you want to create
Remix the prompt
Download

Results are so good you’re not going to believe it until you try it.

Example:

City in futuristic space by Robert Gosioso (Additional Credit: Greg Rutkowski)

Stable diffusion (at 🤗)

If you’re an artist and need some inspiration, you won’t even need to log in to get some at Hugging Face.

One of the sets generated at huggingface.co

Readwise reader

Many tools from Bearly made it into Reader as well. With the goal of research and understanding.

I’m not sure if this is available in the free version but with this link, you’ll get a month of PRO for free, so you can see if it’s worth it for you.

Reader is a big part of my workflow. I do 95% of my reading in it, do “memory jogs” with Readwise every day, and sync highlights and notes into Logseq, where I keep my notes.

Imagine every article you read boosted with

highlights
personal notes
AI-generated backstory
AI-generated summary
AI-generated explanations of terms you didn’t know

Bonus tip

To get better results with AI content generation: treat it as a Google search.

Thing 2 - Most people would rather be more productive than happier?

Headway ran a worldwide survey covering over a million of their users and that’s one of the results I found surprising.

No 1 goal: be productive (63% USA, 65% UK, 58% Australia)

The results seem location-dependent and influenced by culture (in Spain, happiness is no 1). That makes it more interesting in some ways.

If “bite-sized learning for fun and easy growth” tickles your fancy, give the Headway app a go.

(source)

Thing 3 - Humans are masters of creativity (for now)

And Internet is a magical place.

3 collabs that will bring a smile to your face and make a Monday feel like weekend for those 2 min each.

Num Num Cat TikTok Chain but its actually good lol (~2 min)

Luga Luga Cat TikTok Chain but its actually good lol (~2 min)

TikTok Dryer Beat Duet Chain but its actually good lol (~2 min)

Feeling good? Good. 🤗

Cheers, Zvonimir

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