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Using Pantheon AI to study
Hi everyone! Today I want to talk a little about using AI to study. I’d say most students are pretty well-versed in using ChatGPT for school right now – it’s proven to be a pretty excellent asset for learning … And okay, maybe it’s really handy for generating answers to...
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Pantheon Personas - your custom AI assistants
In my last article, I introduced our new AI-assisted tool, Pantheon. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you check it out before delving into this one, which expands on an additional feature of Pantheon called “Personas”. I’m really excited about personas, because they add a level of customization to...
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Pantheon - a new AI-assisted Second Brain
I’m really excited to share an upcoming new tool with you guys today – I think this could be a game-changer for how we can interact with our information. Whether it’s your notes, a book, or a podcast transcript, this new tool can allow you to use an AI assistant to query it. As many of you...
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Automated Tyranny
There is an abundance of discussion on fears of AI going rogue, turning on humanity due to some oversight in their programming. The more treacherous reality is that there is no need for it to go rogue. In truth, self-aware Artificial Intelligence as we often imagine it in these apocalyptic scenarios...
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The boardroom exercise - a journal tool
The Boardroom Exercise is simple – when faced with a problem, question or dilemma, you conjure a set of ‘personalities’ as ‘board members’ to advise you. This might sound a little schizophrenic, but hear me out. Regardless of the problem, there are likely certain members of the board that could...
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Modern Media's Makeover
There’s a famous saying in the media studies world, parroted a lot, though when you hear it for the first time, it sounds a little enigmatic. “The medium is the message.” Coined by the philosopher Marshall McLuhan, it definitely sounds a bit like philosopher-talk. When I was in university I took a first...
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Moloch and the Mob Boss - The Balance Between Freedom and Order
Any study of the authoritarian nightmares of the 20th century is usually enough to make anyone wary of governments – a glimpse into the excesses of both state power and incompetence, and the vast human toll it can collect. Certainly in the last few years I’ve become more and more wary of any bureaucratic...
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The Dystopia of Stalin's Soviet Union
It is the first of March, 1953, Moscow. A housekeeper cautiously enters the office of the most feared man on earth – lying on the ground, in urine soaked pyjamas, lays Joseph Stalin. It was soon determined that the Vozhd had suffered a stroke – regrettably for the Soviet ruler, he had suffered...
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Making your own custom embeds in Notion
Today I want to talk about a little trick to add some extra functionality to Notion. Many of you might have already played with interesting web-hosted embeds – by typing “/embed”, you can embed web-pages into a Notion page, and this has lead to some pretty creative tools already. Things like embedding...
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How to use Obsidian’s ‘Graph view’ with your Notion backlinks
A year or two ago, I switched from Obsidian back into Notion. It wasn’t an easy decision – Obsidian is a phenomenal tool – Notion just worked better for me as a task manager and multi-purpose second brain. Since moving out, though, I’ve always felt a bit of a phantom limb sensation. Notion’s...
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