The Greatest Balancing Act of All Time - AF Week 7

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The Greatest Balancing Act of All Time

There are two major trains of thoughts.

Unwavering optimism,

and doom seeking pessimism.

Both of them can be right. Yet I for one can only handle a limited amount of time in the presence of either.

It’s unhealthy to spend all of our time reading and consuming doom seeking pessimist views.

My wife Sara and I were recently scrolling youtube one evening and stumbled across a few of these “End of the World” videos regarding the real estate market.

We caught ourselves in the moment being influenced by pessimism.

“The entire market is going to collapse!”

Some valid data was presented. Insights were properly delivered. But guess what happened next?

YouTube’s algorithm started feeding us more and more doom seeker content.

On the contrary, if you start watching a Simon Sinek Ted talk, next thing you know you’re being shown content for some new and improved version of “the Secret.”

“All you need to do is think yourself rich, then you will be.”

Yeah, right. That’s the solution to all my problems - I think they’re solved, now they are. No hard work required.

Be careful. You will always find what you’re looking for.

There’s valuable information to be gathered in both views, but the path best travelled is the middle road.

Find balance between the two and you’ll find realism.

Acknowledgement of negative events with a positive viewpoint on what you can realistically do about it.

Adapt faster.

Transform Smarter

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This week I picked up a new tool to make working with generative AI even faster. I shared 8 Chrome extensions?this week on Linkedin:

My favorite one of them so far is?UseChatGpt.ai?- by enabling this extension, ChatGPT, Bard, & Claude are a simple CMD + J keystroke away.

I implemented this into my stack this week and it’s been a welcome change.

Here are a few use cases I’ve found handy:

1. Summarize articles with a quick copy and paste into the sidebar
2. Generate paragraph blocks for SOWs
3. Re-structure written content

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Kyle

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