Going through my LinkedIn feed, you would think the whole world is talking about (and is smarter about) the topics I regularly write and talk about when it comes to AI in education. But I can still blow minds when I give keynotes or workshops outside of LinkedIn. ’' I describe Byron King’s “bubble” more as a phase 1, where not everyone is up to speed on using GenAI, but the momentum is growing and at some point things till tip.

People sometimes ask me how to “keep up” with the changing technology. This has become more relevant lately, given the rapid momentum of GenAI, but it seems to be a question many people have. So, here are the two principles you can use if you want to stay abreast. My one caveat is that there is a tremendous amount of pressure to stay current. I think it will be important for all of us to take stock of how technology is rapidly changing and decide how it will fit into our lives, but I’m also against putting pressure on people to “keep up.

Here’s a framework to keep you balanced in this generative AI age. I don’t know about you, but I’m finding myself yearning to rediscover the joy in what makes creativity uniquely human. Here’s what I came up with. First, rid yourself of any social pressures you feel to “keep up” or that your creative job is somehow going to be taken by an AI. It’s not. Now, break up your creative process into separate pieces.

Something interesting to consider is that being a scientist about your medical data is probably a more efficient route than waiting for a diagnosis. I’m not suggesting skipping the doctor. But the doctor can’t really see what you’re doing when you’re not in their office. They can’t keep tabs on your habits, your posture, your meals, your fitness, etc. They don’t know about how you reached into your backseat for something, and then forgot about it later when you complained about your shoulder pain.

From [[Zettelkasten/Cards/Thinkers/Austin Kleon|Austin Kleon]]: During a recent phone call, my friend Matt Thomas told me he likes to take a high/low approach to balancing his input, which started when he was in grad school reading dense theoretical texts by day and chasing them with movies like Fast Five at night. I’ve currently got a good combo going: I’m reading Middlemarch and binge-watching Bridgerton. (As the poet Donald Hall wrote in Essays After Eighty, everybody who works with their brains all day needs to lighten up a bit at night: “Before Yeats went to sleep every night he read an American Western.