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  When can AI actually be helpful? As someone with ADHD, it can be difficult to get organized. Squirrel syndrome can be debilitating at times, and it's hard enough even creating a simple to-do list. I've tried many different apps in the past, and I mean a lot. Just like how I bounce from task to task, not able to stick with anything for any length of time, I also bounce from app to app. Nothing has truly stuck. Reminders, Things, Todoist, Trello, Wrike, GoodNotes, Google Keep, and more. It's just like me and journals. I think I have 10 floating around the house. Not one is full, and every single one has a jumble of things written in them, getting lost just like socks in the dryer. Notion might change that. As we've been learning, AI is baking into everything these days. Notion is no exception. I had actually downloaded Notion a couple months ago because I had read you can program it to help accomplish just about anything you need. I was trying to come up with Gantt char...

How do we save ourselves!? This is actually a very difficult subject to discuss. While you can't quite tell in that photo, I was actually attending a medieval feast over Yule. Which is exactly what this all feels like. Living in medieval times and being ripped from our realities without our consent.  Our assignment this week is all about AI prompting. The image I created above was created by Google Gemini, using the prompt "Create an image of me worrying about AI tearing my hair out." I then had to upload an image they wanted me to have them transform, and that's what Gemini came up with. The only tweak I had to make was they had the "AI REPLACES ALL JOBS" image twice, so I asked them to replace it with "AI DATA CENTERS DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT." What's nice about Gemini is you don't actually have to be all that detailed in what you ask it, and you will still get very good responses. Meaning, yes, I use Gemini. On a somewhat regular basis...