One Useful Thing
is the name of Ethan Mollick’s substack newsletter. Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs.
Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/
Check out Ethan’s quick guide to using AI right now here: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right-now-a-quick-guide
Save the manuals, always – AppleWorks 6
AppleWorks 6 I know nothing of AppleWorks 6 or FileMaker Pro 7. However, I was spending time recently going through old digital photos and came across some pics of stuff I was decluttering when my Dad moved from independent living to assistant living back in 2018. I...
Alexa, cook me some eggs!
NY Times / AMZN deal Here's an article from The Verge about The New York Times recent deal with Amazon do deliver its “editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” I shudder to think how little The Gray Lady is getting paid. However, I hope the AI...
Oh the Humanity!’s Last Exam!
Humanity's Last Exam Benchmarks are interesting. Here's the deep thought - at what point in the overall benchmark process will AI inject bias into the benchmark test? And to what end? Maybe not so deep a thought. Humanity's Last Exam has been bantered about...
Rollups best left to fruit
The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/. Here's a quote from the article: "The idea is to identify opportunities to buy...
Copilot Summarizes just the page
I saw a headline Windows dashboard about a popular internet provider that filed for Chapter 11. I was curious and decided to check it out and clicked the story. The news item is from "TheStreet" and the initial page does not show the entire article, just the first...
Character.AI and possible suicide
I came across this news item from a while back: This mom believes an AI chatbot is responsible for her son’s suicide Wow, this is just brutal and my heart goes out to his family and friends. Character.ai and the other named defendents tried to use free speech in...
SMH – AI-Driven Layoffs
Shaking my head in response to someone responding "We acted too quickly" with respect to downsizing as a result of AI implementation. Step 1 - Jump on AI bandwagon Step 2 - implement (pricey?) AI stuff hot off the presses Step 3 - Layoffs = more $$$ for us! Or more...