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
Musings – Prompting, productivity, and context
Prompting, Productivity and Context Finish the following sentence: "Blogging is so ..." and yet here I am. Prompting I've been trying to engage people close to me as to their AI experiences and uses, either professionally or personnally. I find myself reminding...
TEDs v 2.what?
I came across this TechCrunch article covering the recent news that Google is committing 150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-commits-150m-to-develop-ai-glasses-with-warby-parker/ My immediate thought was a new take on...
Bill Gates, not a jerk billionaire
Bill Gates has announced he's giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs. Here's the announcement from Gates Foundation There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them. A have an internal screed about...
Gemini = Lazy Google?
Now my mind is just equating Gemini to Lazy Google. For example, I wanted to modify the footer of tquist.com website. But what footer and where do I modify this? In the pre-Gemini (or LLM) days I would have typed my question into Google search and looked for...
AI Musings 5-5-2025
I am struggling to determine the best way to compare the big three LLMs. Side by side comparison of the same prompt is logical but yeesh, not sure I’ll have the time for such detailed analysis. Another thought I’ve had is to use a different one for time periods and...
AI Musings 5-2-2025
I have been trying to use the top 3 (in my mind at least) LLMs regularly. I feel most likely to grab Copilot as Microsoft has so nicely put a cool looking rainbow colored icon on the taskbar of Windows. I scratch my head a little as I don't recall allowing Microsoft...
AI limitations – let’s change a Google Voice number
TQuist had a Google Voice number for a long time. I never used it well, and then I neglected it, and then it was releasted back into the wild. I confirmed earlier my previous number has been assigned to some else, which makes sense due to my inactivity. So I want a...