MUSINGS & IDEAS

Subscribed to One Useful Thing

by | Jul 22, 2025

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

 

 

Perplexed-ity?

Perplexed-ity? I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I've read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity's Comet browser.  I want to like them and I want to cheer...

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Google Voice

I've been working a bit to update content on TQuist website. I had gotten a Google Voice number years ago but then never used it, and after a time it was recycled. I signed up for a new one today and the process is very, very smooth.  One has to bear in mind that...

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CMS sites revisited

Recent work research includes CMS review. I haven't looked into what is out there in a long time. The quick search hits showed lots of familiar faces and a couple new ones. I found this post informative:...

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Congratulations Impact Makers

Impact Makers was awarded "Best for the World" by B Lab. Here's a Richmond Time's Dispatch mentioning of the award. I met Michael Pirron shortly after moving to Richmond in 2004, and have watched him methodically and conscientiously build Impact Makers into a...

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DropBox Security

Oh, the line between security and convenience is harsh. While reading TechRepublic I found this interesting article on DropBox security. I love the convenience of cloud technologies, and use DropBox like lots of people, including the article author (Michael Kassner)....

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GOOG perspective on links

Analytics is an area that I will be focusing quite a bit in the coming months. I read this article about linking and Penguin 2.0 changes on a website called "Search Engine Watch."  There are many pieces to the content puzzle that websites have to face, and...

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Google Apps v. Office 365

The TechRepublic newsletter is worth a scan every day.  I found this gem recently and it's worth a read if you use, or might use in the future, either Google Apps or Microsoft Office. Here it is: Google Apps v. Office 365: Head-to-head comparison of features...

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