Here we are in December, with 2025 just around the corner. While many people wait until January to start their New Year’s resolutions, I believe December is the perfect time to prepare for the new year. By using this month to set the stage, you’ll be ready to hit the ground running when the new year arrives. There are many ways to prepare for 2025, but I want to focus on one perspective: that of a lifelong learner. Here are some ideas to help you make the most of December and set the stage for a successful 2025. 1. Explore ..read more

Do you want to be productive? Do you want to make the most of your time? Then there is something you need: a purposeful system. What does “purposeful system” mean? Well, let’s break it down. There are two words there: purposeful and system. Let’s start with system. To make the most out of your time, you need to make a deliberate effort. You can’t just go about your day as usual and expect to be productive at the end. That might happen occasionally, but you need something that can help you do that consistently. The solution is to have a ..read more

The AI revolution isn’t just coming – it’s here. 2023 was a wild ride, but 2024 is ramping things up even faster. New tools emerge constantly, and staying updated requires significant time and attention. I’m incredibly grateful for the power these tools grant us. As an individual without a large team or massive resources, they’re the closest thing to a superpower I’ve seen. I brainstorm better, get more done in less time… it’s amazing! But here’s the catch: the value you get from AI is directly tied to how well you use it. Realizing that potential boils down, at least with chatbots, to one cor ..read more

Do you have a talent that you no longer develop? Do you have some potential that you are no longer using? I wrote about this topic years ago. At that time, I wrote that my dormant talent was coding. I have a background in computer science, but at that time I hadn’t developed an app in years. My wish was to develop my coding talent again. Fast forward to the present, I’m happy to report that I have been developing my coding talent! I’ve developed several apps in the past years, and I still do now. So, my coding talent is no longer dormant. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but I’ve be ..read more

I recently read Outlive by Peter Attia. It’s a book about longevity that I found insightful. It contains many lessons about different aspects of health. However, what I’d like to share with you here isn’t the health lessons from the book. Instead, it’s a quote by Sun Tzu that I found there: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Interesting quote, isn’t it? Strategy without tactics might lead you to victory, but it’s the slowest route to get there. You will waste a lot of resources along the way. On the other hand, tactics ..read more

For the past few months, I’ve been following the world of AI. The development in the field has been accelerating since the launch of ChatGPT in November last year. Bill Gates wrote back in March that the age of AI has begun. One of the winners of this AI boom is Nvidia. Its chips power most of the AI applications being used today. But what’s most interesting to me is the fact that Nvidia was already prepared long before the AI opportunity came. In a recent earnings call with investors, Jensen Huang – the CEO of Nvidia – said this: It costs a lot of money to do it because you have to do all th ..read more

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a new AI course. Today I’m happy to announce that Bing Chat Masterclass: ChatGPT on Steroids is now available! It’s a course about how to make the most out of Bing Chat, Microsoft’s free AI chatbot. I’m excited about the course because I believe that Bing Chat is better than ChatGPT. Here are a few reasons why: Free access to GPT-4. GPT-4 is the most advanced language model created by OpenAI. If you use ChatGPT, you’d need a ChatGPT Plus subscription ($20 per month) to access GPT-4. But with Bing Chat, you can access GPT-4 for free! That means you ..read more

In my last post, I wrote that there is currently an emergence of AI tools that can create new content, called generative AI. These tools can generate emails, poems, images, and more based on your input (known as prompts). This is a recent development because the tools emerged only in 2022. The underlying technologies have been developed for several years, but they seemed to reach a tipping point last year with the launch of tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and ChatGPT. We are only at the beginning of this new era. When someone at Reddit asked Bill Gates about his views on ChatGPT, his response w ..read more

Have you noticed a recent trend? More and better AI tools are becoming available. While AI (artificial intelligence) has been around for some time, the tools that came out recently are smarter than ever. DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, for instance, can generate relevant images based on your text prompts. And ChatGPT is surprisingly good at answering your questions on a wide range of topics. This blog, Life Optimizer, is about personal effectiveness. So, I’d like to share with you my thoughts on how to maximize your personal effectiveness with AI tools. But before we get into that, there is a que ..read more

Here we are near the end of 2022. Soon we will enter the year 2023. I think it’s a good time to reflect on what we have learned this year so that we can start the new year strong. For me, a lesson I learned is the importance of taking risks to make progress in life. I already learned about this years ago, but this year I have a heightened awareness of its importance. What about you? What lessons did you learn in 2022? Please share your answer in the comments so that everyone can read it. Thanks ..read more