I bought this jacket over the summer (absolute steal on eBay), BUT the issue is that the jacket is snug. I can only wear a t-shirt underneath. Also, the cuff is too tight for me to wear a wrist watch, so I leave the cuff unbuttoned. I wasn't sure if this is considered faux pas for a jacket this nice. Did a quick Google Images search, and turn out that most people do leave the cuff button undone. Vindicated!
Replaced a traditional NATO with a stretchy NATO strap.
What I did:
1/ Cut the strap so there's less material
2/ I burned the end with a small candle to ensure the material doesn't fall apart as easily
3/ Inserted the metal clasp
I quite like this new strap. I'll try it for a couple of weeks.
Since buying a vintage Rolex submariner, I've been eyeing various bracelets to swap out the OEM one to an aftermarket one. The reason is simply I want something different.
Some options that I'm considering:
These are very high quality bracelets (read: $$$) and before pulling the trigger, I asked Manus to help imagine what they would look like on a Sub. Here are the results (including some that I passed on):
After looking at these results, I may just stick with the OEM bracelet. It's hard to imagine anything else fitting a Sub, frankly.
You can't expect people to understand how to use AI without holding their hands. A lot of my work involves using AI to enhance my productivity. AI has helped me save lots of time, such as brainstorming ideas, preparing call scripts in advance of an important meeting, formatting data, transcribing text from an image, etc. I work with a lot of young people (aka "the iPhone generation") who are just starting to use AI.
At work, we encourage everyone to use AI as much as possible. But without specific direction on how to use AI, it seems that these young people have no idea what to do with AI. For example, we are preparing a year-end review post for the general public. My team member has for the past year written a weekly newsletter sharing the latest updates in a specific industry. When asked to prepare an outline on the key milestones that occurred this year, he was completely stumped on how to do it. He showed me a YTD stock price performance chart that ends in June and thought it might be relevant; hello, we're now in December!
So I simply asked him to copy and paste the financial and key highlights from each newsletter into a Google Doc, then we'd discuss it together in the afternoon. My plan is to show him that once you have all the data collected in a central document, you can then provide AI with specific guidance to create a blog post. Otherwise if you simply ask AI to generate a post without clear directions, all you'll get is AI slop. I need to show him step-by-step on what to do.
Although AI is extremely capable, technology without critical thinking is useless. If I gave you a computer but you don't know how to use a keyboard and mouse, what good is that computer to you? That's how I think about AI: you need to know how to use AI in order to really get value out of it. Otherwise it's just a fancy piece of technology that sits idle, much like my home gym equipment.
I usually drink a cup of French pressed coffee each morning, but today I decided to make myself a pour over coffee. It's incredible how much more flavor there is with a pour over. I like a pour over because it avoids overbrewing the coffee, which can lead to poor flavor. The trick to making pour over coffee is having the right amount of coffee grounds. If there's too little grounds you get a weak brew and vice versa. I'm not a coffee expert and eyeball all my brews, that said, I really enjoyed my morning coffee with a splash of lactose free milk.