Iterative Improvements

"Your own AI Workforce" & "Does Bionic Reading Actually Work?"

This week I found up the best Ai Minions to do your tedious and receptive tasks, save you time, and help you answer emails in just the right level of professionalism and friendliness - for once!

🗞 This weeks articles

Does Bionic Reading Actually Work?

I dig around for studies on bionic reading and dyslexia fonts. TLDR, they do not work. So I list 9 ways to increase readability.

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🤖 Your Ai Workforce

Cos your time was for having great ideas, not getting stuck doing boring things.

Grammerly go- This is perfect for anyone who struggles to hit the right balance in sounding cordial but not taking crap by email. You know how sometimes a thread gets so long your forget what was actually discussed up til now? Grammarly go also summerises after scanning your email to catch you up on the thread. You can adjust the tone of your reply, so you don’t sound too assertive or too friendly depending on context.
Are you that person who's always getting asked questions all day at work? IngestAI Allows you to build a knowledge based of everything you want it to know and become a slack or discord bot. So you can just...do your own work.
Otter.io Autopilot -You know how the worst part of coming out of a meeting is writing that hellish summary email which everyone involved will disagree with because they remember it differently? Otter Autopilot takes notes, summarises what was agreed upon, and and even takes screengrabs of the presentation. It helps catch you up if you missed part of the meeting too.
Prime voice AI - clone your own voice for auto making video scripts or podcasts without banishing your housemates/family to record each one. It will most definitely not be used maliciously for deepfakes.
Google music LM - for generating your own intro music for youtube or podcasts. You can prompt the LM to generate a sound based on a description.
Duolingo Roleplay as part of duolingo max (only available online), you talk to the bot in the language you’re trying to trying to learn. If you don’t know how to answer and it will teach you.
Khan academy’s khanmigo - gives AI powered homework hints.
Expedia - in app ai helps you organise your travel plans, if you need a list of places to stay or to help auto-plan an itinerary for you.
Asana Intelligence - It will recommend strategic management decisions, like how to remove bottle necks and auto manage workload. Let’s not forget Asana’s founder was an early investor in open AI. So we can expect deep integrations coming to Asana for businesses and corporations.
Mia from coschedule is helpful for autogenerating marketing blog article outlines.
Sudowrite can now help you write blog posts, as well as short stories, or draft whole books 🤌🤌🤌. I’m using the beats generator to help me write an idea I’ve had in my head that I’ve finished outlining in google sheets. It’s different ball game writing fiction compared to blog posts and even with beats suggested from my story outline, it’s still hard and taking forever. But future-Moodthy will thank me for not AI generating the chapters and learning to write fiction.
Parrot - records and auto transcribes and zoom meetings and sends key point a to slack.
pdf gPT Where was this when I was at uni? You feed it any pdf: a textbook, a contract, a rulebook and can ask it questions.
Adobe Premiere Pro - for the AI auto transcribing and editing via transcript function -so you can cut out the pauses without scrubbing through the video. It also offers Ai storyboarding of the videos too.

🔗 This weeks best reads

Laying flatism - the counter-culture against hustle culture
Gameification of work is a bad idea - BBR I will die on this hill, but terrible managers won’t want to listen.
Discord plans to let creators sell downloadable products Discord plans to give creators a new way to make money from their communities by selling digital products via one-time purchases, called "downloadables". Discord is slowly making itself a cheap or even free way for influencers to bypass pay monthly products like email lists, Nebula.tv, podcast platforms or course platforms or even making their own apps to reach their audiences directly. Discord has quickly become a no code tool.
5 References sites and cheat sheets for UX professionals

🧪️ 💚 Things I'm testing

Portal.app - if you have a two monitor setup or wrap around monitor and smart lighting, this is very nice. It changes your desktop wallpaper into an ultra high res 6k video of nature scenes with 3d surround sound to match. It syncs up your smart lights so the colors match the scene. Unfortunately, I do not have smart lights around my desk, and don’t work in the dark to need them. On my laptop, I find the background distracting, rather than focusing. It’s just too pretty to want to open an app and hide. It’s a paid for subscription, so for my money, it’s Sunsama. That’s been keeping me focused and getting my priorities done even on my most sleep deprived days when my normal free time is slashed.
Dynamic Wallpaper Club This is a more subtle approach to having a background that changes during the day and reminds you.. “hey, it’s mid day, what did you get done? “ You can get animated dynamic wallpapers that feel right out of Studio Ghibli, or this This Spanish village scene with shadows that change direction every hour, and night lighting that continuously changing during the night. Perfect for gamers.
Gentler Streak. if your bored of fitness culture apps that feel like they’re inspired by the marines, Gentler Streak is an fitness tracker that makes rest and recovery PART of your streak. Yeah! It encourages you to listen to your body.