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Dr. Seuss Smart Notes

Smart notes represent one of the most valuable concepts I discovered in my exploration of personal knowledge management. A smart note is a note that can stand alone at a future day as providing sufficient information that you or someone … Continue reading

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The Coming Cost of Convenience: AI Automation and Personal Services

I have reached the point that I am convinced AI tools will play a significant role in education and in our daily lives. The amounts of money companies are investing to develop and attract interest in their AI services is … Continue reading

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Is Big Testing driving secondary reading instruction?

I just read a Forbes article arguing that standardized testing companies have driven secondary English educators to abandon a focus on book-length literature in favor of short documents. Forbes is not exactly a scientific journal focused on careful research methods, … Continue reading

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AI added to the Brave browser

I have reached the point at which I no longer explore the most recent AI services and concentrate instead on a limited number of AI services for the work I do. This is efficient and also allows me insights into … Continue reading

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Consensus Discovery

Consensus is an AI-powered search tool that identifies and integrates sources on a user-defined goal. Responses to queries are based on an ever-expanding database of studies now mostly from Semantic Scholar. At this time there are approximately 200,000 studies in … Continue reading

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Three Kindles or a substack

I have no intention of abandoning the blogs I write and host, but I have been exploring what I would describe as collective hosting services – Medium and Substack. I have cross-posted a few of my blog posts to Medium … Continue reading

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