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mAIn Street #16: Prompting Emotional Triggers for More Effective Communications; Anthropic Researching 'Model Welfare' ​to See If AI Warrants Moral Considerations; Kin - the AI for Your Personal Life, Is Free and Now Available

Ladies and Gents, thank you so much for continuing to support the newsletter, and helping grow it. mAIn Street is almost at 500 subs now. I know showing up every day plays a part; but that wouldn't be possible without seeing the growth, receiving feedback, answering your invitations to speak, and hearing about all of your experiences. I've learned so much from everyone, and for that... Thank you! I feel like AI drops bombshells on us every day. I'm excited about where it's heading, and I...

Yesterday afternoon, I had the honor of addressing the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) faculty in Fort Smith. What Kyle Parker and his team have built over there in just a short amount of time has been nothing short of amazing. As usual, when presenting about AI, I learn a lot from the attendees. Going as granular as you can with use-cases and prompting techniques is probably the best way to accelerate your education and ensure you're ready for the world that's coming. The...

APRIL 23, 2025 Steal This Prompt: x Top Story: Half of U.S. Colleges Still Don’t Let Students Access the Same AI Tools as Faculty THE HEADLINES TOOL OF THE DAY: RoomBoost Launches AI-Driven Interior Design Tool STP: 🧠What Is Inverse Prompting, and Why I Use It Another quick tip today. Prompt engineering is the popular term for how you speak to an AI to get the results you're after. But, as I've worked more with ChatGPT and other genAI tools, I've started to notice that it's pretty terrible...

TODAY: Bear with me this week, Everyone. I have an annual report and a quarterly report due at work this week, plus an Awards thing, an AI presentation, and Daddy duties. Definitely going to try and stay on track, but there might be some turbulence. APRIL 22, 2025 Steal This Prompt: 🧠7 Best Prompt Engineering Practices for Every AI Tool Top Story: Gen Z: AI Has Made Our College Degrees Irrelevant THE HEADLINES TOOL OF THE DAY: Fiverr Go Allows Freelancers to Create Their Own Models STP: 🧠7...

TODAY: Late start for me today, but I had a fantastic time at the Levitt Amp Music Series last night here in lovely Fort Smith. Ruthie Foster and Ava Earnhart knocked it out of the park. I usually get nervous before I do any public speaking on AI, and that only requires me to talk. People who can write, sing, and play their own music (really well, I might add) are more magical to me than any LLM ever could be. So, hats off to them; check these ladies out when you can! Okay, let's get caught...

TODAY: A too-close-to-home self-reflection prompt; migrating your business from SEO to AI Search; Grok's Workspaces, and my sad attempt at Pac-Man! APRIL 17, 2025 Steal This Prompt: 🪞The Harsh Realities Prompt — Or, How to Stop Lying to Yourself and Get Going Top Story: The New SEO: How to Show Up in AI Search (and Why It Matters More Than Ever) THE HEADLINES TOOL OF THE DAY: Grok Workspaces Is Here, and So Is My Sh***y Pac-Man Game STP: 🪞The Harsh Realities Prompt — Or, How to Stop Lying to...

TODAY: AI puts ME to work; Appalachian State rolls out an AI master's program that could be the blueprint for how to teach this stuff moving forward; and Google's VEO 2 text-to-video generator is now available. Plus, over a dozen more headlines from the world of AI! APRIL 16, 2025 Steal This Prompt: 🕵️♂️The Interrogator Prompt — Let AI Turn the Tables on You Top Story: Colleges Can Catch Up on Artificial Intelligence: Here's How THE HEADLINES TOOL OF THE DAY: Google’s VEO 2 AI Text-to-Video...

TODAY: NVIDIA will make its AI supercomputers in the US in what some are calling a win for the Trump tariffs; OpenAI releases its next major update, but there's a catch that might annoy web users; and we tackle the critical thinking dilemma that AI has created through (what else?) more prompt tips. APRIL 15, 2025 Steal This Prompt: 🧠 AI Hurts Critical Thinking UNLESS You Prompt Like This Top Story: NVIDIA to Make AI Supercomputers in U.S. for the First Time THE HEADLINES TOOL OF THE DAY:...

Long day, long week, short email. I've been up against it between work projects, volunteer stuff, and keeping the newsletter on track so I'm giving you guys a short one today. To compensate, I tackle the Action Figure trend, showing you how to do it without paying for a specialty app using good ol' ChatGPT. We also have the Canva Create Keynote, which you should definitely set aside an hour of your time to watch. Have a great weekend, and I'll see you all next Tuesday! APRIL 11, 2025 Steal...

Today, I get vulnerable. Peek behind the curtain to see how ChatGPT counsels me on career concerns. Steal the prompt I use for it. Witness how others are using generative AI in sometimes surprising ways. See how you measure up to the top 100 use-cases. And learn why a certain type of AI tool is winning over the medical profession. After this, we've got one more newsletter, and it'll be time for the weekend. We can do this, Everyone. Friday, here we come! APRIL 10, 2025 Steal This Prompt:...