The IBM 7090 computer tasked with trajectory calculations at mission control for the Apollo 11 space mission had a clock speed of about 2 MHz, but it still managed to take humans to the moon and back, a wildly ambitious and high-stakes project by any standards. Fast-forward a little over 50 years, AI project management tools running on a regular smartphone let project managers plan, manage, and execute complex projects…

Do you find yourself drowning in a sea of half-finished notes and forgotten ideas? Linking Your Thinking (LYT) is another note-taking system trying to wedge its way into the personal knowledge management (PKM) community with a promise of a more effective and satisfying note-taking experience. A promise that sounds too good to be true? Let’s find out. In today’s article, you’ll learn what Linking Your Thinking is, how it works,…

“The Answer.” “The Answer?” said Deep Thought.“The Answer to what?”“Life!” urged Fook. ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy It took the Deep Thought supercomputer from Douglas Adams’ classic novel 7 million years to produce a rather disappointing answer to the ultimate question (in case you’re wondering, it was “42”). But you don’t have to wait that long. In today’s article, we’ll show you how you can use…

When the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau visited the White House in 2016, the French part of his speech translated by ABC TV’s speech recognition software was riddled with quirks ranging from suave “portfolio of us old guys” to cryptic “agreeing. 032. clearing.” It wasn’t the finest performance of AI translation, but hey, everybody has to start somewhere. After years of development, artificial intelligence tools seem to be finally catching…

In the 1970s, British educational consultant Tony Buzan called mind mapping “a Swiss Army Knife for the brain.” Now that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 has gone mainstream, you can use the power of AI for creating structured mind maps faster than ever before. The concept of a mind map is brilliant in its simplicity.  All you need to get started is a central idea or problem—this could be…