Lifelong Learning: The Key to Mastering Your AI Toolkit
The AI revolution isn’t just coming – it’s here. 2023 was a wild ride, but 2024 is ramping things up even faster. New tools emerge constantly, and staying updated requires significant time and attention. I’m incredibly grateful for the power these tools grant us. As an individual without a large team or massive resources, they’re the closest thing to a superpower I’ve seen. I brainstorm better, get more done in less time… it’s amazing! But here’s the catch: the value you get from AI is directly tied to how well you use it. Realizing that potential boils down, at least wit...
Source: Life Optimizer - February 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Tools Source Type: blogs

Awakening Your Dormant Talents
Do you have a talent that you no longer develop? Do you have some potential that you are no longer using? I wrote about this topic years ago. At that time, I wrote that my dormant talent was coding. I have a background in computer science, but at that time I hadn’t developed an app in years. My wish was to develop my coding talent again. Fast forward to the present, I’m happy to report that I have been developing my coding talent! I’ve developed several apps in the past years, and I still do now. So, my coding talent is no longer dormant. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but I’ve been working on it...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs

Strategy and Tactics: Two Essential Keys to Success
I recently read Outlive by Peter Attia. It’s a book about longevity that I found insightful. It contains many lessons about different aspects of health. However, what I’d like to share with you here isn’t the health lessons from the book. Instead, it’s a quote by Sun Tzu that I found there: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Interesting quote, isn’t it? Strategy without tactics might lead you to victory, but it’s the slowest route to get there. You will waste a lot of resources along the way. On the other hand, tactics without ...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Productivity Thinking Source Type: blogs

The Power of Preparation: The Nvidia Story
For the past few months, I’ve been following the world of AI. The development in the field has been accelerating since the launch of ChatGPT in November last year. Bill Gates wrote back in March that the age of AI has begun. One of the winners of this AI boom is Nvidia. Its chips power most of the AI applications being used today. But what’s most interesting to me is the fact that Nvidia was already prepared long before the AI opportunity came. In a recent earnings call with investors, Jensen Huang – the CEO of Nvidia – said this: It costs a lot of money to do it because you have to do all the soft...
Source: Life Optimizer - June 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Working Source Type: blogs

Introducing Bing Chat Masterclass: ChatGPT on Steroids
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a new AI course. Today I’m happy to announce that Bing Chat Masterclass: ChatGPT on Steroids is now available! It’s a course about how to make the most out of Bing Chat, Microsoft’s free AI chatbot. I’m excited about the course because I believe that Bing Chat is better than ChatGPT. Here are a few reasons why: Free access to GPT-4.GPT-4 is the most advanced language model created by OpenAI. If you use ChatGPT, you’d need a ChatGPT Plus subscription ($20 per month) to access GPT-4. But with Bing Chat, you can access GPT-4 for free! That means you will get the b...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Announcement Source Type: blogs

Introducing Chat Ace: ChatGPT Made Easy
Since it was launched in November last year, ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. Its ability to converse intelligently surprised many, including me. There was a slight problem, though: I didn’t find it very convenient to use. It didn’t (and still doesn’t) have features like search, favorites, and tags. I ended up having to copy and paste the answers I liked one by one to a note-taking app. I wished there was a better way. The opportunity came in early March when OpenAI launched ChatGPT API. It allows developers to develop their own ChatGPT-based apps. I took the opportunity to develop an iPhone app with the f...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Apps Source Type: blogs

The Coming Threats of Generative AI and What to Do
In my last post, I wrote that there is currently an emergence of AI tools that can create new content, called generative AI. These tools can generate emails, poems, images, and more based on your input (known as prompts). This is a recent development because the tools emerged only in 2022. The underlying technologies have been developed for several years, but they seemed to reach a tipping point last year with the launch of tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and ChatGPT. We are only at the beginning of this new era. When someone at Reddit asked Bill Gates about his views on ChatGPT, his response was “It gives a glimpse...
Source: Life Optimizer - March 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Working Source Type: blogs

Maximizing Your Personal Effectiveness With AI Tools: 4 Tips
Have you noticed a recent trend? More and better AI tools are becoming available. While AI (artificial intelligence) has been around for some time, the tools that came out recently are smarter than ever. DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, for instance, can generate relevant images based on your text prompts. And ChatGPT is surprisingly good at answering your questions on a wide range of topics. This blog, Life Optimizer, is about personal effectiveness. So, I’d like to share with you my thoughts on how to maximize your personal effectiveness with AI tools. But before we get into that, there is a question that I’d like ...
Source: Life Optimizer - February 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Productivity Tools Source Type: blogs

Ask the Readers: What Lessons Did You Learn in 2022?
Here we are near the end of 2022. Soon we will enter the year 2023. I think it’s a good time to reflect on what we have learned this year so that we can start the new year strong. For me, a lesson I learned is the importance of taking risks to make progress in life. I already learned about this years ago, but this year I have a heightened awareness of its importance. What about you? What lessons did you learn in 2022? Please share your answer in the comments so that everyone can read it. Thanks! (Source: Life Optimizer)
Source: Life Optimizer - December 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs

Why a Passion for Learning Is Essential
What do you think is a key trait for thriving in this age? A good answer, I believe, is a passion for learning. Let me explain. I recently read Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein. It’s an insightful book about the history of finance. It covers topics such as the origin of paper money, the stock market, and banks. I learned a lot from the book. One thing stated in the book is that for many centuries, people’s occupations barely changed. They mostly just did what their parents and grandparents did. The way people lived was also similar from generation to generation. But this changed i...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs

The Importance of Building Mental Models and How to Do It
I’m currently re-reading The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. I’ve read the book years ago, but I recently felt the need to read it again. The book summarizes important principles for businesses that it calls “mental models”. The term “mental model” was popularized by Charlie Munger, the investment partner of Warren Buffett. In short, mental models are the frameworks that you use to understand the world. Your mental model of something is your understanding of how it works. Based on that understanding, you can then make decisions. Here is why building mental models is important: With good mental mo...
Source: Life Optimizer - October 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Thinking Source Type: blogs

Thriving Despite Adversity: A Lesson From Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler is one of the greatest mathematicians who have ever lived. Living in the 18th century, he contributed to many fields of mathematics. He was very prolific; when he passed away at the age of 76, he had more than 850 publications! Many of the mathematical notations that we use today were first introduced by Euler. But I found something even more interesting when I read his story in Fermat’s Enigma: despite being completely blind in the last seventeen years of his life, those were his most productive years! How could that be? How could he produce more when the situation was worse? After reading his st...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs

Being Creative: Four Keys From a Great Game Designer
I loved playing computer games. In fact, that’s how I first learned to code: by making simple games. Though I no longer spend much time on games these days, I’m still interested in the field. That’s why I was excited when I found the memoir of Sid Meier. You might never hear of him, but he is a legendary game designer! His most famous creation is the Civilization series which started back in 1991. Today, decades later, the series is still going strong. Civilization is famous for its addictive quality. You can see it yourself on its Steam page: many reviewers there spent 1,000+ hours on the game! That’s a lot...
Source: Life Optimizer - June 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Thinking Working Source Type: blogs

3 Ways to Make Your Life More Fulfilling
What do you think is a defining characteristic of a good life? Well, I believe it’s fulfillment. The more you feel fulfilled, the better your life is. In fact, that’s the mission of Life Optimizer: helping you live a fulfilling life.  So how can we live fulfilling lives? We can answer this question from multiple perspectives, but here I’d like to answer it from the perspective of motivation. There are three key factors for work motivation: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. I believe they can also help you live a fulfilling life. Let’s dig into them one by one. 1. Autonomy This factor deals wit...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Purpose Source Type: blogs

Habit Ace 3.0 Is Now Available!
After working on it for a few months, I’m happy to announce that Habit Ace 3.0 is now available! Habit Ace is an iOS app I develop that helps you build purposeful habits. It’s the app that I’ve been using to optimize my life. This new version adds support for Apple Watch. That means you can view your progress on your watch. You can also mark a habit as done right on your watch. Your data are synchronized automatically between your devices.  I develop Habit Ace to meet my own needs. I’ve been blogging at Life Optimizer since 2006 but for years I didn’t know how exactly I should optimize my life. Eventua...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Apps Source Type: blogs