In late February of 2024, I wrote a post entitled, “The Number 1 Skill To Have Now – AI” that outlined what I think would happen with AI over a long enough time frame. Specifically, I wrote the following: “I have a ton of books that I love such as Paul Coelho’s The Alchemist and would love…
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Evolving Prompt Engineering For AI & Personal Finance
I’ve been using AI for a while now and I continue to learn better ways to use AI and prompt engineering. My latest use is something I picked off the Internet that really scaled things up. Essentially, I came across a five stage method for interacting with AI and gave it a go on a…
Money Gods
Do you know your historical money gods? Let’s take a look. Background: Plutus (or Ploutos) was the son of Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. He was often depicted as blind, symbolizing the indiscriminate nature of wealth distribution. Worship: Highly revered in Hindu tradition; worshiped during Diwali, the festival of lights, to bring prosperity to…
Using AI For Alternative Municipal Bond Default Probabilities
Disclaimer: This is an experimental activity I’m doing with AI for my own purposes, nothing in this post should be used by anyone for anything other than entertainment and informational purposes particularly around potential capabilities of AI. DO NOT USE THESE PROBABILITIES FOR ANY INVESTMENT PURPOSES. I’ve written about how I do my own bond…
How Tech Revolutions Change Behaviors
I wrote about canceling subscriptions in my post “How To Prepare For A Recession” back in 2024 and this year, as I expected, got laid off. I re-examined my subscriptions to make sure I’m not wasting any money. I recently canceled my Apple TV+ subscription since the shows I liked I already watched and the…
AI, Robots, and The Job Market
I’ve taken a look at the job market and there seems to be plenty of opportunities out there for my skill set and I’ve applied to a few interesting positions but I’ve already booked my trip to South America for the summer so I will need to pace myself on interviews and job applications. I’m…
Taylor Swift Buys Music Rights Back But Suno.com Will Eat Everyone’s Lunch
The headlines for the past couple of days on every news feed I get has something about Taylor Swift buying the rights to her early music back. Well congrats TS but the bad news is that I now spend most of my time listening to my own music I create on Suno.com. The days are…
If You’re Not Terrified of AI, You Should Be
I love AI, aside from the creation of the Internet back in the 90s there hasn’t been anything developed as helpful nor as terrifying as AI. If you haven’t seen it already, the latest AI video generator Veo 3 is making headlines with fully AI generated videos that look like the real thing. A TV…
AI As Religion?
This isn’t a personal finance post so feel free to skip this post if that’s what you’re looking for today. I’ve been spending a great deal of time with AI and I’ve gone down so many rabbit holes that I finally had to take a step back and ask a much broader and more philosophical…
TV Characters & Personal Finance
Once again, I have been having a retrospective look at my life and went back, way back to my childhood and watching episodes of Gilligan’s Island. As I recalled the TV show, it reminded me of how often TV characters are a reflection on society at that current point in time. It got me thinking…