Tools For Thought
I read this then I read that, now I wonder...
curious ?
what it all boils down to:
Thinking has 2 areas of attention
Sources
foundation of our knowledge
What are good sources.
Questions
curiosity & wonder
What are good questions?
Forget the AI tools
chatgpt, photomath, canva or eduaide are cool, time savers, or whatever. I want to keep it simple and focussed.
Its what fundamentaly changes because of it
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Content of source one. Can be text, URL, Video, Audio, etc also in foreign languages. You can simply have an English conversation based on a video of a foreign spoken interview!
my source for inspiration has been Steven Johnson for quite some time. I think I used his book Emergence and subsequent Where Good Ideas Come From in my first Innovation classes in Barcelona for Hospitality students in 2006!
Content of wonder one
This is, on this website, the AI response to the question (or the title of this wonder article)
I simply then used NotebookLM and copy and pasted the response, to the 'Wonder One' in the content area.
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Content of wonder two ( the second article in the category Wonders - for the nerds)
the would be the AI response to the question (=the title of this second wonder article, in the category Wonders)
again simply copied and pasted from NotebookLM. any RAG tool would work! This is simply to illustrate the process and the reliance on sources and wonders. (two articles, in two separate categories, bound by a tag for the nerds)
STOP READING , go back and pick a real topic that interests you!
Random text -->> Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a...
the topics description based on the selected source documents
the "Tag or topic description"
on this website I use the Notebook summary. It summarize the main themes from the sources - AI generated again )
Random text: Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai aii aaai. Ai aai a aaai ai aaiaia, a ai aaai ai...
