And great prompts are difficult to write. Sure, you can get started with something simple such as "Barcelona" or "A panda hanging from a tree", but results will be pretty simple. The really outstanding AI art pieces have descriptive prompts with a lot of detail.

I also saw a technique where people use AI to create great prompts. First, you write a prompt and generate a description paragraph with GPT-3. Then you feed that paragraph to DALLE-2 to generate art. AI helps you create AI art.

Writing great prompts and generating cool AI art is something that I want to learn. I will be reading online and practicing my skills to create really cool art pieces for my essays.

I've always wanted to create unique designs, and now it's more possible than ever.

Here are some of the pieces I created:

The average life expectancy in Tajikistan is 71 years old. If I get to live to that age, it means that I have 43 more years or 2,236 weeks left. Instead of weeks, I can also measure life in activities or events. I get a haircut every 4 weeks so I have 559 haircuts left. I read an average of 6 books/year so I have about 258 books to read. With a World Cup every 4 years, I have 10 more left to watch.

While these things follow an expected rate, there are other things that don't - relationships. My mother turns 64 this year, and while I spent almost every day of my childhood with her, I don't nearly spend as much time with her. If I spend one day a week with her, I have 364 days left. Thinking about all the days I have spent with her, I have used up more than 95% of my time. I'm on the tail end.

It's very sad when you think from this perspective. We think that we have endless time, but we are already at the tail end with some of the most important people in our lives.

If you are on the tail end with people you love, try to live in the same city, prioritize the time with them and spend quality time. What you do with the time left matters a lot.

--"Have you seen the latest news on TV about so-and-so?" --"No, I don't watch TV, it's not in my diet" --"What do you mean it's not in your diet?" --"Our diet is not only the food we eat, but everything we consume. It feeds our brains. And TV is bad for me, so it's not in my diet"

I was fascinated by this idea. Until that point, diet only meant fueling my body. But what about fueling my brain? I realized that every single interaction, book, TV show, news report, article, music, etc. is something that I'm putting into my brain. I'm unintentionally consuming these things without thinking whether they are good or bad for me. When I reframed it as something I consumed, I started watching my diet more closely. I added more books/audiobooks and took away the news and Facebook.

It didn’t mean that I always had to consume helpful information, but it did help me prioritize it more. I still find myself stuck on YouTube watching useless videos, and that’s okay too.

Have you thoughts the things you are consuming? What's in your diet?

When we set daily or weekly goals, we find the ideal number/amount and set it as our goal. For example, when thinking about reading every day, you might set a goal of reading 50 pages a day. And you might achieve the goal for a couple of days in a row. Then life happens - you have a busy day, you are unproductive, etc. And the consistency is out the door. Doing it next day becomes harder.

Building habits is about building streaks. You want to build a streak of a certain number of consecutive days reading every day. After you have built up a streak, the goal becomes to keep the streak going. It's the dopamine hit you get from checking off every day that keeps the habit going for a long time. Since you don't see the benefits of reading for a while, you need a daily reward to keep the habit going.

Your days are unpredictable. Some days you will have the time to reach a high goal, but some days you won't. That's why having a low bar helps you keep your habit going even on busy days. Most of the time, you end up over-achieving you daily goal.

If you want to read consistently, set a goal of 10 pages a day. If you want to meditate consistently, meditate 1 minute a day. And if you want to build a habit of writing, write 100 words a day.

To build a habit, set the bar low.

Step 1 - Create a competing product. As Slack was growing & picking up steam, Microsoft launches Microsoft Teams with similar features.

Step 2 - Include it as part of a bundle. Microsoft has thousands of enterprise customers who purchase Microsoft products (Word, Excel, Outlook) as part of a bundle. One day, Microsoft Teams is part of a bundle at no additional cost. Instead of spending $$$ on Slack, companies decide to just use Teams because it's marginally free for them.

Step 3 - Increase the price of the bundle. Every couple of years Microsoft increases the price of the bundle and bakes in the prices of new tools. Customers have already integrated the tools and at this point switching makes no sense.

Ala! Microsoft stops a competitor from scaling to millions of users while grows its own revenue.