David Moore
Virtual Consultant – Digital and Technology
Introduction Unlocking the full potential of ChatGPT-4, OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI language model requires mastery of prompt engineering. I’ve created this article series to guide you through best practices and techniques to maximize the value you extract from ChatGPT-4. This introductory post covers an overview of ChatGPT-4, the significance of prompt engineering, and the series’ objectives. …
Whilst this blog is mainly about digital and technology, those things should enable us to be away from our desk more often and building more effective relationships with people. To that end, an effective skin care routine is critically important, especially the more that we age. Note: I am not a healthcare provider, this information …
Microsoft is moving to a more cohesive integration of its previously fragmented ecosystem. Issues in how the various systems coexist are still apparent. One issue, is related to how an organisation provisions its OneDrive permissions vs how ‘Chats’ work in Microsoft Teams. Wouldn’t it feel weird if sharing a file in a chat doesn’t give …
I’ve created me first YouTube video which will be part of a series on Microsoft Teams. The series will include how-to but also my experience having deployed this platform in a large company and the things you should consider.
I was on a podcast binge recently, listening to all my podcasts dating back to November 2016 until recently.
I’ve noticed what I feel is a disturbing trend in the podcasts that I wanted to write a quick post on. There’s a huge push in the productivity and entrepreneur podcasts and blogs on apps and services. The main ones are Asana, Todoist and Sanebox.
I’ve no quibbles with the services or apps that are being pushed, this isn’t their fault, but I do have issues with the philosophy behind it and the way its being communicated.
I believe the various influential people in the email and task list interest spaces do this to make money, usually at the cost of being true to their passion. If you follow most of them back far enough in time you will see they flip flop between tools. Why? Because these things are highly individual and your preferences change over time, no one in these information sphere’s should be prescribing a tool to you.
They should be identifying the fundamentals of the process or philosophy and allowing you to choose a tool, service or physical product that works for you. It’s ok to show people how you can use various tool’s to fit your philosophy or process but not prescribing use of the tool at the sake of the core process and philosophy. Strangely, those that I speak to regularly who have always told me that it isn’t about the tool are now advertising go to multiple tools and services. It’s hypocrisy at its best.
What do I mean by this and do I have a good example? Well, through past posts you will know how I do not believe in this mass advertising push for people to use Sanebox. It doesn’t treat the root cause of the problem, its applying a bandaid to an issue at the expense of the user. Sanebox will mask your e-mail problems. Will it make your inbox more ‘Sane’ and help you be more efficient, sure. But it will cost you a hefty monthly fee to do so, for the rest of your life. I say the rest of your life, because as soon as you want to stop paying them your inbox will be back to the old chaos. In fact, maybe the chaos will be worse because due to your SaneBox use you have gone ‘sign up mad’ because Sanebox always used to take care of things for you.
At davidjmoore.com I believe if you come to my site you are coming to understand, learn and improve on your core productivity philosophy’s. This shouldn’t cost you money, unless you want to work with me directly or you identify a tool that fits your processes.
Focus on the fundamentals, the processes and not the tools or services.
Invisible Lost Time (ILT) is something I’m very passionate about. It applies to each and everyone of us, in work and play, yet few of us even recognise its existence.
Once you learn how to see it, it can be one of the biggest productivity boosts you will ever get.
The world is changing so rapidly and technology that couldn’t even be imagined even just 10 years ago is here today in the hands of the masses. The world is more connected today than it’s ever been. Digital nomad is now a common term not just an urban dream. Due to the widespread proliferation of technology, more and more people are able to work and be productive no matter their location. The divergence between efficiency and productivity in their personal lives, versus their work lives is driving more and more people to want and value some form of remote working.
Communication is fundamental to the human race, and yet it is something that has not only changed so much in the last decade but is often neglected today. I’d originally wanted to call this post ‘Digital Communication’ but quickly realised that one of the main messages I’m trying to convey is that there is absolutely clear points where face to face communication is required. Hence, the post is called ‘Effective Communication’.
Someone asked me the other day if I loved my Apple Watch. You’d think by the title of this post that I didn’t hesitate with a resounding ‘Yes!’, but I didn’t. Despite not loving my Apple Watch, I wear it without fail everyday unlike any watch ever in my life. But why?
When the Apple Watch was announced I had wild thoughts of how I would use the device. Controlling my podcast app without taking my iPhone out my pocket was going to be huge! Navigating places with the haptic feedback on my wrist, mind blowing! Siri on my wrist and replying to Messages, game changer. Except none of these use cases work. The Apple Watch is too slow to control my podcast app and its quicker to pull my iPhone out my pocket. The navigation is poor for many European locations as our road layouts are not square like in the US with clear defined turning points which meant I had to keep checking the watch and it seemed to be slow and behind. Continuing with the slow theme, Siri is far too slow and error prone and replying to messages is awkward, the short messages are never accurate enough and I am never really in a good place to voice dictate.
You’d think with that impressive list of faux pas that I must be crazy wearing the Apple Watch on a daily basis. However, here is why I wouldn’t give up my Apple Watch.
The file system and file storage have come a long way in the last decade, but have not advanced at the same rate as other Information Technology (IT). There’s been huge developments in media file types (PDF, MP4 etc.) and as a result file sizes have swollen to levels where a PDF can now be …