The Setup

“Move the needle” is an expression that conjures a powerful visual metaphor for making progress towards a goal. It’s especially useful for conceptualizing progress on goals that are large-scale, or those requiring a long span of time and/or substantial effort to complete.

However, tracking progress isn’t always as simple as observing a gauge or meter. Some goals are of such a nature that measuring progress is challenging, if not downright elusive.

Here is a possible solution. Determine sub-tasks that are component parts or contributing factors for the completion of the target grand goal. Continue reading →

TL;DR

For ChatGPT the word “trust” carries with it certain baggage. Namely, asking ChatGPT whether or not it can be trusted interjects issues about whether or not ChatGPT can have beliefs, consciousness, on intentions.

As you will read below, ChatGPT will suggest it can be trusted to do what it does. And, it goes on to describe what it does.

When pressed for clarification specifically on the topic of whether one should use content from a ChatGPT response without cross-checking, confirming, and generally applying the Gezertenplatz Method to verify the content, ChatGPT will tell you “user beware.” Continue reading →

Introduction

In my continued deep dive into gratitude, I discovered a proximity between contentment and gratitude that (for me) provides another access route to gratefuling.

This blog contains the results of a conversation with ChatGPT4 on the topic. Continue reading →

Challenges people face when trying to cultivate gratitude.

One approach to the cultivation of gratitude is to look for and appreciate the many reasons in our life for which we can be grateful. This requires targets, reasons and is conditional.

Here are some of the common obstacles and suggested strategies to overcome them: Continue reading →

Introduction

Gratefuling is a made up word. I know, because I made it up.

In this blog you’ll find a transcript from a conversation I had with ChatGPT on the topic of gratefuling. Continue reading →

Introduction

As an experiment, I have asked ChatGPT4 to simplify and restate my original blog. The aim to restate the content for a modern audience that is not as tolerant of long blogs.

The rewrite is a little nutty — but it did not fall too far from the tree. And, there are a few approaches that I believe make the concept more accessible. Continue reading →

Notice of Update

I have feed this into ChatGPT4 to see what it had to say on the topic. Since I did not request anything specific, it gave a general synopsis along with a bit of commentary. Continue reading →