A big WOW for tinywow.com
Also, who are your "go to" people
For My Home Office Hackers who have been with us a while, you may remember a review of tinywow.com. It’s a site that hosts an aggregate of free tools to convert files from one format to another (e.g. pdf to jpg), compress files, and more. Well, tinywow.com has added a buttload of new AI tools and is worthy of being our top story this week.
As somebody who works from home, you want to avoid time-sucks at all cost. Be advised that if you start testing some of these links, you might be on tinywow.com for a while. Yours truly was.
What caught my eye?
Well, I didn’t make it to the AI tools at first. The video compressor caught my attention and was relevant to a recent podcast that I needed to edit.
Next, the YouTube script grabbed me by the short hairs (just a metaphor, folks). It was very impressive. For those who want to generate some content for your video podcast and load it up with keywords go here.
A LinkedIn post generator also drew my attention and ire.
Yours truly doesn’t approve of using AI for long-form LinkedIn posts.
Why?
People are growing more and more adept at detecting AI, especially people who know you. You may use AI to generate the post and then put the post into your voice. Honestly, if writing is not really your thing you may want to reconsider this approach.
Why?
People use AI as a time-saver. To effectively rewrite a piece into your voice takes some skill. If you’re not a writer by trade, you may actually find it takes you longer to edits an AI piece than write something from scratch on your own.
Just the voice of experience here. I’ve had many clients share with me an article or release they wrote and spent even longer editing than I would have writing it.
Just sayin’
As for tinywow.com, with great power comes great responsibility. You will have to use your judgment on when and where to use.
Moving beyond Atomic Habits
Who said that? Blasphemy, right? Still, my latest read, The Go-Giver by Bob Burg complements lessons learned from Atomic Habits nicely. So does one of his other books, Endless Referrals.
In that book, Burg recommends coming up with a list of people in your sphere who you know, like and trust. The people you want to do business with and would refer without a second thought. That triggered a lightbulb in my head to create a spreadsheet of those folks so it would be handy should anyone ever ask for a specific person.
So, yours truly adapted the following to start my list. I welcome you to do the same. Add categories as you see fit.
To check out Endless Referrals, click the button below.
Wallpaper by Wendy
Once again, my high school classmate Wendy provides a stunning photo taken on a recent trip to California.
Inspiring quote of the week
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”–Lucio in William Shakespeare’s "Measure for Measure"