{"id":40106,"date":"2022-07-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40106"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:35:37","slug":"the-prompt-book-playphrase-things-you-are-allowed-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/the-prompt-book-playphrase-things-you-are-allowed-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prompt Book\/PlayPhrase\/Things you are allowed to do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Your first prompt book<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Everyone will soon have access to an AI image generator, like DALL\u00b7E, Midjourney, or Google Imagen. You will tell this tool what to create and it will make an imaginative piece of art, either a painting or a photograph. With a generator you can make art even if you are \u201cnot an artist.\u201d The key human skill is in how you construct the prompt you give the AI.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dallery.gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-DALL%C2%B7E-2-prompt-book.pdf?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">The Prompt Book<\/a>&nbsp;is a free PDF e-book that provides smart instructions, great tips, and fabulous examples of how best to prompt the AI. It was produced with DALL\u00b7E in mind, but it\u2019s guidance can be used with any recent AI image generator. This is the first of what I predict will be many prompt books in the future. \u2014 KK<br><br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Play with phrases<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/playphrase.me\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter#\/search\" target=\"_blank\">PlayPhrase.me<\/a>&nbsp;is a fun distraction to play with for a bit. The intention of the site is to help teach how to apply phrases in English. You type in any phrase and it will play you scenes in movies and television where your words have been spoken. You can even download the clips. You can view 5 phrases per search, but anything past that requires a $3 per month Patreon sponsorship. \u2014 CD&nbsp;<br><br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Things you are allowed to do<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Milan Cvitkovic\u2019s long list of \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/milan.cvitkovic.net\/writing\/things_youre_allowed_to_do\/?utm_campaign=What%20Justin%20Bieber%20taught%20me%20about%20%22seasons%20of%20life%22%20-%208402044&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=convertkit\" target=\"_blank\">things you\u2019re allowed to do<\/a>,\u201d is chock-full of fun and surprising tips and suggestions. Here are a few:Write on a post-it note affixed to a greeting card rather than on the greeting card itself, so the recipient can throw away the post-it and reuse your card<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/guzey.com\/personal\/what-should-you-do-with-your-life\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter#cold-emails-and-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Cold contact people<\/a>. Yes, even famous people. Just make sure you have something to say.Learn how professionals email by reading&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechEmails?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">leaked emails<\/a>&nbsp;[from Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Sunny Balwani, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.].\u2014 MF<br><br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Great binoculars<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Great binoculars are a joy to use. In the last few years there\u2019s been a quiet revolution in optics so that you can now get thousand-dollar quality lenses for several hundred dollars. My favorite pair are the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/9azQBF?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Athlon Midas<\/a>&nbsp;($225), which are amazingly bright, with an extremely wide view, and relatively small build. These are 8&#215;42 (standard birder strength) but can also focus close for viewing butterflies, dragonflies, etc. If you have not looked through some contemporary binoculars, borrow one to be surprised. \u2014 KK<br><br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Archive of visualized concepts<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archivve.visualizevalue.com\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">The Archivve<\/a>&nbsp;is a collection of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackbutcher?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Butcher<\/a>\u2018s Visualize Value content that you can filter and search. Ideas and concepts need to anchor themselves within me visually to become absorbed. Images help to pivot the way I think. And these minimalistic, yet striking visuals are fun and enlightening and wise. \u2014 CD<br><br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>+6.0 reading glasses<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>I normally wear +3.0 reading glasses but I bought this inexpensive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/6-glasses?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5-pack of +6.0 glasses<\/a>&nbsp;to see tiny things, like markings on electronic components, fine print, splinters, and so on. I kept the small \u201c+6.00\u201d label affixed to the upper left corner of the lens so I don\u2019t get them mixed up with my regular glasses. \u2014 MF<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 315<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2323],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40124,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106\/revisions\/40124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}