There was an engineering company in Seattle that needed to submit a tender by the deadline.
Unfortunately, Seattle was fog-bound and the traffic was grid-locked.
Because it was a potentially lucrative contract they hired a helicopter to get the tender to where it needed to be.
But the chopper pilot couldn’t identify any landmarks except the tops of buildings, so he moved close to one and held up a sign that read, “Where am I?”.
A person in the building noticed and held up a sign that said, “In a Helicopter”.
The pilot waved his thanks and delivered the tender on time.
When asked later how he did that he replied that he knew where he was because he knew the building was the Microsoft building because the help was 100% correct and 100% useless.
Regards, Brent.
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I still have hundreds of extremely poor-quality PLR ebooks buried under so much digital dust that I can’t read the titles anymore.
The only advantage I have with those is I think I might be able to use them.
By the way, if you have bought those 300 PLR videos, ask ChatGPT to summarise them for you and then create lead magnets or bundle several together and turn them into PDFs for sale.
Repurposing PLR into a different format is the best use for most of them.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. The ideal way to use those lead magnets is to grow your email list.
You can put several on a single page for $5 as an upsell after they have subscribed.
Yes, archeologists have found writing that dates back to 2,500 BC approximately.
Unfortunately, they have no idea what it says.
It must have been written by an AI.
It’s more likely that an AI tool will decipher it at some stage, but for now, we have no idea.
There are at least another nine different languages for which archeologists have written texts that they cannot read.
It’s fascinating that humans, we’re assuming they’re humans, have not only had a spoken language for over four thousand years but also developed a written language.
And we still write more than we use any other form of communication to many people at once.
There are an estimated 347.3 billion emails sent each day globally, this is just one of them.
That doesn’t include all the blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, comments on all of those, etc. that go on every day.
Writing is such a massive part of who we are and how we communicate that it’s unlikely to end any time soon.
Have you watched the TV series Person of Interest?
Slight spoiler alert:
The overall premise of the series is that AI can track people, understand their motives based on their behaviour, and predict what they’ll do next.
A similar theme runs through the movie Minority Report.
But, we know that AI is flawed and based on the programmer’s biases.
Now researchers at MIT have successfully fooled the AI face recognition software at least three times.
For me, the best was fooling the AI into thinking a toy turtle was a rifle.
All they did was slightly modify the shell texture and Google’s Inception AI was fooled.
They’ve also managed to have the AI identify a cat as guacamole and a baseball as an espresso machine.
While that all sounds like a bit of fun, and it is, there is also a serious side to this.
AI is used in self-driving cars to read signs and scan their surroundings.
None of these things are always in pristine condition so what do you think the chances of a serious mishap are?
Then there is China.
The Chinese Government is already extensively using AI and facial recognition to track their citizens and monitor their behaviour.
They are ranked according to their behaviour on a scale unknown to anyone outside the inner circle, but any citizen can have their status upgraded or downgraded at any stage.
How often do you think the system gets it wrong?
But, if you can fool this software by changing texture and patterns, what chance is there that people will fight back by printing T-shirts with patterns that fool the machines?
It would be hilarious, and probably dangerous, to wear a T-shirt in China that made the machines think you’re the President, or a lamp post, or a toaster.
That’s not a phrase I can remember hearing before…but I liked the sound of it.
It means embracing something painful, for the greater good.
Apparently, it’s used in terms of addiction recovery and stuff like that.
However, we can apply it to online marketing too.
Why?
Many of the things we need to do to make our businesses produce cash like a busted ATM are boring, mind-numbingly dull, repetitive, and often slow to produce results.
But, if we don’t do them we don’t get decent results.
So, settle in for the ride.
Do what has to be done.
Set yourself a schedule and mark it off every day.
Before you know it there will be a trickle of income.
That will grow into a stream of income.
Be warned though, not all streams can or will turn into a river or torrent of cash.
However, once you have one flowing, the maintenance is minimal, and you can start another.
P.S. One of the daily activities you need to do when you have a free account at https://go.wm-tips.com/llhome is to actively view other people’s ads so you can get visits to yours.
I recommend viewing 100 every day for good results.
But this is not the only activity you can do to bring visitors to your ad or landing page.
You can park the link to your page anywhere you like, including buying traffic through solo ads or other sources.
It’s all cactus hugging, though, so you might as well get used to it.
I was asking why all the photographs of mythical beasts were fuzzy or out of focus.
Apparently, this is an automated setting that you cannot alter.
It certainly explains why there are no clear photographs of a Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, Abominable Snowman, Bunyip, random big cats, etc. in existence.
While researching this subject I discovered that many of the claimed Bigfoot sightings have subsequently been admitted to be hoaxes.
That’s not fair.
I’d love there to still be some strange creatures wandering about mostly hidden from human view.
We do, on occasion, re-discover a creature that had been thought to be extinct.
The most amazing one, as far as I’m concerned, is the Dinosaur Ant.
An entomologist found two specimens in Western Australia in 1931.
They searched for 30 years to find a living colony without success.
Then, an accidental discovery of a living colony at Poochera, South Australia in 1977.
That’s 1700 km from the Russell Range.
Since then another 17 colonies have been found on the Eyre Peninsula.
Scientists think these ants are unchanged from the specimens caught in amber that date back 60 million years.
They’re hard to find because they are nocturnal, unlike most other ants.
The only reason they were found is because an entomologist travelling to Esperance in WA stopped for a nature break at night and spotted these odd ants.
Like all good entomologists, he was carrying a specimen jar.
No blurry or fuzzy photo here.
Another case of luck being the result of preparedness and experience.
