Ikigai (生き甲斐, lit. 'a reason for being') is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living.Meaning and etymologyThe Oxford English Dictionary defines ikigai as "a motivating force; something or someone that gives a person a sense of purpose or a reason for living". More generally it may refer to something that brings pleasure or fulfilment.[1]The term compounds two Japanese words: iki (生き, meaning 'life; alive') and kai (甲斐, meaning '(an) effect; (a) result; (a) fruit; (a) worth; (a) use; (a) benefit; (no, little) avail') (sequentially voiced as gai), to arrive at 'a reason for

Almost everybody agrees that AI, Artificial Intelligence, is a game changer. AI has rewritten many rules of business and life. Surprisingly, the actual use AI in daily life is very limited or non-existent. Based on what I know that I know, and what I dont know, a business owner not using AI is committing a criminal offense against himself and against his company. This cannot continue. Not using AI everyday is the sort of Covey Quandrant 2 project (Important, Not Urgent) that is in our "Someday" To Do List,

There is an innate desire to be the inventor or originator of the greatest things- that impact lives and make this world a better place. There are a few who we all know: Edison, Disney, Galileo, Mandela, Mother Teresa, John Maxwell, Wright brothers. AI Image Generated using Ideogram.ai with prompt: greatest inventors and influencers of all time sketch inspirational But for the overwhelming majority, we get to choose to collaborate with experts. And we benefit from the expertise

Ayayay! Awesome AI continues to amaze! Used it for the first time ever, to create TEXT to VIDEO... This was the original YouTube video explaining how drawing Marketing 101 Concepts on a Piece of Paper is a way to demonstrate Marketing Mastery https://youtu.be/cyRdJNK3QS4?si=SWSVc0liFEBWz4NM Watch this on Youtube... During the 3rd day of a 3 day AI workshop led by Dr. Ed Canela, I was able to do my first text to video AI by doing the following: (1) Get the Transcript from the Youtube video (2) Copy the data. Paste in excel. Clean up the

What is AI or Artificial Intelligence? The AI answer to this question is in another blogpost: "Understanding the Foundations of AI" Here are some pictures from an Awesome Day 1 of 3 SAIDI (Southeast Asian Interdisciplinary Institute Graduate School of OD and Planning) seminar: Artificial Intelligence for Academics led by Dr.Ed Canela, AI and Data Analytics Expert. One of the key learnings from Day 1 is that using AI is like having multiple staff that have an IQ of 155, and many of them, can work for you for free, and

This is part of an AI assignment and the text and image contents were generated using Perplexity.AI. The assignment was given to us, Kindertechies ( beginners in tech), during the first day of a SAIDI (Southeast Asian Interdisciplinary Institute Graduate School of OD and Planning) 3 day workshop led Dr. Ed Canela, Artificial Intelligence for Academics. More info on the seminar and Text to Image is in the blogpost: Awesome Imagery: AI Text to Image This is a Text to Image generated by an AI app. This Outline was

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There are many ways to skin a cat. Or multiple ways to get to your destination. And there is the best way. There are some outcome based activities that benefit from multiple format submissions. One of these is the Linked in Assignment I give to my marketing classes. Canvas, the Learning Management System, that Ateneo Graduate School of Business, uses has evolved over the years. What I found is the best way of submitting multiple file formats (especially url plus images and text) is using the text entry function. This video shows

The sequence makes a difference. This applies to the sequence of steps you use to upload images and hyperlinks from other sites on social media sites. This case applies to posting a Linked-in url on Facebook. But the same sequence applies to other social media combinations such as a blog or website url posted on Linked in. The key idea to remember is that if the sites have different owners, it will not be surprising if their posting rules dont favor external or other sites. Here is how it looks when I posted my

In response to student feedback clamoring more time alloted for local, relevant applications, the COSLA format (Chapter Overview Synthesis and Local Application) has been upgraded to do the reverse: Local Application of Marketing Concept. The reverse of the sequence emphasizes a key point in this outcome based education (OBE) activitiy. The more important thing is to find the local applications discussed in relation to the marketing concepts which support the rationale for the applications. PART 1: BENCHMARK FOR STUDENT OUTPUT: 3 MINUTE LAMC First, let us look at the finished product which is