Grab your coffee. Let's talk. In less than 60 minutes, we're meeting for our weekly coffee hour in the 40 and Unemployed community. One hour. No agenda. Just real conversation about what you're going through. Job search struggles. Age discrimination. Freelancing. Building something on your own terms. Whatever's on your mind. This is your space to vent, share wins, ask questions, and connect with people who get it. See you in the room. By the way— If you're trying to build income on Medium and tired of making pennies, I just launched Medium Mastery. 11 modules teaching exactly how I went from $300/month to $4,500/month in 90 days. Weekly live coaching. Real community. No guru bullshit. First 300 members: $5/month locked in foreverAfter that: $14.99/month 👉 https://www.skool.com/medium-mastery-1766/about Not required. Just letting you know it's there if you're ready to stop writing for your ego and start writing for income. See you in an hour. —Jason

I’ve been noticing when I apply for jobs on LinkedIn that often times the match widget isn’t seeing some of the education or skills that I have. I think because of this group today I may have had a realization. I am using two columns for all of my skills and I wonder if that’s tripping up AI. If anyone knows the answer to that that would be great!

Glad you all could make it. Enjoy the rcording!

I was skeptical of AI use as a writing partner ever since Grammarly hit the scene some time ago. I decided to take a few elective college courses as well as some non-credit courses to keep some of my credentials current as a certified peer specialist in my state. I didn't like the way it wanted to change my tone and voice. It simply no longer sounded like me anymore. One of the elective courses i enrolled in was creative writing and Grammarly took the creative right out of it and replaced it with robotic. I just wasn't having it. At all... So, I already had confirmation bias lurking in my subconscious mind before Open AI and ChatGPT hit the scene. That was long before I had my spinal injuries and a whole slew of unfortunate events that would give me a running chance at winning a law suit to change the name of "Murphy's Law" to "Rushton's Law". But, with a twist, it wasn't a matter of what could go wrong would go wrong, it was a matter of how soon I had to prepare for the inevitability of it. I was just resigned to the fact that I would live the remainder of my days from crisis to crisis. I never whined about it. I just dealt with it as best as I could with what I had available at the time. So, I saw a perk on my Paypal home screen that involved Perplexity AI Pro. A one year subscription free as a Paypal perk. There had to be a catch. Right? Sure, after a year it's expensive as all hell. But, I liked what I saw and I was willing to give it a try. Then came Comet browser and Assistant. Then I started using assistant as I would use spell check and grammar check in MS Word. I use Google docs now. I was very impressed and it seemed like the AI assistant could learn my voice and tone in writing. It was able to extract life events from documents I fed it such as resumes, reference letters, etc. It took a detailed personality assessment I had done when I had decided to go back to college years ago and built context to address me with as a learning module. I started asking questions and realized the amount of power I had at my fingertips.