• How to converse with Chatbots using other tools
• Background in ELA teaching
• Thinking of the tool as a reading assistant
• What is a reading assistant?
• Getting an executive summary 
• Get an idea if I should really dive into this idea. 
• Process - find the text, ask what it is, then zoom in, 
• Zoom out as needed
• Hallucinations exist, but they are reduced when the text is there. 
• AI For the rest of us - Augmentation
• How does this make Rod a better learner?
• Focuses my time better and helps me know what I should spend my time on. 
• How leaders talk to one another. 
• Finding a gap in the research - hard to discern the landscape. 
• Reading more scholarly research because I have a tool that helps me know I’m going to get something from it. 
• Science Direct and Google Scholar to find resources.
• Like the autonomy of interacting directly with the source. 
• @rodjnaquin everywhere but check out the substack.

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