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This special Crow’s Feet Extra is an except from our interview with acclaimed writer and actor Kathryn Grody. Now 79, Kathryn is also a social media influencer, thanks to the wildly popular Instagram account she shares with her husband, Mandy Patinkin, and their son Gideon. Here, Kathryn offers an intimate reflection on the death of her younger brother, Yukon. With warmth, candor, and emotional honesty, she explores the complicated terrain of grief, memory, and sibling love.

This is part of a longer Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age conversation between Kathryn and Melinda Blau. The full episode premieres June 24.

Kathryn is currently performing her acclaimed one-woman show, The Unexpected Third, in New York City through June 14 at the New York Theatre Workshop.

To read more about Kathryn’s brother's life, here is the link to his obituary: Senior Monastic Yukon Grody 5/15/49 – 2/28/24 | Mountain Record

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Our episode today is on AI, focused on how the senior community can best take advantage of it. The good news is that AI is here and available to everybody. The better news is that AI is improving daily. Thus, by the time you listen to this episode, there have been more improvements in how AI responds to questions, prompts, and user-input challenges.

Our episode is an interview with an AI Language Model.

Although my preference is to communicate via keyboard text, I made a concession and figured out how to have a verbal conversation and record it.

When it comes to how you personally use AI, my advice is to trust the response for simple questions. But for more complex questions, question the response and validate it against multiple websites. While AI continues to improve, there are times when it needs to be supervised or corrected.

It is a myth that AI is correct 100 percent of the time. But compared to three years ago, the mistakes are getting reduced daily.

I recently spent over 14 months working with multiple top 10 technology companies on their AI initiatives. The experience provided a deep understanding of how AI works, what can be trusted, and what needs to be questioned. From the day the project started to the day it ended, there was a substantial amount of improvement in its accuracy.

There are plenty of resources available to guide you in AI's use. But the greatest guide in using AI is the AI model itself. Ask it and the program will help you. And that's pretty cool.

Produced by Lee Bentch, a career technologist, podcaster, and writer.

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Is it possible to “breathe one’s last” without regrets, big or small?

Best-selling author and behavioral change expert Karen Salmansohn thinks so. Her latest book, Your To Die for Life: How to maximize joy and minimize regret before your time runs out, offers some ideas and protocols that just might do the trick.

Join podcast host Jane Trombley and Karen as they discuss the book’s key message: the importance of Core Values as an antidote to late-in-life or even deathbed regrets.

How did Karen uncover the core values? By identifying some key regrets and reverse-engineering them into strategies to help avoid the most common, our hustle, hustle lifestyle

“A lot of people work too hard,” said Karen. “We worship productivity.” But there’s a cost.

“At your funeral, nobody’s going to get up and read your LinkedIn profile,” Karen continued. “You won’t be remembered for the work to attain status, or outward success. It will be the stories where you showed your Core Values - how you treated people, how you listened, and your kindness.”

That’s how we all want to be remembered

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Links:

yourtodieforlife.com

Substack: standupphilosoper@substack.com

Karen's Books on Amazon:

Your To Die For Life

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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