It’s a new year

🥳 So try something new! These all sound like a blast to combat the post-holiday blues.

  • This pickle kit lets you ferment and pickle anything your heart desires. My favorite? Red onions, yum!
  • Crotchet a cute little dinosaur with a crotchet kit for beginners ($25). The step-by-step video tutorials are so helpful.
  • Want to get into podcasts (ahem, like mine)? You need a nice set of earbuds like these* that sound great, have a 32-hour battery life and are a fraction of the price of AirPods.
  • This cocktail codex (52% off) shows you the fundamentals of drinkmaking and how to make every kind of cocktail. It even gives substitutes if you’re missing any ingredients!
  • Try your hand at calligraphy with this workbook for beginners (29% off, $20).
  • An indoor herb garden kit (19% off) lets you grow your own herbs and veggies. It comes with a bunch of different pre-seeded pods that make it easy.

Stop writing checks

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Still paying bills with checks? Here’s why you need to switch over to electronic payments, in one minute. 

Grok needs a tutor: Elon Musk is hiring thousands to train the xAI chatbot. You don’t need a degree, but it’s a plus if you have a knack for writing and speak more than one language. Most jobs are temporary full-time and pay $35 to $65 an hour. Check them out here.

$97.4 billion

What Elon Musk offered to buy OpenAI yesterday. He’s in a battle with Sam Altman, who wants OpenAI to turn a profit. Altman responded to Musk on X, writing, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.” Ouch.

Echowriting: That’s teaching AI to sound like you. Feed in a piece of writing (an email, a blog post, a text, whatever) and say, “This is my writing. I want you to analyze it, so you can sound more like me in the future.”

4 free alternatives to Microsoft Word

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Looking for a word processor? In this one-minute podcast, I’ll share four free programs that can get you writing in no time.