Continuing education is continuing exploration. When I was finishing graduate school, I knew I wanted to dedicate time each week to make sure I stay in touch with new information and best practices in my field(s). It’s not really a formal thing for me, because I generally get cranky if I don’t have sufficient time to read about, look at, and listen to things.
I love information. I also know that we have too much of it. Our human brains weren’t meant to know every bit of information that exists, and be dealing with an overload of information, 24/7. Collective information is important to us all, and one of the reasons I geek out about good AI. It helps us to access and learn information quickly and efficiently. And since not all AIs are created equal, I try to share the ones I have used, or hear excellent things about.
In my education time this week, I read the latest roundups of new AIs that come to my inbox, and found this delightful gem to share. https://www.rabbithole.chat/
You start with this screen, where you can begin digging your rabbit hole. 🐇 Hovering over the pictures gives you other questions you could ask, in case you don’t know where to start. I entered, “Tell me about contemporary women street artists”
You can pick a direction, ask it to elaborate, or ask a new related question.
You can click on the links, and see the sources for the information. Where there are relevant images, you can click on those too. Clicking on a box brings it into “focus”, popping it to the front.
You can keep clicking around and exploring new directions…
Your exploration is visualized in this mindmap with the ability to zoom in and out, and put the whole thing into view.
I love this tool because I think the best uses of AI are ones that help cultivate curiosity. I’ve been going down a rabbit hole myself lately, thinking about curiosity, and how cultivating it helps us be more resilient and operate from a different state of mind than survival mode. Research shows that access to information and technology can diminish curiosity because they’re immediate and we assume they’re correct. This doesn’t mean that information and technology are bad - but that we need to be mindful (like everything else) of how we use them. Are they contributing to the vastness and beauty of your life? Efficiency is great, but does it help you wonder? I think this one can 🖤✨
Check out Rabbithole here: https://www.rabbithole.chat/
Let me know if you try it out, and if it helps you be more curious!
Do you have practices for cultivating curiosity? Do you find wonder in or use any AI tools to help you discover?