u/Trash2Burn

I’m completely new at this, I received the kitchenaid bowl for my birthday a week ago. Last night I made the Jeni’s base recipe and it turned out so good! I’m shocked, and now hooked. But since I’m new I don’t know enough to just start adding things. I searched for a recipe but I don’t see one for a Jeni’s chocolate base. Since it was successful I’d love to stick with the same base recipe for now. But how do I make it chocolate?

Hi all,

I’ve never been able to keep anything alive so I’ve avoided houseplants. but two years ago my husband got me a plant for Valentine’s Day randomly purchased from the grocery store. It‘s still alive and thriving. Turns out it’s an umbrella tree.

Since then my sister has given me two plants and I’ve bought three more from a plant store (which is now closed).

Aside from the plants potted at the plant store I’ve always grabbed a bag of whatever miracle grow was cheap at Home Depot and called it a day.

I’ve always loved monstera and found one to buy the other day. Now I need to pot it and I want to do better but I’m overwhelmed.

What‘s the difference between potting mix and potting soil? Do I have to make my own mix (recently learned about perlite). I only have access to stores like HD, Lowe’s. Now I want to repot everything the right way. Help! :)

I came across this but can’t find any reviews or information about it. wondering if anyone here knows anything.

Banjo licks

As the question states, I’d like to hear how you are using AI in your storyboarding phase. This is one of the most time consuming tasks for our team, especially given most of our IDs don’t have much writing background or experience. Our leadership is pushing AI usage for this process thinking it will be one click instant storyboard.

I think we can find some ways to save time, but each course, the content, and the activities are too nuanced for an instant storyboard to be created by AI. I’ve tested it and I got largely slop that took more time to review and edit than writing it myself.

What have you found helps with storyboarding when using AI?

This sub talks a lot about the accumulation phase (saving/investing) and then pulling the trigger, but not a lot about how to move from one phase to another.

My goal is to hopefully leave a full time corporate job in two years. Our full fire number is 2.5 million, at 1.8 now with the goal to keep working some sort of job or part time, but be able to leave our soul sucking corporate jobs in two years.

But I don’t realistically know how to do that. I’ve been very focused on saving, but if I needed to tomorrow I would have no clue how to start living off that money.

I want to best prepare in the next two years. Does anyone have outlined steps or a resource that discusses how to actually retire? I’m overwhelmed by all the details like navigating the ACA, conversions, tax implications. The list goes on to the point where it seems easier to keep working instead!

I'm a beginner (took lessons for a few months, quit, now picking it back up again). I have an RW Jameson banjo, I think I paid $250 for it back in 2019. I'd like to start thinking ahead to the next level up, but knowing I am a long way off from even being intermediate, I'm not looking to break the bank yet. What are your recommendations for a step 2 banjo?
Thanks!

There isn’t a single banjo teacher in my city. :( Online isnt ideal, but my only choice right now. Are there people anyone can recommend for one on one lessons? A female teacher would be a plus!

I would love to get some perspective on this from others in the industry.

My company has basically completely lost it when it comes to AI. They are foaming at the mouth and can't get enough. I'd love to go even three minutes without having AI shoved in my face. It's getting old for sure.

Tech has always been a blurry line when it comes to ID, mostly because in many orgs we are forced to wear all the hats and develop as well as design. eLearning, and the programs used to create it, have been lumped together as "technology".

Now that AI has entered the room, this is another area that has fallen on our L&D team to own. Our company wants to start pushing out AI coaching, AI conversation simulations (talking to a customer, for example), and every other wild product that comes our way.

I will caveat by saying I am NOT tech-adverse. I see great uses for it, and I've tried to stay up on the latest throughout my career, the best I can. But this feels a bit like it's crossing the line. Our team has no experience building these types of products. They aren't coders or software engineers. I get the sense that the general thinking these days is that vibe coding or doing anything with AI is as easy as asking Google a question, so anyone can do it. But some of these requests require very nuanced knowledge of how to properly build and prompt, so, for example, the patient or customer answers the right way. Our company considers these AI sparkly things "learning products," so it falls to us.

I'm torn between yes, instructional designers should be embracing new tech as part of their changing role, and being miffed that yet another task falls on us because there is no one else to do it. We already do comms, marketing, video production, and graphic design. I'm especially salty that it's expected that we just know how to do it without any training or guidance. If I wanted to code stuff, I would have gone to school for web design, computer science, or software engineering. But I'm not those things, I'm an ID, and I want to do instructional design.

I can also see some sort of new role being defined that is mix of the traditional eLearning developer and AI developer. I realize our role, and our world is changing at a head-spinning pace, and this may not be an area I even have any say in. Again, would love to hear how others are feeling and what is happening in other companies!