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Tyson was Under-rated

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Mike was underrated as a boxer, as if his technique was simplistic and sloppy. https://youtu.be/I8Vk4CnupEY Boxing is a guilty pleasure for me. My dad had been an amateur boxer. Watching boxing together was 'a thing' back when Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay. Boxing should probably be outlawed because it permanently injures almost all fighters, but as long as it is around I will probably peek in from time to time because ‘The Sweet Science’ is viscerally compelling to someone who has thrown and taken punches. The perception of Mike Tyson having a simplistic and sloppy technique overlooks his genuine skill. Tyson was known for an aggressive style, power, and speed, but there was more subtlety and sophistication to his approach than he's often credited for. Firstly, Tyson's peek-a-boo style, taught by Cus D'Amato, emphasized constant head movement and angling to make him a difficult target to hit, while simultaneously positioning him to launch powerful co...

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Skill up for the AI boom.

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How can you skill up for the AI boom? Same way you get to Carnegie Hall — Practice. Seriously, at least for the short term, it’s not AI that will be replacing people, it is other people using AI to leverage automation and amplify and refine their own skills. Here is an article I wrote recently about how you can start right away: https://blog.bobtrower.com/2024/02/try-ai-right-now.html As I am typing this in Feb/2024, there are a variety of platforms available that will allow anybody to do more in less time and already you can do better if you have skill with the existing AI. You will produce better images in less time (the one in this post was generated automatically as I was typing). You will answer your email in much less time, keep up with social media, etc;.  As the rest of 2024 unfolds, AI tools will continue to improve, and they will continue to require additional learning to take advantage of them. Given how fast stuff is coming out, just learning to keep track of new things...