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podcast_episode / 1d ago

TED Talks Daily (HD video): Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson

Tech innovator Avni Patel Thompson designed an app to shield busy parents from the chaos of scheduling school pickups, coordinating playdates, planning birthday parties and more — but as the product developed, something felt off. What might we lose when AI smooths over the friction of everyday family life? Patel Thompson explores her surprising discovery and how you can leverage AI to connect more deeply with the ones you love.

podcast_episode / 1d ago

TED Talks Daily (SD video): Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson

Tech innovator Avni Patel Thompson designed an app to shield busy parents from the chaos of scheduling school pickups, coordinating playdates, planning birthday parties and more — but as the product developed, something felt off. What might we lose when AI smooths over the friction of everyday family life? Patel Thompson explores her surprising discovery and how you can leverage AI to connect more deeply with the ones you love.

podcast_episode / 1d ago

TED Talks Daily: Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

<p>Tech innovator Avni Patel Thompson designed an app to shield busy parents from the chaos of scheduling school pickups, coordinating playdates, planning birthday parties and more — but as the product developed, something felt off. What might we lose when AI smooths over the friction of everyday family life? Patel Thompson explores her surprising discovery and how you can leverage AI to connect more deeply with the ones you love.</p><br><p>This is episode six of a seven-part series airing this week on TED Talks Daily, where author, podcaster and past TED speaker Kelly Corrigan — and her six TED2...

podcast_episode / 1d ago

Mpowered Living with Ann Sheu: Episode 26 | Solving Invisible Labor: How AI Can Ease Parenting’s Mental Load with Avni Patel Thompson

<p>In this episode of Mpowered Living, host Ann Sheu speaks with Avni Patel Thompson about the invisible load that parents carry and how technology, particularly AI, can help alleviate some of that burden. Avni shares her journey from a science background to entrepreneurship, the development of her AI copilot for families, and the importance of community and support in parenting. They discuss the challenges of integrating technology into family life, raising grounded children, and the complexities of summer camp logistics. The conversation emphasizes the need for balance, intentionality, and open communication in both parenting and professional life.</p><p>...

tweet / 1d ago

I love this - I’m finding as a “self-taught” engineer who did spend time reading studies as a student I’ve been better able to understand the latest in AI developments from the source in a way that I’

I love this - I’m finding as a “self-taught” engineer who did spend time reading studies as a student I’ve been better able to understand the latest in AI developments from the source in a way that I’m grateful I had that skill. But like Jon, I have to print them out and mark them up bc this is an active sort of reading that all of us do rarely these days. It’s a slog but after the first couple you get the hang of it and it’s pretty fun to learn the science from the source.

tweet / 1d ago

Wow. Just wow. Must read. "It starts out small, almost bureaucratic in its modesty: paying attention. Learning the emotional thermostat of a room and making tiny, near-invisible adjustments. Discover

Wow. Just wow. Must read. "It starts out small, almost bureaucratic in its modesty: paying attention. Learning the emotional thermostat of a room and making tiny, near-invisible adjustments. Discovering, not without a flicker of pride, which version of yourself keeps the machinery humming. At first it feels like closeness, like competence. Like maybe you’ve finally learned something useful. Women learn to wait ahead of things so others need not wait at all. They learn the measure of a voice, the weight of a silence, the cost of letting trouble arrive unsoftened. For this they are praised, rewarded, and assumed to be untroubled. And they allow themselves to be misread because telling the truth would demand more strength than they have left. Marriage asks little at any one moment, only a domestic spoonful at a time, so small it feels unworthy of refusal. It is only in looking back that a woman sees how much has been taken. It’s like realizing the system kept running because you were the battery, and no one ever thought to recharge it or bring a spare."

article / 1d ago

inheritances - thoughtlets

In that way that some families pass on a cottage or some heirloom china, mine bequeathed me this deep love of seeing new places.

article / 1d ago

Avni Patel Thompson - Substack

Avni Patel Thompson's avatar. I'm a builder, a storyteller, a mama ... Avni Patel Thompson's avatar · Avni Patel Thompson. 4d. Playback speed. 1×.

article / 1d ago

thoughtlets

So every day I'm pushing to keep my business alive instead of testing to see what will kill it, I am failing our purpose. This is an incredibly hard thing to ...