Tuesday, February 10th is our next Campfire Zoom!
At a Campfire you can get reenergized, have a laugh, share a story, noodle a problem in a breakout room, or just bask in the glow of some camaraderie.
Tuesday, Feb 10th - 3pm Eastern US/NYC
The date/time should be 2026-02-10T20:00:00Z in your timezone. 
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Takeaways will be posted as replies to this topic. Hope to see you there!
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What’s a campfire?
Generally, campfires are every 3rd Tuesday.
Did you read that correctly? Not "the 3rd Tuesday of each month — every 3rd Tuesday; slightly less often than every other week, slightly more often than once per month.
About the Campfires category has the details— including how to make them appear automatically on your calendar.
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Our campfire zoom start in about 3 hours . . .
This one was all over the map!
Campfire Takeaways
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https://365Changes.com originated from frustration with knowing but not doing — Reading entire textbooks on nutrition and biochemistry didn’t change eating behavior. The gap between understanding the science and actually applying it prompted a different approach: daily prompts designed to shift thinking rather than deliver more information.
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Every sentence requires fact-checking against research — The 365 Changes companion pieces run through multiple AI agents: a writer, an editor, and a fact-checker that argues back when claims are too strong. The result is 380,000 words where every claim is backed by annotated scientific citations.
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Social objects create conversation opportunities — Jason Korman’s concept: people struggle to start conversations without something in the middle to talk about. For coaches, a shared daily prompt becomes that object—both coach and client receive it, creating natural touchpoints for discussion.
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Ideas that won’t leave become projects — Some ideas torment until executed. The only way to clear them from your head is to ship them, delegate them, or find the right person to take them on. This is both superpower and kryptonite when time is limited.
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A podcast about the people behind the institution — The concept: interview the person who pushes the radioactive medicine cart, the cleaning staff, the snow plow driver, the liquid helium delivery person, the systems administrator for the MRI supercomputer. Patients and families would connect with the humans behind the facility.
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Self-regulating heating cable solves gutter ice — The cable generates more heat where it contacts ice and less where it’s dry, so glaciers melt as they reach the tape. The technology uses a controlled current leak between conductors that responds to temperature.
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Seth Godin’s new book uses AI-generated voice — Trained with Eleven Labs, the audiobook is structured in 20-minute sections—about what listeners can handle in one sitting.
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Wanting a tutor, not Cliff Notes — The ideal AI use isn’t summarizing a book but becoming someone who knows it cold and can quiz you, push back when you’re wrong, and send you back to specific pages. Learning the material, not consuming a derivative.
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Craig misremembers a Vonnegut quote on writing — The actual line is “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” Close enough—the point stands: creative work remains difficult regardless of experience.
