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Wednesday, 23 April 2025 Issue#028
Transition Smarter. Tech-Driven Guidance for What’s Next
It sure seems the current civilian leadership at the Pentagon could have benefited from our tool of the week..."is the app Signal the best way to show my wife I know cool stuff"?
While the nation's top defense officials are learning about secure communications the hard way, let's ensure your transition to civilian life doesn't involve similar missteps. This week we feature an interesting tool that can help add some structure into decision making, useful for more than just which restaurant to pick for dinner. We find out that ChatGPT now has a press pass and examine a tool aimed at helping you optimize your LinkedIn profile and presence. Let's dive in...
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Weekly Spotlight
Tool of the Week: Rationale – See two sides of the coin, make rational decisions
Rationale by Jina AI is a powerful decision-making tool that uses AI to help users evaluate choices through visual frameworks like pros and cons, SWOT analysis, and multi-criteria analysis. For military members preparing to transition, this tool can be incredibly useful when faced with big life decisions—such as choosing between job offers, deciding where to live, or selecting education programs. The structured approach it offers helps bring clarity to complex choices by breaking them down logically, which can be especially helpful for those managing multiple decisions or faced with making a major pathway decision for the first time. Rationale can serve as a personal decision coach, providing confidence and direction during a period of major change.
Why we like it:
✅ Unique free option that uses achievement based credit system
✅ Four structured decision analysis techniques
✅ Can be as personalized as needed based on user input
✅ Multi-lingual capability
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What We Are Tracking
Tech Update: ChatGPT’s responses will now include Washington Post articles
OpenAI and The Washington Post have announced a strategic partnership that integrates the newspaper's journalism into ChatGPT's responses. This collaboration enables ChatGPT to provide users with summaries, quotes, and direct links to original articles from The Washington Post across various topics, including politics, global affairs, business, and technology. The initiative aims to enhance the accessibility of high-quality news for ChatGPT's extensive user base, which now exceeds 500 million weekly active users. While financial terms of the agreement remain undisclosed, this partnership reflects a broader trend of traditional media organizations collaborating with AI platforms to expand their reach and adapt to evolving digital consumption habits.
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Bonus Feature
App Spotlight: Resume Worded – Free LinkedIn Review
Resume Worded's LinkedIn Review tool is a free, AI-powered platform designed to optimize your LinkedIn profile for increased visibility and engagement. By analyzing your profile, it provides personalized, actionable feedback on key elements such as your headline, summary, and overall structure. The tool benchmarks your profile against top-performing profiles, offering tailored suggestions to enhance discoverability and attract more job opportunities. Additionally, it includes sample headlines and summaries to guide improvements, aiming to help users generate up to five times more job leads and networking prospects on LinkedIn.
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Productivity Spotlight
Tools that help you stay, or get, productive
✅ Tutor AI - Create a custom learning pathways on virtually any subject - perfect for upskilling or interview prep.
✅ Whisper Memos - Turns your voice memos into paragraphed articles
✅ Eightify - Summarize YouTube videos with just a link
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