John Toomey co-founded AI Happiness Accelerator in 2022. He is a Living Inquiries Facilitator and former CTO of Friends Beyond Borders.
I've been exploring two new video creation tools: OpenAI's Sora, and Meta's Vibe. So far I think Vibe has the edge in aesthetics, clarity, and faithfulness in following prompts as precisely as possible. Rather than detail my experiments just yet, I'd like
Lots of famous experts tell us we need to have a specific morning routine every day. There is a certain amount of value in this. If your mind and body do the same thing all the time, they can grow in a predictable fashion. But there's also a
It took me a while to write that headline, and it's not long enough to express what I was trying to say. The point I was making is that an AI like ChatGPT 5.0 or Gemini if carefully prompted can tell your future, in a way. What
Remember the famous Internet phenomenon years ago when a picture of a dress looked blue to some people, and gold to others? You can create the same thing with ChatGPT 5.0. I just did. The result is above. Different people report at least 4 different colors for this knitted
Why do we like the metaphor of the buffet so much when describing how transformative it can be to find out which sequence of core feeling-states serve your well-being the best? Consider ancient Roman Emperors. They loved to eat. Some of them loved eating so much that they refused to
When I found this quote by Albert Einstein, I immediately had all sorts of thoughts about how this works, and how it has appeared in my own life. I was going to brain dump all that stuff here, but then I thought: I'd MUCH RATHER hear examples from
Imagine that you are walking on the beach, and you see an ancient brass bottle, looking like it's been in the ocean for a thousand years. You pick it up, rub it (since you were born with an intuitive sense of what to do in such cases) and
In 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "The World will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being, whether you sneak about and deny your own name, or whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens, one with the revolution of the stars.
You've heard the saying "Give a man fish, and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish, and he eats for a lifetime." Did you know that this phrase, when pushed to its limits, can reveal a vast store of possibilities? You could continue the
Now that you know how the feeling-state Portals operate, it's time to explore your own. We use Brainstorming, Curiosity, Awe, Gratitude, Laughter, and the Hero's Journey as examples to explain the process, because everyone has had experience with them. But everyone has unique emotional circuits that
If you’ve been online at all in the past year, you’ve probably seen dozens of headlines promising life-changing AI prompts. Some of them deliver, some of them don’t. I’ve written about a few myself, and I’ll be honest—sometimes my results didn’t quite live
If you've been following this blog you know that AI Happiness Accelerator claims that there are 6 or 7 or 8 Core human experiences which, when felt regularly, contribute to fundamental well-being. You also know that key to this is what we call the Checklist. At various time