Ideapod has been most helpful to me as… Ideapod has been most helpful to me as it offers practical and useful advice for personal and spiritual growth. I always read the Ideapod newsletter and there is so much good stuff there. Many thanks to the Ideapod staff for creating such great content!

A breath of fresh air and vital in todays world. Until I found Ideapod I thought I was outside the social normal way of thinking and found it really hard to relate to most people and only ever found a few that thought I was odd but accepted me. I am very lucky and have a couple of key people in my life who love me unconditionally no matter what and me them and am very grateful for having a settled wonderful secure life. But I am always seeking different points of view so I can decide what I believe and not be told or led by others. I love your articles and think you are a breath of fresh air and truly essential. You really help me knowing there is a lot of other people who I can relate to that I did not think were there. I also try to pass on what I read and experience to whoever I come across in my daily life if they ask or in tricky situations.

This is just great hits the mark and… This is just great hits the mark and wakes me up to my own reality every time I read it keep it up truly inspirational

Used ChatGPT to write articles and make up fictional people and memories. Had an article titled "People who are truly happy usually exhibit these 10 traits" allegedly written by a "Lachlan Brown" a day ago (August 15, 2023) show up in the recommendations on my phone app. When I got to item 7, the item headers started showing that they were interactions between a user giving ChatGPT prompts like "Do the next one. Be counterintuitive." or "Do the last one, with a personal touch." The result was that the anecdotes about characters like "Uncle Rob" were completely fabricated, and Ideapod does not indicate that the articles may be partially fictional. The inclusion of the chat prompts also means that the ChatGPT output for that portion of the article wasn't even edited for quality or accuracy (as accurate as a computer program can be about human habits and personality and emotions), if obvious mistakes like this made it into the published article.

I get to learn new things about me I get to learn new things about me, people in my life, about life ... thank you!