Why new tech can be hard to learn (and what to do about it)

I got very cross with Canva the other day. I have the paid version, which has all sorts of new AI tools, and in a fit of laziness, I convinced myself that I could use these AI tools to do a new design for my CV.

I had already asked ChatGPT to shorten said CV to one page, and I had edited the shortened version to my satisfaction. What I wanted, at the end of a long day, was for Canva to take the text and input it into a template and make it look pretty.

Long story short: I was simply not able to make that happen (probably because it just doesn’t work like that).

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