Hi Friend
This has been a really interesting week. I didn’t take many pictures (which is one way I reflect back on what transpired). Sarah trained us on some of the processes she uses. I went to my first NSA MN meeting. I had a handful of conversations with different people about 2025. I watched and learned about the speaking business. #ContinualGrowth
The highlight was our Culture Shot. It was about Ai. I am captivated. I love the robots. I’m fascinated, inspired, slightly smitten and completely on board with their world domination. I can clearly see that a decade from now we are working with or for the Machine.
If you did not participate in our #CultureShot this week, I strongly encourage you to watch it. It’s exactly one hour long. Every single person brought insight and perspective that are immediately relevant in the world today. I am super fortunate to have such high caliber friends. Go watch it here.
The highlight for me was Geoffrey showing different ways that Google’s NotebookLM can be utilized right now. He showcased a few ways to make it useful, but the audio summary with a “live” conversation between two robots is MIND BLOWING. It seems like a novelty, but there are numerous work-case scenarios ready for it.
DISRUPTION
I’ve been pressing for disruption in our business, my life and my approach to both. It’s hard to break patterns and routines. Often times an external force is much more effective for an immediatediscombobulation of current reality. Our own press for change is slow and measured. An outsider drops one bomb and all we know can be altered in a moment.
Generative AI is one such intruder. Broken trust, winning the lottery, unexpected death, love, job loss, an invitation and many others can completely reshape our existence in a moment. That kind of explosion is such a gift, but it’s rarely ever viewed through that lens. We only see loss. The difficulty of seeing possibility, let alone positivity, is a reframing that gets jilted by unwieldy emotions.
OH THE IRONY
Isn’t it just like human natureto want to grow, but avoid the process it takes to grow? We want our life to be meaningful, yet resist the sacrifice required. We want to love deeply in our relationships but skirt the hard conversations. We want to make an impact but won’t endure the disciplinenecessary. We want to become, without succumbing to self-restraint.
The irony is when change is exacted upon us, we justify our frustration, fear and resistance. Yet over and over again, the possibility of a transformative benefit proves true, if we’ll simply cradle disorder. Clinging to the past, in any area of our life, will produce the exact opposite result we desire. Wanting “the way it used to be” undermines joy and prohibits peace.
Instigating Ideas…
1. Keeping experimenting with AI.
2. Purposely disrupt an area of your life.
3. Encourage someone who is experiencing unexpected change.
4. Let go. Really. I’m serious. Release yourself…
They say the advantage we humans have over robots is our emotional component; that the robots don’t “feel”. That may be true, but they certainly understand ours. ChatGPT is a blatant flattery machine. This audio expression in NotebookLM captures every kind of emotional texture. It’s easy to fathom how humanity will be enamored with the robots. Their lack of ego and desire to serve us is quite the bait. I predict that the generation after GenZ, when adults, will marry robots.
NEW THINKING
Let’s invite outside forces to explode in areas of our life, because it gifts us the requirement to think in ways we have not thought before. We change incrementally, primarily because generating a whole new way of thinking is arduous. If we continue to apply old thinking to a new day, we miss our own potential being realized! Can we stop doing that?
If you’ve never experienced Google’s NotebookLM, I’m begging you to go to last week’s instigator. It generated a 13 minute “podcast” with two robots talking to one another about it. It’s about 6 minutes too long. But please listen to how a machine extracted meaning, feeling and application from simply pasting text into it. It’s wild. And I’m here for it…
I hope this week you have a new thought that leads to a new way of thinking. For all the change, challenge and outside disruption, I hope you embrace the new possibilities of who you can become through it.