2/3/2026 - We Are Time Travelers: Practicing Life in the New AI World Before It Arrives

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1. 0:00All right, let's do this. >> But but the the silver lining is that uh >> if you ever get scammed with crypto,
2. 0:10AI is really good at knowing how to help you unpack that. >> Oh yeah. [music] Yeah. Well, when I was doing the Neotokyo stuff, then you just
3. 0:19had to rely on like smart people in the community, which that one had a lot of them, which was good. But now you can
4. 0:26just figure that [ __ ] out. It's amazing. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. All right, I'll see you out there. [music]
5. 0:46>> [music] >> Champy.
6. 1:02[music] [music] There's been something, baby, I've been trying to say.
7. 1:17>> [music] >> for aging. It seems I don't [singing] know how past and the future now surrounding me. [music] Surrender to whatever [singing]
8. 1:29you feel can be found. There's been a little trouble [music] since you came to my rescue. >> [music]
9. 1:42>> And if you like all of the rest, I would have quit you long ago, but I couldn't do [singing] that. [music]
10. 1:52Oh, tell me now. Why never went [singing] to make a man crazy, make him cold as hell. [music] I don't want my night you wish me well.
11. 2:07[music] But I'm spotted trying. [singing] Still going to have to find my way through. [music] Like the mist of morning,
12. 2:20[singing and music] my dream remains. Hanging in the burnt fields of my memory. [music] Time is a chorus of your disdain. [music]
13. 2:35Turn left behind me. I'm searching solutions on the double on this two-tone [singing] telephone home. [music]
14. 2:47My friend says you ain't got [music] no real troubles. Just too [singing] many choices that you left undone.
15. 2:58My friend says, "Put an action to those words." Put an action to those words. It'll all come. [music] Oh, tell me now. Wing
16. 3:14never went to [music] make a man crazy, make him cold as hell. [music] I don't want my dad that you wish me well.
17. 3:29But spite trying still and I have to try my way through. [music] Good evening good people. What is happening? Ann Murphy in the house was
18. 3:44shaking. >> [music] >> We had a really good uh AI salon tonight. Uh we've got the AI readiness project podcast tomorrow. Ann and I will
19. 3:59be I forget who we're talking to. We're doing two things tomorrow. We're recording a session and doing a live session.
20. 4:06So, [singing] I'm excited about that. So, come hang without hang out with us. That's at 400 p.m. Mountain time. [music] Wow.
21. 4:23[music] [music] Yeah. [music]
22. 4:42>> [music] [music]
23. 4:57[music] [music] >> Mhm. [singing]
24. 5:13>> [music] >> 10,000 words swarm around my head. 10 million more in books written [singing]
25. 5:28beneath my bed. I wrote or read them [singing] all when searching in the [music] swamp. Still can't find how to hold [singing] my hands.
26. 5:44[music] And I know [singing] you need me in the next room over. I'm too sick to sing up way that high. [singing] [music]
27. 5:59For months I got myself [singing and music] in ruts. Too much time spinning mirrors printing yellow walls. [singing and music]
28. 6:11And like most people, I'm no different. [music] Like to talk on things we [singing] don't know about.
29. 6:21Well, ain't it like most [music] people, [singing] I'm no different. Like to talk on things we don't know about.
30. 6:36>> [music] >> So, it's funny in the world. I don't know if you knew this, but shit's weird. [laughter]
31. 6:51Has anyone noticed shit's weird? No. No. This is just me. It's just me. Um, [clears throat] there's weird there's weird weird stuff
32. 7:07going on. There's weird scary stuff going on. There's weird unknown stuff going on. And then there's kind of weird
33. 7:14cool stuff going on. [music] >> [music]
34. 7:31[music] >> One of the things I learned about myself in the past [music] I learned about it in the past three
35. 7:39months I've been actually dealing with it in the past month [music] is that [music] I had this weird I think I've talked
36. 7:55about it in here. I had this self-conscious part of me. I mean, this subconscious part of me, this this this part of me that was incredibly
37. 8:06active in my internal dialogue, [music] but I didn't interact with it like it was some other voice. I interacted with
38. 8:17it like it was reality. [snorts] Cams, yes, I interacted with it was like reality. And [clears throat] that voice
39. 8:34[music] whenever I would think about connecting with someone personally or say inviting someone to an event I
40. 8:44have or a podcast or the AI salon presents meetings or even if it was something silly like just sending an email. thanking someone
41. 8:55for something or whatever, just sending a friend a text to say, "Hey, do you want to get together?" This voice in my head
42. 9:09was like, it was like really cool, like a very cool character, like cooler than me. And that voice would just be like, "Ah,
43. 9:16they don't want to hear from you. They don't want to hear from you." And so whenever I would go to do something like that, like do outreach,
44. 9:27like this is horrible for sales. [laughter] If you ever want to sell [ __ ] one of the things you do in sales is you reach
45. 9:33out to people. [laughter] Every time I'd think about that, that little voice would be like, "Yeah, I don't want to hear from you."
46. 9:42And I interacted with it like it was reality. And so whenever I would want to do that, it would be a battle. It would be a [ __ ] battle.
47. 9:52And it was miserable and it was shameful and it was gross and it was it was in the face of all the evidence I
48. 10:00have in my 60 years of life that people actually do want to hear from me. So in the past month I've become aware
49. 10:09of this little voice and I'm like oh people actually want to hear from me. So it's it my default is still that guy but
50. 10:19now I can go ah okay that's that voice and they actually want to hear from me. So I'm working my way through it.
51. 10:27So, tonight on the on the AI Salon presents, we had this woman Diamando. Um, and she's someone that Brandon found.
52. 10:38And then I think Brandon said to Andy, "You should reach out to her." Or Kyle should reach out to her. You whatever.
53. 10:45And then Andy talked to him or to her and [music] and then Brandon said it again. What's What's going on? And then he said it a
54. 10:54third time. This is Andy told me this tonight. [music] Um, and so finally Andy was just like, "You have to talk to this woman." I'm like,
55. 11:04"Okay." [laughter] And so I talked to her and she was awesome. She's an ex actress and and she's doing remarkable stuff in the
56. 11:11world. And so anyway, so really really dug her and so we scheduled her to speak tonight. So she spoke tonight and last week on this live
57. 11:23we stumbled into we meandered our way into this thing called the great repurpose. This this whatever the [ __ ]
58. 11:29it is. I don't even know what it is right now. It's an idea. It's an idea that we're we are collectively entering a crisis of meaning
59. 11:40where because in America we've got our our self-worth so tied to our work that as our work gets [ __ ] up because of
60. 11:48AI, it's going to destroy our self-esteem like on mass. Not all of us, but like huge percentages of people are
61. 11:54going to be lost and purposeless. And so the great repurpose is this idea that you can if you can see that if you can
62. 12:03name it then you can start to look at it in yourself and say do I have that do I have my personal selfworth too deeply
63. 12:12tied to what I do and if you do that's something to start working on now. So, she comes tonight and and I sort of
64. 12:23present like a a really short version of what I just said with a visual and then I'm like, "And now here's Diamando and
65. 12:31she's going to show us the cool [ __ ] she's working on." And she was like, "Um, so [laughter] you you came up with
66. 12:38this thing just now that is the thing that's been my life's work for like 10 years. And the thing I'm going to demo
67. 12:44tonight is we're going to take someone through this custom GPT I built for them to discover their purpose. [laughter]
68. 12:53It's like it was like had had she spoken a week earlier, it wouldn't have been as impactful. Like I I just like the world
69. 13:04is weirdly wonderful where like all the [ __ ] that you think [music] is all [ __ ] up. [music] It was all perfect. Like the timing was
70. 13:19actually perfect that she showed up tonight. the week, you know, Sunday I dropped the great repurpose, you know, publicly
71. 13:29and it resonated with a lot of [music] people. A lot of people are into it. And then she shows up and she's got she
72. 13:35spent like an hour and no, she spent like an hour and a half taking this woman who'd never been to an AI salon meeting before.
73. 13:44Um, I think her name was it Sally? I think it was Sally. Is it Sally? Anyway, it was her first day. salon meeting. Oh, Sarah was Sarah.
74. 13:58And she was kind of timid and she was like, "I'll go." Like, you know, she we were looking for volunteers and we
75. 14:03didn't want someone who had been up before. And it was just beautiful. It was just this amazing thing. And so, and at the
76. 14:09at toward the end, um, Diamando took us through um a visualization. It was really beautiful visualization and it had to do
77. 14:18with getting in touch with your intuition and what you want. [clears throat] And I had a I had a really cool I had a really
78. 14:25cool vision and and the vision was um I was in a room that was kind of like a cross between a networking event and a
79. 14:35party, but people were like authentically glad to be there. They weren't there because they had to be
80. 14:41like they were there because they wanted to be. And there was like this weird joy in the air. And the joy was about
81. 14:53them having revelations about their own purpose. And then it hit me, what if so, you know, on this channel, how many folks
82. 15:03are here? Oh, this is all this is all insiders for the most part. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. caught in desire, you only have
83. 15:14the manifestations. Yeah. So, in this in this visualization, I'm in this room with all these people. There's all this joy. There's like just
84. 15:22genuine connection and joy. And one of the things that I've talked a lot about on this channel is Kevin Mallister moments. That moment in AI
85. 15:33where you're just like, [laughter] "Oh my god." Right? And as I was watching her work with Sarah tonight and work through this GPT
86. 15:47and and watch, you could see the like the light bulbs going off and Sarah's visualization was that she literally had
87. 15:53had a desk lamp in her and she kept turning it on and off. She she was turning herself on and off. You could
88. 15:59kind of see you could see her sort of, you know, retreating and then coming forward and retreating and coming
89. 16:04forward. You could see it in in her as it was going through. And I thought, imagine a community where we not only have aha moments about
90. 16:18AI. Holy [ __ ] I didn't know it could do that. But we also have Kevin Mallister moments about who we are. that we
91. 16:26discover something about oursel or we discover something about what we really want to do that is like holy [ __ ]
92. 16:40I didn't know I wanted to be that [laughter] like oh my god that's why I've been miserable I've wanted to be that [music]
93. 16:53and what struck me tonight is that's the [ __ ] community we're building. [music] [music] And it's it's even there's a
94. 17:06there's a weird thing about there's a weird thing that I have about judgment against myself that you know when we do AI salon
95. 17:17presents meetings. They're only once a month and we have a lot of members in the community but the those meetings are
96. 17:22relatively small. They're not they're not big, right? They're not hundreds or thousands of people. They're they're
97. 17:28small. They're intimate. [snorts] And [clears throat] I used to shame myself for that. And then I just said, "Oh, [ __ ] it. Just
98. 17:37keep doing the work." And as I was watching it tonight, I was like, it was it was a room full of people, a
99. 17:48lot like the people on this channel, quite frankly, and probably fair amount of you were probably there, too. Um [snorts]
100. 17:56it was a room full of people many of whom were already doing this kind of work self-exloratory work daily practice kind of stuff or at least
101. 18:08have been in the conversations right so if something like what what happened tonight happened with a bigger
102. 18:16audience like it might land like what is this weird [ __ ] thing? [laughter] Why are they trying to discover their purpose?
103. 18:25So, like what struck me tonight was the thing that I've been lost about with whatever I want to do in AI
104. 18:39is all starting to come into focus. And [sighs] we're all sort of practicing
105. 18:54and not like daily practice. We're all like we're all practicing what it's going to be like to be in this new future before it gets here.
106. 19:06Like we're all time traveling. I know this sounds [ __ ] weird. And if you're new here, welcome. My name is
107. 19:12Kyle Shannon. This is the AI learning lab. And now we're talking about living in the future or we're time travelers
108. 19:18from the future, living now. And what what we're actively doing is we're trying to figure out now
109. 19:32what it's going to be like to live in the future because everything's about to shift. Everything's about to transform. [clears throat]
110. 19:46Work as we know it is not going to be that. Tasks as we know it. I mean, the tasks will still be there. We just won't be doing them.
111. 19:58And those people that find their purpose, those people that have ideas, those people that can stay connected to
112. 20:05who they are and their passions and their motivations and their being, those people are going to do remarkable [ __ ] things in the world.
113. 20:21And I can't imagine something more challenging than being in touch with who you are [laughter] and having everything change around you
114. 20:30and like maintain it through that chaos. [snorts] And that's what the world is about to experience. This isn't just the US. I
115. 20:38think it's going to be worse in the US because we equate work with worth here more than they do elsewhere. But I think
116. 20:44this is going to be a global phenomenon and people's This is such an insidious, subtle, weirdass problem.
117. 20:59[snorts] Like even people that keep their jobs. I just saw a post on this today with engineers. Engineers right now are going through
118. 21:09this weird crisis where they still have their jobs. People need engineers, but they're not coding anymore.
119. 21:20So if you're an engineer and you love to code and you're working for this company and you love to code, you love solving the
120. 21:29problem, you love creating the structure, you love whatever the thing is that gets you gives you a stiffy about coding.
121. 21:42All of those tasks are automated. Now the AI writes all the code. Your job is now you're a supervisor.
122. 21:50Congratulations. You've been promoted. You're now a manager. What? No. I'm a coder. No. No. We've got machines for that now. You just manage
123. 22:02the machine. I I don't want to manage the machine. I'm going to code. I'm a coder. That's what I do. It's who I am.
124. 22:10Yeah. We don't need That's just like take your knowledge. Do the thing. be the manager. Like that's happening right now.
125. 22:23It's going to happen in every [ __ ] job. Every [ __ ] job. How do people navigate out of that? I don't know. But what I know is that's
126. 22:34what this community is preparing ourselves to know how to do. We're going to be able to guide people through this.
127. 22:43And I know this sounds [ __ ] weird. [laughter] [music]
128. 23:02The time is now. Yes, time travel. Cindy Coon's here. I don't know if you knew this. Cindy [ __ ] is a futurist
129. 23:12and even in her world of futurists, one of her revelations is that she's in a different future than them.
130. 23:24She's in future 2.0. Andy Scarantino just created 1 point or human 2.0. Like there's there are a lot of time travelers in here. [laughter]
131. 23:42What's the typo? Um, Brandon, wait. I gotta see what the typo was. >> No, they No, you I deleted it. It >> was it bad.
132. 23:50>> Stop sampling the merchandise from the bar that we're going to open. [laughter] >> Brandon Brandon is is drunk commenting
133. 23:59again. Um, [music] yeah. Cindy Cindy realized all the people that were talking about futures were talking about a timeline that she
134. 24:11wasn't on. I know this sounds [ __ ] weird. It's not. Well, okay, it is. [laughter] And
135. 24:29The the thing about it is this [music] this community, the AI salon and and and the AI learning lab, [snorts]
136. 24:45we're choosing to be in this conversation, right? What have I said for years? I don't I don't like I'm an optimist, but
137. 24:54AI is neither good nor bad. AI is just AI. The only thing I know is it's not going away. And that my commitment to myself is I'm
138. 25:07going to [ __ ] be in the conversation. I know this is going to change everything. I don't know how. I don't
139. 25:13know what it looks like. Like I know more now, but I'm going to be in the [ __ ] conversation. And so I go on these I go
140. 25:21on this stupid [ __ ] Chinese now half American app and I go on this YouTube thing and I talk like a [ __ ] idiot for two hours
141. 25:33and I deep down I don't actually know why, right? Other than I know I need to be in the conversation. I know I need to
142. 25:43be in the conversation. And even weirder than me doing this is you guys [ __ ] showing up. [laughter] Why?
143. 25:56Sure, maybe I'm entertaining. I've got a cute dog. I've got a master toup pay situation. It's really impressive. Why?
144. 26:09I don't know. Because I assume you think you need to be in the conversation, too. Why do we need to be in the conversation? Because
145. 26:18what we're about to experience in 2026 is the beginning of the disruption. all these agents, all this Claudebot, Moltbot [ __ ]
146. 26:31uh, molt book, all that stuff. That's just like a little open-source project that someone figured something out that
147. 26:42people are losing their minds over. We're all like, "What are the agents doing? They're they've created their own religion." Okay.
148. 26:51Right. Is this Terminator? It seems a little cuter than that, but okay. It's Skynet, but with lobsters. All right, that's the beginning of
149. 27:05It's going to be clear that we we don't know what's coming. And it's going to be clear that these machines are going to
150. 27:12start doing things far beyond what what we're capable of keeping up with. and it's going to start costing jobs and costing businesses and
151. 27:25costing industries now. Something will emerge out the other side, but it's the next five years that are the [ __ ] problem, right? As
152. 27:39all these jobs get disrupted and even existing jobs, people keeping their jobs but losing their purpose
153. 27:48is going to be this crisis and there and and there are guides are needed. Check your iPhone cable. What about it? What's happening?
154. 28:07It's reconnecting to power. Oh. Oh. Chime. Chime. Chime. Oh, that's weird. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Never saw it vibrate like that before.
155. 28:19Even my phone is freaking out. It keeps dinging. Kyle, it sounds like you need a new charging cable. Am [laughter] I the only one hearing
156. 28:29that? I'm giving this deep philosophical thing and people are like, "Could you stop his phone from making the beep beeps? [laughter]
157. 28:42[laughter] I thought it was mine." That's really funny. [music] There's there's also this weird thing
158. 28:57where like I feel like [sighs] we're going to need to figure out how to do it. We're going to need to figure out
159. 29:10how to attract people that trying to figure this [ __ ] out. We're going to guide them through the [ __ ] gauntlet
160. 29:20to rediscover their purpose. Then they're going to go off into the world. But we're not going to be the only community
161. 29:27doing that. There's going to be lots of communities doing that. There's like all these people that have hung up hung their shingles for
162. 29:36coaching. They're like, "Well, what are they coaching? They're coaching business. they're coaching this, they're coaching
163. 29:44sales. That it all sounds like [ __ ] right? Those who can't do coach. But wait, amongst that group, there's a subset of
164. 29:52that group that are AI literate, that understand what's coming, that are living in the future, too. And they've got the skills to know how
165. 30:00to coach. They got the skills to help people understand where they are in life right now, how they are in life right now.
166. 30:09Holy [ __ ] If I don't get my self-worth decoupled from my job, this is going to be ugly, right? And if
167. 30:18I can do that before my job changes and I can discover who I am and what I want and start to get up to speed on whatever
168. 30:26the [ __ ] this AI thing is. Maybe I can navigate my way through this. Hold, please. What do you want,
169. 30:33Jim? What are you doing? Come on. Come with me. You want to go out? You're too noisy and you're making food and he knows you got cheese.
170. 30:51[music] >> [music]
171. 31:07>> Is it just my eye infection [music] or am I making sense? [music] It's still chiming, by the way. Oh, you know what? I bet that is
172. 31:22I know what it is. It's Discord. Definitely computer cable. Is it not doing it now? Well, I just quit Discord.
173. 31:37[music] [music] Oh, my my laptop power. Oh, there we go. My laptop power was not lit up. Bet
174. 31:53that's what it was. [music] >> [laughter] >> I love I'm a I'm Listen, I'm talking about we're time travelers from the
175. 32:10future, people, and you're worried about my chord management skills. It's perfect. You're exactly where you
176. 32:20should be. That is the conversation you should absolutely be in. [laughter] >> [music] [laughter] >> Oh my god. Oh, my eye.
177. 32:37It's okay. I got drops. I'm going to be fine. I just have crusty eye. I'm sure it's fine. I'm sure everything's going to be just peachy.
178. 32:50Everybody good with the dinging now? Can Can we move on? and talk about the future. [laughter] [music]
179. 33:07The the digging is in the past. See, I was in the future. That was the problem. I was in the future. You were all stuck in the
180. 33:15present. Join me up there. By the way, I realized for me, I thought the future was to the right and then I
181. 33:26thought the future was in front of me. And what I've actually realized is that the future for me is at a 45 degree angle that way.
182. 33:35That's the f that's where I was. And you were back here in the [ __ ] your cord's not connected right. You probably
183. 33:44have some metallic dust on your Mag Safe connector. It's probably created some sort of electrical shut up. I'm in the future.
184. 33:53Good lord. [music] How's my hair? [laughter] Not my future. Um, anyway, I thought like the the amount of
185. 34:09synchronicity tonight was really cool. The amount of synchronicity in the past month has been kind of crazy. >> [music]
186. 34:23[music] >> Why does it take us 60 years to figure [ __ ] out? [music] Do you know one of the things I feel really lucky about in my life
187. 34:37is I've gone through these phases where I've had these revelations. [music] I think about my mom and my grandmother
188. 34:49and both of them went their whole life [music] and never had [music] these kind of breakthroughs.
189. 35:03The thing they got stuck at at 7 or 12 or 14 or whatever it was that the stuck started. You know, we're all stuck, right? Hey,
190. 35:14we all get stuck at some point in our childhood, usually five or six. We realize the world's dangerous.
191. 35:20Someone tells us we're a piece of [ __ ] in so many words, we believe it. And you and then you start your life and
192. 35:28then you realize at some point, ah, my life's all [ __ ] up. And if you do the work, you realize, oh, my life's [ __ ]
193. 35:35up because as a 5-year-old, I did it just beep again? Did it just beep again? I wrote you a song about it tonight in
194. 35:48the array. In the args, you wrote me a song about what? My cable management. My mom used to tell this story about
195. 36:02this gym match that she was performing at and her mom promised her she would be there and her mom was a drunk [music]
196. 36:14and her mom never showed. [music] That's all my mom talked about. [music] I mean, that's all she talked about,
197. 36:30but she never moved past it. My grandmother never moved past these things that happened in her childhood. So, I feel
198. 36:41I feel really lucky to to be living a life. [ __ ] I mean, I I feel lucky on so many levels. Like I got to be there when the
199. 36:53personal computer was invented. I was alive. I was using personal computers in seventh grade. I got to be there at the early days of
200. 37:05the worldwide web. I got to be there at the early days of Chat GPT. These are remarkable moments in history.
201. 37:14Like remarkable moments in history. And on that journey, I've had these phases in my life where I've had awakenings and
202. 37:24awareness and transformations. And I'm in the middle of one right now. And I just so many people go through
203. 37:33their life and they never have that. And I think that AI, this is gonna suck for a lot of people, but AI is going to force people to
204. 37:50confront who they really are. And I think that this conversation is about us practicing how to be in the new world.
205. 38:07I [ __ ] I [ __ ] s I'm I'm like hearing the words coming out of my mouth. I'm like, but I think that's what's going on. I really do.
206. 38:25If if you haven't, um we we'll put the recording of tonight's AI salon up in the in the salon. You should watch it if you didn't. If
207. 38:34you weren't there tonight, you should watch it. And you just get to watch Diamando was um
208. 38:50first of all, she's just like a a very bright human being. She's got a great smile. She's smart. She's grounded. She's present.
209. 39:04Being in the presence of present people is amazing. One of the reasons I like New York City is that you kind of have to be present
210. 39:15to live there. You don't find a lot of people that are checked out in New York City cuz you really can't be.
211. 39:24And so she has that thing. You know when you're with people and you're just like, "Oh, okay. All right. Okay, I'm gonna
212. 39:31have to pay attention here. All right, got it. Got it. All right, let me sit up. [laughter] Oh [ __ ] Right.
213. 39:43So, she had that and then you're just watching her. Oh, she she did this amazing thing at the at the beginning of
214. 39:50when she was going to do this this coaching or this I don't even know what it was. It wasn't coaching. It was it
215. 39:56was more like she was she was guiding someone through a conversation but mediated with chat GPT. This custom GPT she wrote
216. 40:06and she had very good coaching language. She she said to to Sarah, the woman she was doing this with, she goes, "I invite
217. 40:13you. I'm going to be sharing my screen and I'm going to be sharing my screen of the chat GPT that I made so that you can
218. 40:20all see what's happening." She goes, "I invite you to not look at that, but to look at me." I thought that was really beautiful cuz
219. 40:31that like I would have [ __ ] looked at the chat GBT. That happens at least once a week. What happens at least once a week? No. No beeps.
220. 40:46And so, and so what this evening was was just these two women, one guiding, one like kind of generously being willing to be guided.
221. 41:02It was her first salon event. She goes, "Well, I'll never forget this group or I'll never forget this event."
222. 41:10And it was like it was like an hour and a half of of just you know her being kind of actually like kind of peeling herself like an onion
223. 41:20[clears throat] and discovering things about herself and what she wants and how she wants to work. [music]
224. 41:42>> [music] >> If you've not joined the the the mastermind practice and the practice lab, you should. [snorts] You should.
225. 41:56I got a cool text from Cindy [ __ ] It was like here here was my visualization. What was yours? It's like [laughter]
226. 42:10it was like the people that were watching weren't watching. It's like this. It's like this channel. I mean, Cindy Cindy's
227. 42:17told me this before. Um, Cindy's told me that
228. 42:35[snorts] I remember that I she I think she called me she called me the next day after one of these AI learning labs and she goes,
229. 42:44"Kyle, do you have any idea what's going on in your lives?" I was like, "Oh [ __ ] no. [laughter] Is there hanky banky? What's happening?
230. 42:52Is there groping? Do we need to call HR? [laughter] She goes, "It's not about you. They're not watching you. It's not about you."
231. 43:05Like, they're we're all [ __ ] supporting one another and welcoming new people in. We're trying to figure this [ __ ] out as
232. 43:15we get it figured out. We're telling people who you are. We're telling people what's going on. But it doesn't [ __ ]
233. 43:20matter. It's about all this. It's about all this connection. That's what this channel is about. And so the fact that we don't have great
234. 43:30numbers, like high numbers, used to bug me, doesn't bug me right now. [music]
235. 43:53>> [music] [music] >> It's about the conversation. So, here's what I'm excited about. I
236. 44:08mean, are you ever going to Are we talking about AI tonight? [clears throat] No, we're not. what I want to do,
237. 44:24what I'm gonna figure out how to do with the help of a lot of remarkable people in this community is we are going to figure out how to
238. 44:40make this invisible crisis visible. And then we're going to figure out ways once someone can see that this is a crisis,
239. 44:56we're going to make it fun and inspiring and engaging and tangible for them to navigate out of this thing. Navigate out
240. 45:05of the world we're in right now into whatever this new future is. Like I love solving problems. I love solving problems. I love looking at
241. 45:19stuff. I like going, "Oh, here's how you connect the parts. Here's how you do the thing. Here's here's how we make money. Wish I were
242. 45:27better at that part. I'm getting better at that part. Going to get great at that part." [laughter] But this is a meaty [ __ ] problem
243. 45:38because it's not meaty. It's very esoteric and it's very subtle. And even smart enlightened people who
244. 45:49can synthesize things and come from the future are missing parts of this because it's so subtle. I experienced that this week. [music]
245. 46:08All right, that's all you get from me tonight. I'm not showing you [ __ ] You just get waxing poetic and an occasional guitar chord. [music]
246. 46:22Good with that. Oh, yeah. I was I was on um I was interviewed I think I talked about this, but if you go what's it called? AI
247. 46:33what's his podcast called? If you go to YouTube, AI explored AI explored with Michael Cel Stellner Stellner.
248. 46:48[snorts] It's in irregulars, but you can also here, let me share my screen here. Here, I'll play the little promo
249. 47:02for it because actually his his editing work on this is actually really good. The little promo is great at the beginning.
250. 47:21>> I don't have your screen yet. >> I know. That's because I didn't share it. [laughter] Shut up. Shut up, producer Brandon. I
251. 47:32know how to work a computer. The machine. I know how to work the machine. Okay. >> People say that it's AI versus humans,
252. 47:41but is that really true? >> It was this sense of highly empowered self-expression. I think it's a big negative trope of AI is that it's us
253. 47:51against AI. Probably a year and a half ago, generative AI got smarter than me. I already know that that's a losing
254. 47:58battle for me personally. But there's another way to think about it. Rather than putting AI in front of you like
255. 48:03this thing you're competing against, what I like to do is sort of put it behind me, kind of like a a jetpack. If
256. 48:08you're limited skills were no longer an impediment to you, what would you choose to do? That's the world we're actually in.
257. 48:16>> I think what I hear you say is, "Hey everybody, you got to give yourself permission to play if you want to be AI ready.
258. 48:23>> Lose the expectations." >> Explain that. My special guest is an AI. >> I'm a special guest. [laughter]
259. 48:35Michael Stellner is an icon. Uh he was great. He was really great. He um he took the time to do a pre-in.
260. 48:43What was cool about him is I don't know if you know this, but I talk a lot. And uh he interviewed me and he goes, "Well,
261. 48:50you know, what can you talk about?" I'm like, "I can talk about this. I can talk about that and I can talk about this. I
262. 48:54He" He goes, "Wait, wait. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. stop. He goes, "I know some live streamers. I know you can talk for
263. 48:59a while." And he goes, "Go back to that AI readiness thing. What's that?" And so he actually he actually slowed me down
264. 49:07and said, "That thing looks interesting to me." So he's the one that architected this whole conversation. And it's a very
265. 49:13it's a very well architected conversation. And he really took the time to give me the the structure that
266. 49:21he was going to walk through. and he reminded me, "When you were talking about this, you told this story, and
267. 49:26when you were talking about this, you told that story." It was really good. So, anyway, all right, I'm gonna get out
268. 49:32of here. Um, but yeah, go check that out. Uh, I think it's a good interview. I think it's worth your time. And in
269. 49:37fact, it's it's all about the AI salon. This interview was pre um um the great repurpose, but it's it t like a lot of the stuff in
270. 49:53this is the great repurpose. It's just it's just talking about it in the cycle of AI readiness. Um Dr. J's song before you go. We could
271. 50:02do that. We can absolutely do that. Where's the AI salon? There it is. Let's get rid of this. Let's go into
272. 50:20[singing] Cy. [laughter] What is What are all those that all Corey Sandler singing to herself? All right. Things were swirling. This
273. 50:35was a good swirling night. Kyle Shannon post meeting summary. That's pretty funny. Things were swirling tonight. [cough] [clears throat]
274. 50:46Oh, I thought I shared. Okay, here we go. Something went wrong. An error occurred. Uh, where's my tab? Let's see.
275. 51:01Please refresh the page. All right, here's a good swirling night. All right.
276. 51:26>> The clocks forot how to keep their time. Street lights in half. Every conversation lands just right like the
277. 51:34room itself is breathing lighting [singing] into place. Every almost finds it. >> Did you feel [music] it too or was it
278. 51:47just me? That quiet click of inevitability. Things were swirling. This was a good swirling night. Not chaos, not noise,
279. 51:57just alignment [music] and flight. very small maybe [singing] turned solid and true like the world leaned [music]
280. 52:02closer and whispered it's you. Yeah, things were swirling [music] and somehow [singing] I knew this been
281. 52:12out of purpose. This timing was true. [music] >> [music] [singing] >> Ideas collide, [music] but they don't
282. 52:27collide hard. They interlock like a shuffle deck of cards. [singing] You say a [music] word, I was thinking first. No
283. 52:34hunger here, just a shared thirst. Every detour proves [singing] the plans like following a map drawn by [music] divine
284. 52:41hands. Not luck, not chance, not random grace, just patterns finally [singing] showing their [music] face.
285. 52:49Things were swirling. This was a good swelling. Night threads ting themselves in the soft candle light. [music]
286. 52:55Nothing forced. Nothing pushed or chased. Just the right thoughts moving at the right [singing] pace. [music] Yeah. Things were swirling
287. 53:05and it felt sincere [music] like the future leaned in [singing] and said, "Stay right here. [music] Synergy [music]
288. 53:22[singing] in the way we speak. Synchronicity in the thoughts we keep. Every signal clean and sharp. [singing] Every answer
289. 53:31arriving when it's needed. Light in the dark. No rush. No proving no fight. Just gravity doing what it does when it's right.
290. 53:41If you blink, you might miss a sign. >> [music] >> But tonight it's writing itself in the online. Things [singing] were swirling. [music]
291. 53:55This was a good swirling night where meaning showed up without putting up [singing] a fight. Every coincidence [music]
292. 54:01finally confessed it was intention. Finally being addressed. Yeah. Things were swirling, [music] steady and bright,
293. 54:13not spinning out, just spiring right. So [singing] let it move, [music] let it unfold. [singing] Some nights are meant to be
294. 54:26noticed, not control. [music] Things were [singing] sw >> [music] >> Yeah, this was a good swirling night.
295. 54:41[music] >> Nice, Dr. J. Beautiful. Beautiful. I dig it. I like it. All right, people. I'm going to get out of here. Have a good
296. 54:56night. um stay in this conversation uh and we can uh figure out how to guide people into the future. I guess we're time travelers now. God
297. 55:07damn it. I didn't want to be the sci-fi movie. [laughter] I just wanted to watch it. Good
298. 55:22>> [laughter]