2/9/2026 - The Day I Turned Pro: A Personal Story of Overcoming Distraction

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1. 0:00Baby, you want to come singing? Come on.
2. 0:16I know. I know. I know. I know.
3. 0:38There's been something baby I'm trying to say for an age and it seems I don't know how past and a future now surrounding
4. 0:57Surrender to whatever cheap thrill can be found. There's been a little trouble since you came to my rescue.
5. 1:12And if you like all of the rest, I would have quit you long ago. But I couldn't do that. Oh, tell me now. Women on Wide never
6. 1:26went too well. Make a man crazy, make him cold as hell. I don't want to let you wish me well. But instead of trying,
7. 1:42still going to have to find my way through.
8. 2:14Good evening, good people. Thank you, Silver Fox, for those kind gifts. It's very swell of you. Appreciate it. Not necessary, but
9. 2:22appreciate it. Oh, good lord. Happy Monday. How was the weekend? Did you do your homework? Spend time with yourself, your family,
10. 2:35figure out what your Did you find your special purpose? Did you find your special purpose?
11. 2:51You have to be a Gen Xer and a Steve Martin fan to get that joke. No, same old guitar strap. Just maybe
12. 3:08aimed it at the camera different. Silver Fox, I made some stuff. It was a good weekend. Good, good, good, good.
13. 3:57So, I'll share something [ __ ] wild with you. I didn't know this. Well, I did know it. Well, no, I didn't know it. I know it now.
14. 4:11I entered this past weekend an amateur and I emerged a professional.
15. 4:35And I'll tell you what that actually means. But what I learned is that in my lifetime, I'm [ __ ] ancient. I have never been a professional.
16. 4:59And I started yesterday. Yesterday was Sunday. I started yesterday morning. And it feels like everything's different
17. 5:08and you're like, "What the [ __ ] are you talking about? I'm gonna tell you. I will tell you. It has nothing to do with AI and it has
18. 5:21everything to do with AI." The trigger. The trigger was a book.
19. 5:37Now you're a bunch of neurospicies. Some of you got the the ADD card. So if your relationship to books is
20. 5:45anything like my relationship to books, reading books [ __ ] sucks. Book lovers are like, "What? How could you say that?"
21. 5:55Because you don't understand how this brain works when you lack prefrontal cortex or whatever the [ __ ] is going on up here.
22. 6:06The minute I look at a page, the only thing I'm thinking is, how long is this paragraph? How long is this
23. 6:13book? And am I done yet? The the the the possibility of actually taking in the words on the page is very low. It's very
24. 6:25low. And then on top of that, I've got this [ __ ] this double eye infection, so I can barely read. But I've been I've been working on some
25. 6:37things and I've been getting coached from Andy and Andy has been a remarkable, really good, amazing. If you
26. 6:46need a coach, you should consider calling her. Um, and if you don't know how to find her, she she's in the AI salon. She's
27. 6:55very prevalent there. She she helps make that place rock. And so I don't know, two months ago, maybe when we started coaching, maybe before.
28. 7:13I avoided anything Super Bowl. I'll talk a little bit about that. Anyway, she not only recommended a book to me,
29. 7:21but she actually bought it. Like it showed up on my doorstep and I said, "Hey, I got this book." book and she said, "Yeah, I should read
30. 7:29that." I was like, "Okay, then I didn't." And then, you know, every every week or two, she like, "You read that book yet?"
31. 7:39"Nope." "No." "You going to read it?" "Yep." Fully intending to never read it. Right. And then, but you know, I've been I've
32. 7:49been having some breakthroughs. I've been having some clarity. I've been treating, you know, my AI stuff as a
33. 7:55practice, my life as a practice using AI. And so I had a couple more breakthroughs this week. She finally said, she goes, she goes, I
34. 8:08think it was on Friday, I don't know what it was. She goes, "Kyle, read the [ __ ] book. You got to read the [ __ ] book." So I
35. 8:19was like, "Fine." So, I got up Saturday morning and I knew that the book was on my desk, right? Because I have ADD and
36. 8:27even though I have a lot of stuff on my desk, I know where all my [ __ ] is. And so, I look on my desk and the book's not
37. 8:32[ __ ] there. There's no book. It's not there. And so, I look and I look and I look and I pull boxes out and I pull bags out and
38. 8:41it's not [ __ ] there. And I look over here and I got a pile of books and I pull out this pile of books and these
39. 8:47are all from producer Brandon. None of these are the books. These are not the books she wanted me to read. 10,000 minute mindset was not it.
40. 8:59So took took me about an hour. Did you read what I posted? Wait in a regular. It's too long for here. Okay, I'll take a look at it.
41. 9:11Steo. Um, so anyway, so I found the book. It was in it was it was in my computer bag. So like I was carrying it
42. 9:18with me every day but fully intending not to read it. And so the the book is called Turning Pro by Stephen something Stephen
43. 9:30Stephen I've got another book of his here. Presfield. He wrote The War of Art. And so I start reading the book
44. 9:45and what's cool about the book, especially for someone with ADD, is there's only like two ideas in it. It's it's like stupid simple.
45. 9:55And the entire book is just him making the same point over and over and over and over again. And you're like, I think
46. 10:02I might get this at some point. Then he [ __ ] hammers it home again. Then he hammers it home again. Then he tells a
47. 10:08story about it. Then he tells another story about it. Then he tells you again. There's a lesson in that, right? Have
48. 10:14distill things down to their simplest points and then just [ __ ] hammer them home over and over and over again.
49. 10:22Um he talked the book opens up and it talks about it references the war of art and it talks in the war of art about this thing
50. 10:30called the resistance which is when you when you get in touch with your true purpose when you get in touch with your
51. 10:37who you really are. The resistance shows up, right? The resistance is that observer in your head, that [ __ ]
52. 10:44that's like they don't really want to hear from you. You know the [ __ ] [ __ ] the [ __ ] that's there to
53. 10:49protect you, right? the [ __ ] that is how you're as successful as you are that at some point in your life you realize
54. 10:57that [ __ ] doesn't work for me anymore but it won't shut the [ __ ] up right so that's the resistance and giving into
55. 11:04the resistance and all that sort of [ __ ] so that was from the war of art and then he talks about in almost all kind of self-help book
56. 11:16kinds of things there's sort of two modes there's the there's the I forget how you called it like the medical mode like
57. 11:23you're sick and you need treatment, right? Some version of that where there's the moralistic mode, right?
58. 11:31You're you're wrong and you need to make it right. And he said, I'm going to offer you a third modality and that's
59. 11:38what this book is about. And the third modality is you're either an amateur or you're a pro. I was like, well, that's pretty [ __ ]
60. 11:49simple. like, "Yeah, I've been I've been a pro. I've got a company. I'm a professional. I get paid for what I do."
61. 11:58And then he just goes about sort of distinguishing these two, I guess, archetypes, these two ways of being. And
62. 12:09he he he says, "You're either an amateur or pro, or or he says you're either an addict or an artist." And he talks a lot about secondary
63. 12:17careers. And the secondary careers are the careers that you do that make you feel like you're pursuing your mission,
64. 12:25but you're really not. In his case, he wanted to be a writer and he read Jack Carowax on the road and so he became a long haul trucker. He
65. 12:39did it for like 10 years because, you know, he read the book, he fell in love with writing, he fell in love with the story
66. 12:49and he wanted to live that story. And he said, how do he put it? He goes, "But all I was doing was driving away
67. 12:58from the thing I really wanted to do, which was write. I wanted to write the stories, not be in it." And he goes,
68. 13:05"And it was a shitty version of it. Being a long haul trucker does not have the romance of Jack Carowak's, you know,
69. 13:12crossc country road trip. Um, so he says, you know, you're either an amateur or a pro. And there's there
70. 13:22was a there was a passage in it that that said amateurs feel fear. And I was like, oh [ __ ] Yeah, yeah,
71. 13:34yeah, we do. Right. I'm like, "Yeah, yeah. Amateurs feel fear." And and you know, he wrote a little passage about
72. 13:42it. Then then I turned the page and on the next page it said, "Professionals feel fear, too. It's just that they
73. 13:49don't let it stop them. They keep going." And I was like, "Fuck." And then he talks about this this distinction of being an addict. And and
74. 14:00you know, it can it could be an addict to substances or sex or whatever it is. It can be all sorts of addictions, but
75. 14:06it can also be like being addicted to doing anything except the thing you're called to do. And he talks about when you're being an addict,
76. 14:17you distract yourself to the point of incapacitation. Hey, black bar and cams. Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. Brand Brandon told me he was
77. 14:26going to be late and he said, "Just the one thing I want to tell you. Please make sure you do your cams and your
78. 14:31black bar." and then I got on here and started waxing poetic about being professional and was not professional.
79. 14:37Um, but let me unpack this for you because I think this is a really important one. And I think the the one
80. 14:44of the reasons that I think this is so important in the age of AI is um AI is addictive. AI is absolutely
81. 15:00addictive, right? You've seen nights here where I just get wrapped up in something and we just blow through three three hours.
82. 15:11When he talks about when you're an amateur, you think a lot about your calling.
83. 15:27You think about it all the time. He carried around a Smith Corona typewriter for a decade in his car. Like
84. 15:34it was packed in the back of his car under [ __ ] He couldn't get to it, but it was there. He knew it was there. He
85. 15:40thought about that typewriter all the time. Was there for a decade while he was being a trucker. And he talks about when you're when
86. 15:48you're an amateur, when you're an addict, what the addiction is is the addiction is to distracting yourself to the point of incapacitation.
87. 15:58He said, "Because when you're incapacitated, you're not responsible for your vision, for your purpose, for your why, for your passion.
88. 16:13I couldn't do it. I was incapacitated. It's this brilliant addictive distraction from who you are." And I'm just I'm like reading this thing
89. 16:26and I'm going, "Oh, fuck." Like so much of my life are these series of distractions to the point of incapacitation.
90. 16:41Like I have moments I mean you know I would call myself a high functioning amateur because when I decide to do
91. 16:49something I'm powerful enough to put it into motion right and I can put this [ __ ] into motion it actually manifests
92. 16:56in the world. Like that's [ __ ] amazing. It's an amazing feeling when I do that. But then I talked about this
93. 17:04idea if I manifest these things and I get I get out of the driver's seat and I I get in the backseat of the car and I'm
94. 17:10like, why aren't they driving the direction I want to go? Right? I distract myself to the point of incapacitation and and then
95. 17:25and then as he goes through the book, he defines this idea of being a professional as the professional just shows up.
96. 17:39The professional just does it. The professional cuts the lines, right? If you've ever been a bartender, I bartended for a bunch of years in
97. 17:52Manhattan. First thing you do when you get in is you [ __ ] about whoever closed up the night before cuz they left it a [ __ ] mess.
98. 18:02And then you cut the lines and you make the syrups and you do the [ __ ] and you pour the [ __ ] in the [ __ ] and you go in
99. 18:09the back to the you do the work. and you do it every day and it's not glamorous.
100. 18:25But if you're an addict, if you're an amateur, you let yourself be distracted to the point of incapacitation.
101. 18:37The other thing he said in the book was I don't even know if this is making sense or tracking. The other thing he said in the book
102. 18:53was about how do you put it? [ __ ] It went out of my head. It's funny. I just got I just got self-conscious about what I'm talking
103. 19:05about and my brain emptied. We need a book club. Yeah, this is this is total book club. So, what I'm talking
104. 19:14about is um Turning Pro by Steven Presler. Is that right? Press field. Press field. Steven Presfield. Turning Pro. I would highly
105. 19:26recommend it. Highly recommend it. He said, "A a professional a professional puts in the time. They
106. 19:41put in the time every day and they they don't [ __ ] about it. There's no drama to it.
107. 20:02It's a commitment. Oh, this is the thing he said in the book. I got it back. He said, "You're going to remember the
108. 20:09day you turn pro as clearly as you remember 911. Remember where you were on 911. It's going to be that clear to you." And
109. 20:18as I'm reading that with my double vision and my shitty ADHD brain and I'm reading about, you know, every tenth word clearly,
110. 20:29I just like what popped in my head was like the angry Gen Xer going, "Oh, bullshit." I'm not going to remember the day I
111. 20:36turned pro. Like it was 911. That's horshit. [ __ ] Kept reading. He said it again two or three times. He just
112. 20:45keeps making the same points over and over and over again. They're just going like bang bang. You gonna let him in?
113. 20:52You gonna let him in? You going to let him in? And you know, I'm sitting there because, you know, I'm clever and smart and I'm
114. 21:05good with words and I'm sitting there trying to intellectualize all this stuff and I get it. Yeah, I understood what
115. 21:11this book was about in page one because I'm pretty clever and he just keeps hammering the same point home over and
116. 21:17over again. And at some point it started to stick. And so I finished it. I finished a book. There's a moment in the book he talks
117. 21:29about he he finally after realizing that being a long haul trucker was not writing. It was being a long
118. 21:39haul trucker. He finally decided to quit that job and to pull his Smith Corona typewriter out of his car. He unburied
119. 21:47it out of the car and put it in this little cinder block house he was renting and he wrote for two hours that first
120. 21:57day and he threw he crumpled it all up and threw it away because it was horrible because he hadn't written in 10
121. 22:04years. He was a long haul trucker. And he said he woke up the next day and he sat down at the typewriter. And he
122. 22:12woke up the next day and he sat down at the typewriter and I think it was two years later. He was typing on the typewriter and he
123. 22:19typed the words the end. He completed something that was tied to his passion, was tied to who he was, that couldn't be finished in an in an
124. 22:36instant, that couldn't just be a distraction. YouTube, somebody wants to actually talk about AI. Okay, we'll get we'll get to a
125. 22:45to YouTube in a second. We'll talk about AI. I'm talking about personal transformation here, so indulge me or
126. 22:51not. You don't have to hang out. But I will get to AI. Um he said professionals
127. 23:05put in the time to be able to do the thing over time that is tied to who they are. Because if it's your passion, it's not
128. 23:15going to happen overnight. It's it's it's going to have to you're going to have to discover it. You're going to
129. 23:19have to discover who you are. Like all the stuff we've been talking about with having a daily practice, with
130. 23:24understanding who you are, understanding your point of view, understanding your values, understanding who you care
131. 23:29about, understanding what you want to do with them. All of that requires you to be in touch with who you are and
132. 23:40show up and do the work. Cut the lines. Put the paper in the typewriter. Do the things. Do the things. Do the things.
133. 23:51So I woke up Sunday morning and I said, "You have a choice. You can be an amateur or you can be a professional.
134. 24:05You can be an addict or you can be an artist." And I said, "Fuck it. I'm an artist. I'm a professional. And I'm going to do the work.
135. 24:20And what that looks like for me right now is I built this I vibecoded this project management app called Project Cardboard.
136. 24:30Some of you saw it. Some of you downloaded it and played with it or like it. It's a website and I built this whole thing to track
137. 24:38all my projects. But I never populated the project cards with the actual tasks I need to do. like I just let my tasks float into the ether
138. 24:53and at some point I pulled them out. Here's what I realized. I realized this yesterday. Yesterday afternoon after
139. 24:58after being a professional for a day, it hit me how as an amateur my relationship with my non-urgent tasks. So, let me talk
140. 25:12about urgent and non-urgent tasks. Urgent tasks are uh the checking accounts under by $20. You got to move some money around.
141. 25:22Urgent tasks are uh the client just called and our app doesn't work. You've got to troubleshoot it. Right? Our our
142. 25:27days are filled with urgent tasks. Ur urgent tasks are easy because they're urgent. They just right. How you get to who you are and how you
143. 25:36get to full self-expression is the non-urgent tasks. So, I realized on Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening, my relationship with
144. 25:46non-urgent tasks looks like this. We'll just take it on a 7-day week starting on Sunday. So, Sunday starts to look like,
145. 25:58"All right, Kyle, the weekend's over. All the [ __ ] that you promised yourself you would do, you haven't done, so you're a [ __ ] loser."
146. 26:10And then I start to think about what are the tasks that I've been I've been avoiding for so long that they
147. 26:19absolutely have to be done and they're humiliating that I haven't done them. And I it's easy to find the list. You
148. 26:28can find if if you have historically led with shame uh finding evidence that you should be shameful about pretty easy,
149. 26:37right? So, I find these things. So, I spend most of the day Sunday beating myself up for these things that should
150. 26:43have been done two months ago. The longer the the time, the juicier the shame, right? H I I promised myself I'd get that thing
151. 26:53done on December 1st. We just hit [ __ ] February. Hey, you [ __ ] loser. Right. So, that's Sunday. Then Monday is pep talk day. Okay.
152. 27:06You're a professional. You can do this. It's going to be big. You can you take those things you didn't do and we're gonna we're gonna
153. 27:15and then we're GONNA So all day Monday I'm like pep talking myself. We're going to do the things got do we got to tomorrow it's going to be
154. 27:25tomorrow's gonna be awesome. Then Tuesday comes and I have the 10 things that I have bludgeoned myself with and pep talked myself into. And
155. 27:36I've got these 10 things I'm going to do on Tuesday. And I get three of them done. Two of them really well and the
156. 27:41third one kind of shitty and seven I didn't get done at all. And then Wednesday comes and I'm waiting and I'm looking around
157. 27:57and what I'm waiting for is someone to tell me how awesome I am that I did those things. I'm waiting for the participation trophy
158. 28:07of life. Like you did good, right? You did good. This is good. Good boy. Good. Good. And then Wednesday would come and
159. 28:14go and I would not get that recognition. And I would start to get deflated and then Thursday and Friday would be
160. 28:21like, "Oh, fuck." And I would go into addict land and distract myself to the point of incapacitation. I just [ __ ]
161. 28:29around and I'd go into AI and I would um Corey Sandler today called it doom generating. She [ __ ] just generate
162. 28:36pictures for 18 hours. She goes, "It's just like doom scrolling, but it's doom generating, right? So, I'll doom
163. 28:43generate for two days and then Saturday I I'll I'll think, yeah, I'm gonna get some stuff done on Saturday and I'll do
164. 28:50whatever. I have to go shopping. I have to do family [ __ ] I have to whatever you do, right? And then Sunday, the cycle starts over again.
165. 28:57So, in a given week, on average, I do three non-urgent tasks and I spend the rest of the [ __ ] week in some form of anxiety over the [ __ ]
166. 29:10I'm not doing. And so I started on on Sunday. I said, "Okay, I'm a professional. I'm just going to start doing tasks."
167. 29:22And like my first task is gather your tasks. I remember Cindy [ __ ] was talking about when she did it back in November,
168. 29:28she did it with Post-it notes and she designed a whole system and then she actually kept it up and kept going. She
169. 29:34said it took her like, I don't know, two weeks to just get her tasks written down that she hadn't done. and she committed
170. 29:42to just sort of blasting through that whiteboard, which she's done. She's designed a whole system around it now,
171. 29:47which if you're in the AI salon, today we had week two of her four-week sprint on turning your practice into a system.
172. 29:59So what happened for me on Sunday was I started doing my tasks and I started improving the the project management
173. 30:11tool that I vibe coded. One of the other things I realized if I can't finish something in a sitting, I don't have any
174. 30:18interest in it anymore. And the whole thing about this book of like just doing stuff over time, just show up and do the work and do the work
175. 30:26and do the work is the only way you can build something of substance that is something you care about. And so I'm doing these tasks and
176. 30:41I was doing one task and I thought about another task and I had this instinctive anxiety happen which was what if I what
177. 30:49if I don't get that done today? It was this panic. What what what if I don't get it done today? And like what popped in my head is it's
178. 31:01okay. You'll be working on it tomorrow. It wasn't this single momentous day where I was going to do all the
179. 31:09non-urgent stuff. It was just like, I'm going to do some non-urgent stuff today. I'm going to do some non-urgent stuff
180. 31:15tomorrow. I'm going to do some non-urgent stuff, right? One of the non-urgent things is clean my [ __ ] office and my living space,
181. 31:23which is an absolute [ __ ] train wreck. Like humiliating. Not quite hoarder, but it's pretty [ __ ] close. And I think one of the reasons
182. 31:35I've historically gotten paralyzed about it is I think if I can't clean this all in a sitting, I'm a failure. Like if I can't do it in
183. 31:46the adrenaline rush, I'm I'm a failure, right? So you don't do it. So you know what I did on Sunday? I did a little bit of it.
184. 31:56I chopped up some styrofoam packing material from a computer I bought and I threw it. I put it in a garbage bag and
185. 32:02I took it out to the garbage and I had that anxiety. What if you don't get it done? What if you don't get
186. 32:08it done? Like, it's okay. I'll just work on it tomorrow. I'll just work on it tomorrow. So, at the end of Sunday, at the end of
187. 32:19that first day, I realized that that [ __ ] was right when he said, "You're going to remember the day you turned pro as clearly as 911.
188. 32:38Because it's like it hit me how much [ __ ] anxiety I have in my life because I don't just show up and do the
189. 32:46[ __ ] work, the non-urgent, nonsexy, follow up on that email, read that thing, do the thing you said you were
190. 32:56going to do. Respond to that guy that's really excited to meet you. It's all just little [ __ ] and there's nothing dramatic about it
191. 33:07unless you turn it into drama. And I became a [ __ ] master. I was an addict of creating distraction to the point of incapacitation.
192. 33:21So anyway, so today was my second day as a professional and I even found looking at the clock, the hours left in the day
193. 33:34as less stressful. I didn't have anxiety around them. Like if I in my in my amateur days, you know, last Saturday
194. 33:43and earlier for 60 years, in my amateur days, I would look at the two-hour block at the end of the day and I'd be a
195. 33:51little tired and I'd be like, uh, I don't I don't want to do anything, but like there's two hours left, so I should
196. 33:57probably like do something that's kind of like work. And like there was all this anxiety of what do I do with the
197. 34:02time? What do I do with the time? because it's not I'm too tired to really do something big and powerful and but
198. 34:08there's only two hours but it's two hours so you can't do nothing. So there was all this anxiety around these two [ __ ] hours
199. 34:15and I looked at the clock today and it was 3:00 and there wasn't anything else to do. There was I wanted to go to Cindy's
200. 34:23thing. There wasn't anything else to do. And I thought, okay, I'll watch Cindy's thing and then that last hour, I'll do some more things.
201. 34:34And if I don't get them done, it's okay. I'll do that tomorrow. And I'll do that tomorrow. And I'll do that tomorrow.
202. 34:44So anyway, so I'm two days into it. I'm a professional. So anyway, there you go. Who wants to talk about AI? Did was that was that
203. 34:55worthwhile to anyone? That [ __ ] ramble. We're supposed to have Meltdown Mondays. I didn't quite melt down there, but you
204. 35:02know when your life is being transformed in real time, especially when I've got a venue like this where the the the
205. 35:17majority of people that hang out here really love each other and really love me and I really love you guys. was pretty lucky.
206. 35:32I feel pretty lucky to be able to process what's happening
207. 35:46to an audience that I know a lot of you are working on the same [ __ ] Like I know you are. I see you. I'm in the I'm
208. 35:52in the meetings with you in the meetings. In the AI salon, we've got these mastermind meetings and people are in there doing doing
209. 36:11a daily practice sounds sexy and it's not. It's not sexy. It's powerful. It's transformative, but it's not sexy and it's not easy.
210. 36:25And so knowing that there's people here that are on some version of the journey like these kind of changes can be really lonely because
211. 36:41Andy described it as the narrow path. As you get more and more clear on who you are, the path narrows. And what that
212. 36:46means is there's people that were around you that are not going to be on that same path anymore. And so I don't know, knowing that I've
213. 36:57got a community here that, you know, can at least see it and see me. It's really cool. Yes, it was. Judging by the comments,
214. 37:16not me. I'm just a hobbyist. I only mess with graphics and stuff. video games like things for fun. Don't make us start crying.
215. 37:27Don't Don't make us start crying. Listen, I What's What's cool about this shift from amateur to professional? Like when when
216. 37:35Liz Miller Gersfeld came on here and asked me, "What do you want more of, Kyle?" And I [ __ ] cried for two hours
217. 37:39and just sat in silence for, you know, 15 minutes at a shot. I mean, that was definitely a possibility tonight. But
218. 37:46there's something about this. There's something about reading the book when I did I mean at literally at the
219. 37:54bludgeoning of Andy read the [ __ ] up. Um there's something so simple about it. There's something so simple about it.
220. 38:15But it's like I kind of feel like I've got these dominoes falling and they're just sort of dominoes of self-awareness and subconscious
221. 38:23habits revealing themselves. And so one of the things that I got to experience in my life is I had a business that became incredibly
222. 38:35successful. Like we even went public and ended up selling it to Omnicom and it was like an incredible success and we
223. 38:42grew really quickly and I got I learned all this stuff like I probably have five MBAs in my head of what to do and what
224. 38:49not to do and how to scale businesses like it's all there and when I sold that in 2002 I don't think I've made a significant
225. 39:03personal jump until the end of 2025. It's been like 23 years. 23 years of me
226. 39:19being in essentially the same state I was in, which is a really unhealthy state when I sold agency.com. I went through like 10 years of
227. 39:29low-level depression and then I just have been in this sort of just try again, try again, try again. If if if nothing else, I'm persistent,
228. 39:40right? Which I think it's one of the keys to entrepreneurship is you just got to show up. But I didn't fundamentally shift
229. 39:48anything. And so I think I've got this internal pressure like I'm so [ __ ] ready to change and transform and just
230. 39:57open myself up and let my power emerge, my holistic balance of solar and lunar energy as this [ __ ] force of nature. Like
231. 40:12I'm I'm hungry for it to get out. So, as I've been working on these things and sort of knocking these dominoes down,
232. 40:18it's just like, "Oh, [ __ ] thank God. There's an exit for that one. Oh, [ __ ] Here's an exit for that one. Here's an
233. 40:25exit for that one." And like the turning pro was like, "Oh, this is how I do my daytoday shit." So, it's good. It's really good. Now,
234. 40:36I'm going to start crying. Okay. What's going What are we gonna talk about? I have a couple of AI things to talk about.
235. 40:49Andy did not do that. I know I did that. But but you know, but the but the coaching has helped me articulate
236. 40:58articulate these things that have just been unspoken. Behavior drivers. There was a question about
237. 41:12The best free coding tool. Um. Oh, bludgeoning me. That's true. You didn't bludgeon me. You You're confident and persistent.
238. 41:26Have you read the book? Have you read the book? I really need you to read the book. So, I read the book and now I'm a professional.
239. 41:36I'm an artist, not an addict. A Kyle, you're one of the bravest men I know by the way. Thank you so much.
240. 41:51What did you use to vibe code project cardboard with? Uh it was um lovable lovable.dev. I think lovable.dev. If if
241. 42:00you're not a coder, if you just want to experience the magic of coding, you can go do it in Claude. Claude's got a
242. 42:07Claude. If you flip Claude into Opus 4.6 and just go tell it to build you something, like tell it to build you a
243. 42:14video game of a specific kind and just watch it do what it does. It's pretty remarkable. But if you want something
244. 42:20where you can actually launch something that's got a database and authentication and [ __ ] like that, Lovable's really good. Lovable.dev.
245. 42:27So, if you go to project dashcardboard um project-cardboard.lovable.app.
246. 42:46You can go play with my um my project manager tool. That one's pretty good. There were two things I wanted to talk
247. 42:54about other than turning pro. Um, and being a professional, what's cool, what's so cool about the work that I'm going through right now is
248. 43:08I'm discovering the source sources of so much of my anxiety and like by being able to name them and
249. 43:23see them and visualize them. And in fact, Where's my I showed you guys this before that the front of my my little journal
250. 43:39I've got this visualization of me as a peasant envying Yale row boys like my whole life spent thinking that I was less than those
251. 43:51other people and then come to realize I'm that dude on top. I'm the [ __ ] creative. I'm the [ __ ] artist. I'm flying above all that [ __ ]
252. 44:01We live in a world now where you can visualize [ __ ] like that. I said I wanted a renaissance painting of this image
253. 44:10that I I had this breakthrough of this [ __ ] that was causing me so much anxiety in my life and the ability to visualize it so
254. 44:20cleanly and clearly and just like put it in the world and go, "Yeah, that was my [ __ ] life. Look at me. I'm this artist, dude." So cool.
255. 44:34Thank you for sharing your personal experience. Well, thank you for listening. Thank you for being there to listen.
256. 44:41I've been working on a claw app all weekend. I went to ship it and I had forgotten security features. Lovable
257. 44:49stopped me. Good. Perfect. Awesome. That's great. Congrats. Lovable gives you five free prompts a day. That's cool.
258. 45:01Um, okay. So, there were there were two things that I wanted to talk about. One of them was there were a couple of
259. 45:07big Super Bowl ads. Um, Claude Super Bowl ads taking down chat GPT were awesome. Your your AI is going to get advertising
260. 45:18and their their ads were really good. Um, I think there was another AI thing. And then there was I don't know if you
261. 45:24saw it, but there was AI.com. So, at some point toward the toward the end of the third quarter, I think of the
262. 45:35world's most boring Super Bowl. It's just an awful It was an awful Super Bowl. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. On AI Salon, if you
263. 45:45go to community.thesalon.ai, Brandon did a write up on all the commercials. um rather than writing up the game, he wrote up the commercials,
264. 45:53which quite frankly were way better than the game. So, go read his write up on it. But anyway, one of the ads was this ad for AI.com.
265. 46:03And it basically said, "Grab your handle now." And I like so having having crashed servers before, having run a
266. 46:12digital agency in the mid 90s and predicting that we would crash servers, like our very the very first site that
267. 46:18we built was for Sports Illustrated. We we did the the website for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 1994.
268. 46:29And there's like all these hot chicks on this website, these these bikini blad clad, you know, sports sportsware babes, fashion models.
269. 46:41And we said to the to the guys at Pathfinder, "This is going to crash your servers." They're like, "No, we're we're
270. 46:46we're Time Inc. We're you can't crash our servers within five minutes. You crashed our servers." Like told you. So
271. 46:54anyway, so I'm looking at this AI thing. Says, "Grab your handle now." I'm like, "Oh, that that site's going to be dead."
272. 47:00So, I go to log into it. It's like, "Error 503. Error 503. Cloudflare errors coming up. Cloudfare is fine. Cloudflare
273. 47:09is fine. We're fine. The site itself is fucked." So, so it was probably 20 minutes where you couldn't get into it,
274. 47:16but I finally got into it and I and I claimed my handles. So, I claimed my name. I claimed AI Salon. I claimed uh Great Repurpose.
275. 47:25Um, and I didn't know what it was. And I don't really [ __ ] care. Like, like I assume when you start seeing Super Bowl ads that are AI.com,
276. 47:35grab your handle now, and the site crashes, you know that we're entering the hype cycle. Everyone thinks AI has been
277. 47:43hyped. No, like the hype cycle is just beginning. It's just beginning. I would I would mark that AI.com ad as chef's
278. 47:52kiss of the beginning of the hype cycle. So, I've learned a little bit about AI.com since um someone on X said it's
279. 48:00they they think it's just an OpenClaw rapper, which it very well may be. So, OpenClaw is this agentic thing. And what
280. 48:07this what the site says is you're going to grab the name for yourself and then you're going to grab the name for your
281. 48:13agent and your agent is going to go do all the things. So, it's an agent building platform, but it's so
282. 48:19overloaded that you don't I'll go look at it tonight. We'll see if it's there. But here's what I learned. So Sam Alman
283. 48:26bought AI.com in I don't know, seven years ago or something like that for $7 million. Um, and pointed it to ChatGpt
284. 48:37then or no, pointed it to something else, I guess, to OpenAI to get more people to go to OpenAI. Then he sold it
285. 48:44and Elon Musk bought it. I think he bought it for $30 million. Um, and it was pointing to some XAI [ __ ] And then he sold it and whoever
286. 48:54bought it last bought it for $70 million. So they paid minimum of $5 million for a Super Bowl spot and $70 million
287. 49:05for for a [ __ ] domain name and it apparently spun it up in a week
288. 49:20or two. like if it is indeed an open claw rapper, which it may not be, um it it it very well could be a robust
289. 49:28agentic platform that we're all going to be really excited to use. But anyway, that's what I know about it. I know that
290. 49:34it's, you know, they're they're 75 million in and they haven't even started yet. Jesus, that's so funny. Oh my god. Um so
291. 49:48that's that one. And then The other thing, so there's there's a couple of things, one of the things I said at the
292. 50:00beginning of the year is I said I think this is the year launched in February 2026 by Crypto.com. Oh, it was launched
293. 50:08by a crypto bro. Oh. Oh, that's right. He b he paid $70 million for AI.com and he paid with crypto. So that makes
294. 50:16sense. focused on focused on developing personal autonomous AI agents for mainstream users. So, I've said a couple
295. 50:22of things. When when uh uh what was it called? Clawbot first came out. I said, "Don't install it. If you're not a geek,
296. 50:29don't do it. Someone's going to do the consumer version of this." So, it sounds like Crypto.com bro. The the the OG
297. 50:36Crypto Bro is going to is going to try to turn AI agents into a commercial product. He may or he he may do it. I I
298. 50:43doubt it. like this. This feels like a flame out, but if it does go big, I've got my handle. Better than Coinbase or better than
299. 50:54Pets.com, right? It's like like we're in the pets.com era. We're we're entering the pets.com era of AI. Um, but I did
300. 51:04say this is going to be the year that we all get to experience AI technology that's getting so good that it's going to make us go, "Oh,
301. 51:16fuck." That it's going to start changing jobs. Um, Brandon, bless his little heart. Do you all know producer Brandon? He isn't
302. 51:27on screen much. Got a cute little goatee. Swell fella little kids writes books. No. Anyway, he did this post today.
303. 51:41Let me go look him up. Brandon Tid, which [ __ ] busted me up. This is This is so good. I assume you didn't come up
304. 51:50with this meme. If you did, it's really good. But let's see here. Here it is. Share my screen. So So So Brandon Brandon puts this up.
305. 51:59If you saw if you saw the Super Bowl yesterday, you know, Bad Bunny was walking through this. You you came up
306. 52:06with this. Oh, this is so good. Okay. I Because it was it was too good and too close to what we're talking about with
307. 52:11the Great Repurpose. Like, it was too good. So, if you didn't see the Super Bowl yesterday, they had this maze of
308. 52:18sugar cane that that Bad Bunny was navigating through when he opened started singing the thing. They they had
309. 52:24a limit to what they could put on the field. And so the the production team came up with this idea that that they
310. 52:31would dress human beings as clumps of sugar cane and have them form the maze. Right? So this meme, everyone at work
311. 52:39insisting AI hasn't changed their job, right? And there's like two normal people and the rest are all these clumps of grass. Like like
312. 52:49this is happening, right? This is happening right now. And it's not even necessarily they're going to take our jobs. It's it's that
313. 53:00we're all going to get some sort of weird promotion where instead of doing the thing we used to do for our job, our job over the next
314. 53:10two years is going to we're going to we're going to be promoted. We're going to be promoted into managers of AI bots.
315. 53:20And it's the the task is going to be not to do the thing. The task is going to be to look at the things that do the thing
316. 53:28and make sure they do the thing. Okay. Which if you're not deeply centered in who you are and let's say you loved doing the thing.
317. 53:41Let's say you loved being a designer. You loved doing business analysis. You loved being a spreadsheet jockey
318. 53:51and now it's your job to watch these things make spreadsheets. That's going to be kind of like this meme
319. 54:01where there's just going to be these incapacitated zombies running around going, "What am I doing? Why am I here?"
320. 54:10But they're still going to have a job. All their friends are going to have been laid off. They're like, "But at least I'm employed, right?
321. 54:18So, so open claw this this agentic thing feels like the first like if you hear Jason Calacanis and you know all the
322. 54:29people on Twitter and Brent Peterson on AI office on AI salon office hours last Friday and HT Snow Day going no this is
323. 54:38a really big [ __ ] deal. the agents that you that you deal with on like Manis and Genspark, those are cool.
324. 54:47But this openclaw thing, these agent agents have their own intentionality. They're proactive. They do [ __ ] overnight. They solve their
325. 54:59own problems. Right? We talked about um what's his name? Uh Alex Finn. Flynn. Finn. I don't know. some dude on X. He
326. 55:11went to bed one night and he woke up to a phone call and his Claudebot had signed up for a Twilio account to get a phone number,
327. 55:23hooked himself up to the 11 Labs voice synthesis API so that he could call his human friend, his human boss, so he could call him
328. 55:34throughout the day and and give him updates and and ask for direction. So, so he received a call. So, that's
329. 55:42that. So, the the other thing that I wanted to play with tonight is I just wanted to go through and look at there's
330. 55:47a new thing coming from Seed Dance, Seed Dance 2.0 that it looks like it can do video that's a minute long. Well, on
331. 55:56YouTube, I have to think it's making me a weak-minded. Tik Tok pen. Wait. Uh, Weaver's changed when commercial looms born, not less fabric.
332. 56:08Oh, weavers changed when commercial looms were born. Not less fabric, more more for the masses, not less. Yeah, but the job changed, right?
333. 56:21Zombies love turtles. I like turtles. Future programmers aren't going to know anything. They're not going to have to.
334. 56:30They can choose to. They're not going to have to. Everything's going to change. Everything's going to change. And if you're not actively
335. 56:41figuring out who you are, what you value, what you want, what are you going to do when they when they take away the tasks?
336. 56:58Where are you going to derive your sense of purpose and value in the world? Then you I mean listen you can absolutely say family and
337. 57:06community and all that stuff. Great. What percentage of that is the job? Um so this new video model called seed
338. 57:17dance came out and it is similarly causing people that I respect to lose their [ __ ] You know um OpenAI rolls out chat ads to
339. 57:29free users. Yeah. Well there you go. just like the Super Bowl predicted. Um, so I figured I figured what might be
340. 57:40good is go let's go look at the output. So Seed Dance isn't out yet. It's available in China. Um, it's not
341. 57:47available here. It looks like in China it's fully unrestricted and China doesn't give a [ __ ] about copyright. So
342. 57:54it's got all the stuff in it. You can do anything in it and it's really good, right? and it does long form multi-edit kind of creation. And
343. 58:06so I thought it would be worth going to look at. I've made enough videos like like right now prior to seed dance, every
344. 58:14video editor out there, every motion graphics person can look at the [ __ ] that AI produces, even the most recent
345. 58:22models, and go, "Yeah, well, you know, that's not that's not real video." This one, this one feels like the first one
346. 58:31that is starting to freak those people out, right? So, I thought it might be fun to just Let's go look at some [ __ ] Did my Am I frozen on
347. 58:47Oh, yeah. Higsfield Higsfield got their ex account banned today. They've been doing some really sleazy
348. 58:55marketing [ __ ] Um, and they they did some stuff that was really like on the on the borderline of just like gross and unethical.
349. 59:07I'm not frozen anywhere. Okay. Um, so anyway, yeah, it it looked like there was some brew haha going with Higsfield.
350. 59:15They they got banned today, so whatever. Um, the again the way Higsfield marketed. So Higsfield is just another
351. 59:26it's another one of those video tools. They marketed like they were run by a bunch of NFT bros. So we're we're
352. 59:32starting to enter. So I've said this for a long time. We're early. We're early. We're early. The hype hasn't even
353. 59:37started yet. I think the hype is starting right now. So you're going to see more and more sleazy plays of agents
354. 59:45and sex bots and stupid [ __ ] URLs that you can't figure out what the [ __ ] the thing does. Like that's just we're
355. 59:53just we're entering that era. So know that as confusing it as it is now just to keep up with the real [ __ ] we're
356. 1:00:01about to be inundated with a bunch of like you know shouldn't have been invested in in the first place [ __ ]
357. 1:00:07right? So that's coming. That's good to know. Um, and we're going to start seeing tools that are so good that it
358. 1:00:16makes it quite evident to all of us that it's it's coming for all the jobs. Um, and it's up to us to regain our own agency.
359. 1:00:30So, let's go to seed dance. Seed dance 2. All right. All right. If you can share my screen there,
360. 1:01:09come That's pretty indistinguishable from [ __ ] I remember as a kid. All right, here's another one.
361. 1:01:31Sad boy. All right. Um, let me just do seed dance and not 2.0.
362. 1:01:48Couple of things I don't know. I don't know how long the generations are. I don't know of the things that are blowing people's mind how um
363. 1:02:00how much editing was done, how much post, all that sort of stuff. So, it is very possible that these are all
364. 1:02:09cherrypicked examples, but there seem to be enough of them and enough people that I that that don't always buy into the hype
365. 1:02:23are talking about this as a big deal. So, I feel like Open Claw was the first thing to drop this year. Maybe this is the second one. Mm-
366. 1:02:34>> These trees will turn yellow in a month, won't they? >> But they'll be green again next summer. >> Are you always this optimistic or just
367. 1:02:40about summer? >> Only about summers with you. Actually, that's really good. So, the the acting's still a little flat like it always is.
368. 1:02:48But look at their eye eye contact. >> Summer, >> are you always this optimistic? >> Okay, so right here, she's not looking
369. 1:02:56at him. So, there's there's a moment where it's weird. She's not looking at him, but right there. Now she is looking
370. 1:03:03at him. Now it cuts to There she's looking at him. And now it cuts to him. And bang, his eyesight, his ey line is perfect.
371. 1:03:14One of the tells of AI video is they always look like they're looking off to the side of someone's head. They just don't they don't ever
372. 1:03:23look like they're making eye contact. So that's pretty good. All right.
373. 1:03:37Um, physics here look good. Like if I stop this, none of the oranges look like people. None of the people look like oranges.
374. 1:03:51The cop behind him looks normal. He looks normal. The boxes look normal. His face looks good. Cop cop's still wearing the same fur
375. 1:04:07collar that he was before. Like that scene, this scene. Like look at all the cop's legs.
376. 1:04:23All the legs look like actual legs. Like there's no feet missing. If I don't know if Joy Party's on here,
377. 1:04:32if you had just waited for Seed Dance, you wouldn't had to spend five months putting Ballerina's hands back on their arms.
378. 1:04:42Now, that's a 10-second clip. So, what that what that probably tells me is that Seed Dance is making 10-second clips,
379. 1:04:49but maybe it maybe you can make a minute long clip and it's Here's a 15-second clip.
380. 1:05:11kind of some weird physics. Let's see.
381. 1:05:37Oh, there's Yeah, there's a weird physics thing. Watch. She jumps straight up. Okay, she jumps straight up and then she
382. 1:05:49pushes off with her back foot in the air and it propels her body forward. Okay, so that's weird, but you know, all the swords look like
383. 1:06:02sword swords. All the feet look like feet. That still looks like her face. Who knows what killed them,
384. 1:06:14but maybe she killed them with her magic mind. Let's see. Oh, wait. Let's look. Ah, okay. Here's a continuity error. It's
385. 1:06:24one of my favorite things to look for. Right there, there's a teapot knocked over and then you come to the end and as this
386. 1:06:32thing pans back, the teapot is still on the now it's upright. that kind of stuff. I love looking for in movies.
387. 1:06:41But, you know, it's pretty [ __ ] good. This is This is being really nitpicky. Here's a two and a half minute
388. 1:07:03confirmed. Seed dance 2.0 is now. Wait. Has now banned the use of real people's portrait portraits in video creation. All right. Whatever.
389. 1:07:20All right. We're starting to see the same clips. Here's a new one.
390. 1:07:46You can at least make a soap opera. All right, here's another one. 45 seconds.
391. 1:08:12Yeah. demonstr
392. 1:08:49what's his Um, a talk I gave I I talked about that guy that said from this day painting is dead
393. 1:09:03when he saw the first Dger type. So that's pretty funny that someone made a video about that moment. They keep
394. 1:09:08showing that action scene because it's pretty good. All right, that's all I got. So that must be that must be the bulk of the
395. 1:09:15clips. There might be more of them. But anyway, um that's all that's all of my prepared remarks. What time is it?
396. 1:09:30Um okay. So So a couple of things. This doesn't look to me. It it looks like this is probably a step change up, but I
397. 1:09:39would assume also that the other video models probably have similar things cooking in their in their in their back
398. 1:09:46end. Did I see this FedEka ad? No, I didn't. When everyone can program with just a prompt, who's going to debug
399. 1:09:56what's in the AI cart? Is that what that says? Oh, when the AI can't. Well, so here's the thing. Here's the thing that's [ __ ] up. Will
400. 1:10:112023 on censorship tube. Um, part part of my point in in talking about Open Claw and showing the seed dance stuff
401. 1:10:27is that what became clear to me at the end of 2025 is that things were starting to accelerate. that as as fast as the
402. 1:10:35change was coming from the end of 2022, 23, 24, we get into 2025, starting kind of midsummer toward toward the end of the summer of 2025,
403. 1:10:47more and more stuff started dropping that was significant advancements. So there was an acceleration that started happening.
404. 1:10:57The chief product officer of Anthropic basically said in a talk yesterday that effectively 100% of the new products
405. 1:11:06being developed at Anthropic are being written by AI. Effectively 100%. Now Anthropic and all the frontier
406. 1:11:19companies, they have plenty of engineers that if something goes wrong, they can fix it. But he didn't say 80%. He didn't
407. 1:11:25say 90%. He said effectively 100%. Now effectively might be mean they have to do some interventions at some point but
408. 1:11:32that's that's a 100. And if you take something like open claw where you've got these proactive agents that can also spin up sub aents
409. 1:11:42the ones that are going to user test do you know user acceptance testing and compare it to the the PRDS the product
410. 1:11:51requirement documents. Those are all going to be agents. So, who's going to be fixing the code when the coding bots [ __ ] up? [ __ ] up
411. 1:12:00are the 270 agents that are going to go go do the all these specialized tasks to debug and fix all the problems in the code.
412. 1:12:10That's why like we're we're we're in a weird phase right now, probably for the next year, where we're going to be able
413. 1:12:18to sit on our soap boxes and and our expert chairs and go, you really need me to to fix the [ __ ] because when it gets this [ __ ] wrong,
414. 1:12:30we're not going to be there for that much longer. Now, it doesn't mean we don't have a role, but our role shifts dramatically.
415. 1:12:41Let's see. AI generated. Okay, I'll check that out. Cool. Um the valuable role moving forward I think it's the only thing I can see
416. 1:12:57is if you've got agents that are effectively doing all of the task work. They're going to do it all to a certain level
417. 1:13:12and then at some point something is going to rise above the noise. Well, what's going to rise above the noise? Well,
418. 1:13:19likely some human will have some idea. Oh, what if we did this with this thing? What if we took this concept and that
419. 1:13:26concept and we married them and right and then that human is kind of shephering the agents to deliver something that no one else has seen
420. 1:13:33before something that rises above the noise. That's what I think our job becomes is to have ideas and to maintain the
421. 1:13:41fidelity of those ideas as you understand which of these agent swarms to be able to deploy on your behalf or
422. 1:13:49your company's behalf. So, I think there's a new kind of creative director superstar coming that will be like the idea guy who can
423. 1:14:00maintain the fidelity of the idea or the the idea girl. Um, woman, sorry, I'm 60. I have bad habits. Um,
424. 1:14:15you know, is that going to happen in a year? Is that going to happen in two years? Five years? I don't know, but
425. 1:14:19it's going to happen. I think it's going to happen within a year. I worry that this is going to make
426. 1:14:25people extremely dumb. I think that it's going to make people extremely hopeless. Um, you know what's funny, Will, is I
427. 1:14:33don't I don't know how much like vibe coding you do and playing like one of the things I strongly recommend is is
428. 1:14:39play cross discipline. Like explore outside of your domain. really go look at if you're not good at drawing or making movies or whatever
429. 1:14:50you're really good at coding I would strongly encourage you to explore what's going on with coding but also go explore
430. 1:14:56across domains because what you might find is there might be something in those other domains that really excites
431. 1:15:01you that you could take your coding knowledge and be like a superstar in some other domain because you think
432. 1:15:07differently than they think over there. So there's all sorts of cool stuff to do. I think AI absolutely makes it easy for
433. 1:15:16lazy people to be lazy. And lazy people are going to get dumb, but lazy people probably already are.
434. 1:15:26It's not going to make them dumber, it's just going to make them lazier and they're going to take advantage of that.
435. 1:15:32Lazy people that don't want to do anything with their life, they're just going to keep doing that. Now, now
436. 1:15:37they're going to be empowered to do that even more. What AI requires if you want to do it right is an incredible depth of critical thinking
437. 1:15:48to be able to like look at what's coming, look at what's here now, look at what's coming, look at all these other
438. 1:15:53different things you can do, figure out how I can take an idea, express it in multiple domains at the same time,
439. 1:15:59maintain the fidelity of that core idea across domains using all these different tools that all have their quirks and
440. 1:16:05personalities. I have never been so engaged intellectually and creatively in my life as I've been in the past three
441. 1:16:13years. It is absolutely the opposite of what your fear is. Unless you're lazy. You know the famous the famous MIT study that came out that
442. 1:16:25said, you know, AI makes people dumber. What you actually found if you read the piece was that people that just push a button
443. 1:16:37and publish the results are dumb and get don't improve. But people who push the button and look at what came
444. 1:16:48out of it and think critically about it and go, "Huh?" and push the button again and collaborate with it as if they were
445. 1:16:55collaborating with a really smart savant. that had no common sense, their brains actually got smarter. That
446. 1:17:06was the fourth conclusion in that in that paper. There were three conclusions that all of the papers talked about. Makes people dumber.
447. 1:17:15There was a fourth conclusion. When you engage with it with your critical mind and your creative mind and
448. 1:17:23you do [ __ ] with it, IT MAKES YOU SMARTER. MELTDOWN MONDAYS ARE HERE. Tik Tok pin Joy Party. Wait, who was the What was the pin?
449. 1:17:37Mary Mary, didn't we all have a teacher that said, "If you ask the right questions, you'll get the right answers." That's
450. 1:17:45That's the new skill. If you're good with talky bits, if you're good with ideas and being able to articulate them,
451. 1:18:00you are going to be a rock star in in this world we're entering. If you're AI literate, if you sit on the
452. 1:18:08sidelines and like, I don't like it, it smells. You're going to get your ass handed to you. My film script title I'm working on
453. 1:18:16is titled Shirtless Shepherd. Love it. And I, by the way, will I'm not yelling at you. I'm just I'm I'm like it's the the thing that gets my
454. 1:18:30my my blood pressure up is that it's so easy to fall into the tropes. There are so many tropes. Well, if it's creative,
455. 1:18:40you're going to be less creative. If it's smart, you're going to be less smart. It steals. It's the world's
456. 1:18:45greatest plagiarism machine. People don't understand how the technology works. They don't understand how to
457. 1:18:50actually engage with it. They don't understand what a chain of craft look looks like that includes human
458. 1:18:56contribution and machine contribution informing one another over time to produce sophisticated results. They
459. 1:19:04assume, oh, if AI did it, it's slop. No, it's it's slop if it's slop. Someone was lazy and was like, "That's slop. I'll give you that." But
460. 1:19:18don't assume that the work that Joy Perie does for her award-winning films is slop just because she uses AI,
461. 1:19:28right? It's that simplistic [ __ ] that makes it just drives me [ __ ] baddy. It's just not my It's just not my
462. 1:19:35lived experience with with the people doing amazing work. Um, okay. the Svka ad. Mind your tabs. Okay, let me click on this.
463. 1:19:58Where are we going to do it? I will do it here. That's McAfee. >> First and foremost, huge, huge fan, Mr.
464. 1:20:14McCaffy. >> Since new Ailm arrived, they don't want to help me stopping or just
465. 1:20:29I don't quite know what that means, but okay. All right, let's Okay, so what is this? This is AI generated ad
466. 1:20:39from the Christmas Coke Agency, but because it wasn't ripping off a classic, no one noticed or cared. Okay, interesting.
467. 1:21:03Super freak. She's super freaky.
468. 1:21:18Nice. There you go. It's fine. It's a fine commercial. Like, I mean, here here's a here's an interesting thing. Does it really [ __ ] matter
469. 1:21:29if that commercial was created with 3D rigged puppets, digital puppets that were composited over real
470. 1:21:39people being filmed dancing? No. Do you give a [ __ ] No. It's just another [ __ ] tool. We'll get Listen, we'll get over this.
471. 1:21:51We'll we'll we'll get over the absolute shock and horror that Oh my god, they used an AI tool. We'll get over it.
472. 1:22:05We got over hip hoppers sampling music. We figured out that that could actually be music. Like hip-hop is actually a
473. 1:22:14form of self-expression now. H I think that ad is slop. It's fine. Like it's just >> if it's okay with you.
474. 1:22:25>> It's a boring ad. It's a boring ad. The Duncan ad was great though. Yeah, there's some good ones out there.
475. 1:22:31Listen, again, Kelly, you're you're you're making the point I was making earlier that there's going to be so much
476. 1:22:37stuff like like that FedEka ad is the kind of thing that algorithmic, you know, agents will be able to make those.
477. 1:22:45It's just going to crank out ads like that. And then someone's going to do something really creative, right, that
478. 1:22:53stands apart from the crowd because someone goes, "Okay, I can see all the patterns. All these ads look the same. What if we did something
479. 1:23:02very different? You know, you're just passionate. I am passionate. But Kyle, the self-doubt is real. Intellect smartless. Yeah, I know.
480. 1:23:15Thank you. I've argued with people all week this past week. That's I'm I am here. Listen, I sense I sense your your
481. 1:23:24frustration and rage, so I get it out here for you. Yeah, the anthropic ads were great. The anthropic ads were great. China's
482. 1:23:34embracing AI a lot with food services. Well, China's embracing AI everywhere. Like, from what I understand, people
483. 1:23:43that have gone back to China and have kind of done reports from the inside that that know that the AI world here,
484. 1:23:50they're like, there's none of this resistance [ __ ] There's none there's no people in China standing on
485. 1:23:55the sidelines going, we shouldn't make progress. I don't know. Just we're just in a we're in a weird [ __ ] state, man.
486. 1:24:08But I'll tell you what, it is time for time for people to recognize that. Uh here's the here's the the cold reality.
487. 1:24:32We all already live in the future, but we're in a we're in a cusp. We're in a transition.
488. 1:24:48And some people like a lot of the people that hang out on this channel and people that you know that are thinking about
489. 1:25:05how we can use AI to amplify our humanity rather than trying to battle AI to save our humanity. There there are two different futures
490. 1:25:22operating simultaneously right now. And some of us are living in this other one. We're all living in this new future.
491. 1:25:31There's a bunch of people kind kind of living in this old one that's dying and it's just going to become more and more and more apparent.
492. 1:25:41And so I think it's up to us that can see what's coming to to prepare these other people for for what's about to happen. So
493. 1:25:58China's a mess. Fascinating. They don't want to disappear. I think I understand. You don't need to convince me. Tik Tok
494. 1:26:11pin. Get off my sticky. Oh, sorry. Sorry, producer Brandon. I made his sticky note uneditable. That's annoying. Oh, man.
495. 1:26:29What time is it? All right, it's getting to be time. Let me get on out of here. Anybody have any final thoughts at this
496. 1:26:37point? It's a good feeling being here. Yang Ma, good to see you. Think of all the papers I've written and things. Yeah, exactly.
497. 1:26:48There's still a Tik Tok pen. We We want Kyle to lower his cortisol levels now.
498. 1:27:04The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed. Yeah. A shoe. That's it. I mean, William Gibson called
499. 1:27:10it, right? Right. The the the jagged the jagged frontier. Was it Ethan Mollik that called it the jagged frontier or
500. 1:27:19someone called it the jagged frontier? We're in the jagged frontier. If you're if you're spending time on this channel with any regularity,
501. 1:27:31you're already there. You know, you know what's coming. You know what's here. we we essentially can see the shape of how
502. 1:27:38this movie moves forward. There's just this increasing gap between that mindset and this and this other mindset. They think they're in a
503. 1:27:49different world than they're actually in. And so that's going to be our ch that's the whole point of the great repurpose
504. 1:27:57is if we can name it and articulate it and provide a bridge for these people then I don't know I think good things happen in
505. 1:28:10the world or better things happen in the world than without that. So that's the thing I'm really excited about.
506. 1:28:19All right, you all good? Have you used Google anti-gravity yet? You can use claudopus 4.62. I I had I I downloaded
507. 1:28:28anti-gravity and when I saw the 46 pages of preferences, I I I uninstalled it. I'm like, I am not prepared to go
508. 1:28:41through 46 pages of settings to set up my little coding environment. I don't give a [ __ ] I want to go to
509. 1:28:50something like Lovable and go, "Daddy wants a video game and it makes me a video game. Daddy wants to make money
510. 1:28:57with the video game and it installs e-commerce. Daddy wants it to be secure and it fixes all the bugs. That's it. That's all I want."
511. 1:29:08But I'm sure it's awesome. Oh my god. H rock paper scissors. Me too. That's way above my pay grade. Exactly.
512. 1:29:24Oh man. Oh, these are ideas I can use. I'm subbing. That's great. All right. Um I'm gonna get out of here. Y'all hope you had a
513. 1:29:39good good Monday night. Um what's tomorrow night? Uh, it's nothing. It's nothing. Just a normal Tuesday. Just another magic Monday.
514. 1:29:57Yeah, tomorrow's Tuesday. So, I'll see you here at 8:00. If those of you that are if there if you're new
515. 1:30:03here tonight, uh, welcome. Uh, if you're returning here tonight, welcome back. Do me a favor. I'd like to start spreading the word about um
516. 1:30:16about this channel. I want to I want to start shifting the conversation to this idea of the great repurpose and
517. 1:30:24daily practices and things like that. We'll still do some AI stuff, but but I want to start building the uh
518. 1:30:32conversation here. So if you know anyone who is living in the future from the future that's heart-c centered and up to some
519. 1:30:44things in the world. I'd like them to be in this conversation. Start start thinking about that. Thanks Will. Thanks for your uh
520. 1:30:52got to go to Yeah, I wasn't looking at the time. I know it's late. This is this is a late thing. Oh, Stea left a comment
521. 1:30:57for me in regulars. I'll go check that out. Uh but but Will, thanks for hanging out and thanks for your your good
522. 1:31:01questions. Please come back.
523. 1:31:19What surprised me yesterday? What's my grandmother saying? I know it's not real pup. We use it every day at school. She
524. 1:31:24say that stopped me for a moment. For me, this stuff feels new for them. Oh, this is cool from from Steo.
525. 1:31:32As most of you know, this is a comment Steo put in irregulars. As most of you know, I only use Chat GPT
526. 1:31:39for creating images of Kyle and Champ and sometimes fun images of my grandchildren in different places with
527. 1:31:44different characters. What surprised me yesterday was my granddaughter saying, "I know it's not real pop. We use it in
528. 1:31:51school every day. She's eight." That stopped me for a moment. For me, this stuff feels new. For them, it's already
529. 1:31:58normal. And that, you know, that happens even on this channel where the stuff that blew our minds, you know, within a
530. 1:32:05month or two becomes completely normalized and we're like, why isn't it better? Why isn't it faster? But you're right, man. Like Brandon's
531. 1:32:15kids, any kid right now that's in the, you know, in the just single digits, they are living in a world where they
532. 1:32:24understand that they can just ask for it and it will be generated. That's going to get more and more and more powerful
533. 1:32:30and more and more normal and all the jobs are going to change and we are going to be trying to figure out
534. 1:32:39what do we do next and we'll listen we'll figure it out unlike many people on the planet that are just like it's
535. 1:32:48going to steal our jobs and everything will be dead. No. No. Look at history. Every tech challenge, every every tech transformation, every
536. 1:33:00single one feels like this. It's gonna kill every No, we're gonna figure it out. We're going to figure out how to coexist with it.
537. 1:33:09And it's going to change everything. And it's going to require us, I think, to understand who we are and what we want
538. 1:33:15and the difference we want to make in the world. That that's going to be our core job. Our core job is going to be to have a point of view.
539. 1:33:28Period. Because all the other stuff will be taken care of. All right. Beautiful. I only know Ava 20 2045 from the future. Night everyone.
540. 1:33:41All right, everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Mods. Thank you, Brandon. Appreciate everyone. Have a good night.