1/28/2026 - Developing The Great Repurpose: A Framework for Post-Task Human Identity

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1. 0:00Happy, you ready to sing? Are you ready? Are you ready? [music]
2. 0:21[music] them came up with that night
3. 0:40just like a jet plane in and [singing] out of sight. I was hauling ass at a million miles [singing] and I [music] was wondering
4. 0:50how hard I'd hit [clears throat] [music] when they came into [singing] the station. [music] They said I was bad beyond repair.
5. 1:07All right. Uh what's happening good people? How you doing? I got I got the singing dog over here. Uh, I decided to
6. 1:14go full chaos on the hair tonight. Uh, there's there's there is no order in the world and so my hair is not going to be
7. 1:22any different. We're going full chaos. Um, what else is going on? That thing is right in my eyes. Hang on. I got to
8. 1:29adjust my my natural looking sunset. [laughter] It was in my eyes, people. We can't have that. Um, [music]
9. 1:48[music] I see Vickiy's here. [music]
10. 2:03[music] >> [music] [music]
11. 2:20[music] >> Is it back to romper room? It's close. We're going to do something really cool tonight. >> Um,
12. 2:35so something struck me. I was thinking about the last two nights where I essentially whed for two hours each
13. 2:41night. Well, it felt like two hours. It was more like an hour and a half, but I just whed or or philosophized for like
14. 2:4890 minutes. I didn't really do anything actually. It It felt like three. Thank you, producer Brandon. Brandon Brandon
15. 2:56with the with just because he's in in Cleveland right now and they've got the the real cold index. What it really
16. 3:02feels like, right? You know, it's actually 12 degrees, but it feels like minus 20. He's trying to do that with
17. 3:08the entertainment value of this show. Not going to work. It's not going to put me down. I'm not living in shame. I'm
18. 3:15I'm living in bountiful abundance. Anyway, um, let me switch these things. Look. God, my hair is shocking. It's
19. 3:25shockingly bad, but we're going with it. We're going full chaos. We're going full positivity tonight. And and here's what we're going to do.
20. 3:34[clears throat] Something hit me. [laughter] It obviously wasn't hair product. [laughter] Something hit me. Here's what hit me.
21. 3:52One of the things that OpenAI has successfully done for me anyway is because I've used it so much. It's
22. 4:02the only LLM that really has my history of the past three years. And I know I could probably technically
23. 4:09export it like export my data and import that in other things and migrate my memory, but you know that's like saying you
24. 4:18could change your defaults in Gmail. I don't, but I could, right? No one changes their defaults. Well, people
25. 4:26with prefrontal cortexes that function change their defaults anyway. That's neither here nor there. Um, so I've got ChatGpt knows everything
26. 4:37about me. It knows about my projects. It knows about my writing style. It knows that I'm a smartass. It knows that I
27. 4:43have conversations and I call it Quinn. It's got all that stuff, right? Well, what it also has is the ability to go do research.
28. 4:51And then what I also realized is all of these tools are now so complicated that you that you can't it's like you have to
29. 5:00get a [ __ ] master's degree in every single AI tool except you don't. And so that's what we're going to play with
30. 5:06tonight. So here's the basic idea. I pulled up a bunch of things like Gen Spark and Manis and what else did I pull up? midjourney, lovable.
31. 5:19Uh, and we can probably do others. So, we can, it doesn't matter. We'll do a bunch of them. Nano Banana if we want to.
32. 5:29Runway. Well, it doesn't matter. All of them, even tools within within chat GPT. And so what we're going to do is we're going
33. 5:38to go come up with some idea, some something that where it knows about me and then we'll come up with a project.
34. 5:46And what I'm going to do is I'm going to have chat GPT go research what are the best practices for how to prompt tool X.
35. 5:54It doesn't matter what the tool is. And and Chat GPT will go find out best practices. And then and then it'll come
36. 6:00back and I'll say, "Okay, based on this project and this goal and your best practices for that tool, write me a
37. 6:07killer prompt for lovable. Write me a killer prompt for GenSpark designer for whatever it is." Let chat GPT do that work.
38. 6:16To keep it semi-entertaining, I won't read it. We'll just copy and paste [ __ ] You know, in the real world, you'd go do
39. 6:21that. But anyway, I'm pretty excited about that. So So [music] tonight's going to be about leveraging your memory. >> [music]
40. 6:36[music] >> That's a fabulous piece of advice. I do that all the time. Yeah. I like what what hit me. I was thinking about what I
41. 6:45could do tonight because the last two nights have been shitty. Well, they haven't been shitty. They've just been
42. 6:49talky. Um and I wanted to do something demoy because I think producer Brandon was about ready to jump. He was about
43. 6:55ready to fly from Cleveland, but he couldn't get out cuz all the planes are iced up. They can't he he's basically
44. 7:01landbound and uh landbound with his kids. So, you know, and dogs and cats and I don't they probably have a turtle
45. 7:10knowing knowing Cleveland and Brandon. Amtrak still goes, "Yeah, [laughter] I'll get on the next train to Denver. I like turtles. [laughter]
46. 7:24>> [gasps] >> Oh man. [music] But I was thinking about that and I thought, "Oh, that's actually a thing I do that I kind of have done
47. 7:32instinctively." And I thought it would be good to do it tonight and kind of discover for myself what the technique is. Um, and I think
48. 7:41it'll be good. I think it'll be fun. [music] [music] Epic hair day. Oh no, the hair's a full-on disaster. Hairy scary. Yeah, dog
49. 7:56abundance. Harry Scary. Listen. Uh, I'm going full chaos. Full chaos tonight on the hair. So, today I talked to to Andy and she
50. 8:11said she caught the beginning of the show last night. She's like, "You wet your hair. That was weird." And so, I'm
51. 8:16like, "All right, you want to see what happens when I don't wet my hair? >> [laughter]
52. 8:31[music] [music] >> What's happening, Danielle? What's
53. 8:45shaking? Anybody wants to uh anybody wants to pick up hair product for the for [laughter] the hair and makeup
54. 8:54department, you feel free. Ship me ship me whatever you think will work. [laughter] This is my contention is this is the
55. 9:04worst haircut I've ever had. I have never had my hair just go in seven different direct. Well, no, I have, but
56. 9:12I've never had a haircut that [laughter] that begs it my hair to go in so many different directions at the same time.
57. 9:20Good thing you don't have a pink bow. I have a pink bow. I'll put a I'll put the pink bow on. I'll do it.
58. 9:27I think I'll do it for the new people because with zero context, the pink bow has got to be disturbing. >> [clears throat and cough]
59. 9:37[snorts] >> Oh, yeah. Fantastic. And I know I'm wearing it wrong, but we don't care. All right. Wait, is that a bug in my
60. 9:46head? I don't think so. I don't think it's a bug. I don't think I've got bugs. I don't think I've got bugs. [clears throat] [laughter]
61. 9:56[music] [music] Well,
62. 10:10you done [music] me in bed. I felt it. Tried [singing] to be chill, but just the hype that I melted. I fell right
63. 10:18through the cracks. [clears throat] Now I'm trying to [singing and music] get back before the cool down run out.
64. 10:26[singing and music] I'll be giving it my bestest. Nothing going to stop me but divine intervention. [singing] Reckoning it's again my turn
65. 10:35to [music] win some more but I won't [singing] hesitate. No, my voice is not good tonight. I am not there. I ain't there. I didn't warm up.
66. 10:50That was bad. I won't put you through that anymore. Champy's just Champy's not even looking up. He's like, "That's not
67. 10:55even worth howling to." What you got on screen there, Professor Brandon? [music] AI Salon.
68. 11:10[music] Yeah, that's good. I like it. Take a look at what's on screen there. Go to community.thesalon.ai.
69. 11:21If you've not been to the salon.ai, guy. You should go. [music] You're like, "What's that, Kyle?" Well,
70. 11:29it's a community of like-minded people. Do they all wear pink bows? What's your weirdness, pink bow man? [music]
71. 11:45[music] [music] >> [music] >> Hey, you know what's really nice?
72. 12:01You know what I had stuck in my head the other day? An Murray. Good lord. An Murray. I haven't heard an Murray song
73. 12:06in forever. Look at that hair. That is fantastic. Um, what is going on with Tik Tok? We've got nine people here. The new
74. 12:15Tik Tok sucks, by the way. [laughter] I think Silverf Fox was was smart to delete it. [music] America, we're number one. Unless you
75. 12:30got a successful software platform, then we'll [ __ ] it up. [laughter] [music] We're number one. Unless you're talking
76. 12:39about education. They were number 17. [singing] [music]
77. 12:56[music] So, does anybody have anything [music] that uh -2° the bow works? Does anybody have anything they want to um
78. 13:12like do in AI? Like maybe I'll do if you guys come up with an idea of something you want built or experimented with in
79. 13:22AI, I'll do I'll do my my high memory prompting trick tonight on your project. So [music] think of something. Chef
80. 13:34Kelly's here here. Maybe she needs to come up with something for She's already done like the food dye thing. [music]
81. 13:43I could do a Skittles sourcing app. [music] We get the orange Skittles from South Africa.
82. 13:58Green Skittles are from Ireland. [music] Have I played with Claudebot yet? I haven't. Oh, and by the way, that didn't
83. 14:12take long. They already got cease and desisted by Anthropic, so they changed their name to like Moette or what's I
84. 14:18don't know. It's It begins with an M. Moat or something like that. [music] Oh, we could do the next pet thing.
85. 14:27That's not actually a bad idea, Brandon. >> [music] >> Multi. [snorts]
86. 14:42Claudebot is now multi. [music] Because what what's fun is when you're just a pile of geeks, you're like, "Hey, I
87. 14:50know. We'll call this thing Claudebot, but we'll spell it with a W instead of a U. That's [clears throat] clever." And
88. 14:57then you launch it to the world. that if you're lucky, everyone in the world uses it and talks about it and then you get a
89. 15:06letter from a lawyer that says, "Don't do that, asshole." [laughter] Like Grock versus Grock. Exactly. [music]
90. 15:18Although that Vicki is one where GRQ was there first and then Elon Musk just said, "Fuck it. I'm Elon Musk. You can
91. 15:25come after me if you want. [music] I had that experience with StoryVine with uh with Twitter where um they cease and desisted us.
92. 15:41Twitter Twitter cease and desisted Story Vine because they're like, "We've got Vine and you've got Story Vine and you
93. 15:47should take that down." And we're like, "Uh, pretty sure we were first here." And they're like, "No, you weren't.
94. 15:54Here's the evidence." And we're like, "No, we were. Here's our evidence." So then they were like, "Oh yeah, you were
95. 15:59there first, but we're Twitter." [laughter] So So we're going to keep using it. You can go [ __ ] yourself. So So that was
96. 16:08nice. That was That was nice. >> [music] >> Story Vine did indeed outlast Vine. [music]
97. 16:27Yeah. Like Burger King is Hungry Jacks in Australia cuz a little bitty burger shop called Burger King was first. Yeah. There you go.
98. 16:35Well, we're doing we're in the middle of this right now at the AI Salon. I'm actually meeting with a trademark lawyer
99. 16:39tomorrow. I think I have an idea for for us to figure out a way to separate from the other AI salon [music] [music]
100. 16:58[music] cla code skills coworker as something to do tonight. No, I'm thinking like more like what's a use case? Like what's
101. 17:06something that you actually want to accomplish in the world? You want to build something. You want to do an ad campaign. I think maybe it
102. 17:14maybe the idea is to come up with an app idea and then do research in one app, do branding in another app.
103. 17:29Uh I don't know. I'm thinking I'm thinking I don't really have the idea yet. >> [music]
104. 17:45[music] [music] >> Blue. [music]
105. 18:04[music] >> [music]
106. 18:23>> There's been something, baby, I've been trying to say for an age, and it seems I don't know how. With a past and a future now surrounding
107. 18:38me. [music] Surrender to whatever treat there can be found. [music] There's been a little trouble since [music] you came to my rescue.
108. 18:58And if you like all of the rest, I would have quit you long ago. But I couldn't do that. [music] Oh, tell me [singing] now. Women and
109. 19:11wine never went too well. Make a man crazy, make him cold as hell. [music] And a woman that you wish me well.
110. 19:27But in spite of your shrine, [music and singing] still gonna have to find my own way through. [music]
111. 19:39Like the Mr. Morning, my dream remains. All right, [clears throat] let's get this party started. You know
112. 19:54where we're going to start? We're going to start with AI. The salon.ai. That is where we're going to start.
113. 20:10[clears throat] [clears throat] Okay. So, if you take yourself to community.thesalon.a
114. 20:26AI, that little banner in the bottom right hand corner. [clears throat] It's going to take you, it's going to
115. 20:34drop you right onto this page right here. Welcome to the AI salon. There's a little welcome video. And there's the cycle of AI readiness,
116. 20:43which is play first, create excellence, generously lead, and repeat that. And if anyone wants me to go over what those
117. 20:51actually mean, I'm happy to do that. A little Zeppelinesque. Oh, that last one. Actually, it is a little Zeppelin, isn't
118. 20:58it? That's Women and Wine by Martin Ston. Um, Kyle is not real. Is this the AI part? [laughter]
119. 21:13Um, okay. So, when you come to the AI salon, there's sort of start your adventure, there's like four little
120. 21:19things to do. One is just sort of check out, you know, the the sort of welcome page. um five stages of AI adoption,
121. 21:25dismissal, awe, the Kevin Mallister moment, wonder and fear, augmentation, and then cognitive hyperabundance. So,
122. 21:33there's just some fun things to look at there. Then the next step is introduce yourself. If you have joined the AI
123. 21:39salon, but you haven't introduced yourself, go do it right now. One of our values is is generosity, and introducing
124. 21:48yourself is a generous act. And you're like, but that's terrifying. What if people judge me? What if I get
125. 21:55cyberbullied? You won't. This community doesn't do that. We're not full of douchebags. Um, it's it's really powerful to
126. 22:03introduce yourself and become part of this community. So, if you haven't done that, go do that. Then you can learn our
127. 22:08values, curiosity, playfulness, empathy, generosity, and creating excellence. Um, so go do that. Go look at those. Read
128. 22:20about those. Then you've got a little community area. So there's AI salon events, there's the community feed,
129. 22:26community chat, so you can get in there and chat with people right off the bat. There's salon announcements. And then
130. 22:32there's three cool cool areas. There's the play and create area where we have this channel has its own AI learning lab
131. 22:39area where the irregulars can get together and hang out. Follow the dog from Lord Digital Gods. That's nice. I
132. 22:47like that. I like that cover. Very nice. Very very nice. So [clears throat] if you haven't posted in the irregulars for a while, go post.
133. 22:57Then there's learn and grow and there's things like the AI salon mastermind practice lab which is tomorrow at uh
134. 23:0410:00 a.m. Mountain time, noon Eastern, uh where we're finishing up our first 13week cycle of the mastermind practice
135. 23:12lab. So that's going to be a good one. So come to that. And then we've got advocacy and policy area, partnerships and self-promotion.
136. 23:22All right. So, there's all sorts of things to do at the uh the AI salon community. And I think if you haven't
137. 23:28been there in a while, now might be a good time. Drop into come to the salon and then drop into the AI learning lab
138. 23:36space and you can chat with others that are here and you can also post cool [ __ ] that you've created. All right. Nice
139. 23:49Valentine's Crazy Cards. That's not a bad idea. We should do an app that explores a person's name, the history, famous
140. 23:59people who share it, etc. That's kind of cool. I like that. Is it just a first name or first name last name?
141. 24:13H fascinating. I like it.
142. 24:30Okay, this is good. This is good. This is good.
143. 24:45Keep give me a couple of give me a couple of uh do we want to do app ideas? App or business ideas. Just drop either in Tik
144. 24:55Tok comments or in YouTube comments or whatever LinkedIn and Twitter. I can see I can see anywhere you post.
145. 25:02Wherever you are, drop ideas about a business idea or an app idea. Gemini 3 just got a gentic vision. I saw
146. 25:13that. That was like two days ago, Brandon. But I don't know what it is, though. I didn't pay attention to it. [laughter]
147. 25:20I've been a bad man. And my hair is in a bad place. For someone who doesn't give a [ __ ] about things like hair and makeup and
148. 25:30costume, um, I talk an awful lot about my hair because, well, you know what it is? Sometimes I look over and see what I
149. 25:39look like and it terrifies me. >> [laughter] >> Okay. Seven degrees of Kevin Bacon. That's been done, though. Let's come up
150. 25:50with something something original. Push an app all the way to the App Store. So, I'd actually have to find one. I
151. 26:00haven't done one. What? Anybody know an app that pushes to that that does uh native iOS apps? Which are the vibe
152. 26:09coding tools? cuz I've only been playing Unlovable and they just do web apps. Steo, I'm not allowed to post anymore
153. 26:17after the buck crack image. [laughter] I assume you're joking about not being allowed to post. If you actually can't
154. 26:26post, something's broken. We didn't we didn't um restrict your access to posting. I thought the butt crack image
155. 26:32was hilarious. Um Emergent does mobile apps. Okay, Emergent AI. All right, let me go grab that. [gasps and snorts] Emergent
156. 26:45AI sh. Let's see. app.emer.sh. Oh, and I got to pay for it. 95% off for the first month.
157. 27:03Announcing our series B. Get the discount code. Copy code. Buy credits. I've got five credits. Upgrade $1 a
158. 27:20month. Upgrade to standard. Setting up your emergent standard plan.
159. 27:34Subtotal dollar. All right. We're going to spend a dollar. [laughter] We're spending a dollar on a subscription tonight that I can live
160. 27:43with. The problem is unless I have Vicki remind me, I won't cancel this subscription and then it's going to
161. 27:50renew for 20 bucks. Standard tier activated. Awesome. Keep vibing. Welcome to the standard plan. Okay. Organize your introducing projects.
162. 28:04Create your first project. Claude 4.5 sonnet. I guess that's probably cheaper 1 million context two
163. 28:20GPT 5.2 beta. I think Cloud Sonnet's the way to go. All right, we'll come back to that. Weren't you going to start in chat
164. 28:28GPT? I haven't started yet. I'm just getting I'm just getting it set up. I'm just getting it set up. Good. Good call. Good eye. But
165. 28:37all right. I I still haven't decided what I want to do. Someone here did one. Someone here did what? Oh, yeah. Mimi Side Hustle Mimi pushed
166. 28:48something to the app store. No, Emmy, are you here? What What app did you use to to make your app? Hey, everyone. What
167. 28:55are you working on? Okay, Source Camp, you're gonna like this. So, and you probably already do this. This is kind of an instinctive thing
168. 29:03that hit me today that I should probably actually talk about, which is I've realized that because I've got all my
169. 29:11memory in chat GPT, it knows all my [ __ ] All the other tools I use, I use in this scattershot kind of way.
170. 29:20But all the other tools have all gotten so complicated that like if you want to use them like it's it's a pain in the
171. 29:27ass to like even understand how to prompt them and what to do and what what's possible. So what hit me was
172. 29:35you can start in chat GPT come up with an idea and because it knows your whole history and it knows your writing style
173. 29:41and it knows your just all your [ __ ] You can have chat GPT go research the best practices, the latest best
174. 29:50practices on how to prompt lovable or emergent AI or midjourney or whatever. It doesn't matter. Claude perplexity
175. 30:00and then have chat GPT write write a good structured sophisticated prompt based on who you are, what you know, and
176. 30:07what you're trying to accomplish for all these different tools. So basically use chat GPT as home base. So I thought that was kind of cool.
177. 30:18So that's what we're going to do tonight. All right. I still don't have an idea. Oh, I have an idea. [laughter]
178. 30:33My idea is let's have Chat GPT give us an idea. Okay. So, I'm gonna say um tell me what you know about
179. 30:49me and my strategic business ideas. So, I'm just going to kind of prime chat GPT to to start talking about me.
180. 31:04[sighs and gasps] The through line your AI your your career isn't about AI storytelling community or the platforms
181. 31:10individually. It's about agency. Over and over you build systems technical cultural narrative that give people
182. 31:16their agency back at moments of technology. This is kind of a new thing that I I've been talking about agency
183. 31:22for the past three weeks or so or four weeks probably since festivists and but that's not that's not what my career
184. 31:32throughine is. That's That's weird that it did that. You don't sell tools, you sell orientation. I'm going to go. Um, it sounds like
185. 31:48you're making [ __ ] up and just trying to blow sunshine up my ass. >> [laughter] >> Stop it. Um, look at our history
186. 32:08and give me something more grounded. [clears throat and cough] If you don't yell at your chat GPT, if you don't take a stand for what you
187. 32:20think is [ __ ] it will keep giving you [ __ ] Big spender, big hair. Put it in your notion reminders. I I
188. 32:30decided that notion's not for me. I can't I can't spend the next two months building a framework to then not use. [laughter]
189. 32:40I can do that with so many other tools. Um, okay. What I know about you, you repeatedly build explanatory frameworks
190. 32:49for new tech. That's true. This isn't a compliment. Five stages of AI adoption. Okay, fine. traditional versus generative.
191. 32:57Combining Mazlavs and icky guy for a new diagnostic model. Oh, that's kind of a fun thing. We could do an app on someone
192. 33:10discovering their their their passion in life. Huh. Huh. That's fantastic. That's something. But that's esoteric.
193. 33:23Like this app that I saw the other day that that pissed me off and made me jealous at the same time was it's such a dumb [ __ ] idea
194. 33:36that I was like I should have [ __ ] done that cuz I cuz I had the idea to do something very similar to it and I didn't do it.
195. 33:44And it was uh you upload a picture of your pet and it makes a classical like a Renaissance painting of your pet and
196. 33:52then they actually print them out and send you a framed thing of your dog and they're making like 100 100,000 ARR or MR something like that.
197. 34:02Um okay, this is true. You must yell at your AI when it's playing mind games with you. You're correct. I oversimplify
198. 34:10things. You're suspicious of efficiency first thinking. I agree with that. You treat AI as a cognitive prosthetic, not
199. 34:17a product. I agree with that. Storyvine is a strategic asset, not just a business to you. Eh, you're correct.
200. 34:26Positioning aggressively. We're not vertical first. You're actively trying to avoid becoming a thought leader cliche. You reject peppy tone.
201. 34:42You you reject generic inspiration. You call [ __ ] fast. You explicitly ask me to stop making things sound like
202. 34:50marketing. You prefer analog gritty imperfect imperfect aesthetics. You coined embrace the jank and actually
203. 34:58mean it. You want substance over polish, insight over optimism, sharp edges over comfort. Those are actually all true.
204. 35:06This is why the previous answer annoyed you. It sounded like positioning, not analysis. your strategic business
205. 35:13pattern. No poetry. Here it is plainly. You enter early chaotic phases of new technology. True. You observe where
206. 35:21people get confused, scared, or seduced. True. You build language and structure to help them orient themselves. You
207. 35:29package that orientation as a platform, a practice, a playbook, an event. You monetize around the clarity, not the
208. 35:39tech itself. This is a grand mission. This is a repeatable operating system. Huh? The tension you're actually
209. 35:46wrestling with. You're stuck between two real pulls. You hate [ __ ] and your work requires abstraction. So, you hate [ __ ] and you love to
210. 35:58[ __ ] is what it just said. Tik Tok pin. Steo, build an ADHD friendly version of Notion. That's possible
211. 36:06except I don't understand notion well enough to know what it is. But yeah, [snorts] I don't know. I don't know yet, but chat GPT does. Yeah,
212. 36:18that's true. Read emails, captured conversations, wrote customized letters, put it all in my Okay, you guys are talking to each
213. 36:27other, which is cool. All right, this is a hard mute. You want things to be conceptually deep, practically useful, emotionally honest,
214. 36:37non-cliche, non-salesy. I, which is true. I It is It is my contention that you can have things that are all those
215. 36:45things and still sell things, but I'm not very good at it because I'm not good at the salesy part. That's something I
216. 36:51got to work on. Something to work on. Okay. This is a hard needle to thread and you get impatient when it isn't
217. 36:56threaded cleanly. Yes. One hard truth. No sunshine. You are not trying to build one company. You're trying to establish
218. 37:04a credible point of view. True. Without becoming a guru. True. While still paying the bills. True. In a moment
219. 37:12where hype is rewarded more than rigor. True. This tension shows up in almost every request you make. That's fascinating.
220. 37:23If you want next we can do one of these things concretely. Strip your entire portfolio down to one core strategic claim. That's interesting.
221. 37:34Identify where you're overexlaining and under asserting. Map where ideas are signal and which ones are just cognitive exhaust
222. 37:41or do a brutally honest tearown of how an outsider would actually interpret your work. Um, go for one
223. 37:57core strategic claim. Let me see what it comes up with. [gasps] Your core strategic claim. Most people in organizations are using
224. 38:09generative AI backward. The real advantage doesn't come from automating work faster. It comes from clarifying
225. 38:15human intent first, then using AI to multiply judgment, creativity, and confidence. That's it. No metaphors, no
226. 38:23vibe. It's not bad. Tik Tok pin. This sounds way too much like therapy. Well, you know what's funny? Rock, paper, scissors. Um,
227. 38:35this channel for the past month or so has essentially been therapy. It's it's not really therapy, but it's it's been me exploring um
228. 38:46who I am, what I value, what are the things that are important to me, so that as I use AI, all of the work is anchored in that core
229. 39:04understanding of who I am. Here's why I actually think it's important. I feel like we're about to enter a
230. 39:13massive psychological crisis, like a a global psychological crisis that kind of looks like this. [clears throat]
231. 39:25Since the indust industrial revolution, we have been trained like in school and in our jobs and in society
232. 39:35that time equals money and what we do is our value, right? What we do, the tasks we do are our value. There are some
233. 39:46exceptions to it and there's some you know some stuff in in more centered kind of work that's not that but our core
234. 39:54and and I would say this is decently global c certainly for for western you know western countries that our personal self-worth is tied to
235. 40:08the work we do and the work we do is about to be commoditized and the value of of the tasks is about to drop to zero for all tasks,
236. 40:22right? It's it's on [laughter] a it's it's been slowly eroding and it's about to fall off a cliff. I think 2026 is the
237. 40:29first year we start to get AI good enough that it's it it becomes clear that it's going to go. And so over the next two, three years,
238. 40:41millions of people are going to have their purpose removed. If their purpose is tied to the tasks
239. 40:57they do and that gets stripped away, what's left is a bunch of human beings without purpose. And and like I
240. 41:13it's probably the single most dangerous thing about about what's to happen is not that people lose their jobs. People
241. 41:20will find other ways to work. They'll find other ways to make money. The biggest crisis I think is people losing their purpose.
242. 41:28And so what I've been looking at what the daily practice within the AI salon is is about working on a daily purpose to
243. 41:38under or working on a daily practice to understand who you are and what you value so that you can then choose some
244. 41:47purpose. So, it does feel like a therapy session because that's kind of where I've been. I like like we're about to enter a [ __ ] storm
245. 41:59psychologically, globally. [sighs] Post labor economics meaningf finder. Do what do you do if you don't have a job? That's not a bad idea.
246. 42:13Finding a post labor meaning of life. It It could almost be both. Couldn't it, Rick? Like, it it could be like, here's
247. 42:21here's what I've trained on in my life. Here's the [ __ ] that I care about in my life. Here's [ __ ] I'm good at. Here's [ __ ] I
248. 42:29love. Here's [ __ ] I'm not good at. Here's [ __ ] I hate. And this thing could
249. 42:44could say, here's the kinds of things you could be doing. Here's with your skills, with your passions,
250. 42:53assuming that the tasks are going to be handled by the machines. Here's the kinds of businesses or projects you could start. That's not a
251. 43:02bad idea. Rick McCauley. I don't know. Rick McCauley coming in hot. He's got a couple of ideas on the
252. 43:08uh on the rack tonight. I think that one might be good. I think that one might be good. Remember the party talk? Yeah. What do you do for
253. 43:19a living? What do you do for a living? Not who are you? Not what do you stand for? Not what do you value. What do you do? What do you do?
254. 43:30Because what you do is where your value is in today's society. Have it create a questionnaire to help with this. Yeah,
255. 43:37that's that's what I'm thinking is this is some sort of interviewy kind of app. All right. This is not bad. It's not bad. Okay. Okay.
256. 43:50I I'm I'm starting to get something here. Okay. All right. Uh let me uh microphone is in use. Can you hear
257. 44:03this? Yes, you can hear this. Okay, great. I have an idea that I want to take this core um strategic framework that you've come up with
258. 44:18and I want to create a business or an app around the idea that as the tasks of modern work get automated by AI I
259. 44:36the people that have their personal self-worth and value directly tied to the tasks they do are going to struggle struggle mightily with
260. 44:48what their purpose is in life when those tasks are automated away. When they lose their job or when they lose, you know,
261. 44:55when their entire sector maybe gets automated away. And so what I would like to come up with is a framework and an approach and then maybe
262. 45:09an app and maybe a training series on how people can take their experiences, their education, the things they're good at, the things
263. 45:23they're bad at, the things they love to do, the things they hate to do, the things that other people tell them
264. 45:30they're good at and put all of those things into this framework into this blender. And what this blender will do is
265. 45:42recommend for them, here's the kinds of businesses you can create, um things you can do in the world where you add value that is not tied to
266. 45:57tasks. So this framework is a system that allows people who get obliterated by AI to as quickly as possible
267. 46:11reconnect to their own personal purpose. I don't want it to feel like self-help [ __ ] I don't want it to
268. 46:21feel like pop psychology. I want it to be rooted in research and science. I want it to be fun and playful
269. 46:35and joyful because people are going to be in a shitty mood. And I want it to be deeply practical. Tell me what you heard.
270. 46:51All right, let's see where we're going here. I wish I was anywhere close to the person chat GPT thinks I am. That's awesome. [laughter]
271. 47:07Oh my god. We're going to need that because people are going to be searching. I Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
272. 47:13Rock, paper, scissors. The meaning maker app or Well, it's it's icky guy. I think it is icky guy, but this is th this is a
273. 47:23Rick. This is deeper than icky guy. Like like ultimately where they get to is icky guy if they do this thing right.
274. 47:30But but this is a bridge from desolation to hope, right? Like I feel like there's this there's going to be this desolate
275. 47:46black hole that that people experience that it's going to it's cuz it's like think about it. If you've done what you've done for 20 years
276. 47:56and all of a sudden they're like, "Oh yeah, sorry. That whole thing that you've spent your life on, yeah, we're
277. 48:04not going to do that anymore. Sorry about that. Yeah, no, that's just the bots are really good at it. So whatever
278. 48:12you did for that, we don't care anymore. That's valueless to us." That's gonna [ __ ] shatter people, right?
279. 48:23So, it's like, how how can you do something that as quickly as possible gets them out? Okay, here's what I
280. 48:30heard. Stripped of fluff without adding anything new. The problem you're targeting is AI automates tasks. A lot
281. 48:36of people are going to lose more than income. They're going to lose their self-worth, their identity, their
282. 48:41orientation in the world because modern work trained them often unconsciously to equate the tasks I perform equal my
283. 48:49value as a person. Right? That's there's there's the darkness right there. There's the darkness. Right? The tasks I perform equal my
284. 49:01value as a person. Now, not everyone feels that way, but a lot of people do. And I think a lot of people feel this
285. 49:07way and probably don't even know it, but when it's taken away, they'll realize it. This is like when I left New
286. 49:15York City, I didn't realize how much living in New York City fed me, right? Even living near New York City,
287. 49:26like when I moved out of New York City up to Westchester and Connecticut. Big [ __ ] mistake, but whatever.
288. 49:34But like the difference between living there and that energy and living in Denver is like quantum. And I didn't
289. 49:40know that until I left it. And so I think it's going to be like that. I think there's a lot of people are not
290. 49:45thinking about what's my purpose in life. They know their purpose in life. Their purpose in life is show up, do
291. 49:51their job, get the money, feed their family, repeat, right? Take the weekend off, repeat. And if that core thing is sit, it's
292. 50:02going to be ugly. Okay? When those tasks disappear or are radically devalued, people won't just be unemployed, they'll
293. 50:09be unmed. This isn't theoretical. You're anticipating mass role erosion, sector collapse, credential devaluation, people
294. 50:18who did everything right suddenly feeling obsolete. This is a huge one. Tik Tok question. What's the discussion? So the discussion is
295. 50:29Well, where the where the discussion started was I want to use chat GPT which understands who I am and my background and my memory
296. 50:39to write prompts for other tools. But I wanted to come up with some idea that we could do that that you know we could create an app or we
297. 50:50could do something and then we could build a bunch of [ __ ] around it. But where the conversation kind of went is,
298. 50:57you know, how are how are people gonna survive the job shakeup that's coming, right? Is it was something around that.
299. 51:06And when Chad GPT when I asked it to give me my core insight and value, it was about basic human human centricity
300. 51:15with AI used as an amplifier of each person's agency, right? And so, and so it's right now we're we're in a we're we're in the
301. 51:26conversation before we start writing prompts for other tools because we're we're we're setting the foundation for
302. 51:33what might be a solution and then I'm going to have it go do some research and then come back with the research and
303. 51:40tell us what's going on. Anyway, okay. The core insight you're building around you want to help people shift from
304. 51:46taskbased identity to valuebased identity. Not what do you do right that's someone just said that here my
305. 51:54personal renaissance I think product manager will be gone in five years developer can ask an AI to act as a
306. 52:01product manager well I think that product manager as project manager will be gone I think product manager as the
307. 52:11holder of the fidelity of the idea for the product will live right I think idea people are going to be valued. I think horizontal thinkers
308. 52:22are going to be valued and I think people that can get [ __ ] done and maintain the fidelity of the idea are going to be valued.
309. 52:31Um, okay. So, your identity is not what do you do, but how do you create value in the world independent of any one
310. 52:40task? It's a little wordy, but it's not bad. And crucially, the value should survive automation. It should be portable. It should be
311. 52:48grounded in human judgment, the system you want to build, education. Okay, it's this is missing something. Okay, hang on. Um,
312. 52:58this is good, but you're missing a key point is that I not only want someone to be able to understand what their value
313. 53:08might be, but I want them to be able to connect what their value might be to a new purpose in life. if their purpose in
314. 53:16life historically was tied to their tasks and you remove the tasks, you remove their purpose. So part of it is
315. 53:24about rediscovering where your value might be. But then the real bridge to inspiring them to do the next thing is
316. 53:33to transform that awareness of potential value into a purpose. So, let's make sure that we don't miss that as a core
317. 53:42tenant of whatever it is we're trying to solve right now. [laughter] Oh, by the way, if you haven't just
318. 53:52vomited words into chat GPT, you should do that more. One of the things AI is [ __ ] brilliant at is taking garbage that
319. 54:03comes out of your mouth and going, "Oh, let me organize that for you and show you what you just said." It's really good at that.
320. 54:10[clears throat] Just telling it to generate [ __ ] out of nothing just very often is frustrating. Yep. The missing bridge is the purpose
321. 54:18bridge. What you're building isn't just value discovery system. It's a repurposing system. Oh, repurposing is
322. 54:26actually really an interesting word because if you think about repurch repurposing, you think like upycling
323. 54:37Oh wow. [clears throat] Wait. Oh, hang on. Okay. Repurposing is a really interesting idea. What popped into my head is the word up
324. 54:50u upycling. Um so and and there's there's the phrase upskilling, right? Upskilling people's, you know, skills so they can do work in
325. 55:02the new economy. But I think there's I think there's something here. Maybe maybe [clears throat] the the project is
326. 55:10something about human upcycling or human repurposing. Repurposing is really powerful. Um let's play around with
327. 55:17different ways to think about that and articulate that. Okay. So basically what I'm doing right now is
328. 55:32I'm just trying to get my head around an idea. The great repurpose. That's not bad. Okay. Clarify the conceptual move.
329. 55:39Upskilling assumes the person is fine, but their skills are obsolete. It's task ccentric. It's reactive. It's fragile.
330. 55:45Repurposing. Upcycling assumes the person has enduring value. Focuses on recomposition, not replacement. Identity
331. 55:53level, not task level. This is [ __ ] psychology. Whoever said before, "This feels like a therapy session." We're
332. 56:00about to enter a global [ __ ] therapy session. AI is not about job replacement. It's not. It's about fundamentally redefining
333. 56:16how humans deliver value to one another. It's wild. It's wild. It's [ __ ] wild. People look at my hair. My hair is perfect for
334. 56:27this. Total [ __ ] chaos. So, the real move you're making is from what should I learn next to how do I reim what I already am?
335. 56:44H there's something strong about how do I reim what I already am? But what you're talking about is being, right? Someone's
336. 56:56being. How do how do I take who I am and discover that, amplify that, and
337. 57:12repurpose myself. This repurpose repurpose is really good. The great repurpose. Rick McCauley just said the great repurpose. Oh, no. Silver
338. 57:23Fox. The great repurpose. That's that's that's what this is. We're we're we're collectively entering a great
339. 57:32repurposing where whatever our current purpose is is about to be shattered to some degree, some more than others. And
340. 57:41it's about as quickly as possible understanding who we are, what we value, and then what our new purpose is
341. 57:50independent of our tasks. Okay, I think I'm talking in circles now, but take all that [ __ ] and stir it in the pot
342. 57:58here. Let's make some soup. [laughter] Ah, [sighs and gasps] existential I because of we. Yeah. Yeah,
343. 58:11exactly. That's the the piece you wrote the other day. Kyle's dictating all this. Lol. I know. Normally I'm typing,
344. 58:18right? I'm I'm doing good dictating. All right. Well, but like I have lots of ideas and I can't type them all fast
345. 58:26enough. So talking's good. Good. There is something here and you're not actually talking in circles. You're
346. 58:33circling a center of gravity. Let me condense what you just said into something coherent, sharp, and buildable
347. 58:38without sanding off the edge. I'm going to do three thi three things. Name the idea cleanly, articulate the thesis of the great repurpose,
348. 58:47and turn being into purpose, a concrete system you can actually design around. The name is legit. The great repurpose
349. 58:58works. Silverf Fox, congratulations. Chat GPT thinks you're brilliant. I also happen to think you're brilliant.
350. 59:06Silverf Fox is always coming up. She can like I don't know if you were a copywriter in your life, but uh if you
351. 59:12weren't, you missed a calling. You're really good at it. Um okay. Not as branding yet, but as a historical frame.
352. 59:21It does what you need. Oh, okay. It signals scale. The great repurpose. It avoids dis avoids disruption cliches. It centers humans not jobs.
353. 59:34[clears throat] Human repurpose. My repurpose repurposing. I don't know. Okay. Importantly positions this moment as
354. 59:50not a wave of unemployment but mass misalignment of purpose. That's a real claim. The core thesis. Clean no loops.
355. 59:57Here's the soup reduced. We build our sense of purpose around ta. We we built our sense of purpose around tasks. AI is
356. 1:00:08dissolving tasks. So purpose is collapsing. That's not true for all people. Uh your core thesis is a little reductive.
357. 1:00:20It's it's not true for all people that we built our sense of purpose around tasks. I like the strength of it, but I don't
358. 1:00:30like the absolute nature of it. So why don't we reframe it as for anyone who has built their purpose around
359. 1:00:40tasks, they're about to enter a [ __ ] storm of lack of purpose. And whatever we're building is going to help with that.
360. 1:00:54Uh [clears throat] uh uh uh uh uh [laughter] uh uh uh uh uh uh uh. Good correction. You're right. The absolutism
361. 1:01:02weakens it. Oh, stop kissing my ass. [laughter] God damn. So, it's so exhausting. Revised core thesis. For people whose
362. 1:01:14sense of purpose has been tightly coupled to the tasks they perform. No, that's not right either.
363. 1:01:32We've lost something. Most human beings won't hear my value is tied to the tasks I perform. That's not a human thing. That sounds
364. 1:01:45like an economics white paper. What I want this to be about is we've got a societal construct globally
365. 1:01:59that work equals value. That what we do is where our value is. And for a lot of people, their sense of purpose is tied to their work.
366. 1:02:12And work is made up of tasks and the tasks are going to get automated. So it's not that the work is going to go
367. 1:02:19away. It's that the tasks are going to get automated and taken away from people. So that's a more sophisticated
368. 1:02:26chain of value than just people thinking that tasks are where their value are. No one thinks like that. Stop being a ninny. Okay. [laughter]
369. 1:02:44[ __ ] chat GPT. Fair. You're right to call that out. The earlier framing collapsed a human story into an abstract
370. 1:02:52variable. Yes, it did. Chat GPT. Oh my god. What we actually lost. Okay, I don't care what we lost. Tell me what
371. 1:03:00you're going to do about it. The correct causal chain. Let's say it cleanly. Globally, we've created we we've equated work with value. Yes.
372. 1:03:09gross domestic product. For many people, work is where purpose lives. Work is expressed through tasks. AI is
373. 1:03:16automating tasks, not abolishing work. But when tasks disappear, people lose their interface with purpose.
374. 1:03:24Yes, that creates a crisis of meaning, not just employment. This is actually really good. This is really good. That's
375. 1:03:31the story. That's the storm. The revised core thesis is human, not academic. A lot of pe for a lot of people work has
376. 1:03:39been the primary place where purpose contribution and value show up in their lives. As AI automates more and more of
377. 1:03:45the tasks that make up the work, people are going to lose their sense of how they matter. Even if work itself doesn't
378. 1:03:52disappear. The great repurpose exists to help people reconnect who they are to a sense of purpose that isn't dependent on
379. 1:04:03any specific set of tasks. That's really quite good. A shorter, sharper version. When tasks get automated, work doesn't vanish.
380. 1:04:12Meaning does. The great repurpose helps people reconnect their sense of purpose to who they are, not just what they do. Okay, this is good.
381. 1:04:24Okay. Um, I want you to I'm gonna throw this in a canvas. Hang on a sec. Okay,
382. 1:04:38I'm going to go canvas. I'm going to say I want you to put that what is this called? Uh that thesis into a canvas
383. 1:04:54so I can edit it. [snorts] All right, so that's going in there. Beautiful. Beautiful, Bob. Beautiful. That's fantastic.
384. 1:05:06It's really good. Really solid stuff. Just awesome. Awesome stuff. Fantastic. Alrighty then. I think I should probably
385. 1:05:19turn this into a project, shouldn't I? Move to a project. New project. It's going to be called the Great Repurpose.
386. 1:05:46Okay, beautiful. Now, let's go back into this chat. All right, there's our canvas. Done. I've put that into an editable canvas. I
387. 1:06:02can cut it 30 or 40% without losing meaning. I can make it harsher, softer, or build the next canvas. What this is,
388. 1:06:11what this is not, or who this is for. Okay. What we are about to do is to use multiple AI tools
389. 1:06:32to flesh this idea out into a usable, helpful full
390. 1:06:48framework and platform. This is really quite good. This is this kind of exciting to me. Anybody else
391. 1:07:02digging this Tik Tok question? Why are you singleshotting it? Do you know about the frameworks? Do I know about what frameworks?
392. 1:07:16So you're running a crew framework prompt. Oh, I all those different frameworks. Yeah, I Well, so so I do, but I also
393. 1:07:28like they all have their advantages and disadvantages. What I'm doing right now is just trying to get the thoughts out of my head. So I
394. 1:07:35am singleshotting it right now because I'm just trying to get the thoughts out of my head. What I'm about to have chat
395. 1:07:41GP2 chat GPT do is go research best practices for a bunch of different other tools. Right? So I'm going to have for
396. 1:07:50example I'm going to have it do research in Manis. So rather than go to Manis and write my own structured prompt, I'm
397. 1:07:57going to have chat GPT go look at best practices for for how to do research in Manis. Figure out what frameworks are
398. 1:08:05best practices for that. then have it write a prompt for Manis based on this thing that I'm trying to get out of my
399. 1:08:12head and then have Manis go do that work and then do that for multiple tools. So I will use those frameworks. I just my brain
400. 1:08:21the minute you give me a framework and say follow this recipe, my brain rebels and I want to smash my computer against
401. 1:08:27the wall. So while I like frameworks, they drive me [ __ ] crazy. I invent a lot of frameworks because I like getting
402. 1:08:34my thoughts together like that. I hate following them. So, let's just Welcome to the neurode divergent loveliness. The
403. 1:08:41prompt frameworks. Yeah, I get it. Um, I think this this precipice we're on needs a catchphrase. The great repurpose is
404. 1:08:52wonderful. Wonderful. Silverf Fox. Yeah, I agree. I think this is this is really good. Why not council of LLMs? Possibly.
405. 1:09:05Council of LLMs. I just I'm because all I wanted to do tonight was use Chat GPT as a home base to go write prompts for
406. 1:09:13other things and then we started running down this rabbit hole. So So my my my purpose for tonight has been a little
407. 1:09:20derailed by the the magnitude of this idea. I think this is a really good idea. Okay, what we're about to do is
408. 1:09:26use multiple ideas to go flesh this idea out into a usable, helpful framework and platform. Um, let's see. Um,
409. 1:09:47[gasps] I'd like to start with two planning exercises. One is a strategic
410. 1:10:02uh business
411. 1:10:18brainstorm. The other is a creative director um
412. 1:10:34fleshing this idea out. [clears throat] Let's start with you as a business strategist
413. 1:10:55and in a canvas and I I'll I'll select another canvas. Let's throw another thing in a canvas here. And in canvas, um, write me a business
414. 1:11:11business brief that can serve as the foundation
415. 1:11:25for lots of executional ideas. All right. So let's have it think like a business strategist here. The great repurpose
416. 1:11:37business brief foundational draft human centric platform framework set of experiences designed to help people
417. 1:11:46whose sense of purpose like I could see this being in-person workshops like you know going to a job site that's about to
418. 1:11:54have everyone [ __ ] laid off and you know do stuff there. This is really cool. All right, there's that.
419. 1:12:13That's good. All right, great. Let's see. Great. Now do the same [clears throat] as a creative brief from a world class
420. 1:12:30creative strategist who will provide the foundation for how we communicate.
421. 1:12:46and express the ideas of the great repurpose. Oh, I have a cool thing we'll do next. Repurpose. If you haven't used Gen Spark Designer,
422. 1:13:02it's [ __ ] insane. It's really good. What the world needs now. What do you love doing even if unpaid? What are you good at?
423. 1:13:13Superpower. What does the world need? What gives you energy and meeting long term? Is that is that icky guy? Is that
424. 1:13:20right out of icky guy? Rick McCaulay. I think it is, isn't it? Uh, is there an AI that can transform
425. 1:13:37voice to text like a built like a what? Like a built like a built I don't know what that rest of that sentence is. That's icky guy.
426. 1:13:48Okay, good. [sighs] Um create let's let's see what the creative brief looks like. Let's go look at this
427. 1:13:59creative north star. The great repurpose is a cultural and personal reorientation, not a program. Okay, so
428. 1:14:06here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to close this. We're going to go back to our project. How do I close this? the great reverse.
429. 1:14:12Okay, so we've got this initial chat that started as just this loose vomiting of ideas. Then we threw in Silver Fox's
430. 1:14:22beautiful name for this and a bunch of ideas that you guys have contributed and and so now we have the basic description of what the great
431. 1:14:32repurpose is. We have a business brief and we have a creative brief. Cool. So I'm going to do two things now. I'm
432. 1:14:40going to say I'm going to go research. Deep research. Do I want to do deep research? I don't. But I'm going to go
433. 1:14:46thinking. Let's flip chat GPT into thinking mode so it'll think longer. I'm going to say, um, I want you to go research,
434. 1:15:02um, best practices for how to prompt both perplexity
435. 1:15:16and manness. to do foundational research for this project.
436. 1:15:33Come back to me with your recommendations on both as well as best
437. 1:15:50practices for how to provide underlying research that supports
438. 1:16:06the ideas here. Okay. So, chat GPT now we're doing this in a project. So, so it it knows the the chat we had before.
439. 1:16:17This is a new chat within a project. And so, it's now going out looking for best practices for perplexity and
440. 1:16:25manace. And then so what I'm going to have it do is it have it think about best practices, go learn them, come
441. 1:16:31back, tell me them so it's in the context window. And then I'm going to have it write a research prompt for perplexity, a
442. 1:16:39research prompt for Manis. And then we'll go turn those things loose. And then I'm going to have it do the
443. 1:16:48same thing for Gen Spark Designer. And I'm going to say, use the creative brief that that our creative director wrote before and write a
444. 1:17:00uh a creative brief for a campaign introducing the great repurpose. All right, so that'll be cool. Okay, here's how I
445. 1:17:09prompt perplexity versus manis to do foundational research. Perplexity is best when you want web grounded answers
446. 1:17:16with citations and you're willing to dive to drive with a tighter steering wheel. Narrow prompts iterative passes. What works best
447. 1:17:30friends for late again tonight? Rewind. And I just got to the part about introducing yourself. I will need to do
448. 1:17:36this ideally before the mastermind meeting tomorrow. Yes, please do. Awesome. hope to catch up to the present in 25
449. 1:17:44minutes. Well, so first of all, thank you for, you know, um taking what is often the silliness here serious enough to go back and look at
450. 1:17:55it. Um I I think we've we've hit on something really interesting here tonight. and and we did not start like
451. 1:18:03this could have very easily gone down the route of let's make a a you know a pet picture app and figure out how to do that. Um
452. 1:18:15but in well this was kind of cool in going to chat GPT to ask chat GPT to explain to me what it knows about me. It
453. 1:18:26revealed something that inspired a bunch of people to sort of kick it over into this into this deeper more existential
454. 1:18:33thing which is kind of cool. Okay. Avoid few longshot examples. Okay. My recommended perplexity work workflow four different passes.
455. 1:18:44What framework what key terms exist? Evidence harvest stats peer-reviewed findings. Perplexity prompt template. Copy and paste
456. 1:18:54prompt. You are my research retrieval assistant. Goal: Do that task. Key findings. This lines up. Okay. So, wait.
457. 1:19:04At least three. If you can't find strong Okay, so use this format repeatedly. Swap the bracketed parts.
458. 1:19:19This is cool. Let's do um let's flip this over to canvas again. Let's get rid of thinking.
459. 1:19:33We don't need thinking. Let's say um put the perlexity prompt in one canvas
460. 1:19:48and the manis prompt into another.
461. 1:20:02You are my research retrieval assistant. Insert topic here. Manis. Okay, that's cool.
462. 1:20:28Okay. So, so here's what I'm going to say. I'm going to say perfect. Use your framework to write
463. 1:20:43a detailed perplexity prompt about research. for the
464. 1:20:59great repurpose initiative based on our other discussions
465. 1:21:17about it. Here's a fully formed, detailed perplexity prompt tailored. So, here's why this is exciting to me. I haven't
466. 1:21:30used perplexity in probably a year. And so, I don't really know its personality anymore. I don't know what
467. 1:21:39it's good at, what it's not good at. Like, the fact that this thing went and found that [ __ ] out and can bring it
468. 1:21:44back to me. Okay, you're you're okay. build a rigorous well-sighted evidence base for the Great Repurpose Initiative,
469. 1:21:51a project exploring how modern societies have culturally linked work to value and purpose. How automation, especially AI,
470. 1:22:00is removing tasks rather than eliminating work outright, and how this shift may create a crisis or reinvention
471. 1:22:08of meaning for people whose sense of purpose has been closely tied to their work. The research is not meant to be alarmist
472. 1:22:18or reductive. It should support a sophisticated chain of reasoning about culture identity. Okay. Core framing. Do
473. 1:22:25not simplify this. Okay. Good. Constraints. Fine. Insert one topic only. Topic focus one per run.
474. 1:22:44task. Key findings.
475. 1:22:58I'm just going to copy the whole thing. It looks like it's asking me to do this in little piece parts. I'm not going to do that.
476. 1:23:06I'm just going to copy all this and let Perplexity figure it out. Tone and style. Okay, copy. So, now we're going to go to Plexity.
477. 1:23:23And we're going to just paste that [ __ ] in and go. I'm not upgrading to pro. I'm going to do the free free ass version. Your
478. 1:23:32answer was upgraded to pro search. Skip. Okay.
479. 1:23:49And now let's go back to this and say um now write me a manus prompt for research
480. 1:24:06of the project. M.
481. 1:24:35All right, we done. Nope. >> [clears throat] >> The Great Renaissance was your art for your live tonight. Oh, that's hilarious.
482. 1:24:47That's great. That's awesome. Yeah, the great I've I've been talking about the Great Renaissance for three
483. 1:24:55years now that what we're entering is a great renaissance. But but I think to get to the great renaissance, people
484. 1:25:03people on mass have to discover their purpose because if if if the core of society loses its purpose, we're all [ __ ] [laughter]
485. 1:25:14Just to be to be blunt, you could argue that, you know, we're in the middle of that right now. But right now, people
486. 1:25:21think they have a purpose. Okay, let's go. Manis Manis hands on Manis from Meta. [laughter]
487. 1:25:37Login expired. Fine. Log me back in. Artists are the only one who always made both in abundance. In abundance, love and time.
488. 1:25:52In a post scarcity world, the rarity is love and more time. Yep. [clears throat] Yep. He is cursing. Who? Me?
489. 1:26:08Please save this. I find it so interesting. Please save what? The the prompts. They're all in my history. Okay,
490. 1:26:20here we are at Manis. Introducing Manis skills. I don't care about your stupid skills. Probably should, but I don't.
491. 1:26:26Okay, pasted content. How much is that? 4.62K. Um, follow the this prompt. Okay. Boom.
492. 1:26:42All right. Now, we're going to go back here. And we're going to do new chat. And I'm gonna say now I want you to
493. 1:27:02to write a campaign brief for a social media
494. 1:27:18launch campaign. for the great repurpose
495. 1:27:32project initiative. Use the existing business
496. 1:27:50and creative briefs for the project as the basis. That's good.
497. 1:28:06So, we're in a new chat. Hopefully, it's going to go look. Here's a clean, strategic, non-bullshitty campaign brief
498. 1:28:12you could actually hand to a creative team or use yourself to drive execution. All right. Make the great repurpose.
499. 1:28:21Name the moment. Reframe AI anxiety into agency. I like that. Shift from shift the narrative from AI is taking
500. 1:28:30to we are being freed. Now what? I like that position. The great repurpose as a long arc initiative. Secondary objectives. Primary.
501. 1:28:45This feels fundable. There any VCs on the live tonight? DM me. Let's go raise $30 million and go do this, [ __ ] Okay. Um
502. 1:29:03Okay. Go research best practices for how to prompt GenSpark designer
503. 1:29:19to leverage this creative brief and build a
504. 1:29:35social campaign around it.
505. 1:29:49All right, let's [clears throat] just see what that does. [sighs] Artist the only ones who ever made both.
506. 1:29:56Okay, that we talked about. Okay, that's good. That's good. Uh Diana, I know venture capitalists. Cool. I don't know if this
507. 1:30:07a venture capitalist is gonna say, "What's the ROI? What's the business model?" Like, I'd need I'd need like a
508. 1:30:12whole night with Chat GPT to come up with that. [laughter] But actually, maybe what we'll do is I'll play with
509. 1:30:23this over a couple of nights because I think I think what's ultimately interesting about this like like what I'm doing right now is kind of
510. 1:30:32foundational stuff, right? The the the the launch campaign is not foundational, but the research stuff is. What I want
511. 1:30:40to do is I want I basically want to keep pulling interesting stuff from other tools back into this conversation.
512. 1:30:47And then what we could do is come up with like what are all the executional pieces of this that could be, you know,
513. 1:30:54sort of developed, right? You could have online courses, in-person courses, you know, um job repurposing programs for
514. 1:31:04companies that are about to lay off half their staff. Um, you know, you could go into m municipalities create, you know,
515. 1:31:13nonprofit governmental programs that are based on this. There's it's like there this this feels big and important.
516. 1:31:24Um, all right. Did it figure it out? Sample prompt you could feed your social media. Use the following creative brief deliverable.
517. 1:31:43Think of the Gen Spark designer as a collaborator, not a tool. That better you brief it like a human creative partner. Okay.
518. 1:31:50So, write a complete prompt that includes the uh the campaign brief. And I haven't read the campaign brief,
519. 1:32:05so it could suck. [clears throat] Role in mindset. You're a senior creative director and social campaign
520. 1:32:16designer with deep experience in thought leadership campaigns, cultural reframing initiatives, human- centric technology
521. 1:32:24narrative, social first storytelling. You think in ideas first, visuals second, and never default to generic AI futurism.
522. 1:32:34The great repurpose. Oh, one thing I'm going to add to this. Um, I'm going to I'm going to talk this. One thing that I've noticed is that
523. 1:32:46anytime I do a creative campaign that involves AI, the creative programs make cheesy sci-fi looking graphics from the 1980s
524. 1:32:58or 1990s that are [ __ ] horrible. Period. This is about the great repurpose of human beings repurposing their lives. So, let's make
525. 1:33:10sure if it's not in the creative brief that we put things in there that talk about the core of this campaign is clarity and humanity.
526. 1:33:29Part of being on the planet for a long time is you get to just know that this thing is going to automatically make
527. 1:33:35some stupid [ __ ] [laughter] Okay. It wrote the addendum. Okay. Fine.
528. 1:33:54Okay. You don't stop telling me why the [ __ ] that you just wrote works. I don't care. Okay, great. Now in core porate your addendum
529. 1:34:09into the single prompt for genspark designer. Okay, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Every is this making sense? Does anybody have
530. 1:34:23any questions? Um, who was it that said they the new venture capitalist? Diana, if you do and want to make intros,
531. 1:34:34please DM me on this in the AI salon. The salon.ai community.thesalon.ai. All right. Um, okay. Rolling mindset.
532. 1:34:45Here's this the great repurpose. All right. Here's our big ass prompt. See, look. We're doing structured prompting. We're using prompting
533. 1:34:55frameworks. [laughter] Just I'm not writing them and I'm not following someone else's stupid [ __ ] framework. Even though I'm writing a
534. 1:35:03book that's about to introduce a bunch of frameworks. Shut up. Okay. Go to Gen Spock. Gen Spark AI. And then we're going to go to AI
535. 1:35:18designer. If you've not used this tool before, it is really quite cool. All right. So, I'm going to just paste
536. 1:35:27in all that [ __ ] that Chat GBT just wrote. So, I hope you're seeing the the method to the madness here, right? The
537. 1:35:35idea is chat GBT has lots and lots of context already that can serve as like context home base and then we can have
538. 1:35:44it head out into the world and do [ __ ] for us. What? Why did that do that? All right, let's see. Thinking.
539. 1:35:57If you haven't watched this thing work, it's really [ __ ] cool. It's using the tool think. So, it's it's read it's read our big prompt.
540. 1:36:07This is a comprehensive creative brief. Now, it's thinking. Now, it's using the tool task assignment. Now, it's using
541. 1:36:13the tool parallel search. Now, it's using the tool image search. So, it went off to find some images, I guess, about people losing their
542. 1:36:22purpose and some color schemes and some fonts and more distressed people. And look, it's got warm neutrals. It's got colors
543. 1:36:33for for the brand. Very cool. Cuz we wanted humanity. We didn't want it to look like [ __ ] robot [ __ ] It
544. 1:36:39looks like we're on the right track. Have you seen this thing before? This thing's insane how it does what it does.
545. 1:36:49Now, I could have come in here and just said, "I'm working on a project called Great Repurpose, and could you make me a
546. 1:36:55launch campaign?" And it would. But this is now all rooted in all that other stuff that we talked about
547. 1:37:04which is rooted in Chachi PT's memory of all the things it and I have ever talked about. Right? We need Kelly Bosch Bash Kelly Bash
548. 1:37:18understand images. So it's thinking this is an incredibly comprehensive something. This is an incredibly comprehensive brief.
549. 1:37:30Here's what needs to be delivered. That's cool. Okay. Understand images. Let's look at these things. Can we look at these? No.
550. 1:37:45And at some point it'll start designing [ __ ] and building [ __ ] But right now it's doing it's like reading the brief
551. 1:37:52and and educating itself and sourcing things and grabbing colors and grabbing fonts and grabbing images which it will
552. 1:38:00then generate its own images. This entire show has been a long prompt. One long prompt. I'll be busy with this
553. 1:38:09tomorrow. Yeah, it it has. This is you're you're right, Source Camp. Like tonight has essentially been th this is one pro this. Okay. Okay.
554. 1:38:22Hear me out here. This is where I think we go in the future. that our job is to unearth ideas
555. 1:38:42and then be nimble enough. unear the ideas, articulate them in a way that's consistent with who you are, what you believe,
556. 1:38:58and then use, you know, multiple tools to execute multiple iterations of different phases of the project, right? Like we did two
557. 1:39:12different is I guess we can let this thing just keep going. Is let's see. Oh, generating images. So, it's starting to
558. 1:39:18go. So, let's see. Tool understand images. Tool think tool design preparation. Tool design preparation. Design prep.
559. 1:39:27Design prep. Generate image. Generate image. Generate image. So, now it's starting to build some [ __ ] Here they come.
560. 1:39:35Let's see what we got here, people. Do we have anything good? Did Jen Spock do anything good? Is it a piece of garbage?
561. 1:39:44I'm generating four sample visuals that demonstrate the campaign aesthetic. While those render, let me deliver the
562. 1:39:51complete campaign strategy document. [clears throat] The great repurpose space returned is not the same as space
563. 1:40:07used. What would you do with the time? Oh, I love that one. You were never your tasks, huh?
564. 1:40:23Um, I'm going to say never. Okay, that's cool. All right. Oh, it's still going. Oh, post 13.
565. 1:40:39So, what are the posts here? Post one, LinkedIn naming post. Visual concept, contemplative pro profile portrait of a natural window.
566. 1:40:50Person gazing away from the camera. Objective. Plant the seed. No expectation needed. No explanation needed. Let it land.
567. 1:41:00Platform two. Naming post. Empty desk by a window. Morning light. A single shot. Huh? Um,
568. 1:41:17post 26, post 27, post 28. So, this is a So, this is a whole campaign. I did write I did tell it to write a campaign brief, didn't I?
569. 1:41:31Wow, this is crazy. All right, let's let's keep that going. Okay, I want to go I want to go back and look at perplexity
570. 1:41:42and see what it did with the research key findings. Work work centrality is defined as the overall importance of an individual
571. 1:41:54attached to work. People with high work centrality see work as core as a core life domain rather than just a source of
572. 1:42:03income. Highwork centrality is associated with greater willingness to invest time, energy, and competencies at
573. 1:42:11work. And success at work becomes especially meaningful for self-verification and self-actualization. That's really good.
574. 1:42:20Metaanalytic work using social identity lenses finds that stronger occupation and organizational identities predict
575. 1:42:31predict longer work hours. Work centrality is one of the components of this occupational identity pattern.
576. 1:42:40Wow, this is fascinating. Evidence table download comment export as PDF. That's cool.
577. 1:42:59Yeah, we'll export this as PDF and then we'll load it into the project. Counter evidence and descent. Multiple
578. 1:43:07identities. Work is only one of several salient roles. Social identity perspectives emphasize that behavior is
579. 1:43:15affected by the intensity and relative salience of multiple identities, not by a single identity such as work.
580. 1:43:25High work or or work family centrality may be not normative for all groups. Identity cost. Okay, this is cool. gaps,
581. 1:43:34limits, and uncertainty. I like it. All right, [clears throat] let's download this as a PDF. Okay, let's go look at it and make sure we got
582. 1:43:48what what that was. Yep, that's it. Okay, good. Let's go look at Manis and see what it did, what it came up with.
583. 1:44:01Final open questions and deliver research dossier. So, where's my research? Ah, look at this evidence table. Open questions and
584. 1:44:11research annotated bibliography. Core thesis. Here we go. The argument spine. The great repurpose initiative is
585. 1:44:17founded on the premise that the nature of technological change specifically the rise of AIdriven automation is creating
586. 1:44:24a crisis of meaning identity in modern workcentric societies. The crisis stems from the fact that the automation is
587. 1:44:31primarily removing or transforming the tasks that con constitute work rather than eliminating jobs wholesale. The
588. 1:44:39process of task erosion disrupts deeply ingrained cultural and psychological link. Okay. Core thesis um supporting claims work is primarily
589. 1:44:52culturally enforced source of identity and value. Okay, let's see. crisis race explicit boundary conditions strongest counterargument is the
590. 1:45:04historical resilience and augmentation thesis. The perspective rooted in economic theory argues that technological change
591. 1:45:12including automation has historically led to augmentation not alienation.
592. 1:45:34The historical resilience thesis is descriptive is descriptive of economic outcomes but fails to account for the
593. 1:45:41psychological and sociological chain of reasoning. While new tasks are created, the rate and cognitive nature of AIdriven task
594. 1:45:56displacement are unprecedented and the psychological cost of this transition is a legitimate and measurable phenomenon. The rebuttal is
595. 1:46:07not that new jobs won't be created, but the cultural construct of value tied to tasks is so deeply embedded that its
596. 1:46:15erosion causes structural identity vacuum. s [clears throat] that is not automatically filled by new economic opportunities. The repurposing
597. 1:46:26is therefore a sociological and psychological imperative, not just an economic one. The claim ledger. This is cool.
598. 1:46:37All right, let's download this. Boom. Did we download it? Oh, we'll go PDF. We don't need to edit it. >> [cough and clears throat]
599. 1:46:50>> We'll trust Manis that it did its work. Should we trust Manis? No. Annotated bibliography. We'll download this. Boom. Uh PDF.
600. 1:47:06Open questions. Let's We'll grab these PDF the evidence table. Yeah, let's grab the
601. 1:47:22evidence table. [laughter] Okay, now we're going to go back to chat. Japet. We're going to go back out to our
602. 1:47:33project Tik Tok pin. This entire show has been one long prompt. Yeah, I'll be busy with this tomorrow. Born of
603. 1:47:40responsibility. Go back to Native American 7th generation thinking. Born of responsibility. Family and community services. Measure
604. 1:47:49of happiness. Metacognition is the new success strategy. Adaptability. The domain is available by the way. Okay, let's go grab it. Um
605. 1:48:02networks solutions.com uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh [clears throat]
606. 1:48:21uh D
607. 1:48:36Verify your account. Carrying on, sir. rather cheerio. Pip pip. [clears throat]
608. 1:49:06Is he always this annoying? Always. Shang ding ding ding ding ding domain search. Why? What? No, I don't want AI domain search. Can I
609. 1:49:21just Where's your [ __ ] Can I just [clears throat] What? Why? I just want a domain search. I don't want an AI domain search. Manage your
610. 1:49:37domains. Your credit card has expired. Transfer my do. Find your future domain. Great. The great repurpose or just great
611. 1:49:52repurpose? The great repurpose.com. Okay. We couldn't find anything that
612. 1:50:07matched your search. [sighs] Okay. Could could someone please yell at these people to like make a a normal [ __ ] interface?
613. 1:50:22The the great repurpose.com. It's all AI search now.
614. 1:50:45I I I'll go to GoDaddy. Jesus Christ, this is horrible.
615. 1:51:04Get it. The great repurpose. Did I spell that right? [snorts] Did I get it?
616. 1:51:18Continue. I don't want domain protection. I don't want all your stupid [ __ ] [ __ ]
617. 1:51:32[laughter]
618. 1:51:53the great repurpose.com. Ready for checkout. Are you ready for some football?
619. 1:52:11Three years. I know that's stupid, isn't it? But I get a year for a penny if I do three years.
620. 1:52:44>> [sighs and gasps] >> Cursing night today. I prefer philosophical nights. Yeah, we're building stuff. You're going to get some cursing.
621. 1:52:53You're going to get some cursing. Confirm your business info. What the [ __ ] is this?
622. 1:53:07It's trying to [clears throat] build you a website. You could just skip it. [laughter] >> Okay, it's yours. I got it. Okay, great.
623. 1:53:16Beautiful. All right, done. Let's go back to chat. GPT. Here's our thing. Now, let's add We're going to add files. So, what I'm going to do
624. 1:53:29is I'm going to go out here to Finder. I'm going to go to my little downloads. I got evidence questions. this this this
625. 1:53:38and we're going to drag this here. Right. Memory default
626. 1:53:53add. Oh, I guess they're already added. Okay. Instructions. Okay, good. Great. So, now it's got research in
627. 1:54:08there. Um, give me the five most interesting
628. 1:54:24pieces of research about the validity of this initiative.
629. 1:54:42>> [clears throat] >> work is not just what we do. It's a primary identity scaffold. Why this matters?
630. 1:54:56Key findings. What's interesting, work identity is measured across dimensions like centrality, self-expression, and value
631. 1:55:10alignment. People people interpret career success as self-verification, not just achievement. What do you do genuinely functions as
632. 1:55:21who are you in social cognition? That's the one to me that is the big one. What do you do? How many hours do you put into which job
633. 1:55:33that generates how much money for the economy is the question who are you? [laughter] It's [ __ ] up. It's [ __ ] up man.
634. 1:55:46Automation removes tasks not jobs. And that distinction distinction is psychologically huge. Why this matters? This is a keystone
635. 1:55:54mechanism of your argument. Economic and organizational research consistently shows that AI and automation primarily
636. 1:56:01erode tasks within jobs rather than eliminate jobs outright. Right? Unemployment numbers can remain stable
637. 1:56:09while the substance of work changes dramatically. That's the other thing is people are going to have to like shift who they are.
638. 1:56:18Task loss disproportionately affects the most identitydefining functions of roles. Remaining tasks are often
639. 1:56:26fragmented, supervisory or abstracted. Workers stay employed but feel less functionally necessary. Yeah, this is good.
640. 1:56:37Task loss produces identity threat even when employment continues. This is powerful. Oops. Work centric identity is cultural which
641. 1:56:50means the crisis is real but not universal. Yeah, non-work sources of meaning exist but are underultivated at scale.
642. 1:57:01Family, creativity, community participation, and spirituality are all robust sources of meaning and identity,
643. 1:57:08but modern societies systematically treat them as secondary to work. There you go. That iceberg is about to flip. Also,
644. 1:57:17time check. Yeah, I know it's time. It's late. It's late. It's late. But this is exciting. Let's go look at if uh Gen
645. 1:57:26Spark Designer made any other [ __ ] Oh, it was still writing. I'm going to just say make me um 10 more images for your posts.
646. 1:57:43Oh, I can't. You've used all your credits. All right, [ __ ] it. All right, there you go, people. Um,
647. 1:57:51that was uh that was a fascinating night for me anyway. I hope it was fascinating for you. Um, we'll continue this tomorrow. All right.
648. 1:58:04Thoughts? Anyone have any questions about what just happened? We were born of rights. Changed to born of responsibility.
649. 1:58:16Loved it tonight, Kyle and my fellow classmates. No questions about the hair. You can ask about the hair. I told you I'm coming in
650. 1:58:25hot, full chaos tonight. And it was tonight was a chaos night. But here, this is the thing about AI. Like I think
651. 1:58:34if there if there is a lesson out of tonight, it is that you can start from a place of absolute nothingness, having no idea.
652. 1:58:47And if you just allow yourself to be at the center of the conversation and just steer AI a little left, a little right,
653. 1:58:59and maybe do it in community with other people going, "Oh, what about this? What about this? What about that?" You can
654. 1:59:06end up in in a in a really deep and profound place very very quickly. um that ability is going to get more and more and more intense.
655. 1:59:19And those of us that can understand that this is possible, like the the comment earlier about, you know, this is like a therapy session.
656. 1:59:30Yeah. Like this went from a therapy session to maybe we should raise $30 million, right? [laughter] make this. That was a good way to show
657. 1:59:40how much these tools can do with a human. Yeah, exactly. Like like it's like the things that the things that are
658. 1:59:49going to rise above the noise are when people take their passions and use these tools to amplify them.
659. 2:00:00That's the [ __ ] that's going to rise above the noise. It's humans elevated, not tasks automated. Ooh, that's good.
660. 2:00:08Someone write that down. Wait, let me I'm going to go add it to our little project. Um, here's
661. 2:00:22Okay, wait. Here's a new tagline. It's humans elevated, not tasks automated. That's what the great repurpose is all about.
662. 2:00:37[sighs] All right. Beautiful people. Beautiful. Fantastic. Searching project context. Yes, that's it. That line nails the soul of the
663. 2:00:49great repurpose. Humans elevated, not tasks automated. It actually this could be a tagline for for the salon.ai, too.
664. 2:00:58Humans elevated, not tasks automated. This cleanly flip flips the dominant AI narrative on its head. And it does it
665. 2:01:05without sounding defensive, technical, or preachy. There you go. All right, time to go. [laughter] My takeaway, tell it to quit
666. 2:01:21being a ninny. Yes. Tell your tell your chat GPT to quit being a ninny if indeed it's being a ninny. And if you don't
667. 2:01:30know what a ninny is, you have chat GPT to explain that to you. Okay, tomorrow mastermind practice lab at 10 a.m.
668. 2:01:37Mountain noon Eastern. Uh be there if you're a member of the mastermind. If you're not a member of the mastermind in
669. 2:01:43the salon.ai, get your butt over there. Okay. Um if you go to the events tab, there's lots of events coming up. We've got Friday.
670. 2:01:56We've got Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday. There's a bunch of events coming up. Lots going on. So, go check
671. 2:02:02that [ __ ] out. Okay. Um, thank you all for indulging me tonight. I know this was meandering, but uh I think we
672. 2:02:10ultimately got something interesting. I hope I don't I don't I don't know what I taught tonight because I don't know what
673. 2:02:16I did. I don't really know what I learned, but I know that it was a useful exercise. So maybe at some point someone can
674. 2:02:27reflect back to me what actually happened tonight. This was meandering, but I think we got somewhere interesting. Is is the show's
675. 2:02:36tagline. [laughter] That's it. This was meandering, but I think we got somewhere. That's it. All right, everyone. Have a good night and
676. 2:02:45I'll see you tomorrow. Bye. >> [clears throat]