12/31/2025 - Turning Chicken Scratch Goals into a 2026 AI Creative Brief

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1. 0:00Are you ready? Are you ready, doggy? Doggy, are you ready? Are you ready? [music]
2. 0:17It's not simple to say. The most days I don't recognize me with these shoes and this apron. That place and its patience
3. 0:31have taken more than I gave them. It's not easy [singing] to know I'm not anything like I used to be.
4. 0:42Although it's true I was never attention sweet center. I still remember that girl. She's imperfect [music and singing] but she tries.
5. 0:56She is good, but she lies. She is hard [singing] on herself. [music] She's broken and won't ask for help. She is messy, but she's kind.
6. 1:12She's lonely. Most of the time she's all of this [singing] mixed up and baked a beautiful pie. [music] She's [singing] gone, but
7. 1:24she used to be mad. [music]
8. 1:40[music] >> [music]
9. 2:08[music]
10. 2:23>> 10,000 words swarm around my [music and singing] head. A million more in books written beneath my bed.
11. 2:34I wrote or read them all when searching in the swarm. Still can't find how to hold my hands. [music] And I know you need [singing] me in the
12. 2:47next room over. I am stuck in here on paralyzed. [music] For months I got myself in ruts. Too [music and singing] much time spinning
13. 3:00mirrors framed in yellow walls. >> [music] >> Ain't it like most people? I'm no different. [music] Like to talk on [singing] things we
14. 3:12don't know about. [music] Well, ain't it like [singing] most people? I'm [music] no different. Like to talk on things we don't know about.
15. 3:34Happy New Year's Eve, people. It's New Year's Eve. It's If Steo's in here, he's in the future. Steo is coming to us from the future.
16. 3:44It's 2026 where he is. Steo, he's here. [laughter] It's like watching the History Channel. Oh yeah, I am a 2025 garb for sure. My
17. 4:01my old uh cashless clay shirt from Bosot. [music] Happy New Year's Steo down under [clears throat] coming to us from the future.
18. 4:15Here at the AI Learning Lab, we got people from all over. From east and from west and from north and from south and
19. 4:22from the future and from the past. We got them all. Welcome everybody. [music] [music]
20. 4:39[music]
21. 4:58>> [music] [music] >> I see you tucking on your shirt,
22. 5:12trying to [singing] hide inside of it. [music] That how much it hurts. >> [music]
23. 5:26[music] [music] >> So listen, here is some cool news.
24. 5:41[music] Um, there is one day left to get the AI salon mastermind cams. Yes, cameras. Cameras, black bar. Happy new year, Joy
25. 5:56Perie. Todd Walker. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Uh, there is one day left to get the AI salon mastermind at 20 bucks
26. 6:05a month or 200 bucks a year. Um, which if you lock it in now, you have it forever. Long as you're long as you keep active.
27. 6:14Um, and we got a rash. Andy sent out a uh an email today. Hang on. I got I got schmutz on my lens. I had to deal with the schmutz on the
28. 6:26lens. It was driving me crazy. It's driving me crazy. Okay. Fantastic. Fantastic. There we go. All right. I'm going to do that and do that.
29. 6:38We're going to do black bar. Anyway, Andy sent out an email and said, "Hey y'all, happy new year. [clears throat]
30. 6:51So, a pile of new people. And then we've got tomorrow is actually really exciting." So, tomorrow we've got
31. 6:58I think it's our seventh or eighth week of the AI salon mastermind practice lab. My daughter asked if you were the
32. 7:09the guy from Up. [laughter] [laughter] That's pretty cute. That is pretty cute. I like it. Tell your daughter
33. 7:24[clears throat] I approve of her question. It's quite good. Um, [music] [music]
34. 7:39Lori Ryan on on LinkedIn. Can't believe it's New Year's. Cheers to this community. Let's [ __ ] go. Let's [ __ ] do this. [music]
35. 7:48I had a really good day today. Really good day. Um, lots of people, lots of people showing a lot of love for
36. 7:56AI Festivus. What what we we pulled it off this past weekend. If you weren't there, it was a remarkable event. If you
37. 8:04want to buy the uh the replay bundle, which is which it's got so much crap in it. Not crap, it's got so much amazing
38. 8:11stuff in it. It is staggering to me that we're still selling it for 27 bucks, but it's 27 bucks. It's all 24 sessions or
39. 8:19however many there were. 24 hours of programming. Um, and it is um, you get all the the presentations, you get you
40. 8:27get all the stuff. So, so that's there. We've this is also the last day of $20 a month AI salon mastermind. So, there's a
41. 8:36lot of that activity. Um, I also was interviewed for a pretty [music] pretty popular podcast today and it just went
42. 8:46great. It went great. like we got done and the the host was like, "Dude, that was good. It was really good." Um, that
43. 8:56rarely happens. Um, [music] and what was cool about it was [music] I've got to credit him, and I'm not
44. 9:07going to talk about it until it's out. I just want to I want to respect his, you know, editing process and things like
45. 9:12that. But what was cool about it was we did a precall um last week and he just got me talking and [laughter] at one
46. 9:22point he goes, "Well, stop talking. I get this. I know some live streamers. I get that you can just talk about
47. 9:27anything forever." He goes, "This this thing you said here about the AI cycle of AI readiness and AI salon, play
48. 9:34first, create excellence, generously lead." He goes, "That one's that's really interesting. Can we dig into
49. 9:38that?" And so he kind of narrowed the focus of the talk to really unpacking that. And I tied it together with the AI
50. 9:45salon mastermind practice, which the mastermind practice is this expanded version of the AI readiness cycle turned
51. 9:53into a framework for a daily practice centered around AI. And so it was just a really focused, clear, um, concise
52. 10:09talk about all the stuff that this community, this community, the AI AI learning lab community has learned together over the
53. 10:18past three years. And and it just felt really good. It was like it was like a perfect way to like end 2025. Like 2025 was [ __ ] rough. I
54. 10:32don't know if it was rough for you, but many people that I talk to [laughter] are like, "Good riddens 2025." So to end
55. 10:41it on a really banger day is nice. And then I get to come here and do this. And if you don't know how many folks we have
56. 10:49in here, oh, we've got just a handful of people. It's probably just the irregulars. So, you all know this, but
57. 10:54we're we're we're shifting the focus of the AI learning lab to be more like a place where I I actually do my daily
58. 11:03practice. Oh, Jim Ross just purchased the uh AI salon mastermind. That's awesome. [music] So anyway, so tomorrow
59. 11:15at noon Eastern is the AI Salon Mastermind Practice Lab with myself and Liz Miller Gersfeld co-hosting. Um,
60. 11:24we're going to have a lot of new people there. [laughter] There's going to be a lot of new people there. So, if those of
61. 11:30you who are on the call have been there before, it's going to have a different energy to it. And I'm and what I'm
62. 11:36hoping what I'm hoping is that some of those people are brand new to AI, right? I would love for this to be a mix of
63. 11:45people who've been doing it for three years and, you know, kind of have your head around things, but you're trying to
64. 11:51figure out this daily practice and people that are just like, I don't know what the hell I'm doing. And just that
65. 11:56energy of people trying to figure it out together, I think it's going to be quite powerful. So, Lori Ryan, you are crushing it. Oh,
66. 12:04thank you so much. That's very sweet. Community is everything, right? Yeah. Go Jim Ross. I know. [music]
67. 12:12Stacy Rodriguez, happy new year, Kyle. Champion, everyone. Love that. [music] I can be anything you need me to be, Kyle. Oh, that's so cool.
68. 12:27That is really good, good, good, good, good. Um, so anyway, so happy New Year's to everyone. [music] [cough and clears throat]
69. 12:47[music] I got a I got the uh a new edit of the Sydney podcast. So, we were working last night on [snorts] some of the visuals
70. 13:00for that. um for that video. Um and andrew, my my writing partner, did an audio edit of the Notebook LM. We did
71. 13:09two different Notebook LM podcasts and then he edited them together, took the best things that were said out of both.
72. 13:17Um he cut in the songs and uh and so we've got a new thing to cut to. So that's really exciting. >> [music]
73. 13:36>> And then the other thing I wanted to do tonight, and I think I might start with that, is I I went I went analog. I went
74. 13:45non chat GPT for my my Cindy [ __ ] inspired three themes for 2026. And I [snorts] think I talked about these. My
75. 13:55three themes for 2026 are monetizing content, focus focus on or monetizable content, focus on make sure I'm getting all my [ __ ] done
76. 14:05that is monetizable. And like that podcast today, um the guy sent me the recording of it. He said, "I think this
77. 14:13is really powerful. I think this could be a keynote. I think this could be a potentially a second book." Or in my
78. 14:19case, it would be a fourth book. So I'm working on a third book right now. Um, and maybe this is a new book. So,
79. 14:24monetizable content is one of my pillars, one of my themes. The other of my themes is one that I find quite
80. 14:32intimidating, which is AI amplified social media. And why I find that find that intimidating is I was an innovator
81. 14:41in the early days of the worldwide web. So, I'm very comfortable with web. And then when I sold that company and, you
82. 14:49know, went off and did other stuff and social media showed up, I was just like, I have zero interest in learning
83. 14:56anything about any of that [ __ ] And so I basically just ignored learning social media. [laughter] It's bad. It's really bad. And so this
84. 15:07year, I'm going to [ __ ] suck it up and sit through the ick and and put together things like content calendars
85. 15:13and maybe learn to use tools like Blot. I don't know what. And then the third theme for me this year is um people
86. 15:23centric projects. Rather than thinking of projects as entities that have to-do lists, I'm going to start thinking of
87. 15:30projects as there are key people who are putting energy into some idea of mine and they need things in order to support
88. 15:40me. And so I'm going to start thinking of projects as there's a there's a collection of people that I need to make
89. 15:46sure do they have what they need? And I don't know what that looks like. I don't know how to manage that. I don't know if
90. 15:52I'm going to keep up with that. Um but that to me feels important and exciting. So anyway, [clears throat] so I've got
91. 15:59this chicken scratch on, you know, wood pulp and I figured what might be good tonight because I want to turn these into I want
92. 16:07to turn these into kind of inspiring things that I can have around me and and as I come in here because this is going
93. 16:14to be a daily practice. Now part of the daily practice is look at the stuff you're working on. Look at those projects and intentionally
94. 16:24go do the things that you may not want to do. Make sure that you've got things set up for success. Elevate your game as we talked about. Um,
95. 16:34[clears throat] Dr. Jay's in the house. Joy Pie's here. Wolfman Clint's here. Got a ton of people. [music]
96. 16:51[music] >> [music]
97. 17:06[music] [music] >> I'm watching TV and they're talking about Laboos.
98. 17:20[laughter] >> [music] >> The only thing that annoys me about labuboos as a Gen Xer I reserve the right to be annoyed by anything and
99. 17:29labuboos annoy me one because I didn't hear until it was too late that they were a big deal. Normally I feel like
100. 17:37I'm up on the zeitgeist. I don't have that anymore. And um the other thing that bugs me about them is that, you
101. 17:46know, I've never invented something that turned into a laboo moment. I'm like, I want to make $10 million in nine months
102. 17:53and then be completely irrelevant. I'll take that. I'll take that $10 million. [laughter] >> [music]
103. 18:12>> And Murphy in the house. And Murphy in the house. [music] And I don't know if have you been paying attention to LinkedIn? Like people are
104. 18:25just loving loving what they learned at Festivus. They're loving it. Um, happy new year. Cheers to the community
105. 18:36you've built. Grateful for the connections I've made through this. Please know how [music] much everything
106. 18:41you are doing matters. Oh, that's very sweet. Very, very sweet. [music] Oh, one of the things you get I
107. 18:52mentioned before Ann, I I told them I told them they should pick up the deluxe replay bundle from Festivus and I said
108. 18:58it's got all this crap in it. [laughter] I corrected myself though. I said it's got all this awesome stuff in it. Um,
109. 19:07but one of the awesome things that's in it is um Ann Murphy made a Gemini gem um of all the content. So, you can actually
110. 19:15go in and just query all the all the stuff that's in there. So, super exciting. [music] Oh, good. Uh, and Brandon just updated
111. 19:25me that day one of the Jelly Pod podcasts are done. So for every session we're going to have a podcast. So you'll
112. 19:32have you'll have the session you can watch. You'll have people talking about the session. You'll have a gem that you
113. 19:38can go do the session. You'll have powerpoints. You'll have transcripts. I mean it's just if you want to if you run
114. 19:44really want to maximize the impact of Festivus for 27 bucks and a little bit of your time probably a pretty good
115. 19:52idea. And if you want to know where to get that just go to afestivist.com. It's the first link there. Oh man. [music]
116. 20:02Let's see. Laboos are an That's from Vicki. Gatis' dolls that were fed [laughter] after midnight. Oh, that's funny.
117. 20:17Um, I do know that Dr. J has created a song for us called the Irregulars. So, I think this is a a way to [music] Is that Pate M?
118. 20:30Pate M in the house. Pate. Now, listen. Pate has been busy. I don't know if you know this. If you don't know Pate Mod,
119. 20:37you should know Pate M. So, Pate M has been a longtime irregular. Um, he also works at the GooG. He works at the GooG.
120. 20:45Hey, P. Pate, did you hear that? We got um Logan Kilpatrick spoke at at Festivus. I got to interview Logan. It
121. 20:50was it was really good, dude. Dude is wicked smart. wicked smart as they say. Um anyway, PET works on TPUs, which are
122. 21:01Google's, you know, AI inference engines, and I assume they can do more than inference, but they're they're like
123. 21:07GPUs. They're TPUs. They're they're more simplified, focused versions of what a GPU does. and he works on making those
124. 21:15more and more efficient, which given how good Google Gemini has gotten in the past uh six months. I would think
125. 21:23[music] that those TPUs are are mighty warm, [laughter] so busy these days. Very cool. I I got to tell you like the I was so blown away
126. 21:34that that Logan found the time um to join us. But what he recognized, one of the first things we talked about was
127. 21:41community. and he said that he thinks that the value the value of community is on an exponential and I I couldn't agree more and you know
128. 21:53he he was just talking about like things are going to be changing fast and you need to be around people who are
129. 21:58thoughtfully trying to figure out how to use this stuff. So anyway um really good to see Pate here. Um happy new year to
130. 22:05everybody. I hope your 2025 was solid. Or if it was shitty, then I hope you're celebrating tonight like a banshee. Good rhythms 2025.
131. 22:19Um, we're going to do some amazing things in 2026 in the AI salon and here and in the in the uh AI salon mastermind
132. 22:27practice lab um and just the mastermind in general. We we've got all sorts of ideas for what we're going to do in
133. 22:332026. So TPUs are hot. Gemini 3 was fully trained on the latest TPU version. So they do training, too. Good. Awesome.
134. 22:41Awesome. I I mean, I got to tell you, man, between Nano Banana and Gemini 3, um, and I was talking to to Logan about
135. 22:50this at Festivus that the you know, Pate [laughter] how I used to [ __ ] incessantly about how horrific Google's
136. 23:00like the ability to find anything. like they would announce [ __ ] and then you just couldn't find it because it was on
137. 23:05some obscure URL somewhere like that pretty much seems to have been solved, right? It's like it's like you're go to
138. 23:14studio and there's you know even if you're a vibe coding developer like you don't have to be a big-time developer.
139. 23:20It's easy enough that non-developers can use it. Gemini is really good and then labs.google.com google.com is is full of
140. 23:27cool stuff, but it's like there's these three clear lanes for people to go and it's just really good. So anyway, um I
141. 23:34know you suffered through two years of me whining about Google and I'm kind of on the other side right now. I think
142. 23:40OpenAI at this point has kind of lost the plot and they need to get their [ __ ] together. So [laughter]
143. 23:50dear dear Sam. Hey Sam. Sam. Sam. Yeah, Sam, listen. Listen, you know how you had the lead and everything and you were
144. 23:59like king of the mountain? Yeah. Um I was Hey, I was wondering if you could go on ahead. You know, one thing that would
145. 24:07be really cool is if um like in in your chat GPT, you know, it makes images, you know, if you could make them like, you
146. 24:14know, the the same aspect ratio as [ __ ] Tik Tok. Like that would be one. It's been a year. >> [laughter]
147. 24:25>> GPT still can't make a 16 by9 image. [laughter] All right, with that, let's go listen to a song, shall we? [laughter]
148. 24:37Let me I got to change my sharing. Let me uh let me stop that. Go here. Do that. [clears throat] Go to AI learning lab. All right.
149. 24:54>> [clears throat] >> I don't know if this is a video. I don't know what this is. Oh, we went straight to Sunno. Cool.
150. 25:01It's 9:00 central on a week night. The irregular crowd shuffles in. Ah, there's Alio's wife watching over us. Wonder
151. 25:08welcoming everyone when they come in. Oh my god, it's going to choke me up. That is sweet. All right, let's listen. This
152. 25:15is awesome. Oh, wait. It went to a new tab. Tabs. Producer Brandon said he's going to be on listen only, [laughter]
153. 25:21but first first thing he does is tabs, tabs, tabs. Black bar, black bar, black bar, tabs, tabs. All right, here we go.
154. 25:29This is from Dr. J Claire. It's 9:00 [singing and music] on a week night. >> This is going to make me cry.
155. 25:40>> Irregular crowd [music] shuffles in. There's Emilio's wife watching over [singing] us, welcoming everyone as they come in.
156. 25:53There's a glow from the AI learning lab [music] as our screens start to flicker. >> And we log in half asleep, half hopeful,
157. 26:07chasing [music] that Kevin Mallister, >> right? [music] There's Kyle on the mic with his guitar. Swearing freely, but [singing] always
158. 26:22with love. [music] Got an ADHD mind that [music] won't quit with 40 open tabs or above. Champy's howling in black and white
159. 26:37harmony like he knows every word of [music and singing] the song. And Brandon keeps waving from backstage. [music]
160. 26:48Close [singing] the tabs, Kyle. You're dragging us [music] long. Sing us a song. You're the regular. Sing us [singing] tonight. You can.
161. 27:03You can make money. Chat GPT. [singing and music] Yeah, we're all trying [music and singing] to understand.
162. 27:20Vicky remembers what Kyle forgets. [laughter] Every prompt, every tool, [singing] all the threads. Silver Fox says, "Here's the scenic
163. 27:32room." And new pathways light up in [singing and music] our heads. Kelly's building her business with AI.
164. 27:43Tools by tools, she [music] gets folks [singing] good to go. Danielle gives us all of the latest finds while Steo waves high from tomorrow.
165. 27:58Sing [music] us a song. You're the irregular. [singing] Make it clever, scrappy, and true. You can make [singing and music] money
166. 28:09with Chpt PT or maybe build [music] something that sounds like you joy watching while cutting footage
167. 28:25surrounded [singing and music] by people asleep. Lord digital guide saves every [music] recording tags [singing] every gem we
168. 28:35forgot we would need. And Dr. J's there every [singing] night without [music] fail through the glitches, the laughs, and the spins.
169. 28:48Because this isn't [music] just learning machines now. It's the place where we all check [music and singing] back in.
170. 28:59It's a strange little space on the internet on Tik Tok [music] YouTube but not straight lace LinkedIn where ideas run too wild past bedtime
171. 29:12[music and singing] and nobody minds if you wander back [singing] in. Sing us [music] a song. You're the regular. [singing]
172. 29:24We're not polished. We're [music] early with zeal. Sure, you can make money with Chad GP, [singing and music] but it's the people that
173. 29:38[music and singing] make it all real. And the green lights fade one by one now as tomorrow slowly creeps in.
174. 29:50Yeah, we'll all log out smarter than yesterday. Still chasing [music] that Kevin Mallister grin. >> A so sweet.
175. 30:06So sweet. I'm not crying. You are. [laughter] That was very cool. Um, someone asked about the mastermind. If you go to um
176. 30:19go ahead and share my share my screen again, Brandon. If you go to community.thesalon.ai AI where it says
177. 30:26start your adventure. The fourth tab, the fourth button is join the AI salon mastermind. Okay? And you can learn about it there.
178. 30:36And then you click this giant button, join the mastermind. And that'll take you to the monthly or yearly subscription. All right,
179. 30:50that's how you find that. Also, download your Oh, download your Sunno music tonight before midnight. Why? What? What are they doing?
180. 31:00Oh, only paid users. If you're not a paid Sunno member, yeah, tonight is the last night you can get your music off there.
181. 31:08Sharon Crawford, I'm not crying. You're crying, Lord Digital Gods. Excellent. [music] My husband even listened. Oh,
182. 31:15that's so cool. So sweet. I love the nod to Amelio's wife in there looking over us. She's She absolutely
183. 31:22is. She's absolutely welcoming everyone in. She's still doing the same job she did before. She's just doing it from,
184. 31:28you know, a higher plane, which is that's what we need. We need some more higher plane higher plane existence in here, you know. [music]
185. 31:39Oh, there's another thing that Brandon put in the salon that I'm kind of obsessed with. Where is it? In community feed. Okay. So below
186. 31:50the the sort of top four things here, right? There's welcome, there's the welcome thing that you land on when you
187. 31:55join the salon. There's introduce yourself, learn our values, learn about the mastermind, and then right below
188. 31:59that is the events and community feed section. If you go into community feed, ah look, we still have a festivist banner up there. [laughter]
189. 32:12You should go click on festivist because you can pick up the replay. But if you scroll down past Roger Mud, there's a
190. 32:18post from Brandon Tid using our super cool neon graphics thing that is AI Salon New Year's resolutions. So, do me
191. 32:27a favor. Head on over to the community feed and put your New Year's resolutions in. I guess is is this AI resolutions? I
192. 32:37don't think it should be. I think it could be around AI, but maybe it's like starting a personal practice using AI or
193. 32:43whatever it is. Prompt is in the comments. Great. Beautiful. There you go. Need some inspiration. Copy and
194. 32:49paste the chat this prompt into the chat hole. Given everything you know about me, what should be my top three New
195. 32:54Year's resolutions? Love that. So, come in here and share them. Okay. And do it creatively. All right. All right. All right, everybody.
196. 33:05All right. Yeah, it's fantastic. Okay. [laughter] Oh, man. Okay. [music]
197. 33:23[music] >> [music] >> Okay, enough comedy jokes.
198. 33:39Let me drink some water. Let me get hydrated here. People, look at my hair. Pav on Tik Tok. Pav. Pav. Pav. Pav. Pav.
199. 33:49Yeah. Pav. I don't see it. There's not a pin. Oh, scroll up. do
200. 34:03pav there are so many people to thank for the past year Kyle you're one of them that introduced me to AI thanks thank
201. 34:10you sir um I you know great awesome um I you know introduced you to AI but also introduced you to this remarkable
202. 34:21community right [laughter] so so uh this is This is a lot bigger than than me. Um, beautiful though. Kyle's hair is already in 2026
203. 34:33[laughter] and some in 2027. Troll trolling Kyle is is a pastime on the AI learning lab. Um, okay. Here's
204. 34:46what we're going to do. Follow the link in Mighty Network's mastermind. Join mastermind about description, but no link to pay. Huh?
205. 34:55Hold, please. Let me go look. Go here. I see a button. Here. Um, share my screen, Brandon. Or I can go, dude, if you're not there.
206. 35:08Are you there? Okay. So, you go to on the left hand side. I go to join AI salon mastermind. Then I click that that
207. 35:18orange banner. This thing. This is this is there's some bad interface here. Um it doesn't look like there's a button to
208. 35:27do anything. So if you're just looking through this and you just think that these things are banners. We've got to
209. 35:32we've got to put like a giant click here to buy now on this thing. It says join the mastermind, but it's not clear that
210. 35:39it's a button. This is actually a button. And then there's the subscribe. So there's the monthly and then I think
211. 35:44the annual's in here as well. I don't actually see the annual. Am I going to the Are you going to subscribe?
212. 36:00Oh, maybe. No, I'm not. Cuz this says this says Wait, at the top it says subscribe. Oh, I am. Sorry. [laughter]
213. 36:13Wait. Is that Is that That's what you want though, right? So, it's an iOS device and I have to switch to a browser. I don't know that.
214. 36:23I don't know. You know what? I'm holding my credit card, only a web browser. You can't purchase it from an iOS device. Hey, Brandon,
215. 36:35listen. Oh, I have exciting news. I have exciting news. Um, producer Brandon has officially joined the AI Salon team. Um,
216. 36:44and I You're like, well, he's been a producer for a year. He has [laughter] he's been like working his ass off, but
217. 36:50we've we've officially brought him on. Um, can you please take a note? Two two notes, Brandon. One is the button the
218. 36:59button to join the mastermind should be more clearly a button. And then the second one is if you can't buy from iOS,
219. 37:07that's [ __ ] up. [laughter] It's always been that that way. It's a Oh, Vicki. It's always been that way.
220. 37:17Not a salon thing, a Mighty Networks thing. Really? That seems Don't blame me. [laughter] I'm on Android. Um, okay. It seems to me
221. 37:30we should be able to put a hyperlink somewhere on a page that someone on an iOS device can click on. No, really.
222. 37:40Take my money here. I can't take your money. Um, but if you can get on a browser, [laughter] we're like, join the AI salon. And the
223. 37:49the lovely thing about the irregulars is they're like, okay, I can't do it anywhere. I'll wait. [laughter]
224. 38:00Oh man, please do not put your credit card info in the comments. Yeah, please don't do that. [laughter]
225. 38:06Um, there's a reason why you can't buy from iOS. Oh, would you like to give 30% to Apple? Oh, that that whole horseshit
226. 38:12thing. Okay. Um, [snorts] anyway. Okay. Good. All right. Let's get going. It's time to do some work. It's time to
227. 38:21do some work. Um, one of the things that So, so again, if if you've joined in the past 10 minutes or so, welcome. Hang on. I'm ped.
228. 38:36Um, one of the things that I'm going to do in 2026 is I'm going to turn this channel into my own personal
229. 38:49daily practice time. So, so Jim Ross has this um I don't know if you know what a Pomodoro timer is, but it's basically just a
230. 38:58a timer, like a kitchen timer, and it's a it's a work device, and every morning he sets it to 60 minutes, and he just
231. 39:06does AI for 60 minutes, but toward his business. So, he's either learning or he's building something or he's executing
232. 39:14something using AI on behalf of his business. This channel used to be just about me like finding tools and talking about
233. 39:22them. And what struck me as I've been doing this daily practice within the AI salon is that is that I had this space
234. 39:30this space that I wasn't using like a practice. And if you're if you're wondering why everyone's so excited
235. 39:37about, you know, getting in on the AI salon mastermind, tonight's the last night that it's 20 bucks a month. It goes up to 49 tomorrow. Um,
236. 39:46but also like people saw Liz Miller Gersfeld speak at Festivus and um, it became clear you kind of want to be in
237. 39:55her presence and and especially the the the practice lab where you get to to really understand what the
238. 40:05framework is that we've put together and how to apply that to your life. It's it's a very powerful space. Um,
239. 40:13so, so, so that's so what I'm going to start doing here is, you know, taking these three themes that I've, I've
240. 40:21narrowed my work, the work that I'm going to prioritize and focus in 2026 is narrowed to three themes. And I've got
241. 40:28them scribbled down on this paper. It's on both sides. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a photo I took of this page and
242. 40:38we're going to go into chat jeep and we're going to have chat GPT try to make sense of this and we're going to
243. 40:45see if we can turn it into some artifacts or something. [laughter] I don't know what we're going to turn it into, but my goal my goal is to
244. 41:02to articulate and cleanly make make artifacts for myself that I can like hang on the wall and like and just refer
245. 41:15to and go, "Ah, my focus is these three things and I I've got projects under those three things, specific projects,
246. 41:22and I want those articulated. And I'm actually going to use notion. I I am I'm continuing to use notion, which is very
247. 41:29painful for me to set up. I don't like it. I don't want to like it. People I respect like it. People I respect who
248. 41:35have ADHD like it. But all of them agree that the setup was a [ __ ] [laughter] So So tonight we're not going to work on
249. 41:44notion. Tonight we're going to work on this. Okay. So, what we're going to do is let me change my sharing again
250. 41:57to share everything because I'm going to be zipping around to a bunch of different apps. Okay, so there's one side of my piece of
251. 42:07paper. There's 2026 themes on the bottom and then there's some other [ __ ] at the top. So, let me go out here. Hang on.
252. 42:20Okay, those two are the same. So, I need that one and this one. And then I'm going to export those. Export two photos. Do I want to export
253. 42:32these somewhere that I care about? Um, 20 26 themes. And if anyone has any questions about a daily practice or what the hell I'm
254. 42:45talking about or why am I not teaching you prompt engineering, this must be the AI learning lab. I came here to learn
255. 42:53and he's just talking about his goals for 2026. I completely don't understand this channel. If you're like that, welcome. You talk
256. 43:03like everyone else here. They're all weird, man. I wouldn't stick around if I were you. [laughter] >> [laughter] [gasps]
257. 43:14>> Okay, Brandon is helping Stacy. All right, black bar. I gota I got to black bar it up. Hang on. Hang on, Tik
258. 43:26Tok people. I'm I'm coming. I'm coming. Okay, [snorts] AJ joined. Welcome, AJ. Silverf Fox, I bought it on the iPhone
259. 43:36earlier. Okay, well, there you have it. I don't flipping know. Oh, maybe you have to do it through the website on the
260. 43:41on the iPhone. I don't know. Maybe that's it. Okay, so I've got to export these two things. Did I do that? Thanks, add. I
261. 43:52don't think I did. Export two photos. Export downloads. Oh, I guess I did. Did I?
262. 44:08All right. So, they're in downloads. Yeah. Okay. Let's throw those [snorts] in the trash. Okay. So, now we're going to go to Chat Jeep.
263. 44:23[sighs] >> You can MAKE MONEY WITH CHAT. HOW WE'RE going to make money with Chat GPT this year is we're going to professionalize
264. 44:32our AI work. We're we're gonna [ __ ] take it up a notch. We're going to kick it up as uh what's his name would say?
265. 44:39What's the dude from Diners Drive-Ins and Dives? Dives Diner V. That guy [laughter] with the with the hair that looks like
266. 44:47mine tonight. Guy Fiery. Okay. So, here's what we're going to do. We are going to get rid of that thing.
267. 44:57Make this a little bigger so y'all can see it. So, I'm going to take those images that we create that I that I took of my chicken scratch.
268. 45:09Hang on. I've got to go close my door. Hold, please.
269. 45:26Love you. Hm. Hm. [clears throat] Champy's a good boy. Okay. So, those are in there. So, let me
270. 45:42look at these. I'm going to So, there's four sections. There's a section for themes. There's a section above that. Ah, okay.
271. 45:57So, these scribbles are my 2026 um themes and some other notes.
272. 46:15on the two pages there are let me put in co colon I'm going to go one my three themes
273. 46:30that will be my priority in 2026 and by the way play along I mean you can so well like how can you do this. Well,
274. 46:46whatever. Just use this time if you don't have a daily practice around AI, use this time thinking about not AI, use
275. 46:58this time to think about what do you want, what are your values, who are you trying to impact in the world. Um, and
276. 47:05if you can join the flipping AI salon mastermind and get get your butt in there and design your daily practice, it
277. 47:11will it will make a difference. It's making a huge difference for me already. Okay, so there's my three themes.
278. 47:18There's what is this stuff up here? Write or die fans. Some notes above them that
279. 47:33are semi-related. See what sense you can make of them. And then there's on the back
280. 47:54a small grid of a framework for people centric project management.
281. 48:15Um, let's see. Key people in the center of four other labels. Then four
282. 48:31um there is a list of key people for a number of my different projects. Okay.
283. 48:48Then I'm gonna say, "Please sort out this mess and give me a clear well organized
284. 49:05uh version." All right, here we go. Let's see how this works.
285. 49:21What you doing, chat, GBT? Ah, here we go. Okay. All right. It's Quinn here. I sat down with the scribbles as signal,
286. 49:28not noise. What you've got isn't a me isn't a mess. It's an uncompressed operating system. Okay. Your three
287. 49:35priorities, monetizable content, clear signal, repeatable value, focus areas, clear singular message, which I
288. 49:42discovered today on that podcast, money themes, explicit, not apologetic, website as knowledge surface, not brochure, primary outputs, book,
289. 49:52workshops, keynote, speaking, sponsorship path, studio, sessions, structural notes. Okay. People centric productions. What did I have there?
290. 50:03All right. list CRM. It It got all these right. It got all the It can read handwriting really well because this is
291. 50:09hard to read. This shit's hard to read. See, not good. AI amplified social media, not hype, not noise, signal throughput, long form
292. 50:19thinking, thought leadership, uh, philosophical updates, behind the scenes, synthesis, distribution, repurposed intelligently, organized
293. 50:29content plus play, design layer. Okay. Supporting notes. These sit above people are key. Oh, people key to fans. So,
294. 50:39this was a this was an idea I had that any for any given project, you've got like there's a handful of people that
295. 50:45are instrumental in that project like from a financial standpoint or strategy standpoint. And then you've got
296. 50:52supporters. You've got people that you're going to work with in the future, people that you've worked with in the
297. 50:56past, people that you hope to. But you're also going to have fans and people that want to follow that project
298. 51:01potentially. And so what do they all need? What do all those people need? So that I'm really excited about
299. 51:10running my life as everything's an extension of community, right? There's just all these people that have energy
300. 51:17for stuff that I'm putting in the world and it's my job to make sure they have what they need to be able to support that project or
301. 51:26contribute in a way that makes a difference for them. That that's really exciting to me. Okay, framework people centric ma
302. 51:34management. So there's people from the recent past who you've already worked with warm context unfinished loops.
303. 51:40There's dream people that are aspirational collaborators. Energy is greater than status. Um future potential
304. 51:46where value could be compounded long game relationships. And then there's support people, emotional, operational,
305. 51:53creative allies often invisible. Okay. And then there's projects to key people. Oh, story mine. Okay, it got all
306. 52:02it couldn't read my handwriting here, but we'll come back to that. Okay. Revenue prioritization lens across all
307. 52:09projects. Does this increase revenue potential directly or indirectly in 2026? So, here's an here's an insight that I had
308. 52:18because I put myself out there so much. There's lots and lots of people that and some of them are very very interesting.
309. 52:27There's lots and lots of places I can let my attention drift, right? And I can run down two or three week rabbit holes
310. 52:38like, you know, doing things with people and doing interesting stuff, but it's got nothing to do with moving my
311. 52:45projects that are going to make me money forward, right? And so part of the idea of my daily practice is really living
312. 52:53inside these themes and really prioritizing these monetizable projects. And if if we're going to monetize them, you've got
313. 53:01to do things like talk about them, right? And that's the social media thing. And then and then there's people
314. 53:06that are supporting them that are either going to pay you or they're going to introduce you to pay people that are
315. 53:10going to pay you or give you money. And so if 2026 is just this is like a onederee difference, it's it's amazing to me.
316. 53:24Like 99% of what I'm going to do in 2026 is going to be identical to what I did in 2025. It's the 1% difference. It's the 1%
317. 53:36that's going to be done differently, which is just like do it with intentionality. Do it with focus. do it toward an end.
318. 53:45Don't just do it as a habit, which is what this channel was. And habit's not a bad thing, right? A habit of working out or a habit of
319. 53:57eating well, good. A habit of showing up and keeping this community alive and cranking and growing and being inspired, good. the lack of
320. 54:09intentionality. That's something we can just just tweak that 1% and it's going to make a dramatic difference hopefully for you as
321. 54:18well as me. Okay, let's see. Um, let's remove the let's see remove the specific
322. 55:23So, let's remove specific people from the projects for now. I'll I'll add that back in in a bit or later.
323. 55:31I want I want you to give me a single comprehensive creative brief for this 2026 approach to my projects. For this wait brief for
324. 55:46this 2026 approach approach to my projects. Um, I want to use it to create
325. 56:06inspiring infographics. Um, wall cards. um
326. 56:21I don't know uh project management uh plans etc. All right, let's see what it comes up with here. I don't really
327. 56:36know what to ask for here. Good call. You want one? Oh, you know what I want chat GPT told me is I want one canonical
328. 56:44document. So, one of the things you can do on the internet now is you can take a word like canonical and if you're like,
329. 56:53I'm a dummy. I don't know what that means. You can just go somewhere [laughter] and go, what does canonical mean? [laughter]
330. 57:05Because I think I know. According to order by the canon law, included in a list of sacred books officially accepted
331. 57:12as genuine. Yes, we want canonical [laughter] single source of truth. Yes, good, Vicki. My my my surrogate brain coming
332. 57:22through solid. Okay. A creative brief that everything can latter off of. Infographics, wall cards, planning docs,
333. 57:28notion, dashboards, decks, even how you talk about below is a single comprehensive brief. Stacy Rodriguez just bought mastermind.
334. 57:37That's so cool. Welcome Stacy. It's really exciting. Okay. Okay. Below is a single comprehensive creative brief
335. 57:43written as an internal northstar document. Creative brief 2026. A people centric monetizable creative practice.
336. 57:51Oo, I like it. I'm getting all excited. [laughter] Look, FIFA, this piece of paper, this this chicken scratch. Did you know what this was?
337. 58:05This was a people centric monetizable creative practice. I don't know why that wasn't obvious to you earlier. Certainly
338. 58:11is obvious now. Working title 2026 signal over noise. Love that. Love that. Purpose 2026 is about transforming years
339. 58:22of exploration, thought leadership, and experimentation into a coherent, monetizable, human- centered creative
340. 58:28practice without losing curiosity, play, or voice. Yes. Yes. So, for those of you that may be watching that might be new to AI,
341. 58:43[sighs and gasps] about a year and a half ago, OpenAI added memory to Chat GPT. So, ChatGpt knows what I've been doing for the past
342. 58:54year and a half or so. And I think the memory probably goes back farther than that, but I I think it's I think the
343. 58:59active memory is probably about a year a year of posts. but it understands the context that this document lives in. So, a lot of the
344. 59:08language that I'm seeing here like like create a coherent monetizable human- centered creative practice like it got
345. 59:16practice out of me talking about um the AI salon mastermind practice all the time without losing curiosity, play, or
346. 59:24voice. Those are also things I talk about a lot. So, it's writing things here that feel familiar to me, that feel
347. 59:31accurate to me because I've been using it for a while, right? So, so if you're if if you're at all curious about is
348. 59:40this generic just generic crap that it's spewing out, it's actually not. It's actually based on what it knows about me.
349. 59:48Um, we've got an hour until midnight in New York for those of you that care. Those of you in New York might care.
350. 59:55Okay. This year prioritizes clarity over complexity. Yes. People over platforms 1,000%. And that's scary. By the way, I don't
351. 1:00:05know if you knew this, but people are kind of [ __ ] terrifying. [laughter] They judge you. You say something, it
352. 1:00:13pisses them off. Like, it's like it's people are hard, man. It's scary. They can tell you that you're you're you are
353. 1:00:21an impostor. They can tell you you're not the real deal. They can say to you sir what are your qualifications they are inquire sir pray tell
354. 1:00:32what sir are your qualifications right and then if you're in that shame mode that shame spiral you're like I don't
355. 1:00:39know I don't have any qualifications so people are scary revenue as sustainability not compromise love that
356. 1:00:48AI is amplification not replacement so again it's pulled a lot of this from my my previous stuff this brief exists to
357. 1:00:55align projects, content, relationships, and systems around a single intentional approach. Yes. The other thing that's happening
358. 1:01:03tomorrow, by the way, speaking of ADHD, squirrel, this is a thought I didn't complete an hour ago. I said there's two exciting
359. 1:01:13things happening tomorrow. One of them is the AI salon mastermind practice lab with myself and Liz Miller Gersfeld hosting, co-hosting.
360. 1:01:22And I think that's going to be a high energy meeting because so many new people have [laughter] joined the
361. 1:01:26mastermind. So get your butt to that meeting. It's going to be like a it's going to be like a party. I have a feeling. [snorts]
362. 1:01:34[clears throat] And the other thing is I invited Liz to join the AI learning lab tomorrow night. So January 1st, 2026.
363. 1:01:46The woman who inspired us creating the AI salon mastermind practice is going to be here live with me giving me advice
364. 1:01:57for for how I can do this in 2026. how I can turn this what used to be a habit of showing up five nights a week into an
365. 1:02:06ongoing practice where this this just becomes a component of how I do what I do professionally, how I can raise my game using AI.
366. 1:02:19Okay, hang on. I've got to turn on my sunset behind me. It went off. The battery died. It's really important for me to have a
367. 1:02:28sunset behind me. >> [laughter] >> cuz I bought it off Amazon. I'm not going to not use it. [laughter] I can't wait till the
368. 1:02:40holidays are over so we can know what day it is again. I know it's crazy. Okay, so anyway, so you should be here
369. 1:02:48tomorrow night. Tell your friends. Liz is going to be here. Um and we're just going to have like a really honest
370. 1:02:53conversation about what this is, what it could be, what I should be careful of. Vicki, did you know that you can turn a
371. 1:03:02PDF into a JPEG in chat GPT? I did not know that, but actually that was one of the things I was going to do here. I was
372. 1:03:09going to turn this in into an infographic. [snorts] Um, and we're going to do it in a couple of places. Okay. Two, core
373. 1:03:15philosophy. The operating belief creative work compounds when it's clear, human, and consistently shared.
374. 1:03:22Technology, including AI, is not the story. It's the force multiplier. The story is still people. their ideas,
375. 1:03:28relationships, questions, and courage to publish. Okay, not crazy about that, but whatever. The three pillars of 2026.
376. 1:03:35These are not projects. They are filters. Every initiative must pass through at least one of these, ideally
377. 1:03:41two or three. I like that. Monetizable content intent. Turn insight, experience, and synthesis into durable assets that generate income,
378. 1:03:51opportunity, and leverage. It's good. What this means, content is created with intentional pathways to value. By the way,
379. 1:04:01I didn't write all this commentary. What I wrote was this, right? My chicken scratch. I put it in here and then I
380. 1:04:12said, I want you to create a single thing. And it interpreted that as I need a canonical source of truth. As Vicki
381. 1:04:18said, I was wrong. It was a PNG, but still, that's okay. We'll forgive you for for getting the file format wrong, [laughter]
382. 1:04:26Vicki. It's very cute. Um, and and the the the bullets that it's got here are are pretty good. And why
383. 1:04:36they're pretty good is because it's it's relying on, you know, things that I've written in the past and things that it
384. 1:04:41knows about me. Okay. Content is created with intentional pathways to value. Money themes are explicit, not hidden.
385. 1:04:49Publishing is strategic, not accidental. That's good. Long- form thinking, books, frameworks, essays, workshops, and
386. 1:04:56experiential learning, speaking and facilitation, sponsorship aligned content, studios, sessions, um, and
387. 1:05:03curated experiences. Design principle. Every piece of content should know what it wants to become. I love that.
388. 1:05:13Remember, I asked it to create a creative brief. So, the fact that it's got a design principle in here is
389. 1:05:19because I asked it to create a creative brief. That's probably also why it's got a lot of this structure to it, cuz it knows
390. 1:05:26what creative briefs are. Every piece of content should know what it wants to become. That's that's pretty [ __ ] fire.
391. 1:05:40That's really good. Okay. People centric production design work around humans first, relationships, trust, memory,
392. 1:05:48momentum. Okay, I'm gonna add something here. I'm going to add um one of the core ideas in pillar number two
393. 1:06:04is that I want to constantly be asking myself if
394. 1:06:19the important people on a project have what they need? And if not,
395. 1:06:35how I can get can get it to them powerfully. And I'm going to put in parenthesis. It doesn't
396. 1:06:50always have to be me giving them what they need. But it is up to me
397. 1:07:06that let's say but it is my responsibility that they get it. Okay,
398. 1:07:21let's let it add in that that thing. Perfect. This is not a tweak. It's a loadbearing idea. It turns pillar two
399. 1:07:28from relationship aware to relationship responsible. I like that. Oh, that was a clean integration. Okay,
400. 1:07:36so you know what I'm going to do because it's writing all this and we're going to probably want to edit this if you don't
401. 1:07:42know about this. So chat JPT is good at just vomiting out words, which is what it's done here. One of the things it can
402. 1:07:48also do, if you hit this little plus button down here and you go to the more section, there's this thing called
403. 1:07:54canvas. So I'm going to choose canvas. And what Canvas is is it's going to turn this document into an editable document
404. 1:08:02that I can go in and and um update little sections of individually in like like what I just did was I gave it a I
405. 1:08:10gave it an update for pillar number two and it had to recreate the entire thing. But if it were in a canvas, I could just
406. 1:08:17select pillar number two and just add that just to that pillar, right? So you can edit. Okay. Um, please add this document to
407. 1:08:32a canvas. [laughter] [clears throat] Good lord, people. [clears throat]
408. 1:08:51All right. Good. We we have we have uh a pile of people in here. Happy New Year. We got 51 minutes until New Year New Year's in New York.
409. 1:09:06All right, this thing is still writing. Is it done? I've added the full 2026 creative brief. People centric
410. 1:09:14monetizable practice as a canvas in a living document. Okay, so let's just keep going through this and now we can edit it. People
411. 1:09:24centric production intent design projects around human readiness, not just timelines or deliverables. I actually is is is it is there some
412. 1:09:34project management framework that is people centric not task centric? Does anyone know of one? Because either like this is a new way of
413. 1:09:45thinking about projects. No yawning, Kyle. You've got three hours to go. [laughter] I'm not doing the whole damn country. [laughter]
414. 1:09:57Um, anybody anybody know of a people centric project management framework or tool? [snorts] [cough and clears throat]
415. 1:10:07Foobsy four hours here. Um, anyway. Okay, people. Okay. Core responsibility. I certainly did not know of any. I know.
416. 1:10:17Like this hit me like every [ __ ] project management tool is about here's the task, right? Here's the document you need to make
417. 1:10:29as opposed to here's a document you need to make for Vicki. Because in order for Vicki to do her job, she needs this. What does Vicki need?
418. 1:10:42Vicki can tell you I've been shitty at this [laughter] one. one, I'm just bad at at at task management. But the other one is
419. 1:10:55if you're not if you're if you don't p if I don't personally have a relationship with the idea that if I don't create
420. 1:11:04this document that actually impacts Vicki in a negative way, then then that's that's a that's a bad chain to be broken, right? the more
421. 1:11:15aware I can be of of the people that are trying to support me, what they need, this feels like it's good. People
422. 1:11:22centric project management, PCPM. Is that is that new or or did did we invent that, Brandon, or did you just find that somewhere?
423. 1:11:33Google it. Oh, you found it on Google. All right. [gasps] How did you access the live meeting tomorrow? So Stacy, go to the go to the
424. 1:11:44AI salon and go to events and then you'll see you'll Oh no, that may not be right. Don't listen to me. Listen to
425. 1:11:51Brandon. Isn't ide human centric? [sighs] I don't know. I I I I mean
426. 1:12:06Ido is certainly about maximizing people, but I don't know that their project management is particularly humanentric, but I don't
427. 1:12:19know. I don't know. I'm This is We're going to vibe code this. I like I think I'm going to end up building a combination between a CRM and a
428. 1:12:30project management tool. And I might build it in notion. I might prototype it in notion, but I might just [ __ ] vibe
429. 1:12:37code it. The events tab. Okay. If you're in the Oh, that's right. Let me let me show you. Um, so, so for Stacy and
430. 1:12:45anyone else who joined the mastermind, um, under learn and grow is the mastermind area. And if you're a subscriber,
431. 1:12:54at the top of it here, you'll see events. And if you click on that event January 1st, the mastermind practice lab,
432. 1:13:01professionalize your practice. Okay, so that's tomorrow. So if you're if you're a member of the AI salon mastermind,
433. 1:13:11you'll you'll land on the main page that has the overall framework, right, for the for the mastermind practice, and
434. 1:13:18then go to events and then you can RSVP. Okay. Uh where was I? Where was I? Chat GPT. Yes. Okay. Okay.
435. 1:13:34People centric production. Wow. That means I need to wake up at a decent time tomorrow. You know what? I
436. 1:13:41normally wake up quite early and for some reason today and and I have a standing meeting, a standing tech
437. 1:13:47meeting for Story Mine at 9:00 a.m. And this morning I woke up and I was like, the light's different. [laughter] And I
438. 1:13:55look at my clock and it was 9:34 and I was like [laughter] and luckily we we actually had canceled the meeting today so I didn't miss a
439. 1:14:06meeting but I did completely oversleep by like three hours when I normally get up. Uh I'm an early riser but there's
440. 1:14:13New Year's. Oh yeah, that's true. Okay. Design projects around human readiness, not just timelines. No, it's not around
441. 1:14:21human readiness. Um, let's I got to go to edit. So now I'm in edit mode in the canvas and
442. 1:14:35design projects around human readiness. Um it's not so much around human readiness as
443. 1:14:51it is that the the important people or communities that support
444. 1:15:06a project have what they need, what they need when they need it. [clears throat] What is a better way to
445. 1:15:23characterize [laughter] this?
446. 1:15:38Uh oh. What did I do? Is this Is this doing something? [laughter] Stacy Rodriguez, sorry. Sorry for the distraction. There's no
447. 1:15:52distractions. If you got questions, ask questions. That's why this is here. That's why we're here. Yes. Ideo redesigned death a process
448. 1:16:01used in all hospice centers. Yeah, but that's that's people as the object. Rick, what I'm talking about is
449. 1:16:10people centric project management. Is there a framework for that? Like I I get that I get that IDO cares about
450. 1:16:18people and a lot of their work is focused on people, but that's not what I'm talking about. Did this fix my thing? What the [ __ ] is
451. 1:16:29going on here? Hang on. Let me close that. Core philosophy. The operating belief. Three pillars. Okay. It didn't seem to fix it. Edit.
452. 1:16:44Uhoh. This is broken. Hang on. Something broke in my browser, people. Yeah. See, failed to load. subscription failed to fetch concept
453. 1:16:57support contact support if it fails fail failed to load subscription. Oh, I have a feeling my browser Let's
454. 1:17:08close this tab. This tab just went went wonky on us. Okay, let's go back here. Chat GPT. By the way, did you know you
455. 1:17:15can go to chat.com and they bought OpenAI bought chat.com? So chat.com takes you to chatgpt. Did you know that?
456. 1:17:22Did you know? Did you know? Did you know? Okay. Producer group. Oh, that's group chats. Okay. So, strategic themes, huh? This is
457. 1:17:39This is [ __ ] up. My canvas is really messed up here.
458. 1:18:04I've never seen chat GPT I've never seen a corrupted canvas before, but I think I have one.
459. 1:18:22Um, I'm going to just tell it to make me a new canvas. Make me a new canvas with the document in it. It seems to be corrupted.
460. 1:18:41[clears throat] Never seen that before. That's bizarre. What's up tonight? Just got here. Hey, Cam Ken. So, I'm working on So, Cam, I
461. 1:18:48took I've got a bunch of chicken scratch of the three themes of my my daily practice around AI for 2026, thanks to
462. 1:18:58Cindy Coon's talk at Festivus uh this past weekend. And now I've been taking my chicken scratch and turn turn turn turn turn
463. 1:19:07turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn
464. 1:19:07turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turn turning that into a creative brief in chat GPT and then it
465. 1:19:11just corrupted my canvas so I couldn't edit something which was weird. Okay, the three pillars. So let's see what we got now.
466. 1:19:21People to people centric provisioning. No. God damn it. People centric provisioning. Really? [laughter] No,
467. 1:19:34you can't just make up [ __ ] Chat GBT people people uh centric project management. But it's not even project
468. 1:19:45management, is it? Whatever. Okay. Design projects around ensuring people and communities involved are provisioned
469. 1:19:53with what they need. Wait, that people and communities involved have what they need? We don't need to talk like [ __ ]
470. 1:20:01Shakespearean [ __ ] English are provisioned with have what they need. Jesus have what they need when they need
471. 1:20:11it. Core responsibility on every project. I am responsible for ensuring that the important people and supporting
472. 1:20:18communities have what they need to succeed. This does not always mean I provide it. It does mean that I make
473. 1:20:23sure it arrives. the constant questions. What do they need right now to move forward effectively? Do they have
474. 1:20:29clarity on purpose, success? Okay, this is really for me um very confronting. [laughter] I'll just I'll just be honest right now. Do
475. 1:20:41they have clarity on purpose, success, and constraints? This means that I have to be in the driver's seat. One of the things that I
476. 1:20:48learned about how I work in 2025, well, no, I discovered in 2025 that how I have always worked for for the most part
477. 1:21:03is I create things with a massive amount of energy and I'm really good at it. I'm really good at like
478. 1:21:13birthing a something with enough energy that people get excited about it and then I how I liken it is I'm really good at
479. 1:21:24inventing and building cars, right? And I'm like, "Hey, everyone, come on. Get in my car. Let's get get in
480. 1:21:31this thing I built." And then I get out of the driver's seat. As soon as it's built, I get out of the driver's seat
481. 1:21:36and I go to the back seat and I sit I I sit in the back seat and I'm like, well, where are we going? [laughter] Where are
482. 1:21:44we going? Like, let's go. Let's do this. There's a [ __ ] horrible realization, but a really important one. So that
483. 1:21:55means if if people in my project have to have clarity around purpose, success, and constraints, that means I need to be
484. 1:22:01clear about that, which means I need to be in the driver's seat. That's really [ __ ] intimidating, and I don't like it.
485. 1:22:11Having a daily practice is not kumbaya and and sage sticks and and glass beads that you clink together and and listen
486. 1:22:20to as someone plays the pan drum, the hand pan. [laughter] Having a daily practice is like, oh [ __ ] I got to deal with that.
487. 1:22:35[laughter] Dr. JL Cla Claire gets it. Do they have the tools, access, time, and context they need? If not, what's
488. 1:22:45the fastest, cleanest path to get it to them? What needs include clarity, context, capability, confidence, connection? This could be a book.
489. 1:22:57Delivery principle. If a person or community is blocked, your project is blocked. That's [ __ ] beautiful. It's not about tasks.
490. 1:23:10If you've started a project and you've put it in the world [clears throat] and other human beings have said, "Hey,
491. 1:23:18Claire, that's a cool project. I like your project. I like this song thing you're doing with the poet." Right? Whatever it is,
492. 1:23:28they're putting energy into your project. You You put an idea out there and someone said, "Oh, I like that. I want to help with that." Okay.
493. 1:23:39What do they need if a person or community is blocked? Your project is blocked. That's [ __ ] genius. Love
494. 1:23:47that. Love that. Okay. See why we do this? This started as a can you turn this into an infographic and look where we are
495. 1:23:58now. We're getting a deeper understanding of our chicken scratch because some of these ideas are not mine. These are like evolved ideas that
496. 1:24:06chat GPT is providing. Chat GPT can never proide pro provide an original thought. It's just a stochcastic parrot. It's just paring
497. 1:24:15everything that's been seen before. It can never be creative in any way. Uhhuh. Bob, tell him what he's won.
498. 1:24:31[clears throat] Execution cannot be or can be delegated. stewardship cannot this is beautiful this this stewardship cannot that's
499. 1:24:39that's right down the pipe of what Liz Miller Gersfeld talks about it's your job to maintain the fidelity of the idea
500. 1:24:47if you're the initiator of a project and it ain't going well that's your stewardship beautiful love it okay amplified social
501. 1:25:02presence intense Use AI to increase clarity, throughput, and reach without losing tone, humanity, or thoughtfulness. What this means, AI
502. 1:25:10assists in synthesis, repurposing, and momentum. Social content reflects thinking thinking in progress, not
503. 1:25:18polished theater. Oh, I like that. Not polished theater. Like it distribution is intentional and multi- channelannel. Presence feels human,
504. 1:25:27reflective, and alive. Content modes long form thinking distilled into short form. Okay. Philosophical reflection.
505. 1:25:41Okay. Design principle AI scales the signal. So [sighs and gasps] pillar three use AI to increase clarity
506. 1:25:50through. Okay. So there's something missing here. So pillar three is um [clears throat] one of the things missing here is that I
507. 1:26:08am relatively clueless about social media competence.
508. 1:26:24much less excellence. So there has to be an educational component here
509. 1:26:40for me personally and for my uh let's see no for me personally because if I have a team working on this I just need
510. 1:26:50to understand what they need and get them that but I need to understand what I'm actually asking for. Did this just
511. 1:26:56crash again? No. Okay. Thank God. Okay. In our workflow, wait. In our workflow, optimizes profit first. The customer
512. 1:27:04becomes a rounding error. Flip it. Define the customer's moment of relief and make every internal step justify
513. 1:27:12itself. Serving that outcome. Design for Vicki and Tom by name. Yes. If a step doesn't reduce their friction, fear, or
514. 1:27:20time to value, it's inefficient. It's just cheaper for us. I like that. I like that a lot, Rick. Pillar three, a AI amplified social
515. 1:27:30presence intent. Use AI to increase clarity, throughput, and reach while deliberately building my own social
516. 1:27:36media competence over time without losing tone. Okay, that's good. Like a foundational reality. I'm not starting
517. 1:27:42from expertise in social media. This pillar explicitly includes education, practice, and skill building as first
518. 1:27:50class work, not side work. I like that. What this means? AI assists synthesis, repurposing and momentum. Social content reflects
519. 1:28:03thinking in progress, not polished theater. Distribution is intentional and multi- channelannel. Presence feels
520. 1:28:08human. Learning the mechanics of social platforms is part of the job, not a prerequisite. Education and practice
521. 1:28:16loops. Observe what works. Patterns, formats, price, pacing. You know what's amazing here is I've got a bunch of
522. 1:28:22people in my life um that are actually really good at this [ __ ] and you know I part part of this could just be I just
523. 1:28:30need to like ask them but part of it could is is also going to be on me to just learn. I've got to want to learn.
524. 1:28:36Um practice publicity at low wait practice publicity at low stakes. Use AI to analyze performance and extract
525. 1:28:44lessons. This this feels daunting to me as well. Build competence through repetition. Long form thinking distilled to short
526. 1:28:51form. Philosophical reflection. Design principle. AI scales the signal. AI scales the signal and shortens the
527. 1:29:00learning curve. But I but I still choose the signal. I like that. Okay. The people centric project framework. At the
528. 1:29:08heart of every project sits one question. Who is this really for? No. Every initiative is mapped around key
529. 1:29:14people communities viewed through recent past dream. Okay. Uh, at the heart of this project, at the heart of every project sits one
530. 1:29:26question. It's not who's this for really. It's do the people working on this project
531. 1:29:42have what they need. Do they have what they need? Right. Every initiative is mapped around key people viewed through four lenses recent
532. 1:29:56past. This is not right either. This is incorrect.
533. 1:30:14>> [clears throat] >> At the center are key people.
534. 1:30:31Below them are support people. Oh, wait. Is this coming? No. [clears throat]
535. 1:30:48Mr. It on Tik Tok, you're the best group I ever joined. Thanks, Kyle Shannon. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you, Mr. IT. I
536. 1:30:58appreciate that. Thank you very much. Below them are support people. To the right are future people.
537. 1:31:23to the left are what would you call the people to the left? Fading people, past people. I'll just say past people
538. 1:31:39cuz sometimes you work with someone and then you're not working with them but you still want them in that circle and above them are
539. 1:31:50dream people aspirational aspir eration.
540. 1:32:08Then I think we also need to represent fans or audience
541. 1:32:23or I want
542. 1:32:39to be able to look at a single visual and know in an instant. um
543. 1:33:00who my team is and if they have what they need. Okay, they needs. [laughter] All right.
544. 1:33:16Oh my god. Oh, is it still writing? What's going on here? At the heart of every project sits one
545. 1:33:31question. It just rewrote that for me. Thank you, but not thank you. Every initiative is mapped around Oh, there we
546. 1:33:36go. Do the people working on this project have what they need. Every initiative is mapped around a single
547. 1:33:42people centered visual model designed to be readable at a glance. At the center are key people, the core team directly
548. 1:33:50responsible for moving the project forward. Below them, below support people, operational, emotional, creative
549. 1:33:56supporters who enable the work to continue. To the right, future people not yet involved likely to matter as the
550. 1:34:03project evolves. Left, past people, prior collaborators and relationship to provide context, trust, and unfinished
551. 1:34:09loops. Above dream people, aspirational people. Speaking of people, Liz, tomorrow. Yeah. So, tomorrow night, Liz
552. 1:34:17Miller Gersfeld is going to be on stage with me here guiding me how to how to turn what was historically the AI
553. 1:34:25learning lab habit where I would just show up with no intentionality other than showing up, which there is an
554. 1:34:33intentionality there, but it's it's not toward my toward my my pillars, my frame, my uh themes. Um, and so she's going to be here
555. 1:34:41tomorrow night, so that's exciting. Okay. Um the so wait dream people, people and collaborators you aspire to work with,
556. 1:34:51learn from, or earn the attention of. I love having this as part of of here's my project. Here's the people that are core
557. 1:34:59to it right now. I love having aspirational people. Like one of the things that people need that are at the core of your project is
558. 1:35:10people that inspire them or things that are going to level them up, right? things that if we got that next level of person involved
559. 1:35:19would would inspire them. Outer ring fans, audience, subscribers, the community that observes, supports,
560. 1:35:26amplifies, and sustains sustains the work over time. Love this. This model replaces the abstract audience thinking with a real-time map
561. 1:35:35of responsibility, making it immediately visible who your team is, who supports them, who you're going toward, and whether the
562. 1:35:43people and communities involved have what they need. Yeah. Because fans and people and subscribers, like one of the
563. 1:35:48things that I would argue is that when we first started the AI salon mastermind, we said, "Hey, we've got
564. 1:35:54this thing for 20 bucks." And like what the members of that mastermind needed was, well, what do I get for that 20 bucks, [laughter]
565. 1:36:04right? Other than hanging out with other people that are that paid 20 bucks, which there's some value to that, right?
566. 1:36:10If someone is committed enough to to spend some money, they're they're they're, you know, at a they're at a
567. 1:36:15different level of engagement, right? But this model says, does everyone have what they need? And you can look at that
568. 1:36:24and say, well, what do they all need? Do they have it? I don't know. I This feels really powerful to me. This framework replaces
569. 1:36:33the abstract audience think. Okay. Revenue is a design constraint. 2026 treats revenue as proof of value. Good. Fuel for sustainability. A
570. 1:36:43constraint that sharpens focus. Good. Does this increase revenue potential directly or inter directly in 2026? If
571. 1:36:49it does not explicitly wait if not is it explicitly label labeled play practice or parked I don't know if I like that
572. 1:37:03if not is it is is it explicitly labeled like I would just say if not then it should be de
573. 1:37:17prioritized but I That's what they're saying. Okay. So, let me just say this. So, since play first is part of the AI readiness cycle
574. 1:37:37using play here doesn't work. I like the concept of having a parking lot
575. 1:37:53but um fix the overlap. [clears throat] Okay, [gasps and sighs] that's why the iselon is so valuable. Think, feel, do. Only
576. 1:38:09humans feel. We express we express feel through story then we do based on empathetic thinking of others. That's really cool.
577. 1:38:20Is this explicitly labeled explore practice or parked? Okay. If not,
578. 1:38:39if not, you should ask yourself if it needs to be. No, not you should ask yourself. If not,
579. 1:38:58it should be D. prioritized. How we doing time-wise? Okay. Dep prioritized. If not, it should be dep prioritized
580. 1:39:13and either abandoned or put in the parking lot.
581. 1:39:28Anyone have any questions to what the hell I'm doing? [laughter] [laughter] Is this clear? Is this valuable? Is this
582. 1:39:41And by the way, now that I'm turning this channel into a daily practice, like a daily practice, some of these episodes are going to
583. 1:39:55suck. They're going to be boring. You'll be like, I don't really care about whatever he's doing right now. It's
584. 1:40:01dumb. This is a dumb dumb. What am I doing watching him do dumb dumb things that dumb that I hate? That's what a practice is like.
585. 1:40:14[laughter] We are super We are all super clear on this. [laughter] Okay. Does this increase revenue potential directly or indirectly in
586. 1:40:282026? Oh, by the way, the three themes, those are my themes. Like, if you want to do the theme thing that Cindy [ __ ]
587. 1:40:35talked about, you should get the deluxe replay bundle. Re-watch her her session. Um, because it was a really good
588. 1:40:41session. It was really super clear. Look at all the stuff you're doing and figure out what your own three themes are. So,
589. 1:40:47don't just don't just use mine because they [laughter] won't they won't necessarily make sense to you. The ick.
590. 1:40:54Yes, exactly. You mean like setting up notion? I mean exactly like setting up notion. Um, yes. [laughter]
591. 1:41:01Um, if not, it's the if not it is dep prioritized and either abandoned or placed in the parking lot. Great tone
592. 1:41:07and aesthetic. Tik Tok pin. What's the difference between a daily practice and a habit? Great question. Um, Cam. So, so
593. 1:41:14this is this is a new revelation to me and this is this is Kyle Shannon's understanding of the difference between
594. 1:41:21the two. So when when Liz Miller Gersfeld first started talking about her daily practice, it it came in the
595. 1:41:29context of this. I talked about in the AI salon, there are people that I that I was calling hi-fi AI people, which I
596. 1:41:40it's a clever name. I like it. Right. And hi-fi AI people are like people that are operating at a higher level. Like
597. 1:41:46they were doing a higher level of work. Kelly Besh would be a good example of a hi-fi AI person doing consistently
598. 1:41:54excellent work, you know, on a literally daily basis in her case and and her work's just stunning and and and
599. 1:42:02astounding. And so I would consider her hi-fi AI. Um, and I told this to Liz and I was talking about, you know, how do we
600. 1:42:09identify these people? How do we amplify their voice? How do we um make them these aspirational kind of superheroes
601. 1:42:18that other people are going to want to you know aspire to be like um and you know what what role can the
602. 1:42:24salon play in in that in some way and uh Liz Liz went off to think about it and she came back and she said I've been
603. 1:42:34thinking a lot about this hi-fi AI people and I don't I don't quite get it. She goes, "But but what I do know is
604. 1:42:42that the people that I know that are doing excellent work in AI, they treat it like a daily practice."
605. 1:42:51And then she started talking about her daily practice. And it's things like writing in a journal about like who am
606. 1:42:58I? What what do I believe? What do I want? What's the difference I want to make in the world? How committed to
607. 1:43:03excellence am I? Um you know, what's the kind of work I want to do? Whatever it might be, right? And it's and it's it's about
608. 1:43:12on a daily basis checking in with yourself and what you're doing and checking in with your work and and doing
609. 1:43:18it in a very intentional way. So a practice is very intentional, right? It's got intentionality to it. So the
610. 1:43:26the three themes that I'm working on right now, those themes are the filters through which I'm going to look at all
611. 1:43:33of my work and prioritize it. what a habit is and what it's been for me is when I started the AI learning lab and I and I
612. 1:43:45decided I was going to go live, what I was doing prior to that was right over there, right next to me, I have
613. 1:43:57a sim racing rig, right? It's a thing with a computer and a monitor and a steering wheel and pedals. And when I
614. 1:44:04would come home from work every day, I would eat dinner and then I would come in and I would race virtual race cars
615. 1:44:11with people all over the world. And I would do that for two or three hours a night. And when I decided to do this channel, I
616. 1:44:21just asked myself the simple question, what if I went live and talked about AI for the same amount of time I'm racing,
617. 1:44:30I'm just building community and talking about AI. And then I did that. So for seven days a week for 365 days, I showed up here
618. 1:44:40every single night for two or three hours. That's a habit. The only real intentionality is show up. It literally
619. 1:44:50doesn't matter what you do. And and part of the part of the joy of this channel, quite frankly, is I could do anything. and and
620. 1:45:00I could just live in that endorphin zone, right? I could come in here and go, h I don't feel like learning
621. 1:45:07anything tonight. We're just going to go to midjourney and play. We're going to go here and do this. We're going to It
622. 1:45:10was It was just this frivolous thing, and it was just a habit. The intentionality part is saying, I'm
623. 1:45:17still going to have that repetitive the commitment to showing up every day, but now I'm going to show up with an
624. 1:45:23intentionality. And that's the main difference. And that's that's why create a daily practice around AI
625. 1:45:31because you'll learn AI just the same if if you just show up and pract and just do AI every day, you'll learn just as
626. 1:45:39much. But if you do it in an intentional way, so even when you're playing, you're playing with purpose. Um that's it's just a very different
627. 1:45:46thing. Tik Tok and YouTube comments. We're glad you did, Kyle. Oh, wow. That's my hubby's hobby. Oh, I I sim
628. 1:45:54racing. In fact, one of the things I might uh because I I blew out my uh I blew out my I got I had a hand-me-down
629. 1:46:02computer from one of my sons and and I got a faster graphics card from it from uh Facebook Marketplace for free. Uh and
630. 1:46:10I put it in the computer and it started smoking. [laughter] So So I don't even have a working computer right now, so I
631. 1:46:16couldn't race if I wanted to. All right, 15 minutes to New Year in Tampa. Yes, 15 minutes to go. Going to hang in. going
632. 1:46:24to hang with the family. Love it. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, Stacy. Love and blessings to everyone. Yeah.
633. 1:46:29Oh, by the way, 15 minutes to go. If you'all want to go hang with your families, go hang with your families.
634. 1:46:33I'll hang out here and I'll I've got the TV on over there. I'll look at it and we can countdown. Okay. Does that answer your question,
635. 1:46:43Cam? As long as we can still have recess. We the viewers are lucky you have changed your habit. Thank you. Thank
636. 1:46:52you, Firefly. I appreciate that. All right, we are grateful. We are so grateful. Truly, that's really cool. Um,
637. 1:47:02I'm out. Happy New Year. All right, Brandon. Producer Brandon out of here. Yay. Producer Brandon, give him some
638. 1:47:07hearts on TikTok and give him some love in the in the in the YouTubes. That producer Brandon, he's doing a banger
639. 1:47:14job. And congratulate him on his new new role within the community. [clears throat] Um, okay. tone and aesthetic direction. Um,
640. 1:47:25thoughtful, thoughtful, curious, slightly irrelevant or irreverent. Um, confident without hype, clear without
641. 1:47:31oversimplifying, aesthetic, emotional goal. Okay, fine. Success indicators qualitative conversations deepen, opportunities feel
642. 1:47:40aligned, work feels coherent instead of scattered. That's fine. Northstar 2026 is the year where clarity replaces
643. 1:47:47chaos. Where people and communities are provisioned with care and intention. Are treated with care and intention. Right? Provisioned.
644. 1:47:59The [ __ ] word are you using chat? PPT where AI amplifies a human voice and
645. 1:48:14where work becomes sustainably valuable. Like that Tik Tok question about above my comment. Okay, cool. Um, thoughts on doing a step-by-step
646. 1:48:28guide doing a faceless YouTube channel via AI only? Um, like do I know if there's a good one to do that? I'm sure that there are
647. 1:48:40about 8,000 YouTube videos that tell you how to make a faceless Tik Tok video channel or whatever. or YouTube channel
648. 1:48:48video or YouTube channel, a channel that has faceless videos on it for some social network. Um, you're going to need to learn if if you
649. 1:49:04want to do that there there's a couple of key things you're going to need to learn. Um, you're going to need to learn
650. 1:49:11which services have APIs, which services can do synthesized voice. You're going to have to design um avatars, people. Um
651. 1:49:20you're going to have to do text to voice like with something like 11 Labs. You're going to have to do animation with
652. 1:49:27something like Hedra. You're going to have to figure out if all those tools have APIs. New updated question.
653. 1:49:35No, I'm asking would you personally do it and post it on your page or YouTube channel? Um I think at some point I actually will do
654. 1:49:47it. Yes. Um good question. One of the things that I am actually passionate about my current company StoryVine is is kind of centered on
655. 1:49:59this. Can you can you do an automated channel that doesn't suck is is a question that I think is really interesting.
656. 1:50:12So, I think it is absolutely possible, certainly in 2026, I think it's going to be absolutely possible to do some
657. 1:50:19stylized version of me or potentially something that, you know, looks and talks like me. My instinct is I would do
658. 1:50:26a stylized version, like a cartoon version or just some elevated version that's clearly not me, like Liz has uh not Liz. [laughter]
659. 1:50:35Um, who is her her AI persona? Um, I find it a really fascinating challenge. Could you create something that is fully automated, but that is
660. 1:50:48absolutely authentic and compelling? And how I could see that working is is this. I do this two nights, you know,
661. 1:50:57two hours a night for five nights a week, right? This generates a transcript every night of two hours of content.
662. 1:51:06So the script is already done, right? What AI needs to do is go into that transcript and pull interesting [ __ ] out
663. 1:51:12of it and then either rewrite it or scriptify it or whatever it needs to do. And then basically that needs to just
664. 1:51:21dump into some workflow that's got pre-built likenesses, pre-built voices, pre-built distribution models, pre-built
665. 1:51:29editing models. So there's a whole automation thing that happens with it. But I think there's a way to do that
666. 1:51:35where if you do the prompting cleverly enough along that chain of craft that the content that that I'll create or you
667. 1:51:44know me and a team will create will be authentic to who I am, authentic to the channel, amplify my voice, meet all of
668. 1:51:53the the things that we're talking about in in this this document right here. Right. Uh so yes, I think it's a it's a
669. 1:52:01good one. just reminded me of the Frank videos you do. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like the Frank videos. I mean, those
670. 1:52:08were sort of a comedy version of this, but like I could imagine I could imagine doing something like those Frank videos
671. 1:52:17as a faceless channel, right? You get a an obnoxious voice and you write obnoxious scripts and it just randomly
672. 1:52:27picks a news item and yells about it for 60 seconds. You could do that once a day or twice or three times a day really
673. 1:52:34easily and it would be funny, you know. Um, [clears throat] okay. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. [clears throat]
674. 1:52:48Okay. If you post the guide, I'll look forward to watching it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, like what I might end up
675. 1:52:54doing, well, because one of my pillars is AI amplified social media. So AI amplified social media, one version of
676. 1:53:03that is you take one ad, you split it into ads for different formats and you publish them. Another thing is you generate original
677. 1:53:12content based on other [ __ ] you've created. I'm fascinated by that. So over the next year, I will likely be doing
678. 1:53:19some sort of faceless um stream of content. Absolutely. Okay, so we're going to do [clears throat] one final
679. 1:53:26thing here before we ring in the new year. I'm going to copy this creative brief we just did and I'm going to go to over to Gemini
680. 1:53:35gemini.google.com and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in here and I'm going to say um create images.
681. 1:53:45So this is nano banana. They've gotten rid of their banana. I figured they wouldn't hold on to nano banana for that
682. 1:53:50long. They used it while it was relevant. The problem with nano banana is it's really funny for AI insiders, but it
683. 1:53:58means absolutely nothing to most humans. So, it's fascinating to me that they got rid of the banana. That says to me that
684. 1:54:05this is growing up as a product. Um, okay. And by the way, if you're not if you don't know what Nano Banana is, it's
685. 1:54:15the Gemini Faceless AI slop. In my humble opinion, Faceless is AI slop. In my humble opinion, I would I would challenge you,
686. 1:54:27Rick, that I think there's a way to do it where it wouldn't be slop. I think there's a way to do it. I don't know
687. 1:54:31what it is yet because I haven't really dug into it, but I think there's I think there's a way. StoryVine, my company, is based on
688. 1:54:41creating story templates that people can tell compelling stories within. And AI is really good at creating frameworks. And so I think if I
689. 1:54:54think there's a way you could do it where it's not slot. Um, but that'll it it'll be fascinating to learn. Um, okay.
690. 1:55:03Uh, Nano Banana is the image generation tool in Google Gemini and it's really good at text and it's really good at
691. 1:55:09infographics. So, what we're going to do here is I'm going to say here is a creative brief for my approach to 2026.
692. 1:55:27And then I'm going to paste it in there. And then I'm going to say, wait, I'm going to get rid of these asterisks
693. 1:55:34because chat GPT just [ __ ] that up because no one's paying attention anymore at chat GPT. It's kind of sad.
694. 1:55:41Drives me [ __ ] crazy. Okay, I'm going to go um let it know that that's done. Now I'm going to say I want you to create a a 16x9
695. 1:55:57wide infographic that centers on my three core themes and
696. 1:56:15provides context and images and insights and inspiration.
697. 1:56:34Um, I want it to have an organic analog
698. 1:56:54art feel with I don't know bold typography and
699. 1:57:08modern design aesthetic It should not look like AI. [laughter] All right, let's see what we get.
700. 1:57:27How come you do not use Grock when live? Um, why the dash lines? Uh the dash lines were just to tell um Gemini that that
701. 1:57:38was the I pasted in a big block of text and I just I throw three um equal signs below it just to let it know that that was over.
702. 1:57:49I don't know if that helps or not. All right, there's my there's my infographic. I kind of like the look and
703. 1:57:54feel actually. Monetizable content, people centric management, AI amplified social presence, 2026 signal over noise,
704. 1:58:02a people centric, monetizable creative practice. I like this. It didn't make it 16 by9 wide, did it? Um, Northstar clarity replaces chaos.
705. 1:58:14People are cared for. AI amplifies voice. Creative work is sustainably valuable. Um, let's see. I like the look and feel. It's
706. 1:58:30a little thin on thin. How are we doing on time? Oh, two minutes thin on inspiration. Two minutes. Get your [ __ ] together.
707. 1:58:46Ball drops in Time Square. Did it drop already? 9:59. It's coming.
708. 1:59:01I could probably go to something. Let's see. Uh is a little thin on information. Also make aspect ratio
709. 1:59:1716 col 9. Has it happened yet? I have on some weirdass non-cable channel thing.
710. 1:59:34I count down. Except I don't have Oh, wait. They're pushing the button at times square. Okay. 45 44 43 42 41. Okay. Let's see here.
711. 1:59:50[ __ ] nano banana. Like, what is it with it not being able to do aspect ratios? Okay, I'm I'm bringing in the
712. 1:59:57new year with cussing, [laughter] cussing, cussing, and complaining. Who's that cranky Gen Xer in the corner? That
713. 2:00:04would be me. Um, let's see. 10 10 seconds to go. 9 8 7 6 5 4 And I may be really off. Two, one. Happy New Year. Happy 2026 everybody.
714. 2:00:22[laughter] Happy New Year. Um, throw comments and and celebration hats in the in the comments if you would. Um, and can
715. 2:00:29someone tell me how to make Nano Banana actually listen to aspect ratio? Does anyone know? [laughter] Oh man.
716. 2:00:46But anyway, look, let's download this. It's square, which I don't like. It looks like a coaster. Do y'all get your Phil Collins song ready?
717. 2:01:02Happy New Year, everybody. Thank you, Steo. Steo is like, "Yeah, yeah, I did this like 12 hours ago. This is boring."
718. 2:01:10All right, people. It's already New Year's. It's been New Year's for like a half a day. [laughter] Apparently, you have to say wide 16 by9
719. 2:01:20aspect ratio. Okay. Wide. I'm doing it exactly as you're writing it, Vicki. 16 by9 aspect ratio. And no other words.
720. 2:01:37Loading nano banana. Happy new year. [clears throat]
721. 2:01:58[laughter] Look what it did, Vicki. It made it a Polaroid. [laughter] >> [laughter] >> Oh my god.
722. 2:02:12H this is exhausting. All right, whatever. I'm going to download this and I'm going to show it to you full size.
723. 2:02:20Kyle, try using AI Studio. Create a build image gen. There will there aspect ratios. Bonus, no watermarks. All right,
724. 2:02:27that's a cool idea, Joe. Thank you. Um, all right. Let me show you what we've created. So today we went from
725. 2:02:42let's see [clears throat] that's really cool. I don't know if signal over noise is right, but we went from this here
726. 2:02:58chicken scratch scanned this into chat GPT had it read it organize it turn it into a what did it call it a [laughter]
727. 2:03:12uh not coherent what was the word whatever had to turn it into a single source of truth then we created a
728. 2:03:20creative brief from that then we went to Gemini and said, "Turn this into an infographic." So, I now have
729. 2:03:28monetizable content, people centric project management, and AI amplified social presence. Canonical. That's right.
730. 2:03:43North Star clarity replaces chaos. People are cared for. AI amplified voice. Revenue is sustainab sustainability. It's a proof of value.
731. 2:03:53It's a fuel for sustainability books, frameworks, workshops, speaking. This is really good. And then what I'm going to
732. 2:04:00do is I'm probably going to like what I what I now need to do is I need to create some sort of graphic that allows me to put
733. 2:04:08things I actually need to do underneath all these categories. So, this is like a good highlevel thing, but now I need a
734. 2:04:16detailed version of this. But anyway, all right. There we go people. There you have it. [clears throat]
735. 2:04:27Happy new year. Happy flipping new year. So tomorrow, um I hope you're all well. If you embibe, I hope you've been drinking
736. 2:04:38generously [laughter] and are in a safe place where you can do that. Um and if not, I hope you're enjoying the clarity of mind that you've
737. 2:04:50got. >> [laughter] >> So whether you have are of clear mind or of cloudy mind, I love you both. [laughter]
738. 2:04:58The clear and the cloudy minded. Still have three hours to go. Yeah, I know. I know. We've got two hours to go here.
739. 2:05:05[snorts] Um [clears throat] let's see. Um so tomorrow, if you're a part of the AI salon mastermind, um come hang out with us at the at the
740. 2:05:17practice lab. It's happening tomorrow at noon Eastern, so 10:00 a.m. my time. Um Liz Miller Gersfeld and myself will be
741. 2:05:25there. We're talking about um I think it's raising your game tomorrow. Um go into the mastermind space on Mighty
742. 2:05:34Networks and if you're a part of the mastermind, you'll see the events tab within that space and you can RSVP for that. Um, yeah.
743. 2:05:49You know, my my thoughts for 2026 are I'm really glad I'm starting a daily practice. I think it's going to get quite chaotic.
744. 2:05:58I think it's going to get quite chaotic. And so, I think having a an ability to center and and filter out
745. 2:06:07the noise is is actually going to be quite important for all of us. So, um, so follow along on this journey. Um,
746. 2:06:15join join the mastermind if you can. And if not, just keep coming back here and you can just watch me fumble through
747. 2:06:20this daily practice thing because it's not easy. It's not easy. It's, you know, there's some of this stuff is confronting.
748. 2:06:28But tonight was kind of fun. I'm I'm glad I got to this. Oh, and actually, you know what? Let me do something here. I'm going to do save.
749. 2:06:38Um, let me say can I No, let's see. Move to
750. 2:06:54see. I'm too tired to deal with this. But that's that's actually part of a practice, isn't it? Let me go grab this
751. 2:07:04and [clears throat] change it to Kyle Shannon 2026 three themes v.1.
752. 2:07:19All right. And then where am I going to save that? I'm gonna go to my newly organized Google Drive and let's see monetizable projects.
753. 2:07:33I'm going to throw it right in the root of monetizable projects. Is that No, because that's one of the things I think I need a new
754. 2:07:46I don't know where to save it. This is crazy. AI salon AI experience experiments in MISK. I'm going to put it in monetizable
755. 2:07:58products projects for now because I don't have a better place for it. But it's at least saved somewhere other than
756. 2:08:04my downloads folder. Progress. Progress people. [laughter] All right, everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you for hanging out with me in
757. 2:08:162025. Here's to a bang in 2026. Let's make this. Let's make some noise together. All right. Let's make a
758. 2:08:22difference. All right. Peace out. Have a swell night.