1/5/2026 - Automating Icky Project Organization in Notion Using the AI Assistant

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0:00 Explain why we're not getting any
0:01 comments. [laughter]
0:10 [music]
0:15 [music]
0:33 >> [music]
0:41 >> Welcome, welcome. If you just joined on
0:43 YouTube or LinkedIn or Twitter, go ahead
0:45 and comment. I forgot to go live earlier
0:48 because, you know, professional
0:54 I did a thing scared today.
0:57 I didn't get a yes, but I didn't get a
0:59 no.
1:02 Um, even if you got a yes or even if you
1:05 got a no
1:07 that you did a thing scared is the
1:11 actual definition of courage.
1:13 Congratulations. That's a big deal.
1:16 Actually, one of the things that I was
1:17 thinking about doing tonight is going
1:20 back to notion on my own. I know we
1:22 probably might have Vicki in here, so I
1:25 probably have I probably have uh
1:28 [laughter] guard rails that if I get
1:31 completely stuck, I can ask someone. But
1:34 my my challenge with notion right now
1:37 isn't
1:38 how to set it up. It's set it's set up
1:41 enough that I can start doing stuff with
1:44 it. My challenge with notion is it's at
1:47 the part where
1:49 I actually have to return to it and put
1:52 in the the icky work. So, it's not quite
1:56 taking action in the face of fear like
1:58 you did, Mimi, but it is
2:03 resisting
2:05 doing something fun and sexy
2:08 and choosing to do something that I
2:10 actually need to get done. And and
2:12 here's why I need to get it done.
2:15 Now that you're live, Vicki is here.
2:16 Awesome. Um,
2:22 I've got enough projects and I've got
2:25 enough
2:28 I've got enough shift in
2:31 what I want to do in 2026 where I want
2:34 to be more intentional. I want to make
2:37 some [ __ ] money. I want to um
2:44 not be so willing to give into the fear,
2:47 right? I want to have a a good
2:49 courageous year, a good a good solid
2:54 make it happen year.
2:56 And
2:58 [music]
3:03 and part of that requires doing the
3:05 doing the ick work, doing the work that
3:07 doesn't feel as sexy. [music]
3:10 JJ, same. Same, Kyle. Same. Yeah. It's
3:14 it's it's like I mean, [laughter] you
3:16 know, you know, starting out the new
3:18 year with like, okay, we're going to
3:19 kick ass in 2026. It's like great. And
3:22 then the next day shows up, you're like,
3:24 "Okay, what what are we gonna do now?
3:28 What are we?"
3:30 So, you're with me, right? I'm just all
3:33 on my own still. Yeah, man. If you're
3:37 going to do this [ __ ] you actually have
3:39 to do the [ __ ]
3:41 In my case,
3:44 my big epiphany was
3:47 I have a lifetime of
3:50 [music] I'm really good at starting
3:52 projects and then I and I think of them
3:54 like cars. Like I design and build a car
3:58 like I'm good
4:01 and then I get out of the driver's seat
4:02 and I get in the back seat [laughter]
4:04 and I don't drive it.
4:08 So, this year is going to be about
4:10 finding ways to be in the driver's seat.
4:13 Being in the driver's seat, [music]
4:15 really owning what that means.
4:20 Sometimes that means taking
4:22 responsibility for [ __ ] you didn't do.
4:24 Sometimes that means
4:27 not relying on other people to make
4:29 decisions that you know are yours to
4:31 make. Can you drive the black bar back
4:34 on? I could. And I could also flip
4:37 cameras.
4:39 Um,
4:42 let me see.
4:45 [singing]
4:46 There we go. That's better for you tick
4:48 tockers, right? That's good. [music]
4:57 [music]
5:02 Okay, hang on a sec.
5:04 Hang on, people. There's There's schmutz
5:07 to be smooched. Schmooched. [laughter]
5:12 All right. How's that? Is that better?
5:14 Uhoh.
5:16 What have I done? What have I done?
5:18 Yeah, that's better. Okay. Beautiful.
5:23 Where is he going? Just going to to wipe
5:27 the pav.
5:29 I too hope I can earn a bit of money
5:31 with AI.
5:34 You can make money with
5:36 >> I'm okay with just 10 million US
5:39 [laughter]
5:41 per hour to start. Yeah, 10 million 10
5:45 million US should get you through the
5:47 weekend.
5:51 [music]
5:54 Um, I actually before I dive in and do
5:56 my distasteful work, I I do want to
5:58 share something with you. I made a a
6:00 video today on Tik Tok and I also posted
6:03 it on LinkedIn [music] and then I went
6:06 to boost it on LinkedIn and I actually
6:08 think it's important enough that it's
6:09 worth sharing more widely and uh
6:12 LinkedIn rejected it because I say the F
6:15 word in it. [music]
6:21 [music and singing]
6:23 Um, but I want to talk about that
6:27 and then I'm going to dive into the the
6:29 work I have to do on notion actually
6:33 doesn't have anything to do with notion
6:35 but but I'll tell you what it's going to
6:36 be so you can prepare to take a nap now.
6:40 [laughter]
6:43 Okay. So Vicki helped me set up. I've
6:46 got these things called I forget what
6:48 they're called and what I called them,
6:49 but like large project groupings and
6:52 then I have projects underneath those.
6:54 Like Kyle writing might be a a group
6:58 project and then Sydney might be a
7:00 project underneath that and a book might
7:01 be a project underneath that.
7:05 And so I've got I've got a set of
7:07 folders on my hard drive that follow a
7:12 hierarchy. And I want to make sure that
7:14 my notion folders follow the same
7:16 hierarchy so that there's some
7:17 consistency between them so it's not all
7:19 [ __ ] confusing.
7:21 Um, and while that might sound simple to
7:25 some of you, the thought of that to me
7:28 is one of those things just like you
7:30 know grinding
7:32 I don't know sand into a wound. It's
7:34 just like it's just very distasteful.
7:37 [music]
7:37 And so
7:39 it's just going to be me doing that.
7:41 Now, what I am likely going to discover
7:43 is that it's less of a big deal than I
7:46 make it out to be, which one of my
7:49 experience in experiences in life is
7:53 the anticipation is always always way
7:58 more intense than the reality. [music]
8:06 [music] Kyle, that's tantamount to brain
8:08 rewiring. Yeah.
8:11 >> [music]
8:12 >> And and listen, I get I'm here's what
8:14 I'm not doing. What I'm not doing is I'm
8:16 not trying to turn myself into a project
8:18 manager, right?
8:21 But what I am trying to do is say that
8:26 as part of my daily practice in
8:28 professionalizing my work in AI,
8:34 I think one of the one of the downsides
8:38 of AI is that it it it so easily allows
8:43 you to start new [ __ ]
8:46 And then if you don't have a if you
8:49 don't have a decent place to put that
8:51 [ __ ] where you can go find it again,
8:55 then it's just chaos. Then it's just
8:57 noise and madness.
8:59 Um,
9:01 and so this is, you know, if I had not
9:04 witnessed Cindy [ __ ] get her get her act
9:06 together on this and people like Vicki
9:09 that are figuring this stuff out, um,
9:11 who also have, you know, similar
9:15 neurospicy,
9:16 um,
9:19 elements That's [laughter]
9:21 [music]
9:31 [music]
9:37 [music]
9:43 [music]
9:48 >> [music]
9:53 [music]
9:56 >> I truly believe that organizing content
9:58 for others will be a future job. That's
10:01 actually not a bad idea, Kelly. I I do
10:06 not disagree with you.
10:11 Now, what I would say is that AI
10:14 AI is going to get good enough that you
10:17 may not need to organize stuff,
10:20 but I think that's ultimately a pipe
10:23 dream because
10:28 I don't know. I don't know, man. That's
10:30 a fascinating one.
10:36 Maybe it's not even so much that AI
10:38 can't organize it. It's that you hire
10:40 someone
10:43 to just help you think about how you
10:44 want to organize things.
10:47 I've thought about this for a while that
10:49 that the idea of hierarchical folder
10:52 structures.
10:56 Like it makes sense when we as humans
10:58 have to dig through stuff, but it it
11:00 stops making sense when the hierarchy
11:03 gets so complicated that our brains
11:05 can't handle it.
11:07 >> [sighs and gasps]
11:10 >> Well, with the exception of the Dewey
11:12 decimal system, [laughter]
11:14 but you know, there's people in there
11:16 whose job it is to just organize [ __ ]
11:19 [laughter]
11:21 But if you have a tool that that can
11:23 find anything and knows everything about
11:25 you, do we need to organize stuff? Right
11:28 now, we do. So, right now, I'm going to
11:30 learn [ __ ] Notion. I'm going to get
11:31 it together. I'm going to learn notion.
11:33 So, that's what we're going to do
11:34 tonight. All right. I predicted prompt
11:36 movies two years ago because I wanted to
11:38 watch Die Hard [laughter]
11:42 in Lego.
11:47 [music]
11:54 Is this [music] place I can rest my
11:56 forehead
11:59 [music]
12:01 to gather [singing] my thoughts in sweet
12:03 silence?
12:08 And is this place where the
12:10 [singing and music] feelings on day
12:14 from an over [singing and music] closure
12:16 to violence.
12:19 This is the place I can slowly [singing]
12:21 face. The only one I truly can know.
12:26 [music]
12:27 These are tears from a long time ago.
12:29 [singing]
12:31 Got these [music] tears from a long time
12:33 ago.
12:34 I [singing] need to cry 30 years or
12:37 [music] so.
12:39 These are tears from a long time.
12:43 [music]
12:45 Go.
12:48 [music]
12:53 [music]
12:54 Okay,
12:56 [clears throat] let's get going.
12:58 So, one one exciting uh one exciting
13:01 moment. No, one exciting thing for me
13:04 personally
13:06 is um I saved up some shekels and and I
13:12 got myself a new gaming PC so that I
13:15 could do sim racing again. Don't worry,
13:16 I'm not going back to sim racing five
13:18 nights a week instead of this cuz this
13:20 replaced my sim racing, [laughter]
13:23 but I want to occasionally race again.
13:25 And I had blown out I had blown out my
13:27 my handme-down computer from one of my
13:29 boys. I got a uh I got a a uh a freebie
13:33 graphics card from the internet and it
13:35 blew up my computer. So So I haven't
13:38 been able to race. So I went to Costco
13:41 and I got myself a pre-built PC. Um and
13:44 it's got a decent graphics card in it.
13:47 So I'm going to be able to do local AI
13:50 stuff. Um, I'm not going to get into
13:53 open source deeply, but I do want to
13:56 understand what's possible and what's
13:58 possible with like a basically a gaming
14:00 PC. I still prefer the large screen of
14:03 YouTube, but I keep Tik Tok open so I
14:05 can read the comments. Let's make a new
14:07 platform. Neuros Oh, actually,
14:11 you know what, Tom Nodler,
14:14 Mr. Forever hooked.
14:19 That would be like an interesting Tik
14:21 Tok tube.
14:24 That would be an interesting vibe coding
14:26 app, wouldn't it? I do. Both of them
14:28 have APIs. I think both of them do. I
14:30 don't know if Tik Tok does. They may
14:32 not. [clears throat] Okay.
14:35 I can't leave you. [laughter] I wish I
14:38 could leave you. [gasps] Okay. I want to
14:40 show you all something. Let me go share
14:42 my screen. Let me go share the screen.
14:48 I'm gonna guess I'll do entire screen
14:50 because I'm going to be bouncing around
14:51 a bit. [clears throat]
14:54 Okay, let's see.
14:58 Where did I respond?
15:03 I did a reply. Did I do a reply? I think
15:06 I did a reply.
15:10 AI models are killing critical thinking,
15:13 are they?
15:15 Okay, here's this
15:18 graph from. Okay,
15:21 so here's the comments. This is on
15:24 hacker news [clears throat]
15:25 y combinator.
15:27 [cough]
15:29 Excuse me.
15:31 Got a little little garb in in your old
15:34 throat.
15:36 All [clears throat] right.
15:39 Oh, Bunny Cat sent gifts on Tik Tok.
15:42 Thank you very much, bunny cat. Oh, a
15:44 hat and a mustache. Thank you so much.
15:47 That is lovely. I appreciate that. Oh, I
15:51 am so excited to hear you say this. I
15:54 started playing with Lama and
15:56 anti-gravity. Oh, that's cool. So, um,
15:59 so here's what I did. I cheated. One of
16:01 Thank you so much. I appreciate that,
16:03 buddy. Um, one of the things that I have
16:06 told you all for years is get your ass
16:10 in community, right?
16:13 [laughter]
16:13 And and um, why do we do that? Well,
16:19 maybe there's some day where you get
16:23 yourself a gaming PC that has a graphics
16:26 card in it that can do AI. Well, what do
16:28 you do next? You could just go ask chat
16:30 GPT, but if you know someone like Brent
16:33 Peterson who's been building stuff on
16:35 open source models for three years at a
16:38 worldclass level, you could just drop
16:41 Brent a little DM on LinkedIn and go,
16:43 "Hey buddy, [laughter]
16:46 what's the what's the first thing I
16:48 should install?"
16:50 And he just flipping answered it. He
16:53 just flipping answered it. um it's LM
16:56 Studio
16:58 um is what he recommends. So LM Studio
17:00 basically gives you like um like a chat
17:03 GPT like interface
17:05 um and then you can basically just
17:06 download different models and you just
17:08 basically switch between models and you
17:10 use it just like Chad GPT. So that's LM
17:12 Studio. And then the other thing he
17:14 recommended was Pinocchio, which if you
17:17 don't know Pinocchio, it basically
17:20 if you really want to set up like
17:24 any decent
17:26 local AI model, you've got to set up
17:29 like Python libraries and Python servers
17:32 and dependencies and I don't know,
17:34 there's all this [ __ ] you got to set up.
17:36 And that's exactly the reason why I
17:39 don't play with open source is because I
17:41 could give two shits about that level of
17:43 geekery. I just I don't care. I don't
17:46 care. What Pinocchio does is it just
17:48 automates all of that. So So geeks that
17:52 love that stuff, they put together a
17:54 little framework of here's all the
17:55 dependencies you need, here's all the
17:56 tools you need to install, and the
17:58 Pinocchio just installs that [ __ ] for
18:00 you. Just goes and does it. Um, I I
18:04 haven't actually played with anything on
18:06 Pinocchio yet, but I those are the two
18:07 things I have. So, where's paid? I'm
18:10 lost already. [laughter]
18:16 Oh, man. Okay. I started with LM Studio.
18:19 Wait till you have the power to handle
18:22 it. Um, fried my MacBook Air. [laughter]
18:27 That's hilarious. That's great. Yeah,
18:29 MacBook Airs weren't weren't meant for a
18:31 lot of high data throughput.
18:34 Okay, so this is the response board to
18:39 this
18:43 uh this graph. Wait, where
18:45 [clears throat] is it?
18:47 Is this it? Yeah, this graph.
18:51 So, let me make this bigger. So, this
18:53 graph
18:55 is funny. I made a video about this this
18:57 morning about
18:58 This is a graph of Substack and Vicky
19:01 Baptist was like, "Uh, are you sure?
19:05 Seems like Substack's doing pretty
19:07 good." I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, I I know
19:09 what I'm doing, Vicki." And then I went
19:11 and looked at the graph and it's not
19:13 Substack, it's Stack Overflow, but it
19:16 had a stack in it. In my defense, it did
19:18 have a stack in it. So, [laughter] I had
19:21 to I had to re re uh re-record my video
19:25 that talked about Substack and delete
19:26 it. Uh, Stub Substack's doing fine. This
19:28 is Stack Overflow. Um, here's what I
19:32 wanted to share you share with you about
19:34 this graph. So, uh, Stack Overflow
19:37 started in 2008 and, um, and this is
19:41 their, um, graph of number of questions
19:45 asked. I assume this is maybe quarterly.
19:52 It's this is two years across here. So
19:54 we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
20:00 15 16 17 19 20. Okay, so it's monthly.
20:04 So this is monthly um monthly messages.
20:08 They peaked at around 210
20:12 27,000
20:14 monthly messages.
20:16 Um they're down to 321.
20:22 So, it just fell off a cliff. Right
20:24 here,
20:26 right here
20:28 is the end of 2022.
20:31 So, that's the the beginning of chat
20:33 GPT.
20:34 And what what Stack Overflow is is this
20:37 is a site that where programmers ask
20:40 each other questions like the question I
20:42 asked Brent Peterson. If it was a real
20:44 substantive question, I would go to
20:46 Stack Overflow and I would say, "Hey,
20:48 who knows how to handle a memory
20:50 overflow error with this programming
20:52 language and this kind of
20:53 configuration?" And some nerd in there
20:56 would figure it out and tell me and
20:57 everything would be happy.
21:00 They're basically
21:02 non-existent, [clears throat]
21:03 right? So, what strikes me about this
21:07 graph,
21:08 we've been talking a lot in here about
21:10 making money. Well, not a lot. In the
21:13 past two weeks, we've talked the the the
21:16 subject of making money
21:20 >> has come up that we've all put in a lot
21:21 of time and and we've got some expertise
21:25 and we've got some credibility and
21:29 you know, we're sort of combining what
21:31 we used to do with our AI and we've got
21:33 some some knowledge there and that's all
21:36 good.
21:37 This is an example of a community that
21:40 has very very high knowledge demands
21:43 and
21:46 the
21:48 people asking other people for that
21:51 knowledge is non-existent because
21:54 knowledge is now a commodity that we can
21:56 ask a large language model for. And the
22:00 implication of this is this is not just
22:02 going to be limited to programmers. This
22:05 is going to be every kind of knowledge.
22:08 If you're an expert um
22:13 business consultant, change management
22:16 consultant, creative director, project
22:19 manager, you've got 20, 30 years of
22:21 experience. Historically, how you would
22:24 market yourself is say, I've got these
22:26 skills. I've got this knowledge. And
22:30 historically, someone would go, I need a
22:32 project manager. I need someone with
22:34 expertise in project management.
22:39 And they would go look and they say,
22:40 "Oh, they've got 20 years of experience
22:42 here." Well, they're not asking those
22:45 questions anymore because if they need
22:48 just basic knowledge about stuff, they
22:49 can go ask chat GPT. If they want to
22:52 vibe code an app, they can go vibe code
22:53 an app.
22:55 It doesn't mean that that no one's going
22:58 to hire other people. I think there's
23:01 going to be lots of hiring that goes on,
23:03 but I think that how people get hired is
23:07 going to change dramatically. So,
23:09 instead of me thinking, I've got to find
23:10 someone who's good at Photoshop or who's
23:12 good at, you know, has experience with
23:15 this, has these kind of skills,
23:19 I'm going to hire them for very
23:20 different reasons. I'm going to assume
23:22 that because of AI, if they're decently
23:25 AI literate, they're going to be able to
23:27 figure out the knowledge stuff, the
23:29 tactical stuff, the execution stuff, the
23:31 expertise stuff.
23:33 Well, how why am I going to hire them?
23:35 Well, I'm going to hire them for their
23:38 soft skills, right? We there's always
23:40 been this talk in the in the work world
23:42 of soft skills and hard skills. Hard
23:44 skills are here's the [ __ ] I know how to
23:46 do. Soft skills are like you're not an
23:49 [ __ ]
23:50 You've got integrity. You follow through
23:53 on things. You you give a [ __ ] about the
23:56 end product and and as as Liz Miller
23:59 Gersfeld says, the fidelity of the idea.
24:02 I'm not going to hire Liz because she's
24:04 great at this tool or that tool or being
24:07 able to edit things together. I'm going
24:09 to assume that she can figure that stuff
24:11 out because of AI. I'm going to hire her
24:13 because I know that she's personally
24:15 cares deeply about understanding what
24:18 we're trying to accomplish and
24:20 maintaining the fidel fidelity of that
24:22 idea.
24:23 And so the the reason I'm sharing this
24:25 is that, you know, I the the more I
24:29 learn about what's coming and what's
24:31 here, the more important than ever it
24:34 seems to be part of a community like
24:36 this one, part of the AI salon
24:40 that getting your voice heard so that
24:44 you so people understand that you're
24:46 passionate and you're
24:49 um
24:51 that you have integrity and that you are
24:54 someone you'd want to hang out with is
24:56 is really important stuff.
24:59 The implications for education are huge.
25:01 That's why I'm positioning myself out of
25:03 teaching and into AI for higher
25:05 education. Yep, that makes sense to me.
25:07 Biology is the next big target in my
25:09 humble opinion. Lots of companies
25:11 looking for biology PhDs
25:13 uh to check AI biology output. Oh yeah,
25:16 especially cell bio. Yeah. and and and
25:19 that'll even be temporary because at you
25:21 know at some point simulation world
25:23 understanding
25:25 um world simulation is going to be so
25:27 strong that the the AI is going to be
25:29 able to run experiments virtually that
25:31 match what happens in the world. So
25:33 you'll need less and less of those
25:35 people verifying that science because
25:37 it'll be it'll be so so much farther
25:39 down the down the road. And then when we
25:41 have physical robots um maybe you even
25:43 have have labs that can do all that
25:45 stuff. Um, but again, it goes back to
25:48 we're going to hire people, but we're
25:49 going to hire them for different
25:50 reasons. So, anyway, big thanks to AI
25:52 Salon. Amazing and mind-blowing
25:55 contributors. Yeah, exactly. AI Salon
25:57 helped me find someone in my field,
25:59 archetypal architect. I'm hoping to make
26:01 an impact. Great. Beautiful. Um, yeah.
26:05 So, so if you're not a member of the AI
26:07 salon, join, go to community.thesalon.ai
26:11 and join. Um, it doesn't cost anything.
26:15 you can join what's called the AI salon
26:17 mastermind and that's where we're
26:19 working on designing our daily practices
26:21 and I'm turning this channel into an
26:24 expression of my daily practice, a place
26:26 where I can practice um being more
26:30 intentional with AI and so I'm I'm
26:31 really excited about that. Tomorrow
26:34 night, um if you missed AI Festivus, we
26:37 have a really fun uh we have a really
26:39 fun uh AI salon presents tomorrow night.
26:43 So, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mountain
26:45 time,
26:47 we are um
26:50 bringing back I think what did we end up
26:53 with, Brandon? Like a dozen a dozen
26:55 speakers from AI Festivus, something
26:58 like that.
27:00 See? Yeah. Um we have like a dozen
27:03 people including Kelly Bes and um well,
27:08 Brandon will be there. [laughter]
27:10 Brandon will be bringing people up. a
27:12 bunch of people that spoke at Festivus
27:14 um are going to be just doing like a
27:16 little five minute recap of what they
27:18 talked about at Festivus and then
27:20 talking about what are their thoughts
27:21 for 2026, you know, what are their
27:23 predictions, what are their thoughts. Um
27:25 so it should be a really good really
27:27 good uh uh session and and just a lot of
27:30 love in the room because the the
27:32 presenters at Festivist did did really
27:34 great and people just love them. There's
27:36 uh Joy Perie is gonna be there and Rick
27:38 and and uh Erica Erica Hana um puke
27:43 rainbows. I don't know if she's here
27:44 tonight, but she was here the other
27:46 night giving me all sorts of [ __ ]
27:48 [laughter]
27:50 Um I would be nowhere in my AI knowledge
27:53 without this community. Thanks all.
27:56 Yeah. And it's, you know, it's funny
27:57 like the people that the people that are
28:00 active in the community, if I think
28:02 about, you know, if I want to do
28:04 something,
28:06 I know the people in the community who
28:08 show up, right?
28:11 And I know the people in the community
28:12 who are curious and adventurous and
28:15 think, you know, intelligently and think
28:17 critically.
28:19 And so if it comes time at some point
28:20 for me to hire people, I'm going to be
28:22 able to go, "Huh, who do I who do I know
28:24 in here? I'm not going to go to [ __ ]
28:27 LinkedIn. Who's got the right resume for
28:29 this set of skills that I want?" No. No.
28:33 No. No. No. Okay.
28:40 Are we allowed to post the link here?
28:42 Which link? To the AI salon?
28:45 Yes.
28:48 In fact, it's on screen right now.
28:49 community.thesalon.ai
28:52 here. Right here. Right here. Yeah.
28:55 There you go.
28:59 Oh, beautiful. Oh, the link the link
29:01 directly to the uh to the event
29:04 tomorrow. Yeah, it's great. Awesome. So,
29:06 there's the if if you go to just the the
29:09 basic AI Salon uh Mighty Network site,
29:12 the community uh and click on the events
29:14 tab, you will also see it in there. All
29:17 right, let's go. I like it. I like it a
29:20 lot. Okay, I'm avoiding what I what I
29:24 said I'm going to do next. I don't want
29:25 to do it.
29:27 >> Hey, Kyle.
29:28 >> Yes.
29:29 >> Well, I'm gonna help you avoid it. Have
29:31 some weekend homework to grade.
29:34 >> Oh, yeah. That's right. Okay, good.
29:36 >> That was my way of trying to tell you,
29:37 let's go to the salon.
29:39 >> That's right.
29:40 >> Where am I going? Look what I look what
29:41 I made. And and uh community feed.
29:45 It's mostly in liquid. I mean,
29:47 >> okay, cool. For homework, Joy Party,
29:49 I've decided. Wait, let's go. Let's go
29:51 see where we've got. Okay, there's one.
29:55 Oh, this one's cool. Weaver. Weaver
29:58 doing some cool stuff in here. All
29:59 right, we'll go look at this in a
30:01 second. Lori Blair,
30:05 Brandon Tid, silly song I made.
30:08 What's this? Weaver. Another one.
30:13 real triplets or be tip triplets. Mod
30:17 2100.
30:20 Weaver geeking out.
30:23 That's gorgeous.
30:25 Weaver's in the comment.
30:28 It's a great site, by the way. Oh, the
30:30 community site. Thank you. That's we we
30:32 have Andy Scarantino to thank for the
30:35 organization of the salon right now. She
30:38 uh she's really good at at figuring that
30:41 stuff out. Okay, this is a sunno song
30:43 from Brandon. Silly song I made for the
30:46 tidbits. Those are the those are the
30:48 Brandon Tid children, I'm guessing,
30:50 [laughter] because he calls them the
30:52 tidbits. All right, here we go. Oh,
30:54 something went wrong.
30:56 Please try refreshing the page.
30:59 All right, that's good. But I got to
31:01 share this different. Hold, please.
31:05 [clears throat]
31:09 All right. So, this is a chilling song
31:11 for Brandon's kids.
31:21 [music]
31:26 I'm swimming in the [singing] snow with
31:27 my flippers on tight, wearing shades in
31:29 the dark of the middle of night. I'm
31:32 eating hot soup from an ice cream cone.
31:34 Calling everyone loudly on a silent
31:37 phone. Nothing makes sense [singing] and
31:39 that's just fine. When everything
31:42 backwards feels right on time,
31:46 it's the opposite day. Hooray!
31:49 Hooray! Hooray! [singing]
31:53 Up is down and night is day. Laugh it
31:56 loud. Don't be afraid. [music] come and
31:59 play.
32:01 [singing]
32:06 >> So, so Brandon, I have a question for
32:08 you. [laughter]
32:11 So, so this is turning into your
32:13 soundtrack for your car. Have you
32:15 created songs that you've played so much
32:17 now that you can't stand them anymore?
32:19 [laughter]
32:21 >> We're getting there.
32:24 But the kids will request actual like
32:27 they will be singing them here and um
32:30 they will be like requesting them by
32:33 name. So they want to hear like oh I
32:35 want to hear this song. This one's a bit
32:37 campy. This is probably the campiest one
32:39 that we created.
32:40 >> It's catchy and it and we only created
32:43 it a week ago. So it's it's still in hot
32:45 rotation.
32:46 >> This one's still still nice and fresh.
32:48 [laughter]
32:49 I like it. That's awesome. Uh, the one
32:52 above mine though, um, I think it was
32:55 from Silver Fox.
32:57 >> This one?
32:57 >> Um, it absolutely amazing. So, much much
33:01 better than than my AI.
33:03 >> No, yours. Listen, yours yours is what
33:05 it reminded me of is like a a Wiggles
33:07 song or like one of those things where
33:09 you're like, you know, this this has
33:11 been fo foisted on my family. I should
33:13 not have to deal with this. But you
33:15 foisted it on yourself. So,
33:17 >> yes, we were the we were the foyers.
33:20 >> That's awesome. All right, let's listen
33:22 to Silver Foxes. By the way, if you're
33:24 wondering what we're doing, we we uh on
33:26 Friday night date night, uh we give
33:28 homework for the weekend. And so we just
33:30 said, "Hey, this weekend go make
33:32 something nice and and post it into Look
33:34 what I made." And so that's what people
33:35 have done. Um okay, let me
33:41 go play this song.
33:51 Do you feel feel me? Okay.
33:57 [music]
34:04 [music] We used to be electric
34:06 summer on our skin. Now every hour is a
34:10 day. You feel [music] this paper thin.
34:12 [singing]
34:13 Your voice is right there, but it's
34:16 miles away. Like we're both [music]
34:18 holding goodbye back every day. I scroll
34:22 through a lance.
34:25 [singing]
34:26 Trying [music] to prove we were real,
34:29 not just accidents. Your eyes don't
34:31 [singing] land the way they used to do.
34:34 And I hate how that hurts. [music] I
34:37 hate me for it, too.
34:41 Do you feel me when you don't reach for
34:43 my hand? When your silence says stop
34:47 what your heart says I can't. We're sad
34:50 and we're angry. We're breaking into you
34:55 and my
34:58 losing [singing and music]
34:59 you.
35:02 Do you feel [music and singing] me? Do
35:04 you feel me? We don't even fight like we
35:09 mean it anymore. Just sharp little
35:12 [music] words. Then we stare at the
35:14 floor. You say you're fine. [singing]
35:16 Like it's easier to lie. I say whatever,
35:21 but I'm dying inside.
35:24 You look past [music] me like I'm
35:26 background [singing]
35:27 noise. I miss the way you used to say my
35:30 [music] name like [singing] a choice.
35:32 And I can't tell what's worse. You
35:36 letting go or me still open your door.
35:43 Do you feel me when you don't reach for
35:46 my hand? When your silence says stop,
35:49 but your heart says I [music] can. We're
35:52 sad and we're angry. We're breaking into
35:56 you are my
36:00 and [music] I'm losing you.
36:07 >> [music]
36:09 >> That's so good. That's so good. It just
36:12 I think 2026 is going to be a really
36:14 interesting year. Um it became pretty
36:17 apparent in 2025
36:21 that
36:22 there are absolutely AI haters with all
36:26 of the music generation tools. Um but
36:29 you also had Warner Music and Universal
36:31 Music. um quas buying basically suing
36:36 their way into owning major stakes of
36:39 Sunno and Udo. Um, so the the music
36:43 industry is invested in these
36:45 technologies and there's a lot of
36:47 musicians who've embraced AI as a
36:50 component in the chain of craft of
36:53 making songs like taking old snippets or
36:55 ideas from songs, turning them into
36:57 tracks and then splitting them into
36:59 stems and sort of, you know, recreating
37:01 them. But but absolutely using AI in in
37:04 the flow. Um, I think 2026 that's going
37:07 to get way more way more apparent or or
37:10 way more visible. Um, and I don't I
37:14 don't think it's going to be I I I hope
37:17 not that it's going to be just, you
37:19 know, years and years and years of
37:22 people screaming about it. Um, we'll
37:24 see. We'll see. Joyy's video. The notion
37:28 motion. I want to look at I want to look
37:29 at Weaver's
37:31 graphics here.
37:33 These are cool. The Ryman hypothesis.
37:35 Oh, wait. I'm not sharing my screen.
37:41 Navier Stokes PTE. So, these are like
37:45 math proofs, prime patterns or math
37:48 concepts that are visualized with with
37:52 cool light. This is super cool.
37:59 Iterative dynamics. Colets. Oh, yeah.
38:01 The old iterative dynamics. You know,
38:03 when I studied iterative dynamics in
38:05 acting school, uh we did a lot of uh
38:08 collat uh theorems, we worked those out
38:11 a lot. [laughter]
38:15 Algebraic geometry. I you know, if I get
38:18 one more A in algebraic geometry, that
38:20 would be one.
38:23 All right, let's see. What's this one?
38:25 Lock discoveries. I'm telling Pate.
38:28 Don't tell Pate that I'm making fun of
38:31 math people.
38:32 >> [laughter]
38:35 >> Oh, the diiaphantine equations. Man, if
38:38 I had a nickel for every diaph equation
38:41 I solved, I would still be broke. Prime
38:44 patterns.
38:46 Um, these are cool. These are beautiful.
38:53 Wow.
38:55 Huh.
38:58 I think this is just we when I see stuff
39:00 like this. [laughter]
39:03 I'll tell you I'll tell you how ignorant
39:05 I am with math. I see stuff like this
39:07 and I'm like they just making this [ __ ]
39:10 up. That this isn't real. No one does
39:14 this. The those movies where they write
39:16 [ __ ] on the board, Matt Damon writing in
39:19 the hallway, that's not real.
39:23 [sighs]
39:23 That's a whole another life I get to
39:25 explore. I'll I'll deal with that next
39:28 time around. [laughter]
39:33 Oh man. Let's see. Oh, Joy Joy Pertie is
39:37 going to be on a podcast tomorrow. Oh,
39:39 with Ken Wisman. That's great. Cool.
39:43 Beautiful. Yeah, if you can put that in
39:44 the uh put that in the uh thing.
39:47 We're talking about the maths. Al
39:50 although I listen I don't know if you
39:52 know this um but I am a polymath.
39:56 I thought for years a polymath was
39:59 someone like Weaver who knew about
40:01 theorems and [ __ ] and you know numbers
40:04 to the power of numbers and letters and
40:06 things.
40:08 That's not what it is. A polymath is
40:10 someone who's good at many things. Maths
40:13 means many things.
40:16 Um, and uh, so I'm a polymath even
40:19 though I'm horrible at math. [laughter]
40:21 That makes me It's one of the one of the
40:23 things that made me happy in 2025 was I
40:26 discovered that I'm a polymath.
40:28 Um, what about these ads that claim to
40:30 learn AI in 15 minutes a day and become
40:34 a millionaire? Oh, that's this.
40:36 >> You can make money with
40:38 >> Okay, so Stephen, great question. Thank
40:41 you for asking that question.
40:45 Um,
40:48 I just talked to I don't know if you're
40:50 here earlier. I was talking about on
40:52 Stack Overflow the the the traffic on a
40:56 site that was about asking experts their
40:59 opinions on how to solve problems has
41:01 basically fallen off a cliff. It it no
41:04 one's using it anymore. Like no one's
41:05 using it because everyone can ask chat
41:07 GBT to answer their questions. They
41:10 don't have to ask other other
41:11 programmers. Um, that's gonna that's
41:14 going to happen for everything. So, so
41:15 there's a thing that's going on is one
41:19 of the things that those sleazy
41:22 marketing people and I really do think
41:23 they are sleazy. 15 minutes a day
41:26 practicing AI, you can bring money.
41:32 Why it's [ __ ]
41:35 I mean, there's a couple of reasons it's
41:36 [ __ ] One of the reasons it's
41:38 [ __ ] is that everybody who
41:41 experiences AI for the first time, they
41:44 realize, "Oh my god, it's remarkable. I
41:48 can do all this stuff that I couldn't do
41:50 before." So, what I'm going to do is I'm
41:52 going to tell people, I can now do all
41:54 this stuff. And then they wonder why the
41:57 phone doesn't ring because everyone's
42:00 having that exact same epiphany at the
42:01 same time. Oh my god, I can do all this
42:03 stuff. I'm going to tell people I can do
42:05 all this stuff. and everyone else is
42:06 just going and asking Chat GPT for that
42:09 help. They're not asking other people.
42:11 So that's one of the problems.
42:14 The second problem
42:15 >> you can make money with
42:17 >> these [ __ ]
42:22 is that
42:24 people don't pay you money
42:27 because you can use AI.
42:30 They don't pay you money because you can
42:32 use Photoshop. They don't pay you money
42:35 because you know how to use a shovel.
42:39 They pay you money because they need a
42:41 hole
42:43 and you happen to know how to use a
42:45 shovel and have one and are willing to
42:48 do the work to dig them a hole, right?
42:52 You hire someone because you need
42:54 pictures edited and refined and made
42:57 more beautiful.
42:59 And so the fact that they can use
43:01 Photoshop is secondary to the problem
43:03 that they're solving. It's the exact
43:05 same thing with AI. How you make money
43:07 with AI
43:10 is you take things that you're good at,
43:12 things that you're passionate about,
43:14 things where you know there's a problem
43:15 to be solved
43:18 and then you can either tell them you're
43:20 using AI or not. It doesn't [ __ ]
43:23 matter if you use AI. Like let's say
43:26 that you're you're really passionate
43:28 about rewriting um
43:31 restaurant menus that that you one of
43:34 your passions in life is you think
43:36 restaurant menus suck and they should be
43:37 entertaining and so you go in and you
43:40 say I'm going to make your menu
43:42 entertaining and and you know it's going
43:45 to raise your you know your ticket price
43:47 by 15%.
43:49 You know it's it's all about the
43:50 desserts. We're going to we're going to
43:51 feature the desserts in this crazy way.
43:54 and they're like, "Okay, I want to I
43:56 want more money and yeah, our menu is
43:58 really boring. I I'd like to see what
44:00 you do with it." Whether you go off and
44:03 manually rewrite their menu or you use
44:05 chat GPT to do that, I think that's
44:07 irrelevant to to the conversation. If
44:10 you can do it well and fast and for less
44:14 money than they give you, then you've
44:16 made money, right?
44:19 So that's so my my philosophy on how you
44:22 make money with chat GPT is how you make
44:24 money with a shovel. You find a problem
44:26 and you solve it. And if you solve it in
44:28 a way either cheaper, better or faster
44:31 than someone else can,
44:34 then you'll make money. And with AI, the
44:36 promise of AI is that you can solve it
44:39 faster, better, and cheaper.
44:42 Right? It used to be you've got these
44:45 three things. Pick any two, right? You
44:47 can have it faster and better. Wait, you
44:49 can have it You can have it wait slower.
44:52 I don't whatever it is. I forget
44:54 [laughter] how I forget all the math of
44:56 that. But faster, better, cheaper. You
44:58 can now do all three. Quality, price,
45:00 and time. Yeah, exactly. Um, it used to
45:03 be that if you wanted it better, it
45:05 would take longer. Now it can be better
45:07 and fast and cheap. So, good, fast,
45:10 cheap. Yeah, exactly.
45:12 If there was a problem, yo, I'll solve
45:14 it. Yeah. I I mean that's that's the
45:16 thing. Some people are just problem
45:17 solvers and they make money because
45:19 they're like in any situation they're
45:20 like I can help you solve that. Now with
45:22 AI you can do that. So the the purpose
45:25 of the 15 minutes a day that I actually
45:27 agree with, right? Have a daily
45:29 practice. Jim Jim Ross sets his timer
45:32 for an hour. I've now decided to make
45:34 these sessions um a place where I can
45:38 practice my AI stuff on my projects.
45:41 Although tonight we haven't gotten there
45:42 yet.
45:44 >> [laughter]
45:45 >> All right, we're going to do Joyy's
45:47 video. Um, who's this from? This is from
45:50 Archetypal Architect. The fractal
45:51 architecture of consciousness. Let's go
45:53 look at this quick.
45:55 The foundation of being, microbial life,
45:58 sentient species, the rise of narrative.
46:00 Oh, this is cool. Augmented and creative
46:03 minds, digital gods, the fractal
46:05 pattern.
46:08 Let's see. Ecological networks. The con
46:13 mimemetic life forms transcending
46:14 biology. The Odin mind
46:17 known digital gods.
46:20 No layer is better. Each is simply less
46:22 blind than the one below it. That's
46:24 cool. Beautiful. All right, let's see.
46:28 Joy Pertie's video for homework. I
46:30 decided to remake this 40 secondond
46:32 video each year to track how AI models
46:36 evolve and how I grow as a filmmaker.
46:38 How cool is that? Mind your tabs. Am I
46:41 on the wrong Oh, yeah. Okay.
46:44 Mind it right now. Boom. It jump.
46:50 This is Joy Party.
46:53 Well, I remember this. I think I've seen
46:55 this. I I saw an earlier version of this
46:57 book.
47:29 Wow, that's super cool, man. AI is
47:33 getting so good, man. It really is.
47:48 So cool. Archetypal. That's what my
47:49 novel's all about. Oh, that's super cool
47:53 that your novel's all about.
47:55 [clears throat] Oh, now I know why it's
47:57 a a pile of pages. This is This is the
48:00 uh this is the plot of your novel.
48:03 [laughter]
48:05 It It's going to be a thick one. Yeah.
48:07 It's It's It's a thicker It's a thicker
48:10 book. It It's going to It's going to
48:12 take you a while. Yeah. Yeah. It's No,
48:15 it's it's a There's a lot there. It's
48:18 It's pretty much all the answers of the
48:20 universe. Well, all the questions and
48:22 then detailed answers of each one. Yeah.
48:26 Simple. [laughter]
48:29 Read the caption. Which caption?
48:32 [clears throat]
48:33 Book one is 850 pages. Wow. Amazing.
48:38 Okay.
48:39 Scroll up just a little. Oh, wait.
48:48 Oh, I see up here.
48:53 Since I first since I published the
48:55 first book of the novel series I've been
48:57 writing for several years, I had
48:59 notebook LM whip me up an infographic
49:01 that explores my fractal plot lines.
49:04 This one focuses on how evolution works
49:06 at many layers of existence. Wow,
49:10 cool.
49:13 You know, even with AI, this makes my
49:15 head hurt. [laughter]
49:19 It actually doesn't. It's actually
49:21 pretty it's it's pretty clear. It's
49:22 quite beautiful. I I I always admire
49:26 people that can take a big idea and and
49:28 follow it follow it forward. I suppose
49:31 I'm doing that a little bit with Sydney
49:33 with the musical. Um it's one of the
49:36 reasons I like having a partner is that
49:38 is that you can maintain momentum. I
49:40 feel like you archetypal are good at
49:42 doing this on your own, which is
49:43 amazing. The answer is 42. Imagine me
49:47 trying to keep it all straight. Um, way
49:50 past where the AI loses track. Oh my
49:52 god. I Yeah, like the the lack of the
49:57 the the context window problem where
50:00 where with large context windows, it
50:03 gets confused in the middle of of the
50:06 context window. I bet this was an
50:07 absolute nightmare to deal with.
50:11 Fascinating. Cool. Okay. So, anyway, so
50:13 where this is, we're over at the AI
50:15 salon and uh in uh if you come over here
50:18 and join, there's like four little
50:19 things to get started. The second one is
50:21 introduce yourself. You should do that.
50:23 You should look at our values of the
50:25 community. Um and then there's there's,
50:27 you know, events and community feed, and
50:29 then there's little different areas,
50:30 play and create, learn and grow, and
50:32 then advocacy and policy and and
50:34 partnership and things like that. So,
50:36 lots of things to do here. Um lots of
50:39 amazing people. So, go do that.
50:42 Okay,
50:44 [sighs]
50:46 notion.
50:48 Here we are, people.
50:52 We're here. So, let me orient you.
50:57 So, with the help I'm going to get rid
50:59 of this. Let's see. Move that to trash.
51:02 Okay. With the help of
51:06 Vicki, I'm still at the salon. Oh, I
51:08 gotta share a different hold, please.
51:15 >> [panting]
51:19 >> Okay, with the help of Vicki,
51:22 I set up a notion board where I've got
51:24 business areas and these are sort of my
51:27 higher level containers. So, I've got
51:30 Story Vine, I've got the Practice Engine
51:32 LLC, I've got the AI salon, I've got
51:35 Content Evolution, um I've got Kyle
51:38 Shannon Media. So, my writing projects
51:40 and things like that. And then
51:42 underneath these I have projects,
51:48 right? And so they sit inside. Well, I
51:51 only have two of them. So, part of the
51:53 work we're doing today is is populating
51:57 this. And so, I have an idea.
52:00 So, one of the cool things about Notion
52:03 now is that it's got this little dude at
52:06 the bottom.
52:07 this dude right here. And I What did I
52:10 name mine? I forget what I named him,
52:13 [laughter] but whatever. Doesn't matter.
52:17 Merlin or something stupid. Tik Tok pin.
52:20 You can do do it, Kyle. Deep breath. I
52:22 know. Jesus. I I I don't I so don't want
52:25 to be doing this. I so don't want to be
52:27 doing this.
52:29 [sighs]
52:30 DQ Blizzard. I'm over here now so I can
52:33 Harry. I called him Harry. That's right.
52:35 Thank you, Vicki. my second brain who
52:37 helped me set up notion also remembers
52:39 the name of my little AI dude Harry. So
52:42 Harry um you can ask him to do stuff for
52:46 you. So here's my idea.
52:49 My idea is rather than here's what I
52:51 would normally do pre- AAI days is I
52:55 would go up to this level. I would go to
52:57 my business areas and I'd look at these
53:00 and then I would go to my
53:04 finder
53:06 where I have these folders
53:11 and I got to do date modified and so
53:13 here they are all are at the top and so
53:16 I've got the AI salon I've got um which
53:20 I think is just a a hyperlink
53:24 a a reference to a another Google Drive
53:28 folder. Let's see. Start simple.
53:31 Is notion a website builder or an app on
53:34 my computer?
53:36 You
53:38 Vicki can answer that. I have no idea. I
53:42 know that notion is a relational
53:44 database. I know that it is what I'm
53:47 building right now is a fancy to-do
53:49 list, which I've already vibe coded a a
53:53 uh a project tracker to-do list thing.
53:56 So, there's a part of me that's wanting
53:58 to resist this because um
54:01 because I've already done this work and
54:03 I don't use that thing as much as I
54:04 should, but you know, whatever. Okay,
54:08 let's see. So, what I'm going to do
54:12 is I'm going to open these folders.
54:17 Going to close
54:19 any subfolders.
54:25 That one I'm going to leave closed.
54:34 Okay. [clears throat]
54:38 experiments I'm not going to worry about
54:40 right now,
54:42 but music I will.
54:47 Okay. So, I So, what I'm going to do is
54:48 this. I'm going to go
54:51 I'm going to screenshot this. I don't
54:53 know if you can see my little screenshot
54:54 window, but I've got a screenshot
54:55 window. So, I'm going to screenshot this
55:01 and I'm going to go to chat JPT
55:09 and I'm going to say create me a
55:14 [clears throat]
55:16 um
55:18 an outline
55:21 where
55:23 the top levels are the
55:28 business areas and the
55:33 subfolders
55:36 are projects.
55:38 Um, ignore
55:43 stand
55:46 alone
55:48 documents.
55:52 If they do not if they don't seem like
55:57 projects
56:00 [sighs and snorts]
56:01 I don't like this. Why why go to chat
56:04 GBT when you give give it to the notion
56:06 agent? Oh, I'll just shut up and watch.
56:21 Uh, let's try to do this in notion.
56:24 Okay.
56:26 So, I'm gonna Hey, Harry. I'm going to
56:28 paste in that thing for Harry. Did it
56:31 paste it in
56:33 image.
56:35 You've run out of free responses.
56:38 [laughter]
56:44 Vicki, this is the point where I
56:46 normally go great, [ __ ] it, and leave.
56:50 >> [laughter]
56:51 >> Oh my god. Okay, so I got to pay for it.
56:54 So I got to write a check. Shot collar.
56:57 Where's the damn shot caller?
57:02 Why is my mouth dry?
57:06 [sighs]
57:08 24 bucks a month.
57:13 All right. Thank you, Brandon.
57:17 Is this worth 24 bucks a month? Tom Tom
57:20 Nler laughing his ass off. [laughter]
57:24 [gasps]
57:25 Kelly Kelly, tell me it's worth it. It's
57:29 called Notion Anxiety.
57:32 I'm waiting for I'm waiting for Kelly
57:35 Camp to say it's worth 24 bucks a month.
57:38 I know, Vicki. I know it's worth it to
57:40 you, but you you've got skills that I
57:42 don't like. Like Like what's that one
57:45 called? Follow through. Oh, Kelly's
57:49 Kelly's gone silent on me. I'm on my own
57:51 here. All right, I think I'm going to do
57:53 it.
57:55 [sighs and gasps]
58:01 Just ask Harry for help. Is it worth it
58:04 not to? Well, I'm still going to have to
58:06 learn. You will acquire said skills. I
58:09 know. I know. I know. I know. Okay.
58:12 Everybody calm down. Everybody calm
58:15 down. This is not about you. [laughter]
58:19 Please agree to the terms of service.
58:22 How about you bite my butt? Okay. Use
58:24 your saved information.
58:29 Okay.
58:33 Vicky costs more than $24 a month.
58:36 That's true. [laughter]
58:38 Okay. I'm getting out of credit card.
58:40 I'm doing it. Oh my god, people.
58:45 >> [sighs]
58:46 >> just I I ache [laughter]
58:50 [clears throat]
58:51 [sighs]
58:53 and for whatever reason Notion can't
58:55 access any of my saved credit cards on
58:58 my machine. I'm having to manually type
59:00 everything in. This is every fiber of my
59:03 being is screaming run. Do not do this.
59:07 which is probably the this this is one
59:09 of the things that Liz Miller Gersfeld
59:12 talks about in our in our uh AI salon
59:15 mastermind practice lab is that you know
59:19 those things that are confronting to you
59:21 those things where there's upset and
59:23 angst there's generally gold on the
59:25 other side of that so yes thank you Liz
59:29 in my thank you Liz in my mind
59:32 [laughter]
59:36 Shannon's gonna make you sleep in the
59:38 garage tonight.
59:40 Oh my god. [laughter] I am following my
59:43 own advice and just going monthly.
59:52 All right, I think I'm almost there.
59:53 Brandon, [snorts]
59:55 wait. Hang on a sec. Plan. Okay.
59:59 Upcoming invoice.
1:00:02 Edit method. Okay, we're going. Welcome
1:00:04 to Notion.
1:00:07 All right,
1:00:10 back to
1:00:14 Does that have Okay, so wait, I'm in
1:00:17 business area. So, let me go up a layer.
1:00:21 So, I've got the image. Okay. Um,
1:00:25 here is an image
1:00:28 of my directories for my
1:00:34 business areas
1:00:37 and then projects
1:00:40 underneath them. By the way, the answer
1:00:42 to your question, Vicki, about why do I
1:00:45 go to chat GBT when I could just do it
1:00:47 in notion
1:00:49 is
1:00:51 I think it's basically just old guy
1:00:53 behavior or it's just maybe it's add
1:00:55 behavior where it's like
1:00:58 I know how to use
1:01:01 I know how to use chat GPT well enough
1:01:03 to to know predictably what it's going
1:01:06 to give me. And so if I know I need I
1:01:08 want a certain kind of input for some
1:01:10 other tool like one of the things that
1:01:13 frustrates me madly is I come to notion
1:01:16 to try this and then it isn't as good as
1:01:19 chatb and then then that drives me
1:01:21 crazy. So I tend to just use the tools
1:01:24 that I know which I know kind of flies
1:01:27 in the face of play with purpose but I'm
1:01:32 also just a dude. Okay. Muscle memory.
1:01:34 Yeah. Exactly. Um, where you are doesn't
1:01:37 matter as long as you tell it where to
1:01:38 put it. Okay, so let's see. Here's an
1:01:41 image of my directories for my business
1:01:43 areas and then projects underneath each
1:01:45 of them.
1:01:47 Um, there are some
1:01:52 stand alone docs that are not projects.
1:02:00 You can ignore them.
1:02:03 Um,
1:02:05 I want you to
1:02:11 modify
1:02:12 my business
1:02:16 areas and
1:02:18 projects
1:02:20 here to match
1:02:23 the hierarchy
1:02:27 higher
1:02:29 key
1:02:31 in the image.
1:02:33 All right.
1:02:34 Come on, Harry. Do me proud.
1:02:39 Oh, don't forget to say put them in the
1:02:41 project database. I didn't say that, but
1:02:43 it said something about databases. I
1:02:45 think I I saw.
1:02:50 Let's see how good Harry is, even
1:02:51 without my [laughter]
1:02:54 my Vicky recommended
1:02:56 specifics.
1:02:59 [clears throat]
1:03:03 Now you have a set calendar event to
1:03:05 cancel if you don't like it. Oh, that
1:03:08 would be so Mimi, that's really good.
1:03:10 That would be that would be a
1:03:12 responsible
1:03:14 um
1:03:16 practice like act. I think that's a
1:03:20 really good idea. That's a really good
1:03:21 idea. Okay, we're going to do that. In
1:03:24 fact, while Harry is crafting my notion,
1:03:28 let's go over to my calendar.
1:03:34 And this is Janu. So, wait, what's
1:03:35 today? Today is the 5th. So, I'm going
1:03:38 to go to February 4th.
1:03:44 And in the middle of the day, I'm going
1:03:47 to say
1:03:49 um cancel
1:03:52 notion
1:03:54 subscription
1:03:58 if you are not using it. Exclamation
1:04:01 point. Boom. Look at me acting like a
1:04:06 [ __ ] adult. [laughter]
1:04:11 I just tell Siri to do it for me. I have
1:04:14 so not used Siri. Siri I I've got I've
1:04:17 got Apple PTSD where I've been with
1:04:19 Apple long enough that I remember when
1:04:21 they used to be good and and that pretty
1:04:24 much ended when Steve Jobs died. And so
1:04:26 I've just been in a state of uh of
1:04:29 denial and and conscientious objector
1:04:33 ever since.
1:04:35 Okay. Does it say crafting? crapping or
1:04:38 crashing. Uh, crafting. Okay. Wait. Oh,
1:04:41 wait. Wait. What's going on here? It's
1:04:43 doing something.
1:04:48 What I changed? I renamed Oh, this is
1:04:50 cool. I renamed the business areas to
1:04:53 match the folder names. AI salon, KS
1:04:55 Writer, KS Finances,
1:04:57 KSAI Consulting, KS Monetizable
1:05:00 Projects. I created the missing business
1:05:03 areas of KS keynotes, speaking and
1:05:05 podcast appearances and KS music. I
1:05:08 updated the project to business
1:05:10 assignment areas where I could.
1:05:15 What's still missing? Your screenshot
1:05:17 shows additional project folders like AI
1:05:19 selling story vine and but those
1:05:21 projects do not currently exist as pages
1:05:23 in your project. Um yes. Yes. Create the
1:05:28 missing projects
1:05:31 in the project
1:05:34 database and ass and associate
1:05:42 associate
1:05:44 with
1:05:46 the
1:05:49 right business area. Okay.
1:05:54 So Harry said he did the work and now
1:05:56 Harry's gonna finish the work.
1:05:59 Serious crap now. [laughter]
1:06:05 So old guy behavior. Yes. Old guy
1:06:07 behavior is why I went to chat GBT. Now
1:06:10 listen,
1:06:11 if this actually does this
1:06:16 this this is one of those dopamine
1:06:18 moments where I'm going to continue
1:06:20 forward. Okay,
1:06:22 let's see. created and linked projects
1:06:24 under KS monetizable projects CE
1:06:27 collabad workshop storyline selling AI
1:06:30 festivist AI readiness training program
1:06:32 under KS keynote AI podcast under KS
1:06:35 writer feed
1:06:38 okay so in theory
1:06:42 we're going to go to business areas
1:06:46 and here's the things
1:06:50 oh you know what we're going to do we're
1:06:51 going to have Harry's going to help us
1:06:54 put appropriate emojis before before
1:06:57 [laughter] the other business areas.
1:06:59 I'm going to say, "Hey, Harry. Um, let's
1:07:02 see. Music and uh KS keynotes
1:07:10 have
1:07:13 fun emojis.
1:07:16 Make appropriate
1:07:19 emoji.
1:07:22 Emojis.
1:07:23 How do you spell emoji? Emo. Shut up.
1:07:26 Shut up.
1:07:28 He doesn't even know how to spell emoji.
1:07:30 I went on this thing called the AI
1:07:32 learning lab and
1:07:34 [snorts] I I thought I was expecting to
1:07:36 learn something and then but he didn't
1:07:38 even know how to spell emojis. It was
1:07:41 very concerning to me. All right. Make
1:07:43 appropriate emojis for the boring ones
1:07:48 [laughter]
1:07:49 icons. Kyle icons. Well, but they are
1:07:52 emojis.
1:07:54 Um, it puts the right icons in my
1:07:56 recipes. Love it.
1:08:00 [clears throat]
1:08:01 If you're new here, if you're trying to
1:08:02 figure out what the hell is going on,
1:08:06 this is the AI learning lab. I am using
1:08:09 this time to work on some personal stuff
1:08:12 that is stuff that like on a daily
1:08:15 basis. I want to be making progress
1:08:18 using AI to move my projects forward.
1:08:21 Um, and I want to do it like a practice.
1:08:23 And part of doing it like a practice
1:08:24 means doing stuff that feels distaste
1:08:28 justful.
1:08:30 [laughter]
1:08:33 [gasps] Okay. So now I've got consulting
1:08:35 is a handshake. Finances is a bag of
1:08:38 money. That's good. Keynotes is a is a
1:08:40 microphone. Monetizable projects is a
1:08:44 rocket. Music is music. Writer's
1:08:46 writing. And AI salon is a magic wand.
1:08:51 Um, AI salon is a community.
1:08:58 While
1:09:00 while I like the wand,
1:09:04 is there something better?
1:09:08 Help me, Harry. Help me. Help me, Harry.
1:09:13 [laughter]
1:09:15 I like the brain.
1:09:18 Oh, a martini for the salon vibe. Let's
1:09:22 go martini. Let's go martini.
1:09:26 Okay. Beautiful.
1:09:33 Done. And there it is. Done. Martini,
1:09:36 right? Okay. So, that's good.
1:09:39 [gasps] And then by theme.
1:09:44 Ah,
1:09:47 okay. So, now
1:09:51 my theme.
1:09:54 Does this have themes?
1:09:56 Yes.
1:09:59 Okay. So, we're gonna have Okay. So, so
1:10:01 what we set up here, what what Vicki
1:10:03 helped me set up was
1:10:06 here's our business areas.
1:10:09 I don't think we need status here
1:10:12 because these are business areas. So,
1:10:14 we're not going to have status. So,
1:10:15 status is not right. So, so Harry
1:10:19 remove
1:10:21 the status column.
1:10:26 Um, since these
1:10:31 [laughter] Let's use a martini since Hot
1:10:34 Pockets is not an emoji. That's good.
1:10:36 Okay. Remove the status column since
1:10:39 these are business areas,
1:10:43 not projects.
1:10:46 Um,
1:10:49 also I want you to take
1:10:53 a crack
1:10:54 at assigning
1:11:03 the correct theme for each business
1:11:08 area.
1:11:13 I might not need bit. I might not need
1:11:15 themes at this level either, but that's
1:11:17 okay. Let's see what it can do. Okay, so
1:11:21 Harry is gonna
1:11:23 Harry's going to help us get rid of that
1:11:25 column. I We probably don't need an
1:11:28 owner column.
1:11:31 Dates. We might need dates. I think
1:11:33 dates could be important. Yeah, dates is
1:11:35 really important. Like AI Festivus.
1:11:38 Well, AI Festivus is inside one of
1:11:39 these. Maybe it's not as important.
1:11:41 Okay. Priority and then theme.
1:11:45 All right. So, it hasn't done anything
1:11:47 with themes yet.
1:11:51 It's cooking.
1:12:00 Look, we no longer have status. That's
1:12:02 gone. I removed status.
1:12:07 It assigned themes. Let's see. Oh, look.
1:12:10 Look how cool that is. All right, Vicky
1:12:13 and Kelly and whoever the if Cindy
1:12:16 Coon's in here, you freaky people that
1:12:20 are like, I love Notion. Notion's great.
1:12:22 You should really try it. All right,
1:12:23 fine. I'm digging it. I'm digging this.
1:12:27 All right, AI, can I move these columns?
1:12:29 I bet I can. I bet I can just drag it,
1:12:31 right? Oh, yeah. Mhm. Yep. You see what
1:12:34 I'm saying there, people?
1:12:36 All right, let's get let's tell Harry um
1:12:39 since I am the only
1:12:43 owner
1:12:45 that column
1:12:50 seems dumb dumb. [laughter]
1:12:57 Let's Let's see if Harry can understand
1:12:59 stupid talk.
1:13:01 Vicki on YouTube.
1:13:04 Enough dopamine.
1:13:07 Getting there. Getting there, Vicki. But
1:13:10 I
1:13:14 I'm still
1:13:16 It's pretty cool. I'm tempted. I know,
1:13:19 Silver Fox. It's not bad. It's not bad.
1:13:22 It's listen, let let me tell you, my
1:13:25 expectations for what I was going to
1:13:27 have to do tonight was to go in and
1:13:29 manually change all the project names
1:13:31 and manually change or the the business
1:13:33 area names, manually change stuff. So,
1:13:36 the fact that it just did it and the
1:13:38 fact that it went on ahead and and gave
1:13:40 me theme suggestions. Wait, did it not?
1:13:43 It didn't understand what I wanted to do
1:13:45 there. Um, or did it? Let's see if it
1:13:47 removed the owner column. No, remove the
1:13:51 owner column.
1:13:57 So Harry Harry doesn't understand stupid
1:13:59 prompts. [laughter]
1:14:07 All right, that's gone.
1:14:09 And then there's priority. I don't even
1:14:11 know that we need that. So AI consulting
1:14:14 is AI amplified marketing.
1:14:18 Finances is monetizable content.
1:14:23 Yeah, that doesn't really fit nicely in
1:14:25 a theme, does it? AI salon people
1:14:28 centered project management. Yeah, these
1:14:30 don't really fit.
1:14:32 All right. So, I'll have to I'll I'll
1:14:34 have to deal with that. Okay. Now, let's
1:14:36 go look at projects. So, if I go where'd
1:14:40 I go? Go back to my control board. Oh,
1:14:42 Vicki, I have a question. How
1:14:46 these are all sort of
1:14:49 [sighs and gasps]
1:14:53 like projects is way down here at the
1:14:55 bottom like how this page is laid out
1:14:57 sucks
1:15:00 cuz I kind of want to see the hierarchy
1:15:02 like here's business areas and then
1:15:04 there's projects below that. Can I drag
1:15:07 this up here
1:15:09 like to here? Yes. Okay, fine.
1:15:14 Fine.
1:15:16 [laughter]
1:15:16 Tell Harry to fix the page layout. Um,
1:15:19 okay.
1:15:21 Harry,
1:15:24 the page layout
1:15:28 here
1:15:30 kind of sucks and is unintuitive.
1:15:37 Can you
1:15:39 help
1:15:42 me make it better? I am purposely
1:15:44 putting in a shitty prompt
1:15:47 because
1:15:51 we're all going to do shitty prompts and
1:15:53 so I'll I'll do the shittiest prompts
1:15:55 and then you can do Wait, what did it
1:15:58 What did it do? [laughter]
1:16:05 What? What's it doing?
1:16:09 It's doing all sorts of [ __ ] I abs
1:16:12 Absolutely. I reorganized the control
1:16:15 board.
1:16:18 Do next today.
1:16:22 And then I've got business areas. Here's
1:16:24 the projects I'm working on.
1:16:29 Well, this is kind of cool.
1:16:36 Um,
1:16:39 oh yeah, there's the business area
1:16:42 and I can sort by business area. Yeah,
1:16:47 to-do
1:16:50 in progress to-do complete. So, let's
1:16:53 see. Some of these are complete.
1:16:56 Okay, so wait. So, like the Kai Health
1:16:58 video is complete.
1:17:01 Um,
1:17:03 AI Festivus is complete. Although
1:17:05 there's stuff to do for Festivus.
1:17:08 Um,
1:17:12 in progress to do is not a category
1:17:16 here.
1:17:18 Vibe project [laughter] man Harry Eagles
1:17:20 vibe project management. That's pretty
1:17:22 good.
1:17:23 Um,
1:17:25 this one's complete.
1:17:29 CE collab story selling and futures book
1:17:33 project is complete.
1:17:42 Fetty is complete.
1:17:46 Okay. So, I'm going to say Harry.
1:17:51 This is great. This
1:17:55 is great. Um, but don't show me
1:18:02 complete
1:18:08 projects
1:18:12 and
1:18:23 PI let's see primary
1:18:28 sort should be on
1:18:33 business area
1:18:35 and then
1:18:39 alpha
1:18:46 for projects
1:18:51 in each biz
1:18:54 area. Okay.
1:18:58 So, I'm starting to I'm starting to No,
1:19:02 I'm not starting to get religion on
1:19:04 this. I'm starting to see that.
1:19:09 Okay. Here's what's really good about
1:19:11 this. Here's what's really good about
1:19:13 this.
1:19:15 One of the things that prevents me like
1:19:19 in in in my business in StoryVine, we
1:19:22 use Trello and someone who's good at
1:19:25 project management set up the Trello,
1:19:28 you [clears throat] know, workflow and
1:19:29 it's changed over the years and things
1:19:31 like that. But when I'm setting these
1:19:33 things up myself,
1:19:35 one of the things that drives me [ __ ]
1:19:37 insane
1:19:39 is I'll put together a structure and
1:19:43 then I'll start working with it and
1:19:45 realize that that structure doesn't
1:19:46 work. And then what I have to do is I
1:19:48 have to go, "Oh god." And I go to a
1:19:50 whiteboard and I'm like, "What order
1:19:53 should it be in? What should I do?" And
1:19:54 then I kind of have to map. What do I
1:19:56 need to undo? What do I need to rename?
1:19:58 what I need to and and then it just some
1:20:00 point I just abandon it because I don't
1:20:02 feel like doing that shitty work which
1:20:04 that's something I'm working on as a
1:20:06 human to just do the shitty work but
1:20:09 also if if a tool like this can do the
1:20:12 shitty work of like I have a new idea
1:20:15 for how I want to organize this I can
1:20:16 just tell it that's pretty cool that I
1:20:18 like that I'm digging Kyle thank you for
1:20:20 [laughter] everything you do you give me
1:20:22 the confidence to go
1:20:25 all all in on AI Hi, that's awesome,
1:20:28 Victor. Um, thank you. And in fact, I'm
1:20:31 going to I'm So, I'm trying to do
1:20:32 something here.
1:20:35 I am trying I am work working
1:20:38 [clears throat]
1:20:39 excuse me. I'm working really hard
1:20:44 to really take in acknowledgements.
1:20:49 Um,
1:20:50 I've had a fair amount of breakthroughs
1:20:53 in the past month or so. And one of the
1:20:55 things that I realized is that
1:20:58 because I have historically
1:21:00 disassociated myself from the things
1:21:03 I've created, I'm sitting in the, you
1:21:05 know, in the in the back seat, not
1:21:07 driving.
1:21:08 Um
1:21:11 I
1:21:13 I'm disassociated from the feedback that
1:21:17 I get from you all which is often and
1:21:20 it's quite generous and
1:21:23 it struck me how shitty and unfair it is
1:21:27 to all of you when you say nice things
1:21:29 to me that I don't actually take it in.
1:21:31 So So I just screenshotted that. So let
1:21:33 me show you something cool.
1:21:35 Um, I've now got I've got myself a
1:21:38 journal um for my daily practice and for
1:21:42 some coaching work I'm doing. And then I
1:21:45 have this I bought myself this really
1:21:47 cool
1:21:48 Japanese toolbox
1:21:52 and I'm just going to fill it like Cindy
1:21:54 [ __ ] has her bucket of um Post-it notes
1:21:58 that are [ __ ] she got done. This is
1:22:00 going to be filled with printed out or
1:22:03 handwritten acknowledgements that I get
1:22:05 from people. Um, and I'm gonna [ __ ]
1:22:08 fill this thing up. So, anyway, so thank
1:22:11 you for that.
1:22:13 I still get that. Good for you, Kyle.
1:22:15 Yeah, I know, right, Corey. It's like
1:22:16 I'm I'm sure you've got, you know, a
1:22:19 similar sort of thing where where you
1:22:20 get all sorts of acknowledgement and,
1:22:22 you know, if you're anything like me,
1:22:24 like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get to
1:22:25 that. No, that's good. Thanks. Thanks.
1:22:27 That's terrific. I'm glad I, you know,
1:22:29 did that for you. That's great. I'm
1:22:31 going to I'm going to go make a pot now.
1:22:33 Um, [laughter]
1:22:34 so, so I totally get it. Okay, done.
1:22:38 Your project's view now hides anything
1:22:40 where it's status complete. Sorts by
1:22:43 business area first, then a toz within
1:22:44 each area. So, Harry understood what I
1:22:46 asked for. Now, let's go see if Harry
1:22:47 did it right. Let's close Harry. Oh,
1:22:50 look at that. That's so cool.
1:22:54 Keynote speaking. Okay. And so now, so
1:22:56 AI podcast. So I So now I need to Okay.
1:23:00 under keynotes. Uh under
1:23:03 keynotes, add a project
1:23:07 for
1:23:10 write
1:23:12 a keynote
1:23:16 presentation
1:23:19 as well as
1:23:22 um a project for
1:23:27 uh
1:23:29 [snorts] speakers bureau. Euros
1:23:35 spelled wrong, but it'll figure it out.
1:23:41 Okay, I think I'm digging this. I think
1:23:43 I'm digging this. Look how fast that was
1:23:46 just done. Like, okay. Okay, so look
1:23:49 people.
1:23:51 So, normally what I would have to do is
1:23:55 I would have to add a new page and then
1:23:58 it would it would add a thing and then I
1:24:00 would have to type stuff in and then I
1:24:01 would have to manually connect it to to
1:24:03 one of the business areas.
1:24:07 All right. Oh, I spelled it correctly. I
1:24:10 I inadvertently spelled bureaus
1:24:12 correctly. [laughter] That's good.
1:24:15 And then for any one of these I can
1:24:16 open. I still don't know what what to do
1:24:18 with these when they're open. Okay. And
1:24:20 then this status of to-do is wrong. So,
1:24:22 so status, what would be the status? Um,
1:24:30 so this is project status.
1:24:33 Project status. Project status.
1:24:38 Um,
1:24:41 oh, I know what I'm going to do. I'm
1:24:44 going to do EOS.
1:24:46 Okay. For project
1:24:52 for project status.
1:24:56 I want them to be
1:25:03 just starting
1:25:08 off track
1:25:13 on track
1:25:17 complete.
1:25:26 Change
1:25:28 anything
1:25:30 that is currently
1:25:40 in progress or to-do.
1:25:44 It's currently
1:25:47 in progress
1:25:51 or to-do.
1:26:00 We'll just start with on track
1:26:05 also.
1:26:07 On track
1:26:09 should be green.
1:26:15 Off track
1:26:18 should be yellow.
1:26:21 Um,
1:26:23 complete should be I don't know purple
1:26:28 and
1:26:30 just starting
1:26:32 should be
1:26:35 blue.
1:26:39 Um,
1:26:43 I also think we need a
1:26:53 status
1:26:55 called
1:26:57 um
1:27:02 [snorts]
1:27:05 um [ __ ] show on fire. Um,
1:27:11 okay. We'll call it [ __ ] show for now.
1:27:15 [ __ ] show. Um, that is red
1:27:21 for when a project
1:27:25 is in major
1:27:29 need of attention.
1:27:32 Okay.
1:27:34 Dumpster fire. I think dumpster fire is
1:27:36 better. [laughter] Dumpster fire is
1:27:38 good. Train wreck. Train wreck's not
1:27:40 bad. Dumpster fire is good. Okay, this
1:27:43 is good. I think [ __ ] show's a little
1:27:45 aggressive. I think [ __ ] shows a little
1:27:47 aggressive. Train wreck. I I think I'm
1:27:49 going to go train wreck. Not on hold.
1:27:51 It's not on hold, Kuno. It's This is
1:27:54 projects where it's like, you know those
1:27:57 projects where you just keep ignoring it
1:27:59 and you're like, "This is going to be
1:28:01 bad. This is going to be bad. If I keep
1:28:04 ignoring it, this is gonna be bad. And
1:28:05 then it is. [laughter]
1:28:13 Needs more than a band-aid. Exactly.
1:28:16 [laughter]
1:28:17 It's just a flesh wound.
1:28:24 Okay, let's go look. Do we have Do we
1:28:26 have um Look, everything's on track.
1:28:28 Look how awesome that is. But look, [ __ ]
1:28:31 show. I can make one a [ __ ] show.
1:28:33 [laughter]
1:28:36 That's so good. Just starting. This is
1:28:39 really good. This is really good. Okay,
1:28:42 so let's see. Uh Kai Health video. Okay,
1:28:44 it so this is complete.
1:28:48 Vetti is complete. So Oh, that's cool.
1:28:51 As as soon as I turn it to complete, it
1:28:53 makes it disappear. So it was smart
1:28:55 enough to know to do that. the AI
1:28:57 podcast,
1:28:59 that's going to be a keynote thing. So,
1:29:01 we'll call that one on track. We'll call
1:29:03 that one just starting. Uh speakers
1:29:06 bureaus, that's just starting. Uh write
1:29:10 a keynote presentation just starting.
1:29:12 10-person team workshop on track. I
1:29:15 would call that off track. That needs
1:29:17 attention. That's good. AI festivist on
1:29:20 track.
1:29:23 Launchpad workshop complete. complete
1:29:27 AI readiness training project. I think
1:29:29 that's on track. That's in pretty good
1:29:31 shape right now. CE collab is
1:29:37 that's mostly on track. Storyine selling
1:29:39 is off track. That's something I need to
1:29:42 get working on. So that is yellow. That
1:29:45 this color coding is working for me. I'm
1:29:47 liking this. AI futures is complete.
1:29:52 Feed your prompt. I would call that off
1:29:55 track because I changed the name of the
1:29:57 book again [laughter]
1:30:00 and Sydney is on track. So, this is
1:30:02 good. So, let's go ask Harry. Um, let's
1:30:07 change um
1:30:10 [ __ ] show. [laughter]
1:30:14 I think dumpster fire. Train wreck.
1:30:16 Dumpster. I think dumpster fire because
1:30:18 dumpster fire implies that you got to
1:30:19 put the fire out. two [laughter]
1:30:23 dumpster fire. Okay. All right. All
1:30:28 right. People, listen. For those of you
1:30:32 that are sitting there like, Kyle,
1:30:34 notion sucks. And and you're going to
1:30:36 hate it and you're never going to like
1:30:37 it. I am I am trending toward I think
1:30:42 this could be a very powerful tool. My
1:30:45 my instinct has always been
1:30:48 that this is going to be a nightmare to
1:30:50 set up. It is more of a nightmare than I
1:30:52 thought it would be, but having little
1:30:55 Harry here to just do my work for me,
1:30:57 I'm kind of digging Harry. All right, I
1:31:00 would need some completed stuff to stay
1:31:02 on the list so I can feel the payoff.
1:31:04 Well, don't forget these projects. Like,
1:31:06 I haven't even gotten to the to-do lists
1:31:09 underneath each one of these projects
1:31:11 yet.
1:31:12 Is this a paid version or free version?
1:31:15 Um, it was it was a free version until I
1:31:18 used Harry one too many times. And
1:31:21 [laughter] then and then Harry said,
1:31:23 actually right as I started tonight, I
1:31:25 went to ask Harry if he could reorganize
1:31:27 my projects. And Harry said, "Yeah,
1:31:30 you're gonna Hey, hey, I got a I got an
1:31:32 idea there for you, Kyle. How about
1:31:34 maybe you go [ __ ] yourself?" He didn't.
1:31:36 He Harry did not. He he said, "Unless
1:31:40 I'm giving him money there, he will not
1:31:42 be helping tonight." So, I went and I
1:31:44 forked out the money. And thanks, I
1:31:47 think it was Mimi's suggestion, I went
1:31:49 into my calendar and I made a calendar
1:31:52 event the day before this day next month
1:31:56 and said, "If you're not using motion,
1:31:57 cancel the subscription."
1:32:00 Harry has a damned attitude. He does.
1:32:03 Harry's got a bit of a He's got a bit of
1:32:05 a situation.
1:32:07 Dumpster fire. Love it. Look at that.
1:32:09 That's so good. [laughter]
1:32:11 Dumpster fire. So good. All right.
1:32:16 Okay. Now,
1:32:19 so now I have a container.
1:32:22 Let's see. Team 10erson team workshop.
1:32:26 We've got the keynote up there.
1:32:30 [sighs]
1:32:32 Festivus. We got collab.
1:32:35 Do I have my Oh, I do. Hang on.
1:32:40 Sometimes it's good to have a [ __ ]
1:32:43 shitty messy desk. See this? This This
1:32:48 is my map of all my projects that I did
1:32:52 in
1:32:55 Nano Banana. There's my brain. And then
1:32:58 here's all the projects that came out of
1:33:00 my brain. There's a lot of overlap here,
1:33:02 but I got a lot of [ __ ] going on. So,
1:33:04 let me look at this and see if there's
1:33:07 anything missing for my project.
1:33:09 Storyline mastermind.
1:33:12 Oh, practice engine LLC. Let's see.
1:33:16 Let me go to business areas.
1:33:24 I guess that's under AI salon. Okay,
1:33:28 let's see. Um,
1:33:31 under AI salon,
1:33:36 create a project Tik Tok pin. You need
1:33:40 three days before.
1:33:43 Oh, three days before. Sorry to say
1:33:44 that. Fine. I can fix that. [laughter]
1:33:49 Here, look. Here it is. Here. Cancel
1:33:51 notion subscription. Um, edit.
1:33:55 You want 3 days before? You got three
1:33:58 days before. Boom. Look at that. Done.
1:34:01 We don't screw around here. [laughter]
1:34:06 That was two days before. No, it was on
1:34:09 the 5th and now I made it for the
1:34:11 second. So that's three days before. It
1:34:13 was one day before and I made it two
1:34:14 more. I'm good. I'm good.
1:34:19 Kyle, how about doing emergent
1:34:23 one day vibe code? What?
1:34:27 I don't [laughter] know what that means.
1:34:28 Corey
1:34:32 demoing emergent.
1:34:35 Oh, it's like lovable. Oh,
1:34:39 okay.
1:34:42 I could do that. Well, let me wait. Let
1:34:43 me before I run and do that, I'm gonna
1:34:46 create a project called
1:34:48 um practice
1:34:51 engine.
1:34:54 Um
1:34:58 uh
1:35:00 product
1:35:03 practice engine offering.
1:35:07 Okay,
1:35:09 let me
1:35:11 looking ASL meetings. Okay, learning
1:35:14 lab.
1:35:16 Do I I don't have the learning lab in
1:35:17 here, do I?
1:35:21 And that should go under
1:35:25 I don't know.
1:35:32 Let's call Learning Lab a monetizable
1:35:35 project. We could
1:35:37 Well, this I I make 20 bucks a month on
1:35:40 AI Learning Lab. [laughter]
1:35:44 Occasionally, occasionally something
1:35:46 comes in. All right. Monetizable
1:35:48 projects. Yes. So, we'll put it under
1:35:50 that. Okay. under [clears throat]
1:35:54 monetizable
1:35:56 projects
1:35:57 um
1:36:00 create
1:36:02 project for AI learning
1:36:06 lab. Okay, [clears throat]
1:36:10 [sighs and gasps]
1:36:13 my darn thumbs and autocorrect are
1:36:15 horrors.
1:36:17 [laughter]
1:36:19 It's another vibe coding thing.
1:36:22 All right, beautiful. Vicki, yes. Is
1:36:25 that working well, Kelly?
1:36:28 Hey, Kyle. In solidarity, I'm having
1:36:30 Notion reorganize my entire database. Oh
1:36:33 my gosh, it's Harry Frank's evil twin
1:36:36 twin brother. [laughter]
1:36:41 It's been real fart, folks. But this old
1:36:43 fart has to go to bed. First day of
1:36:45 school for my kids tomorrow, so I'm up
1:36:47 at 5. Oh my god. Sorry about that.
1:36:49 Later. later, Tom. Okay. What time is
1:36:52 it? Oh, it's getting to be time. Um,
1:36:54 okay. Just added. So, let's go back to
1:36:57 control board.
1:36:59 So, our control board has this nice area
1:37:02 now. Look at all my projects, people.
1:37:08 Okay. now.
1:37:12 [panting]
1:37:19 So, let me add something. Okay, I've got
1:37:21 something
1:37:25 under AI podcast
1:37:30 project.
1:37:32 Add a to-do
1:37:38 for
1:37:43 this week
1:37:46 to
1:37:49 have AI
1:37:54 Gemini or chat
1:37:58 Gemini question work.
1:38:02 Generate a keynote
1:38:10 presentation outline out of
1:38:15 the transcript of the Michael
1:38:20 of the AI podcast
1:38:26 um of the AI podcast. Okay, let's see if
1:38:29 it does that. I mean, I know it'll do
1:38:32 that. Let's see if it makes sense what
1:38:33 it does. So, are you liking notion?
1:38:36 I don't know yet. I'm [clears throat]
1:38:40 I'm liking that I can tell Harry's my
1:38:43 little dude here.
1:38:46 I'm liking that I can tell Harry what I
1:38:47 want and it just does it.
1:38:52 I think I'm really going to like it
1:38:55 when I start populating all this stuff
1:38:58 and
1:39:01 populating it with notes and I I don't
1:39:04 know like I
1:39:07 I know that the more information that
1:39:10 goes into notion and then can get
1:39:12 assigned to these projects the more
1:39:14 powerful it's going to become. So, I'm
1:39:17 at the point right now where I'm like,
1:39:20 "Okay, here's the here's the metaphor.
1:39:24 I know that in the end what I want is a
1:39:26 giant life-sized statue of of maybe a
1:39:31 human being, but maybe a human being
1:39:33 with like a monster
1:39:35 parts."
1:39:38 And where I am right now is I'm like
1:39:40 I've got a roll of wire and I'm starting
1:39:43 to like bend the wire into the armature
1:39:45 for the like I'm just starting on one of
1:39:47 the feet. And so right now I've got like
1:39:50 some twisted up wire that's starting to
1:39:53 look like a foot a foot skeleton
1:39:57 [laughter]
1:39:57 that I'm going to put clay on. But I've
1:40:00 got like this whole rest of the thing to
1:40:04 imagine and build the structure for
1:40:07 before I even start putting clay on it.
1:40:09 So that's
1:40:11 and and where I am right now is Harry is
1:40:14 helping me bend the wire for the feet,
1:40:16 telling me what to do, you know, doing a
1:40:18 little bit of the work for me. Tik Tok
1:40:20 question. Um, the pin went away.
1:40:25 Are these just headings for projects
1:40:28 right now? But no info and files. That's
1:40:30 correct. Right now, help writing a
1:40:33 children's book for trauma. Recommended
1:40:35 AI. Literally doesn't matter.
1:40:39 Any of them are good.
1:40:41 Which one do you currently use? Is it I
1:40:45 mean, here's the thing about
1:40:51 people swear by Claude as being a better
1:40:54 writer. Um, but better writer is very
1:40:58 very subjective. You might see something
1:41:00 that Gemini writes and that resonates
1:41:02 more with you than something that Claude
1:41:04 writes. Also, all of these tools can be
1:41:07 modified to write more like you write by
1:41:10 prompting them smartly or writing system
1:41:13 instructions. So, it really doesn't
1:41:15 matter. I would say the two for for
1:41:17 writing a children's book right now that
1:41:19 I would recommend are Gemini and Chat
1:41:22 GPT because both of them have really
1:41:25 good image generation
1:41:27 um tools within them that can generate
1:41:30 text, can do car consistent characters.
1:41:33 Um and they're also really good at the
1:41:35 narrative. So I I would I would try
1:41:36 those two. Um Gemini or Chat GPT? I just
1:41:40 lost that that pin again. Could someone
1:41:42 pin that again? Um, have you ever tried
1:41:44 vibe coding to self-host to reduce
1:41:48 subscriptions?
1:41:52 No,
1:41:55 it's not a bad idea,
1:41:59 but if I wanted to do that, I would
1:42:01 probably just go to, you know, something
1:42:03 like
1:42:05 like the like uh what you call like Po.
1:42:08 Like Po lets you use lots of models. I
1:42:10 don't think I need to vibe code
1:42:12 something up where I can get access to
1:42:14 multiple subscriptions.
1:42:16 Um
1:42:18 I my problem with those kind of sites is
1:42:21 that they tend to be a compromise
1:42:25 from from the core site, right? Like
1:42:28 like PO, if you don't like the basic PO
1:42:32 interface and the and the the PO layout,
1:42:35 it's like that for every tool, right?
1:42:37 It's always the same for every tool. And
1:42:39 if you don't like it, you don't like it.
1:42:40 Like I just don't like the UI for PO. I
1:42:43 think they meant open source. Um Oh. Oh,
1:42:47 doing it with open source. I
1:42:50 I said this earlier. I just got a I'm a
1:42:53 Mac guy. And so I've been avoiding
1:42:57 open-source tools like the plague
1:42:59 because I don't have a machine powerful
1:43:01 enough to really run them and I don't
1:43:03 have the hard drive space to [laughter]
1:43:05 to to run them. I just got a gaming PC
1:43:08 yesterday and I set it up and I've I've
1:43:12 I've installed LM Studio and Pinocchio
1:43:15 and I'm gonna I'm gonna start playing
1:43:17 with open source models. Um
1:43:20 I don't have the time or patience to
1:43:22 really go deeply into that world. Um,
1:43:26 I also
1:43:29 [sighs and gasps]
1:43:32 the open- source stuff feels like it's
1:43:34 just behind like it's lagging just
1:43:36 behind the frontier model companies. Um,
1:43:39 I think there are probably some
1:43:41 arguments where there there might be
1:43:43 things like DeepSeek that are that are
1:43:45 ahead or at least in parody. Um, but I'm
1:43:48 not going to be able to run those
1:43:50 versions locally, right? like so so it's
1:43:53 like running things locally feels like a
1:43:57 compromise to me. So I don't know. So
1:43:59 that's where so where I am right now is
1:44:01 not really. It's not a bad idea though.
1:44:03 It's not a bad idea. And and you know,
1:44:05 quite frankly, in 2026, I would imagine
1:44:08 that the the efficiency of the models
1:44:12 might get to the point that a small
1:44:15 something that you can run on a gaming
1:44:16 PC without, you know, multiple graphics
1:44:19 cards um is good enough to do that. Like
1:44:22 I I think that could happen in 2026. Gen
1:44:25 Spark has gotten very good at layering
1:44:27 models and making them better. I I love
1:44:29 Gen Spark. I'm a huge fan of Gen Spark.
1:44:31 More controls, more choice. Its
1:44:33 personality is great. I I think Gen
1:44:35 Spark of of all the things I know that
1:44:38 Meta just bought Manis, which I find
1:44:40 mind-blowing, but good for Manis. Um I
1:44:44 like Gen Spark better than Manis. Um but
1:44:46 I think Manis is a bit more uh
1:44:51 like like I think of it like
1:44:55 like Gen Spark is kind of like
1:45:01 I was trying to think of a car metaphor.
1:45:03 I can't really.
1:45:09 Manis is like an erector set and Gen
1:45:12 Spark is like Legos. [laughter]
1:45:17 There you go. There's [laughter] your
1:45:19 There's your metaphor. There's your
1:45:22 toys. Toys from the 80s metaphor.
1:45:24 [laughter] Although erector sets from
1:45:26 the 50s. [clears throat]
1:45:28 Okay,
1:45:30 let's see. modify added for to-do for
1:45:34 this week use Gemini. So, if I go to AI
1:45:36 podcast now and I open this, hang on,
1:45:39 let me So, if I go here and I hit open,
1:45:45 where do I see
1:45:50 my task?
1:45:52 Tasks. Use Gemini.
1:45:55 The due date is January 9th.
1:46:01 All right. Hang on.
1:46:05 Let me close this.
1:46:19 This is a business area.
1:46:28 So, I'm going to go project work.
1:46:41 business area
1:46:47 status to do. Okay.
1:46:53 Okay. So, that kind of worked. [snorts]
1:46:56 So, then I think so you don't need to
1:46:58 watch me do this. I think my next my
1:47:01 next thing to do now
1:47:04 is to use Harry
1:47:08 to go put in all my to-dos, my tasks.
1:47:15 Ask Harry to add the task to the
1:47:17 projects. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm
1:47:18 going to do. GenSpark is more user
1:47:21 friendly. One more step. Yeah, exactly.
1:47:26 Exactly. and then I'll have that and
1:47:29 then Okay, so Vicki, so here's here's
1:47:31 one more question for tonight.
1:47:34 Um,
1:47:36 so I get that I've got now I've got it
1:47:38 set up with business areas, projects
1:47:40 underneath them. I've got overall status
1:47:43 of the projects if I want to look at
1:47:44 that, including dumpster fire.
1:47:47 Within the projects, I've got tasks,
1:47:50 I've got to-dos. I might rename tasks
1:47:53 something more, you know, less
1:47:55 businessy.
1:47:56 Um,
1:47:59 what else do you use
1:48:03 notion for? Like what are you putting in
1:48:06 the project pages or what are you
1:48:08 putting in like what other [ __ ] are you
1:48:11 putting in here? Because right now this
1:48:13 just is like a fancy to-do list and I
1:48:17 know it can do so so much more than
1:48:18 that. So, and anyone can answer this,
1:48:21 not just Vicki. If anyone uses notion,
1:48:24 I'd like to understand like what are the
1:48:26 other things I should be thinking about
1:48:28 populating this with
1:48:36 [clears throat]
1:48:37 mouse battery.
1:48:40 This is one of those beautiful Apple
1:48:42 mice where when you charge it, you can't
1:48:45 use it [laughter]
1:48:47 because they put the charging port on
1:48:49 the bottom where you use the mouse.
1:48:52 Resources, reminders to pay or stop
1:48:55 bills.
1:48:57 Resources like what? Like documents,
1:49:00 Vicki. Like you put like a word document
1:49:03 in here.
1:49:09 That's why I bought a trackpad.
1:49:12 All right, I'll I'll I'll start to
1:49:14 figure out what resources means next
1:49:16 time.
1:49:18 Okay, so
1:49:22 while I've got you here,
1:49:24 um I hope you enjoyed this. I hope you
1:49:28 enjoyed watching an old guy try to
1:49:31 install software. [laughter]
1:49:35 Welcome. Welcome to the AI learning lab
1:49:38 where you too can watch someone stumble
1:49:40 through life. Um, but listen, this is
1:49:43 how we learn, man. This is part of the
1:49:45 daily practice, part of how we get
1:49:48 better at this [ __ ] is you've got to sit
1:49:50 through the the uncomfortable stuff and
1:49:52 figure out if something is actually for
1:49:54 you. I may do all this work and
1:49:56 ultimately realize it ain't for me, but
1:49:59 I'm willing to go through it. I like I
1:50:01 feel like I owe I enough people that I
1:50:05 respect
1:50:06 have been telling me it's worth the
1:50:09 time, it's worth the investment that I'm
1:50:11 going to give it a shot.
1:50:13 Um, and it sucks going through it,
1:50:16 right? All my API keys are under the
1:50:19 tools they belong to. Oh, that's really
1:50:20 smart. That's really good. Okay, so
1:50:23 couple of things. If you did not see AI
1:50:26 Festivus,
1:50:27 you missed out on a huge thing. It was
1:50:29 24 hours of content over two days,
1:50:32 January 2 or December 26th and 27th. Um,
1:50:36 it was a really remarkable event.
1:50:38 There's a sneak preview of my musical
1:50:40 Sydney in there. Um, there's just all
1:50:43 sorts of very, very inspiring talks. you
1:50:46 can get the deluxe replay bundle which
1:50:49 includes all of the videos, all of the
1:50:52 transcripts, um, jellyod podcasts,
1:50:55 u just all sorts of stuff
1:50:58 from Festivus for 27 bucks. So, if you
1:51:02 go to aifestivist.com,
1:51:04 you can get the replay bundle for 27
1:51:06 bucks. Like, it is ridiculous how cheap
1:51:10 that is. So, go do that if you haven't.
1:51:13 even if you just want to support the
1:51:14 event because it was free to everyone
1:51:16 who watched it. Um, I want you to join
1:51:19 the AI salon. So, if you go to
1:51:20 community.thesalon.ai,
1:51:22 it's on screen right there. If you
1:51:24 haven't joined, go and join. Tomorrow
1:51:26 night, we've got our monthly meeting.
1:51:28 It's called AI Salon Presents. And we've
1:51:30 got about a dozen speakers from AI
1:51:33 Festivus who are coming back to tell us
1:51:36 what they talked about at Festivus and
1:51:38 um what they uh what they think is going
1:51:41 to happen in 2026. It's going to be
1:51:43 really cool. Um [clears throat] so
1:51:45 that's happening tomorrow night from
1:51:47 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mountain time.
1:51:51 So come do that. Uh and then the final
1:51:53 things um one of the groups within the
1:51:56 AI salon is called AI Life Hacks. that
1:51:59 that is hosted by producer Brandon um
1:52:02 and Claire Jacobs, Dr. Jay, and they put
1:52:05 together um
1:52:08 AI life hacks and they bring in people
1:52:10 to talk about that. So, so that's um
1:52:13 that's Wednesday night at at what 5
1:52:16 Mountain time, Brandon? Is that correct?
1:52:19 It's in the AI salon. If you go to
1:52:21 events, it's in there. 5:30. Okay.
1:52:24 And then finally, on January 17th, save
1:52:27 the date. It's a Saturday. Corey
1:52:29 Sandler, who's in the house tonight, is
1:52:32 going to be doing an LOL, a learn out
1:52:34 loud. And I think it's on it's on image
1:52:37 generation. Is that correct? My custom
1:52:40 GPT directory is in notion. Oh, cool.
1:52:43 Code blocks. Okay. Sorry. Still
1:52:46 remembering process templates. Proud of
1:52:48 you. Thank you, DQ.
1:52:51 I I'm proud of me, too. I got over a
1:52:54 hump of like I set this up with Vicki.
1:52:57 whatever it was a week ago and I haven't
1:52:59 touched it since because I was kind of
1:53:00 intimidated by oh I don't feel like
1:53:03 going in there and typing all those
1:53:04 project names and I didn't I just
1:53:07 screenshotted [laughter] my my finder
1:53:10 hierarchy and it matched it. So this now
1:53:13 matches my finder hierarchy. That's
1:53:15 super cool. And then yeah the Corey
1:53:17 Sandler um learn out loud is going to be
1:53:19 about image making. If you've not
1:53:21 watched how Corey
1:53:24 curates and and finds her voice with AI
1:53:28 images, it is really something to
1:53:30 behold. I haven't seen it in a while, so
1:53:31 that's great. Yes, Corey's doing image
1:53:33 generation iterations to rabbit holes.
1:53:35 Good. Yeah, she runs down creative
1:53:38 rabbit holes that I just I find it my
1:53:40 brain doesn't work that way. It's so
1:53:42 cool to watch someone who can do that
1:53:44 really well. Um, beautiful. All right,
1:53:49 fantastic everyone. Hope you had a good
1:53:51 time tonight.
1:53:52 This is what it's like to be in a in a
1:53:54 daily practice. You just you just do the
1:53:57 work. You just do the work. Sometimes
1:53:59 the work, you know, whatever it was
1:54:01 three, four nights ago, I was crying
1:54:03 like a baby.
1:54:05 Tonight it was kind of miserable. We got
1:54:07 we got some dopamine hits. Harry helped
1:54:10 us [laughter] through the through the
1:54:11 rough patches. I'm starting to see some
1:54:13 value in notion. Um, I don't quite get
1:54:17 it yet, but like all the stuff that
1:54:19 Vicki just said, she puts in notion,
1:54:21 it's starting to make sense. Prompts and
1:54:24 code snippets and API keys and all sorts
1:54:27 of [ __ ] like that. And when you have it
1:54:28 hooked into chat GPT, as Kelly Camp
1:54:32 does, and I assume Vicki does as well,
1:54:34 you can just be in chat GPT and be
1:54:37 updating [ __ ] and pulling [ __ ] out of
1:54:39 Notion. There's something really big
1:54:41 here. There's something good here. We
1:54:43 just we don't love it yet, but we
1:54:46 haven't given up. [laughter]
1:54:49 That's it. All right. So, we will vibe
1:54:52 code with emergent maybe tomorrow.
1:54:53 Sometime this week, we'll do that. Um,
1:54:57 beautiful. All right. Um, all have a
1:54:59 good night. Hope you had fun and uh I
1:55:01 will see you tomorrow. Bye.