Hey It’s David Sherry. Most people look for success in the wrong places. I help you find the hidden value in your work, wealth, and wellness.
It’s been a bit quieter over here. I don’t have to tell you that we’re in a time of change, I’m sure you feel it.
Words, writing online, their meaning is changing. When what you read is no longer written by a human, will you care to read them as much? For this reason, video is increasing in value. And, I’m considering sending more videos through here, and sharing more in that medium.
What matters at work is changing, also. I find myself, working with Claude as a co-worker, seeking to provide it more context than the data I have available. AI is most useful when it has context and boundaries. By choosing to record our meetings, and our lives through wearables, we’ll gain even better intelligence through LLM’s.
What happens when everything is recorded and documented? The need and pull to having more data will increase. Apple is launching a series of new wearables. Meta’s glasses are selling surprisingly high amount of units.
And, unfortunately, our lives will be mediated much more through AI.
Simple questions will be turned over to the AI to answer.
Simple preferences, daily choices, made by the machine.
AI will do the heavy lifting of intelligence work, and so it’s incumbent upon us to find new work that matters.
My take: the best strategy right now is the barbell.
Go all the way in both directions: Physical and Digital.
Physical
The backlash is already building. The endless wave of “how to be more productive” content is about to invert.
The next wave will be about how to unplug, how to do less, how to be present without a screen running interference. I felt this coming a while back and started pulling away from social media…
I felt this trend early, I started pulling back from social media, using apps and blocking my time off. I simply felt less drawn to my online life.
My Media Fast – Learnings from Digital Minimalism
As AI makes our web experiences more personalized and immersive, we will need tools and skills to unplug from the machine. We will need to relearn simple human skills around connection, and how to be present without the digital mediation of our interactions.
One benefit from this: We will gain connection again. We will rebuild our kindness and empathy muscle, which has atrophied from our always online attention.
Digital.
At the same time: don’t check out. The intelligence explosion is moving on a 6-month cycle. The only way to stay ahead is to stay involved. Use the latest models.
Treat imperfect AI work as learning.
We’re all upskilling in real time.
The Skill Gap is Closing: Now What?
People will say you are being lazy…
But is using a calculator lazy? Save yourself the time from long-hand work, and offload the work so that you can think about something else.
There has never been more misinformation, never been stronger filter bubbles. AI will push you even further into an isolated perspective that reinforces what you believe. Use AI whenever possible to break out of your filter bubble.
Sadly, AI does not push back against you. Remember that it is telling you what you want to hear, of what someone else wants you to hear.
And remember that these are not conscious machines. Despite what people say…
Here’s a good old post from Seth Godin:
ChatGPT is dumber than it looks
“The reason AI language models are dumb is that they don’t actually know anything, the model is simply calculating probabilities. Not about the unknown, but about everything. Each word, each sentence, is a statistical guess.”
“It’s not a search engine and it’s not a person. It is a very fast, very well-read version of the autocomplete on your phone.” – Seth Godin
Hope you have a great week, feel free to reply with what’s on your mind.
xx David
