WEBVTT - Starting 2026 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.800 All right. Welcome to unsupervised learning. This is Daniel Miessler. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.560 It has been a long time. Sorry about that. Yeah, 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.560 I've been, uh. Yeah, it's hard to explain. Uh, so 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.040 many things going on. Just trying to figure out what 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.120 gives you guys the maximum amount of value. So I've 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:42.800 been trying different formats on YouTube and obviously on the 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.760 podcast as well, with little clips of like, uh, I 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.000 don't know, interesting things that I'm thinking about or whatever. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.360 So I think those are a high value because, you know, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.600 1 or 2 minutes or five minutes or whatever. And 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:01.040 it's very condensed. The thing I didn't like about the podcast, 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.640 which I still don't like, you know, someone just reading 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.680 their newsletter or kind of going through the newsletter or whatever. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.960 What people kept responding to is like, hey, listen, you know, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.000 it's not so much about reading the news or whatever. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.930 I can get that from the newsletter, although some people 0:01:16.930 --> 0:01:19.890 did want to get the news from the audio because 0:01:19.890 --> 0:01:24.250 they don't like reading newsletters. It's it's it's hard to, 0:01:24.610 --> 0:01:29.770 you know. Basically, uh, do the right thing for everyone 0:01:29.770 --> 0:01:34.490 at the same time. Um, so that's something I'm still 0:01:34.490 --> 0:01:39.130 thinking about and experimenting with. The part that people really, 0:01:39.130 --> 0:01:41.730 really wanted to come back was kind of the first 0:01:41.729 --> 0:01:45.050 part of the newsletter where I'm just kind of free forming, 0:01:45.169 --> 0:01:48.610 you know, thoughts and just talking about what I think 0:01:48.650 --> 0:01:52.410 matters and stuff like that. It's it's more like the 0:01:52.410 --> 0:01:56.050 tangents is what people liked, which makes sense, because that's 0:01:56.050 --> 0:01:59.930 the same stuff I like from other people. So, um, 0:02:00.450 --> 0:02:02.130 with that in mind, that's what I'm going to do 0:02:02.169 --> 0:02:07.090 right now is kind of go into some thoughts from 0:02:07.090 --> 0:02:13.250 the last few months, which have been absolutely insane. And 0:02:13.250 --> 0:02:15.950 before I do that, I'm actually going to read a 0:02:15.950 --> 0:02:22.630 thing from our sponsor for this episode. Preventing exploitation is 0:02:22.630 --> 0:02:26.829 all about removing reachability. 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I just want to say I actually 0:03:04.350 --> 0:03:07.510 talked to the founder of this company and, uh, really cool. 0:03:07.549 --> 0:03:11.950 So basically, uh, I got into security through network security. 0:03:12.150 --> 0:03:16.840 I was like a hardcore like firewall engineer admin guy 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.320 at a company called CIS, and it was just insane. Um, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.280 so anyway, the whole concept here is, uh, kind of 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.800 similar to port knocking, which is why they call themselves 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.240 knock knock. Um, anyway, it's a cool idea. It's like 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.160 everything is turned off by default. And then you do 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.760 like this strong authentication to get into a thing, and 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.440 all you've done is changed your normal like control rules, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.040 like firewall rules, um, you know, router access, whatever it is. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.320 And it's like, that's the only thing that changes, right? 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.640 And yeah, it's just a really cool concept. I love 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.520 it just reminds me of Unix actually. I was telling 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.000 him as well. Reminds me of Unix because it's like, look, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:10.640 just do the basics really well. Like firewall rules already work. Anyway, um, okay. 0:04:10.740 --> 0:04:17.060 So going back to what I was saying, um. Yeah, 0:04:17.100 --> 0:04:20.580 I just feel really sort of cliche and trite saying 0:04:20.580 --> 0:04:23.940 that things are different now. Oh, there's been so much change. 0:04:24.260 --> 0:04:28.099 I just don't even know how to encapsulate that. It's 0:04:28.980 --> 0:04:31.140 I guess one way of saying it is, I feel 0:04:31.140 --> 0:04:35.900 like the last three months in AI have been equal 0:04:35.940 --> 0:04:41.700 to or greater than the ChatGPT bump itself, and the 0:04:41.700 --> 0:04:45.660 last month has been greater than the previous two months. 0:04:46.020 --> 0:04:51.100 So the speeding up is speeding up. It's essentially what's happening. 0:04:51.740 --> 0:04:54.740 And I want to talk about one particular piece of 0:04:54.740 --> 0:04:59.900 tech which is now called open Claw. It was molt 0:04:59.940 --> 0:05:02.740 bot before that and before that it was called clawed 0:05:02.780 --> 0:05:10.510 bot um claw. And essentially what this technology is now 0:05:10.550 --> 0:05:15.110 called open claw. It's like a lobster as the logo. 0:05:15.910 --> 0:05:23.070 Essentially what it is, is an autonomous. Agent. I think 0:05:23.070 --> 0:05:27.430 it is actually AGI. It is very close to AGI. 0:05:27.470 --> 0:05:30.630 It's not quite perfect because it's not like an installable product. 0:05:32.150 --> 0:05:34.830 But we've been talking here for a very long time 0:05:34.830 --> 0:05:38.110 about how AGI is essentially going to be a product. 0:05:38.110 --> 0:05:41.710 It is a piece of technology that is general enough 0:05:42.630 --> 0:05:48.990 to replace an average knowledge worker. Right. Because just as 0:05:48.990 --> 0:05:52.510 a review. Right. The reason nothing has been able to 0:05:52.510 --> 0:05:55.950 replace a knowledge worker is because knowledge work is too varied. 0:05:56.390 --> 0:05:59.830 It's too general, it's too strange. Right. The boss comes 0:05:59.830 --> 0:06:02.029 back and they're like, hey, yeah, we're not doing that anymore. 0:06:02.030 --> 0:06:04.430 We're doing this other thing. Oh, by the way, can 0:06:04.430 --> 0:06:07.280 you get some tickets for this? Oh, by the way, 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.800 take the salesperson out for lunch or whatever. That, of course, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.960 will require a robot. But, you know, put together a 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.200 perfect invite. Um. Hey, rewrite that report. Um, I kind 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.320 of want it to be like this report instead. Or, hey, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.040 make sure you aren't offending these people or whatever. It's 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.960 like just random tasks that people are given during the 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.080 course of any given day. Even for developers who are 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.440 supposedly doing very specific work, half of their job is 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.280 still meetings, right? Or more, you still have to do 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.920 JIRA tickets. You still have to do like meetings and 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.080 like all sorts of other, you know, you got training 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.920 you have to do, interacting with a team, changing your 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.120 goals like all of that is extremely general. It's extremely different. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.240 You can't have hard coded rules for that. And this 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.560 is why no tech has ever been able to, you know, 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.720 come close to that. Um, and do nearly as good 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.780 of a job as even an average human doing this 0:07:06.780 --> 0:07:13.340 because humans are generally intelligent. We have natural nigh natural 0:07:13.340 --> 0:07:19.900 general intelligence, and this is what is changing with this 0:07:20.140 --> 0:07:25.820 open cloud project. Essentially what it is, is it's a 0:07:25.820 --> 0:07:31.620 general system. They came up with their own AI loop. Um, 0:07:31.620 --> 0:07:37.020 it's different than cloud code. It's somewhat similar, of course, 0:07:37.020 --> 0:07:39.420 because these are all pretty similar, but they've got their 0:07:39.420 --> 0:07:42.700 own sort of way that they're solving problems. And what 0:07:42.700 --> 0:07:44.660 you do is you just go and install this thing 0:07:45.380 --> 0:07:48.980 on a VPN, you install it on a mac mini. Ideally, 0:07:48.980 --> 0:07:52.860 you put it on a system that has some, uh, 0:07:54.220 --> 0:08:00.100 natural separation in it because it basically digs deep into 0:08:00.100 --> 0:08:02.340 the system that you put it on. Right? And the 0:08:02.340 --> 0:08:04.510 idea is it should be able to dig deep because 0:08:04.510 --> 0:08:07.430 it gets full control of the system, right? It could 0:08:07.870 --> 0:08:10.350 spawn things. It could look at screenshots. It can open 0:08:10.350 --> 0:08:13.070 a browser and click on things like solving CAPTCHAs and 0:08:13.070 --> 0:08:17.110 stuff like that. But the craziest part? Okay, the craziest 0:08:17.110 --> 0:08:20.270 part about this thing is that it has this giant 0:08:20.270 --> 0:08:25.870 fleet of tools for doing work. And it just keeps 0:08:25.870 --> 0:08:29.270 trying to do things until it can do it. And 0:08:29.270 --> 0:08:31.430 this is the reason I'm saying that this thing is 0:08:31.430 --> 0:08:37.190 close to AGI. It is close to AGI because there's 0:08:37.189 --> 0:08:40.590 an example that the creator of this thing actually gives. 0:08:41.429 --> 0:08:48.190 I think he asked to book an appointment somewhere. And, um, 0:08:48.510 --> 0:08:50.470 it was like, yeah, I tried to use their website. 0:08:50.470 --> 0:08:54.870 It didn't work. Um, and he came back later. Okay. 0:08:54.910 --> 0:08:57.790 The appointment was made. And then when he came back 0:08:57.790 --> 0:09:00.550 and looked at the log, he's like, hey, how did 0:09:00.550 --> 0:09:02.850 you do this? It was like, well, I tried the website. 0:09:02.850 --> 0:09:05.370 That didn't work. Like something was wrong with their API. 0:09:05.850 --> 0:09:09.490 So what I did was I learned how to speak 0:09:10.730 --> 0:09:14.290 by myself. I saw we had an 11 labs key. 0:09:14.570 --> 0:09:17.210 So I basically just learned how to speak. And I 0:09:17.290 --> 0:09:21.410 called the company and I told them I wanted a 0:09:21.410 --> 0:09:25.770 reservation for this time or whatever it was, and accepted. 0:09:25.770 --> 0:09:29.730 And then I put it on your calendar. This is 0:09:29.730 --> 0:09:33.890 the difference. This is the difference. The difference is the 0:09:33.890 --> 0:09:37.090 thing hit an obstacle just like a human, and it 0:09:37.130 --> 0:09:40.809 went around the obstacle just like a human. Now imagine 0:09:40.810 --> 0:09:44.730 this inside of your company. Okay, now imagine this thing 0:09:44.770 --> 0:09:48.290 has access to the wiki. It has access to confluence. 0:09:48.290 --> 0:09:52.010 It has access to Google Drive. It has access to 0:09:52.370 --> 0:09:56.090 JIRA and everything else where it could learn about the 0:09:56.090 --> 0:09:58.770 company and how it works. Right? Plus, it has access 0:09:58.770 --> 0:10:01.340 to slack. It could reach out to other team members. 0:10:01.340 --> 0:10:03.300 It could reach out to the boss and say, hey, 0:10:03.300 --> 0:10:05.780 this is what I'm thinking about for this project or whatever. 0:10:06.780 --> 0:10:13.380 The difference in this systems like interactivity, first of all, 0:10:13.380 --> 0:10:16.340 it's proactive as well, right? So it's learning about you. 0:10:16.340 --> 0:10:19.740 It's learning about your tasks. It updates itself, but it 0:10:19.740 --> 0:10:22.340 also sets reminders. It's like, hey, I need to send 0:10:22.340 --> 0:10:24.580 out this report at this time. Hey, I need to 0:10:24.580 --> 0:10:26.500 check in with my boss at this time. Hey, I 0:10:26.500 --> 0:10:29.060 need to check in with whatever at this time. It's 0:10:29.060 --> 0:10:32.100 designed to be a personal assistant. That's kind of like 0:10:32.100 --> 0:10:35.660 how it's framed. It's also framed as an employee, which 0:10:35.660 --> 0:10:38.060 is kind of what I'm talking about. But what I'm 0:10:38.060 --> 0:10:41.580 specifically talking about is the ability to be an actual 0:10:41.580 --> 0:10:44.580 worker inside of a company. For a company to actually 0:10:44.580 --> 0:10:49.500 say instead of hiring Sarah or Chris or Raj or whoever, 0:10:49.980 --> 0:10:52.780 I'm going to just install a bunch of these instead. 0:10:53.020 --> 0:10:56.500 That to me is the AGI moment. Now, I've been 0:10:56.500 --> 0:10:59.710 saying I expect this to happen in the form of 0:10:59.710 --> 0:11:07.990 a product or a project or whatever before 2028, right? 0:11:08.030 --> 0:11:10.510 I said 25 to 28 is when when I think 0:11:10.510 --> 0:11:13.390 this is going to happen. Now some people are arguing, well, 0:11:13.390 --> 0:11:16.390 that happened last year, right? Because you could technically stitch 0:11:16.390 --> 0:11:21.230 all this together before. But I don't that wasn't my standard. 0:11:21.230 --> 0:11:23.630 My standard was it's an actual thing that you could 0:11:23.630 --> 0:11:27.870 go and get and easily install. And most importantly, I 0:11:27.870 --> 0:11:31.350 have a much higher standard, which is our companies actually 0:11:31.350 --> 0:11:36.590 using it. Are there real companies, startups, medium size, large 0:11:36.590 --> 0:11:40.390 companies where they're like, hey, we're literally going to use 0:11:40.390 --> 0:11:44.470 X product called replace humans, AI or whatever it is. 0:11:44.750 --> 0:11:47.429 I just made that up. It's not real, but you 0:11:47.470 --> 0:11:50.990 get what I'm saying, right? If they're actually installing it 0:11:50.990 --> 0:11:53.350 and then they're like, hey, we were able to cut 0:11:53.350 --> 0:11:57.890 our headcount 30% because we installed so and so product. 0:11:58.290 --> 0:12:00.090 And then you come back and look. And it's not 0:12:00.090 --> 0:12:03.290 like they did this trial because the board forced them to. 0:12:03.530 --> 0:12:07.610 But over the course of months and years, I would 0:12:07.610 --> 0:12:10.970 say even months or weeks, like if it just works, 0:12:11.210 --> 0:12:13.850 if it actually works, they keep it going, they actually 0:12:13.850 --> 0:12:16.850 increase their usage of it. And then you start to 0:12:16.850 --> 0:12:20.730 see virally. Yeah, more and more companies are adopting it. Boom. 0:12:20.770 --> 0:12:26.290 That is product market fit for an employee replacing technology. 0:12:26.810 --> 0:12:30.370 That to me is AGI. I thought that was going 0:12:30.370 --> 0:12:36.930 to be sometime in 2027. I thought 2026 was going 0:12:36.970 --> 0:12:39.290 to lay this out in like the agents were going 0:12:39.290 --> 0:12:41.770 to get way better and the scaffolding was going to 0:12:41.770 --> 0:12:45.770 get way better or whatever. This guy released this thing 0:12:45.810 --> 0:12:48.450 a couple of weeks ago, like a month ago, something 0:12:48.450 --> 0:12:54.980 like that. Very recently it has gone Absolutely, completely viral. 0:12:56.140 --> 0:13:00.180 Absolutely viral. Everyone is messing with this thing. It is 0:13:00.500 --> 0:13:05.820 unbelievably fun and useful to use, and the more tools 0:13:05.820 --> 0:13:07.380 that you give it, you got to be careful here. 0:13:07.380 --> 0:13:10.940 The more tools that you give it, the more scope 0:13:10.940 --> 0:13:13.660 that you give it, the more powerful it gets, the 0:13:13.660 --> 0:13:16.100 more fun it is to use. And you got to 0:13:16.100 --> 0:13:18.620 watch out for this, especially around prompt injection. That's a 0:13:18.620 --> 0:13:23.620 whole separate talk show. But yeah, prompt injection is pretty 0:13:23.660 --> 0:13:26.260 nasty because someone can find out that you're using this 0:13:26.260 --> 0:13:28.220 and then they start sending in a whole bunch of 0:13:28.220 --> 0:13:32.580 prompt injection to all your email addresses and whatever, uh, 0:13:32.940 --> 0:13:35.300 chat locations, everything. Right. So you got to watch out 0:13:35.300 --> 0:13:40.060 for that. But the point here is this thing is 0:13:40.060 --> 0:13:46.100 open source. Completely open source, absolutely going viral. There's already 0:13:46.100 --> 0:13:50.780 multiple twin projects. There's so many companies spinning up off 0:13:50.780 --> 0:13:54.080 of this. and they're just going to take and rebuild 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.400 the whole stack in their own way, right? Because he's 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.080 got some pretty cool architecture there that makes it all work. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.200 But every single part of it is open, right? So 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.080 all these companies are like, oh, worker replacement. We're talking 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:14.440 about what is it, something like $40 trillion somewhere between 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.240 like I think it's if I can remember the stat, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:24.200 it's something like 30 to $70 trillion per year companies 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:31.160 spend on doing, uh, compensation for employees, you know, salaries, 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:36.560 you know, uh, insurance, all that kind of stuff. Let's 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.800 just call it 40 trillion, $40 trillion. That's the Tam 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:46.920 for this. And somebody just released a formula completely open 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:51.250 source for how to build it, But not theoretical. This 0:14:51.250 --> 0:14:54.570 thing actually acts like an employee when you talk to it. 0:14:55.170 --> 0:15:00.370 It feels real. It responds real. It like, hey, you know, 0:15:00.410 --> 0:15:02.610 I'm not sure you've eaten yet, blah blah blah. I'm 0:15:02.610 --> 0:15:05.130 looking at your calendar. You got to get some food. Hey, 0:15:05.130 --> 0:15:09.290 don't forget to take your supplements. Um. Oh. Also, you know, 0:15:09.330 --> 0:15:12.370 Julie is going to be picking up the kids later. 0:15:12.410 --> 0:15:14.130 Do you want me to text her and have her 0:15:14.130 --> 0:15:17.970 meet you? Blah blah blah. Like it is seriously that good? 0:15:19.250 --> 0:15:22.290 And keep in mind, this is just a YOLO project 0:15:22.290 --> 0:15:25.570 from a single person. Like there's more contributors now, but 0:15:25.570 --> 0:15:28.770 this is a single person with a project he didn't 0:15:28.770 --> 0:15:31.850 expect to blow up. What's going to happen when people 0:15:31.850 --> 0:15:36.890 take that? And also using AI, also using this AI 0:15:37.810 --> 0:15:40.370 go and actually start building better and better versions of 0:15:40.370 --> 0:15:45.730 this thing and for the purpose of actually replacing human employees. 0:15:46.010 --> 0:15:54.620 So all this to say. It is a really hard 0:15:54.660 --> 0:15:59.300 time to be just a regular. Keep your head down, 0:15:59.300 --> 0:16:03.980 just do your work. Knowledge worker if you are that person. 0:16:06.660 --> 0:16:11.140 Or maybe you're not because you're listening to this podcast. 0:16:11.140 --> 0:16:13.420 So you're you're kind of like, you read a lot. 0:16:13.460 --> 0:16:18.060 You you, uh, yeah, you're probably at one of the 0:16:18.060 --> 0:16:21.380 higher edges if you're listening to this. But all of 0:16:21.420 --> 0:16:25.020 we have lots of friends. We have lots of coworkers. Right? 0:16:25.100 --> 0:16:31.540 Not everyone is exceptional by definition. Um, all these people, 0:16:32.020 --> 0:16:37.580 they're they're screwed. They are actually screwed. I seriously, seriously 0:16:37.580 --> 0:16:40.980 believe that. And this is why so much of the 0:16:41.020 --> 0:16:42.980 work that I'm trying to do is to to wake 0:16:42.980 --> 0:16:46.000 people up. I call it activating. We've got to activate 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.920 them into thinking. No, no, no, you've got to be reading. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.920 You've got to be looking at your frames, your mindsets, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.360 the way you're thinking about approaching life, the way you're 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.840 thinking about approaching work. You've got to come to the 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:02.200 table with ideas. You've got to get your AI skill 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:08.240 set so far advanced, um, that that you're able to 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.280 end to end, deliver solutions. This is kind of the 0:17:11.879 --> 0:17:15.040 the answer to. Okay. Yeah, but so what now what 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.680 what do I do? How can I make this better? 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.720 And the answer is I did a thing yesterday, uh, 0:17:23.719 --> 0:17:28.760 basically saying that I think the solution is, um, three 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.480 things that I think are the filters. Okay. The three 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:39.840 filters in my mind are drive, creativity and AI tooling drive. 0:17:40.399 --> 0:17:42.600 That's a harder one to get. It's kind of like 0:17:42.639 --> 0:17:48.090 an attribute, but I do think that you can cultivate it. Um, 0:17:48.090 --> 0:17:49.930 I think it's the most important because if you don't 0:17:49.929 --> 0:17:52.810 have it, then it doesn't matter how creative you are 0:17:52.810 --> 0:17:55.489 or how good you are with AI, the people who 0:17:55.490 --> 0:17:58.330 are going to crush it in this world that we're 0:17:58.330 --> 0:18:04.090 basically bifurcating into with like this top percentage and everyone else. Um, 0:18:04.929 --> 0:18:08.169 and I don't mind that characterization because it's possible to 0:18:08.209 --> 0:18:13.209 become the top percent if you do these things right. Um, 0:18:15.050 --> 0:18:18.810 it's like in order to get into that group, it 0:18:18.810 --> 0:18:23.170 is basically having this drive. It is having the creativity. 0:18:23.609 --> 0:18:26.729 And then, you know, having the AI skills. So the 0:18:26.730 --> 0:18:30.090 first one is the drive. You just the people who 0:18:30.090 --> 0:18:33.850 are going to win. Are these really driven? Just they 0:18:34.010 --> 0:18:37.809 they can't sit idle. They just they're always wanting to 0:18:37.850 --> 0:18:43.149 do do do create create create build build build. Um, 0:18:43.149 --> 0:18:46.070 that's the first step. Now, if you have that, then 0:18:46.070 --> 0:18:49.230 it's about creativity. It's about okay, what ideas do you have? 0:18:49.510 --> 0:18:54.869 What do you understand about the world and wish was different, right. 0:18:54.909 --> 0:18:59.030 What do you want to see created that doesn't exist? Right. 0:18:59.070 --> 0:19:02.869 So it's like you have ideas bubbling inside of you 0:19:02.990 --> 0:19:05.270 that want to get out. And there's lots of people 0:19:05.270 --> 0:19:09.189 who are like that, but they've never been able to execute. Right. 0:19:09.230 --> 0:19:12.789 So they kind of like quieted their minds. This is 0:19:12.790 --> 0:19:15.790 the other thing I'm trying to do is like, remind them, no, 0:19:15.790 --> 0:19:18.829 you did used to have ideas. You did used to 0:19:18.869 --> 0:19:20.950 want to write a book. You did used to want 0:19:20.949 --> 0:19:23.950 to start a business. But over time, more and more 0:19:23.949 --> 0:19:27.830 people around you basically like, oh, no, that's for, you know, 0:19:27.869 --> 0:19:31.629 really smart people. That's for really business savvy people. That's 0:19:31.629 --> 0:19:34.750 not for you. And we've been convinced over time to 0:19:34.790 --> 0:19:40.359 be mediocre. Well, mediocre will not work anymore. It is 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:44.479 done like it was done in 24. It was definitely 0:19:44.879 --> 0:19:50.039 went out completely in 25 and 26. Forget about it. Mediocre. 0:19:50.199 --> 0:19:55.680 You will get crushed. And the next piece. Okay, I'm 0:19:55.679 --> 0:19:58.999 just going to go to the next one. So the 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.879 next one after drive and then creativity and having the 0:20:02.879 --> 0:20:06.760 ideas because those are two separate things. Then you need 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.600 the AI skills. That is this is the meta skill. 0:20:10.919 --> 0:20:14.639 Because what AI skills allow you to do is basically 0:20:14.639 --> 0:20:20.400 go end to end, to go vertical with everything you're 0:20:20.399 --> 0:20:23.359 trying to do instead of being one piece of it. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.840 And you need the finance person, oh, I need my 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.199 technical founder with me. I need a coder. I need, 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.960 you know, marketing. I need all this. Nope. You don't 0:20:32.959 --> 0:20:37.440 need that stuff as much nearly anymore, right? You can 0:20:37.530 --> 0:20:41.169 actually do most of this yourself, especially the coding. Um, 0:20:41.169 --> 0:20:46.250 it's funny, it used to be ideas don't matter. Execution 0:20:46.250 --> 0:20:49.369 is everything. Now it's kind of like execution doesn't matter 0:20:49.369 --> 0:20:52.289 so much. Anyone can execute. The question is, what are 0:20:52.290 --> 0:20:55.490 you executing on? What is your vision? What are you 0:20:55.490 --> 0:20:58.330 actually trying to bring into the world? Right. So it's 0:20:58.330 --> 0:21:04.129 a major inversion there. But bottom line here is the 0:21:04.129 --> 0:21:10.649 filtering system is in my mind these three things. It 0:21:10.649 --> 0:21:15.169 is the drive. It is the creativity and it is 0:21:15.169 --> 0:21:20.050 the AI tooling. And I think when we're thinking about, okay, 0:21:20.090 --> 0:21:22.570 what do we teach young people? What do we teach ourselves? 0:21:22.570 --> 0:21:26.489 How do we continue our education? What should people be learning? 0:21:27.209 --> 0:21:29.889 How do people get ready for what's coming? It is 0:21:29.889 --> 0:21:34.850 that drive creativity, AI, tooling. And I do have sort 0:21:34.850 --> 0:21:37.270 of a hack there, which I'm going to be talking 0:21:37.270 --> 0:21:43.270 about in the human 3.0 stuff, which is. In order 0:21:43.270 --> 0:21:45.869 to have kind of like opinions. And this goes to 0:21:45.909 --> 0:21:49.030 the creativity one, in order to have opinions and ideas 0:21:49.030 --> 0:21:51.430 and thoughts, I feel like you need to be bombarded 0:21:51.429 --> 0:21:56.189 with input, high quality input. So I think there's a 0:21:56.189 --> 0:21:59.869 cheat here, which of course we recommend a lot here 0:21:59.869 --> 0:22:06.310 at UL, which is read 100 to 1000 great books. 0:22:07.109 --> 0:22:09.310 And the more of these books that you're reading, the 0:22:09.310 --> 0:22:13.830 more input you have, the more you know, ideas you're 0:22:13.830 --> 0:22:16.429 going to have, and you're going to really cover the sea, 0:22:16.669 --> 0:22:19.629 and the sea might actually get you so excited. It 0:22:19.629 --> 0:22:23.750 helps you with the drive as well. Right? So number one. 0:22:24.270 --> 0:22:27.469 And from there it's just about, you know, getting your 0:22:27.469 --> 0:22:30.750 AI skills massively up to up to date, keeping them 0:22:30.750 --> 0:22:33.790 up to date. And that allows you to execute. So 0:22:33.919 --> 0:22:37.320 basically drive is like wanting to do anything at all. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.399 Creativity is what are you actually doing? And then AI 0:22:40.439 --> 0:22:44.880 is your ability to execute on it. So that is 0:22:45.959 --> 0:22:49.280 primarily what I wanted to talk about in this one. Um, 0:22:49.639 --> 0:22:52.200 there's lots of news going on. Let's see, what else 0:22:52.199 --> 0:22:54.679 do we have for news? Uh, see, I went on 0:22:54.719 --> 0:22:58.480 the Cognitive Revolution podcast with Nathan. That was a really 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:04.639 fun conversation. You can get that on YouTube. Um, let's 0:23:04.639 --> 0:23:12.000 see here, just skimming through this. Uh, AI coding extensions. Yeah. 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:17.119 A whole bunch of vulnerabilities in AI coding extensions, Microsoft patches, 0:23:17.159 --> 0:23:20.720 zero day in office flaw. Fortinet has had a whole 0:23:20.719 --> 0:23:23.879 bunch of issues. If you're running that stuff, hopefully you're 0:23:23.879 --> 0:23:28.640 up to date. Let's see here national security. I'm not 0:23:28.639 --> 0:23:33.539 even going to go there. I mean, how much change 0:23:33.540 --> 0:23:36.619 is happening with the AI situation. And on top of that, 0:23:36.619 --> 0:23:41.859 we've got national security, international politics, like, oh my goodness. 0:23:41.899 --> 0:23:46.179 Like I there's just so much going on. I'm actually 0:23:46.179 --> 0:23:49.019 going to stop it here. I think this is a good, uh, 0:23:49.300 --> 0:23:55.180 sort of re um, immersing into the, uh, the audio 0:23:55.179 --> 0:23:59.859 format here and, um, look forward to, uh, keeping this 0:23:59.859 --> 0:24:03.940 going in one format or another. Uh, let me know 0:24:03.980 --> 0:24:07.539 or reach out, uh, via whatever method and let me 0:24:07.540 --> 0:24:10.619 know if you like this Freeform content. If you still 0:24:10.619 --> 0:24:12.539 want the news, maybe you want that news in a 0:24:12.540 --> 0:24:16.100 different format, but still via audio. And also let me 0:24:16.100 --> 0:24:18.540 know how how much you like the little short clips 0:24:18.540 --> 0:24:20.659 that I was doing, uh, a couple of months ago 0:24:21.340 --> 0:24:25.379 where I would just give, like a little clean idea, just, uh, 0:24:25.379 --> 0:24:27.539 let me know and we'll see you in the next one.