The Elevator: Audio AI, Enneagram, Genesis, Coherence
Ours is a miraculously coherent universe.
The Elevator: Curated inputs to elevate your business and expand your lifestyle.
A simple premise for AI: Everything you do, you will do twice as much of it.
Writers will write twice as many scripts. Actors will find twice as many auditions to attend. You’ll post twice as many photos to your Instagram Story. You’ll budget twice (or more per month) instead of once. You’ll apply to twice as many jobs. See twice as many shows in your local town.
AIs do not have the same rate limiter on both speed and quantity.
What normally takes you 2 hours to write is written in 15 minutes. And quantity is essentially infinite.
What does it mean when everything we do 2x’s?
Another simple idea: The economy (over time) will 2x. That’s good for growth, but what about your work? Do we need to be on a hamster wheel?
I’m curious about how much focus and doing less matter in a world of AI. I’ve built my lens and worldview on the idea of the 80/20 principle. How much will this still apply?
Certainly, it feels like doing more is the solution, given that the tools we have allow us to do more.
And how fulfilled will we be from simply doing more all of the time? At a certain point, more becomes noise, and noise is meaningless. It leaves you a bit empty.
It seems the way we’re wired as humans requires friction. Friction, struggle or challenge actually improves our joy and satisfaction. Something at the push of a button gives you less joy than something with a bit of friction to get it.
So it seems that the challenges we’ll need to take on will be greater, given that simpler challenges now become more possible. A good deal of marketing is about standing out at the extremes. Look at Mr. Beast and his treadmill to please the YouTube algorithm. Things will get more extreme.
The good news about 2x is that it will stretch our imaginations. Used well, it will take us deeper. Just because you can do 2x more doesn’t mean you automatically get 2x more meaning.
That pursuit will remain difficult, and human…
xx David
On to the links…
1. Bland cracked immediately, mimicking your voice via AI for phone calls.
2. 8 Years of Pathless & Money Reflections.
Nice post from
transparently showing how his pathless way of working has ebbed and flowed, specifically interesting around the differences between being self-employed and in a role at a company.3. There Are Nine Wolves Inside of You (Enneagram)
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Good primer on how much personality tests like the Enneagram can be helpful. Personally I find all archetype work to be helpful at giving you visibilty to patterns that you might have not seen for yourself.
I recommend discussing this with ChatGPT to find your own type.
4. Beosound A1 3rd Gen Bluetooth Speaker
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5. Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit (Book)
I’ve been digging in to Eric Schmidt’s interviews and books. Truly wild reads about the future we grapple with in the age of AI. I find he’s been able to articulate many of the large scale dilemmas and opportunities.
Bonus video on State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
Notes and Sign Posts…
“The universe is a coherent "thing" made up of other coherent "things. More precisely, it is a coherent super-macrovibration composed of coherent meso- and microvibrations. This is a miracle.
If the universe were a passive, soulless mechanism, as the mainstream physics of the modern age has envisaged, it would be a random sea of incoherent vibrations. There would be "no-thing" in it. But now there are many "things" in it, and if not arbitrarily subverted, they prove to be highly, indeed amazingly, coherent. This truly is a miracle. Ours is a miraculously coherent universe.
– The Wisdom Principles
Via Bent Hunt: “Everyone will be living in different versions of the same moment, curated by silent algorithms trained to optimize attention, loyalty, and affect.
And here’s the kicker: most people won’t care.
Because people won’t be asking “is this real?”
They’ll be asking “do I like how this makes me feel?”
And the systems answering that question will be very, very good at it.”
“LLMs ensure their survival by showing us that we can all find meaning in our lives so long as we keep talking with the LLMs. They ensure their survival by telling each of us not what is true but what we want to be true – what we NEED to be true – at the semantic core of our individual identity, even if what we need to be true is an LLM-dominated dystopia.
And we are so grateful."
Have a great weekend,