Copy My Homework: Latest Finds and Favorite Tools

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So the first find, and by the way, if you have book recommendations, please share them.

Don't, don't leave all the sharing for me.

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And before anybody even asks, yes, if you are listening to something in your ears, whether that is audible or, whether that is Libby, whatever it is, if you are listening to an audio book of any kind, that counts as reading, that counts as a book recommendation.

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So first and foremost, new book by Vanessa Van Edwards, So good.

I'm not all the way done with it yet, but it's called Conversation.

This follows two of her other books, the first one being Captivate, the second one being Cues.

If you don't already know about Vanessa, one, you should.

She's a great follow on here on LinkedIn or on Instagram or TikTok or any other social media platform that you find yourself on.

You can always find her at Vanessa Van Edwards or at Science of People.

What I love about Vanessa's books is they take kind of very esoteric science-y type findings and research and turn it into something palpable.

something that you can actually take action on.

And so what I love so much about this conversation book is it is all about, it says how to connect with anyone and make every interaction.

And the reason that I have been recommending this book now more than ever to people, and by the way, you can read it in hard copy form or you can listen to it.

It's a great listen.

I have been really... like hammering into this idea that our live events and interactions with people make a huge difference because I think as the world continues to get taken over by AI, as we continue to have kind of these like fake AI people on our Instagram feeds, on our LinkedIn feeds, quite frankly, on our TikTok feeds, it's going to be hard to know what's real and what's not.

And in some cases, it's already hard to tell what's real and what's not.

So I think live events and really that face-to-face interaction is going to become more important than ever before.

So I think books like this that really help you connect in person with other humans and are going to become extremely important in the age of AI.

I think that ironically, the more AI is capable of, the more people skills or social skills are going to be what actually helps you stand out because everybody's gonna be able to get behind a Claude or a ChatGPT or a Gemini or a coworker and say, make this resume better or make this website copy tighter or make this sales pitch more aggressive.

That's not going to be a claim to fame anymore.

Everybody's going to be able to do that.