Mark Aylward: Divorce Coach for High-Achieving Men

Yeah, I guess there's two things that are worthy of mentioning.

My leveraging of AI has been very interesting.

Oh, you and me both.

Does this happen to you? Every morning I walk through the zoo.

I have cats in the living room and they want to be where my feet are.

I walk through the zoo.

I'm yelling, make a hole, make a hole the whole time I'm going through the living room.

And by the time I get in here, I feel like I've carried a heavy backpack with books and I'm going back to college.

That's what AI does when you're really, really working with it.

When I first started working with it, I suppose that's probably a year ago now, I thought anybody that uses AI to write is a fraud.

And now I would suggest to you that anybody who doesn't use AI to write, not the original stuff, but the editing, the analytics, the research, is a fool.

And that didn't take long.

And so from between then and now, I just discover something new about it and its capabilities and its flaws and what it's best used for.

And my first recognition was prior to the work that I'm doing now, I spent a few decades in the recruiting space.

I was the owner-operator of a couple of different IT staffing companies.

And one of the things I recognized about AI right away was This is very much like interviewing someone.

It's about the questions that you ask, the breadth of those questions, and the depth of those questions.

And I hearken back to my recruiting days.

When you're trying to find out how to help somebody, personally or professionally, the first thing you need to understand is who they are and what's important to them and why it's important to them.

And that's what prompting is, you know, and then the better you get at that, and I mean, what does that mean? Why do you say that? Say that again in a different fashion so I can understand it more broadly.

You know, what's your motivation behind that? It's really an interrogation, for lack of a better phrase, but...

So I got pretty good at the contextual side of it pretty quick.

And lately, I've just been trying to leverage the automation capabilities of it so I can have it do, instead of, you know, do this step or do this skill.

Okay, well, that skill should be followed by that skill should be followed by that skill.

And I'm there to do the ideation and the discernment and judgment work at the front end and then the editing at the tail end before I go to publish.