Episode 530 - Don't Walk Away from AI w/ Mark Hinkle

So let's go and dive in.

I mean, what's the conversations that you're having? What are people saying? What's some encouragement to those folks?

So I think there's two camps.

There's people that really, really want to Learn like like you see see these product image.

You're like, oh, yeah, I have 10 agents and they run my business.

And you see these Instagram reels of guys sitting on the beach going, yeah, I just made a sale.

And I'm like, yeah, you could get there.

But that's like 400 level right now.

Most people are like, I got a job.

And I work, you know, in it, I work in marketing, I work in finance and I turn on the TV and it's like, AI, AI is coming.

I'm like, well, yeah, it's coming, but you know, It's like having a Ferrari parked in your garage and you only drive it up and down your street.

That's sort of a waste.

You have access to it, but unless you have access to a place to really enjoy it, why have that? I think that's the same thing with AI is just because you have a hammer, not everything is a nail, but here's something I do know.

28% of our time as an average knowledge worker is spent in email.

And, you know, I'm always behind an email and I use AI because but I still like the personal touch.

But if I could turn that into, you know, if I could take that down to 7% of my time, the other 50% of our time as a knowledge worker is just cutting and pasting stuff across systems.

How about, you know, create your TPS report? Oh, well, let's go look at my calendar.

What did I do this month? You know, what email? Let's go into my meeting transcripts.

You know, that kind of stuff is just such an easy, low-hanging fruit for a lot of people.

And that's, you know, that's the average knowledge worker.

But then, you know, almost anything that you do that requires some kind of processing of information could be done with AI.

And then you got to look at, you know, when is it better for Mark to do the processing than it is for Grok or Claude or Chachi and, you know, Just don't look at it as, oh, I'm being pushed into this.

It's like, I have, I have access to a lot of stuff here that can make my life easier and better.

And just, you know, I think the problem is we're not as curious as we used to be.

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