Lazy Days, Busy Systems

This is Darth Vader. Do not panic. This is not an imperial invasion. I am merely an artificial construct introducing today’s episode of Igor Kheifets podcast who is building a lifestyle show. You might find it strange but seep, flawed as your guide to a podcast about email marketing. What do you consider this? Who better to understand the intricacies of human inefficiencies in the precision of artificial intelligence than someone like me? This episode promises a deep dive into the world of human’s artificial intelligence, and how the two intertwine. It explores the clash between human creativity on one hand and the logical precision of artificial intelligence on the other. We will discuss the ingenuity that springs from the human mind against the relentless efficiency of artificial intelligence. Could there be a synergy between these two that would revolutionize the way your species operates? Now, brace yourselves as we hyperspace into the light of the real star of this show. And, indeed, the force is strong with this one.

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I had this conversation with somebody about software, AI and people. And this this guy, he’s a he’s an IT guy, basically, you know, he either codes something for a living, or he then you know, once he coded something, he then spends the next six to 12 months, trying to work out the kinks and the bugs in the code, which doesn’t sound very efficient at all. But that’s the nature of the IT industry. So anyway, he works for this company, and I show him Chad GPT. And I’m like, What’s the language you code in? And he’s like, Jabba was like, okay, give me a simple, you know, a description of what you spent six months coding, and he’s like, well, we coded something that indexes gibberish. Basically, there’s like this data and it’s like gibberish, it’s impossible to like, understand, and there’s no way to index it. So, we coded something that indexes the data. And I just give instructions to the chat GPT. And I, you know, in front of his eyes, there’s like a code coming up like that just does basic indexing. And I was like, so you and a team of four people spent six months coding something, but can you imagine what you yourself alone could do if you just had that? So anyway, he started, he made an argument that no artificial intelligence software can ever do a job as good as a human being will do. Because it human is the one that’s creative and yadda, yadda So, and to an extent he might be right, but when it comes to coding, I think it’s a little bit blacker and whiter, that that it’s not like coding is not art in the form of where you’re coming. You’re just trying to come up with absolute abstracts and stuff like that. It’s really like a logical thing. So, there’s an algorithm or parameter and goal, and you sort of like, write the code to serve that, which is different from when you’re trying to paint something, because a lot of you know, that that sort of work is it was more like inspiration, I guess, not so much as structured coding. So, but when he made that argument, which I did not pursue, by the way, because I realized it was becoming one of those arguments where he’s arguing for the sake of it, I’m arguing for the sake of it, and neither one of us is listening to each other. I realized that humans are inefficient. And so, it reminded me that while there is a lot of talk about being productive, and you know, staying focused on your goals, and this and that, at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. And we have productive runs, and we have not so productive runs. We have, you know, weeks when we slept well, and weeks when we didn’t sleep well. We have weeks where we had some drama come up in our life and it distracted us versus weeks that we didn’t have any of that stuff have come up, we have stressful weeks, we have less stressful weeks. And all of that creates this sort of wavy performance, where sometimes you’re super productive, you’re like riding high, you’re really riding the wave. And other times you’re feeling slumped and you’re feeling like you haven’t really done much. And for that reason, I really love what we do. I really love what we do, because even when I personally am extremely unproductive, or I am dragging my feet, or there’s some nasty thing that came up, that really just blew the wind out of my sails. It almost doesn’t matter, because the results this week actually lay on the shoulders of the effort and the systems that we built before. Now, but if I remain unproductive and inefficient for the next few months, we’re definitely going to see a slump. It’s going to catch up with us eventually. But we still have a lot of leeway. A lot of if you will runway, it’s under a great concept that I was taught by my friend David Decaux, basically runways an idea where if you have cash stashed in the bank, let’s say six months’ worth, it gives you a six-month runway in case something happens. And something happens meaning you lose your source of income, a health emergency comes up, all of a sudden, your attention is six-month diverted to something else for six months. It could be whatever. In the case of David Decaux, by the way, it could actually mean David doesn’t want to work. Like I’ve seen this guy do it three times now in the last seven or eight years, where he would like, produce a lot of money, build a $100,000 A month system with himself and maybe two assistants or something. And then he was just bored. And he’s like, okay, I’m done. And he disappears. And I called him up two months later, and I was like, Dude, where are you? What’s up? And he’s like, Yeah, I’ve been taking it easier. It’s like, what do you mean? You know, just hanging out with my daughter playing video games going out to grab a sandwich. I was like, Really, it’s like nothing else. So, I get no work, then you didn’t build software. You didn’t write any emails? Nothing. No ads, like, nope. You know, just watching movies, playing video games, eating, working out maybe sometimes, and you know, hanging out with my daughter on the weekends. That’s it. It’s like, I It’s like he’s talking a different language to me, right? When he says stuff like that, like, how can you go and do nothing like nothing for real? Because there’s always something to do. I mean, even if there’s nothing to do for work, there’s always something you could be doing in your personal life. Right. But he’s kind of like that, you know, he’s the perfect specimen for Internet Marketing for being a nomad where he could literally just sit there and do nothing. That’s amazing to me. That’s fascinating. Anyway, my point being is that systems rule, humans are inefficient, and I believe that the more time we can spend the more effort we can spend on building these systems for ourselves, the more runway we will give ourselves eventually. 

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