We are all here because we are excited about this new technology and want to learn to use it to benefit our businesses and lives, and help others. As I've been watching this AI boom & investing in it, I have some serious concerns that are troubling to me and I'd love to hear your views on them. I think this industry- the hyperscalers and frontier labs, OpenAI, Anthropic, & Google is failing and has failed disastrously in three fundamental ways that endanger the success & even existence of the AI industry. First is the original sin of how it was birthed. It trained its models on people's IP, art, music, books etc without compensation or permission. This has created a massive wave of bad will, resentment and anger by millions of people. Second, it has rolled out its massively sized, noisy, eyesore, energy- and water-intensive data centers near communities without the people's consent or input, and without ensuring people's energy bills won't increase due to their installations. There is now a large energized backlash to data centers on the left and right of the political divide, and restrictions & moratoria are being enacted in many states. I did see one data center builder on CNBC recently saying states and communities should demand more from hyperscalers and that his firm stopped using water to cool the data centers in 2011, and he thought it would be a good idea to build their own energy plants and reduce local people's energy bills and to be charged much higher property taxes that could go towards reducing or even eliminating local property taxes for homeowners. He concluded his remarks by saying AI data center builders should invest hundreds of millions of dollars in building up public resources like schools, hospitals and roads as an investment in long-term sustainable success. Very hopeful! Third, the industry is not highlighting the successes companies and entrepreneurs are having by using their AI services and products in ways that help the public buy into this new technology. The industry is also not investing in helping customers implement and onboard these new AI products and services in ways that retain and support existing workers.

Just getting started with Claude CoWork and its very exciting so far! Also, overwhelming like most incredibly complex and powerful new software can be. I was wondering if you're new to CoWork too or if you've been using it for a while? What are you doing with it to help you in your personal life or business?

That should make more people pause. Not because building a weekly plan is impossible, but because so many professionals are still spending far too much time organizing work that should already be moving. Monday starts with sorting through scattered notes, revisiting half-finished ideas, rebuilding context from the week before, and trying to decide what matters most. It feels productive, but it is often a hidden time leak. That is why this matters. If AI can help create a full weekly plan in 8 minutes, this is not just a useful productivity trick. It is a sign that a lot of the planning friction people have accepted as normal no longer needs to stay normal. When AI can turn messy inputs into a structured plan in minutes, the conversation changes quickly. It stops being about whether AI is useful and starts being about how much time is still being lost by not using it well. That is the urgent part. The people who learn to use AI for planning, prioritization, and execution support will operate differently. They will start the week with more clarity. They will reduce time-to-decision. They will cut context switching. They will spend less time figuring out what to do and more time doing the work that actually matters. That advantage compounds. A weekly plan usually requires reviewing notes, pulling tasks from different tools, prioritizing deadlines, mapping meetings, identifying bottlenecks, and breaking larger goals into next actions. None of that is unusually difficult, but it is repetitive, mentally draining, and easy to let expand into far more time than it should take. AI can accelerate that process dramatically when it is given the right inputs and constraints. That does not mean AI replaces judgment. It means AI can remove the blank page, reduce mental clutter, and handle the first layer of admin so people can focus on what actually needs human thinking. The priorities still need to be evaluated. The trade-offs still need to be considered. The final decisions still belong to the person leading the week. But instead of spending 45 minutes to an hour trying to create momentum, AI can generate a strong first version in 8 minutes and make refinement much faster.

Get in the room with people who are already where you want to be. Learn from them. Grow with them. Become like them. Stay close long enough… and one day, you’ll look up and realize; you built the life you once admired.

Did you know that about 80% of our daily thoughts are negative, and 95% are exactly the same repetitive thoughts we had the day before? This is why "Process Mode" is so important. Without a deliberate effort to move forward, your brain is biologically programmed to stay in a "loop" of yesterday’s worries. Why This Matters for Your "Forward Motion": Because your brain is a "repetition machine," you have to manually override the loop. - Consistency (which we talked about Tuesday) is what turns a new "Thoughtful Thursday" idea into a "Basal Ganglia" autopilot habit. - Execution is the only thing that breaks the loop of those 6,200 daily thoughts and turns them into 1 real-world result. Flip the negative into a positive. 🥰