Last week is in history. I've been somewhat side tracked and busy building The Self-Sustaining Life Lab. You guys kept the community going. Thank you.

Hello everyone, I'm an entreprenuer just starting out. I'm trying to figure out my consulting/Skool group niche. I'm trying to incorporate it somehow with the new desktop/laptop application we just released for creating, editing, organizing and posting AI images. I'm thinking maybe something around workshops for learning to prompt AI's better, make better AI images, social media creation with AI or something along those lines, I just have to figure out what would be the most value added thing I could do for people.

There's a conversation going on in a different thread about AI tools. I thought I would bring my rant out to a new thread with a story to share. Many years ago, I worked for an office automation company owned by a real geek. He was a repairman for a major corporation, and he started his own company. He would drive the salespeople crazy because he would come out to the sales floor during a demonstration and say, look at those brass bushings in those Toshiba copiers, they're great. The sales reps would roll their eyes and hope he would leave. The customers on the sales floor just looked at this guy as weird geek. But to him those brass bushings were impressive, the other brands usually used plastic bushings, brass bushings did not wear out like the plastic ones. He meant well, but he was talking nuts and bolts. People just wanted to see how this new technology was better, faster, more efficient. When I hear people talking about AI, I see too many people talking about nuts and bolts. The key phrase is --> What is in it for me? What problem are you solving? People just wanted to see how this new technology is better, faster, more efficient.

Doug Engelbart once said: 'The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.' It is wild how many people have never heard the name Douglas Engelbart. Doug Engelbart handed us the blueprint for modern human thought, windows, hypertext, collaborative editing, video calls, and the very first node of the Internet itself, years before the rest of the world even knew what a personal computer was.

In my downtime, I love creating AI images and seeing what kind of prompts I can come up with. ✨ This one was all about embracing my inner weirdo and having fun with the parts of me that don’t always fit neatly in the box. Sometimes creativity is just giving yourself permission to play, experiment, and see what happens. 💕 What do you like to do or create in your downtime?