Hi everyone! Thank you for bearing with me as I transition roles in my career. You'll notice as you look around that some things look different, and I'm working really hard to unify the work of this group as a focused effort to serve you better! I had an amazing conversation with @Mark Laverdiere one of our newest members recently, and we shared our joint appreciation for automation and AI - yet one thing I learned is that gaining knowledge rapidly might give the perception that we are growing or learning, but in reality, producing something from it can be just as frustrating or not bear the fruit we expect. I want to invite you to a workshop this week - Thursday at 11AM EST (check the "Calendar"!) to dive into the NBAA CAM manual together, and find practical ways to turn its knowledge into repeatable skills or processess so that you don't have to hold all of it in your own head! Who's in? Put a 🤖 in the comments if you're interested!!

I have been a lifelong learner. It took me years to admit the uncomfortable part: knowing and executing are two different skills, and the gap between them is where most leaders stall. I could read the book, take the course, nod along at every page. But I realized over time that real value came into putting it into practice. That's when I went from "knowing it" to "owning it". AI is what I found helpful to close the gap for me. Not as a shortcut: as a catalyst. It levels the playing field: the thinking of CEOs, of masters in any field, is suddenly available to anyone willing to put it to work. Here is what I mean. Take almost anything you already learn from, a book, a YouTube video, a website, a blog post, and instead of just consuming it, put it through AI to pull out the repeatable process underneath. Then turn that process into a tool built around your needs, wired into the work you already do. That is the difference between a shelf of good intentions and a system that runs with you. Not tips. Not hacks. Durable tools that do the work. If your mind works like that too, join the workshop tomorrow (Thursday) 11AM EST! Check out the calendar. What is the one source you would turn into a tool first?

I read a great book last month. Genuinely actionable. And I remember almost none of it. That's the part nobody says out loud. The problem was never finding good information. It's everywhere. Books, podcasts, a ten-minute YouTube video that reframes how you think about leadership. The problem is what happens after. You close the book, nod, feel sharper for a day, and two weeks later you couldn't tell me the three things that actually mattered. We've all built a graveyard of highlights we never look at again. Here's how I'm fixing it, and it's simpler than it sounds. And it might also be just the way you can put your hard-earned CAM certification to work!! Instead of trying to remember everything myself, I hand it to an agent whose only job is to hold it and hand it back when I need it. I read a book on decision-making, I pull out what's usable, the frameworks, the one-liners, the "do this when X happens," and I give that to an agent. Now it's not lost in a highlight I'll never reopen. It's a teammate I can ask. So when I'm actually facing the decision months later, I don't try to recall the book. I ask the agent that read it for me. Same with a video. Same with a hard-won lesson from the line. It goes into the brain once, and it comes back every time it's relevant, not just the week I happened to consume it. That's the shift. You stop being the hard drive. You become the person who asks the right question and gets the good answer back. And it compounds. One book is a note. Fifty books, your best videos, and the lessons you've earned in twenty years become a team you can actually consult. Every good thing you've ever learned, on call, applied at the moment it matters instead of forgotten by Friday. You don't need to code anything. You need to stop letting good information die in your notes. Pick one thing you learned recently that you don't want to lose. Write down what was actually useful about it. Hand it to an agent. That's the first rep, and it's the one that changes how you consume everything after.

Part 1 of our call today - how using NotebookLM can turn any manuals, notes, and even online research content into actionable and interactive materials that are fun and easy to use!

The second part of our call dives into Goodnotes and Google's Gemeni integration with NotebookLM - showing how different tools can be harnessed to learn ANYTHING!