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Ari Meisel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
378 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And so that's what, you know, in 1994, I was 12. And in 1994, you either got a 12 year old who knew HTML, or you hired some giant ad company to do a website for $300,000. So I made a website for my father's art gallery. And then someone saw it and asked if I would do theirs and ended up doing like 150 or so websites before I turned 16.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

So interestingly enough, yes, I've had several jobs, many, many, many jobs actually, and they just don't last very long.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

So interestingly enough, yes, I've had several jobs, many, many, many jobs actually, and they just don't last very long.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

So interestingly enough, yes, I've had several jobs, many, many, many jobs actually, and they just don't last very long.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

I get it. I would be a terrible, I would have, I mean, I was a terrible employee. I think in some ways, not because of like quality of work, because I was like always second guessing the bosses and stuff like that. I have worked for Freddie Mac, big mortgage company. I've worked for Mac cosmetics, which is part of Estee Lauder.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

I get it. I would be a terrible, I would have, I mean, I was a terrible employee. I think in some ways, not because of like quality of work, because I was like always second guessing the bosses and stuff like that. I have worked for Freddie Mac, big mortgage company. I've worked for Mac cosmetics, which is part of Estee Lauder.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

I get it. I would be a terrible, I would have, I mean, I was a terrible employee. I think in some ways, not because of like quality of work, because I was like always second guessing the bosses and stuff like that. I have worked for Freddie Mac, big mortgage company. I've worked for Mac cosmetics, which is part of Estee Lauder.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

I worked my last job before I, my very last job, which I guess was now 23 years ago. was in real estate development with a Japanese real estate development company that was doing work in Austin, but that lasted about six months. And then since then, no, I have not worked for anybody.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

I worked my last job before I, my very last job, which I guess was now 23 years ago. was in real estate development with a Japanese real estate development company that was doing work in Austin, but that lasted about six months. And then since then, no, I have not worked for anybody.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

I worked my last job before I, my very last job, which I guess was now 23 years ago. was in real estate development with a Japanese real estate development company that was doing work in Austin, but that lasted about six months. And then since then, no, I have not worked for anybody.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah, I think there's a lot more negatives. So like Freddie Mac is a good example. So Freddie Mac is the big government organization for mortgages and stuff. So I got there for a summer internship and I had seven bosses that I met my first day. All seven of them gave me a project to work on. And then all seven of them went to some convention for like a week.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah, I think there's a lot more negatives. So like Freddie Mac is a good example. So Freddie Mac is the big government organization for mortgages and stuff. So I got there for a summer internship and I had seven bosses that I met my first day. All seven of them gave me a project to work on. And then all seven of them went to some convention for like a week.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah, I think there's a lot more negatives. So like Freddie Mac is a good example. So Freddie Mac is the big government organization for mortgages and stuff. So I got there for a summer internship and I had seven bosses that I met my first day. All seven of them gave me a project to work on. And then all seven of them went to some convention for like a week.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And I finished all of the work that they had given me that day, that first day. And then was just like, you know, bouncing around for the rest of the day. I went to actually, I grew up in New York City. So like the Lincolns at Tyson's Corner or the Tyson, I don't know. It was some big mall in Maryland that was like line blowing for me.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And I finished all of the work that they had given me that day, that first day. And then was just like, you know, bouncing around for the rest of the day. I went to actually, I grew up in New York City. So like the Lincolns at Tyson's Corner or the Tyson, I don't know. It was some big mall in Maryland that was like line blowing for me.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

And I finished all of the work that they had given me that day, that first day. And then was just like, you know, bouncing around for the rest of the day. I went to actually, I grew up in New York City. So like the Lincolns at Tyson's Corner or the Tyson, I don't know. It was some big mall in Maryland that was like line blowing for me.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

I spent more time at that mall the first week than I did working at Freddie Mac. Plus, the company had flex hours. So you had to do seven hours and 45 minutes of work any given day. But the building operated 24-7. So I'd come in at like 5 and be done by lunch, essentially, and then just be done. So a lot of weird ways to organize it.