Ari Meisel

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford · The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel · 29 Apr 2025 podcast

That's one, another one is that they had very, very strong sort of guiding principles, but all of them were very open to change and like accepting new things because these companies, these companies have existed through literal like regime changes, wars, famine, disease, like all sorts of things. Uh, another one was that all of them tend to see themselves as a member of a greater community.

So that the company was not just like a thing unto itself doing its own thing for profit. It was part of a, of a, of a bigger community around and, and, and acted as such a good example of that is Fiskars. So, you know, Fiskars, I mean, it's the orange handled scissors and like gardens. Yeah. So Fiskars is a 350 year old iron smelting company from Finland.

Um, and Zildjian Zildjian that makes the big symbols, right. Symbols Zildjian 400 years old. It was a Turkish guy who had this secret formula for making a metal alloy that was like, no, like the secret was never shared over all these generations. And that's Zildjian 400 years old. Right. And now like, you know, greatest, like every rock band in the world.

lots of really fascinating stories like that and this really inspiring so and then like the oldest of all time is kongogumi which is the construction company from japan which started in the fifth century and essentially it was liquidated four years ago uh because it just couldn't at that there was just too much debt in japanese economy kind of screwed them over but the 80th generation of the congo family had to put this business out of business we're talking about pressure

Yeah. So I actually don't think that that is the most valuable use. Totally could do that. Okay, go ahead. And interestingly enough, the first version of ChatGBT, I guess the second one, maybe. I think the second one was familiar with my writing. It was one of the first things I asked was, do you know of R.A. Maisel? He was like, yes, he wrote this and this.

I was like, write this in the style of R.A. Maisel, and it did it. So whatever compendium of knowledge they scanned their first set from, my book was in it, I guess. But at least up until now, I think now is a little bit different. it really couldn't sort of innovate and iterate further in some ways. One of the things that I think is the most valuable thing for me is I am a really bad reader.

So I've always just been much more of an audio-visual guy. I'll watch a movie and I will remember every single line for the rest of my life from watching it once. But I read a book and I have to read the same page seven times. Yeah.

That's a terrible one to remember all the time.

That's great. Totally. So I am involved. Fortunately or unfortunately, I'm involved in a bunch of things right now that require an enormous amount of reading. So I've been elected to the school board here in Princeton, where we live. I am on the I'm the vice president of our local rescue squad. I'm on the executive board of the Jewish Center.

I'm also on this municipal committee on affordable housing, racial, economic, and social equity. And the only way that I can do all of that is because I have a project in Chachi Petit for each one. And every time, like the school board, we have a meeting tomorrow where we have to review 20 really boring policies that have been handed down by the state.

Like everything from smoking policies in the school to like how parents are supposed to behave

at sporting events right so like and these are like you know very dense legal stuff so i can just load all of those in basically be like do i have any comments on this and i'll be like yeah you should ask this this and this it just it just spits out kids shouldn't smoke parents should act like adults right that's what just there you go and now he has his opinion it's like so it's like and that's the thing is like that's the greatest value i can possibly give to it other than being like

Otherwise, I could just be in a meeting and be like, yeah, it looks good. You know, so that's really important.

Yeah. And so by the way, have you tried sesame for the voice stuff?

Try having a conversation with Maya at sesame. Okay. It will blow your mind. Um, so, uh, yeah, so, so that's, that's the other thing that's been really great is the last couple of weeks, uh, chat GPT particularly had really updated their image generation capabilities.

We're building a new house right now. We're going to be moving in in June. And being able to say, this is the vanity that we bought from Restoration Hardware, and this is the lights that we just got from Crate & Barrel, put this into an image, and it does it is like...

insane our designer was like oh my god i'm gonna be out of a job i was like well no people still have to make the choices because i don't because you can't because like you said you can't teach taste you can't quite get a taste of mood boards where you're cutting and pasting things like now you can just throw it in cheshire it's amazing so that's been really great another thing is like

I love the video feature in Chezvi, so I can show it like, hey, the other day I was making a recipe of biscuits with my son, and the consistency just didn't look right. So I was like, does this look right? It's like, no, it's a little dry. Add this in. It just makes a lot of things easier. It really does.

Have you ever seen the movie Runaways with Tom Selleck from the 80s?

So like, you know, we'll have to adapt. Maybe that'll be the new set of jobs is the people that have to hunt down and kill robots.

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