Brad Jacobs

I tried to make it substantive and respect the reader's time because people are busy and they're doing me the privilege of reading the book.

I want to give them something in return, something that's worth reading.

So in the acknowledgement section,

I picked about 15 or 20 people that have been my mentors, that have been my teachers, that have been my friends that I learned stuff from, just people that I've really benefited a lot, gained some wisdom, gained some insight that I wouldn't have had otherwise.

And that's what I put.

I put the person's name and then in one sentence, what did I learn from them?

What's one of the most important things I learned from them?

One of the acknowledgements actually is Ray Kurzweil because Kurzweil wrote a book in, I

And its premise was that technology is advancing at ever-increasing speeds.

It's accelerating.

And humans are not evolving as fast as machines, as technology, as software and hardware.

And ultimately, we're going to keep using that technology that we're creating.

Technology is a tool that we're creating.

Just going back to the stone tools I talked about a few minutes ago.

just like fire, just like the wheel, just like the telegraph, just like all the tools that we've invented over the years, this technology that we've been creating is becoming more and more integrated with us.

And we're using it to enhance our senses.

We're using it to enhance our cognitive functioning.

We're using it now to enhance our feelings, our relationships, so many things that AI is generating.

Our writing are now generative AI.

And