Derek Rydall

So this all was revealed to me, excuse me.

And it was very clear that I had to double down on

helping people do what i've been doing for 25 years but that it was no longer a niche that knowing yourself you know the original self-help guru was the oracle of delphi and it was a woman and she said know thyself and it wasn't a positive affirmation it was a warning

and it was you better know yourself or else something else or someone else is going to use you and of course we know that's what's happening with algorithms so it was like i i i realized that if we didn't know ourselves and know what really matters to us and what we really value you know there's matter and there's what matters and they're not the same thing and

And even the greatest scientist who's completely a rationalist didn't become a scientist for rational reasons.

They become scientists for something that is irrational, that is unpredictable, that cannot be put on a whiteboard in an equation and is not empirical.

And then they did the thing.

And we forget that.

We forget that what really drives us is something pre-science or pre-rational.

And again, then you need the rational to build something out of it.

All good stuff, but we have to keep the priorities straight.

And we're at the risk of giving away so much of that that we will in a generation and maybe sooner

not actually have the cognitive capacity or agency or sovereignty to have be in control of our own lives and then we won't have a choice but to give control over to the ai to the algorithm and to those that own it and and so we're living in the middle of the singularity we're living in the middle of a dystopian sci-fi novel all at once but if we

put human values back front and center, we have the capacity to use technology to scale wisdom and to scale love or connection or real creativity and authenticity.

And that's going to be the real true new moat for any business.

It's not because AI, just like the phone creatively destroyed thousands of businesses.

AI is gonna do the same thing to the rest of it.

And so the only differentiator is gonna be you own the chips or you have the capital or you own the energy.

Other than that, everything a business can do, a service can do is going to become commodified.

So what's going to be the difference?