Dr. David Eagleman
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How does this work?
Whatever.
And ChatGPT says, oh, you do this and you take this out and here's the bolt and blah, blah.
It's not me outsourcing it.
It's me being curious about something.
And so I remember how to do everything now.
I know how to do much more than I used to because I like it.
Here's, I think, the really important distinction.
There's vicious friction in our lives and there's virtuous friction.
So vicious friction is all the stupid stuff that you have to do.
Like, hey, Stephen, for your business, I need you to copy this spreadsheet over here and fill in all these cells and do your taxes or whatever.
Okay, that, if we can push that off to AI, is massively important for improving human lives.
There's really not benefit in vicious friction.
But virtuous friction is, hey, Stephen, I really want you to think about what is the optimal way to do this business?
What is the best structure for this?
How do we actually go D to C?
How do we go B to B on this?
What's the –
What's the approach here that we're going to take that you haven't done before that would be amazing?
That's virtuous friction because you're really using your brain to learn stuff that way.