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Jonathan Swanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
606 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And I do think there is an opportunity for... And I think lots of AI labs are going to do this.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

They're going to start watching your screen as you work.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

and they're going to look at what you're doing, and they're going to proactively offer opportunities for them to help you.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And this is, we've built something like this at Athena as kind of internal testing tool where we watch, this is just using it for internal employees, but we watch them as they work, and then we automatically offload a task they should delegate, but they haven't vocalized to their assistant.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And the person who built this internally, the majority of his delegations are now machine generated.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

That means he didn't say anything.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

He's just working on his computer.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

The machine is effectively watching.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

It's identifying things that his assistant could help with, and it sends it to the assistant.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Now, of course, the human's in the loop and is going to say, oh, Chris would want me to help with this.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I'll start working on it.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Or this one's worthless.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I'll say no.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

So I do think that is going where the world's going.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I think we're getting to a world where you just work

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Machines watch you, they identify your goals, and then pass it off to a combination of machine and human assistance for the execution.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Yeah, I hear some people say, you know, you shouldn't delegate your life.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And I think that's right.

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#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Like you shouldn't delegate spending time with your kids or with your wife.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

You should delegate the things that