Ryan Hanley

We're just going to start to deteriorate if you're not going to use this thing. Same thing with your mind, right? So if you have this, you know, whether it's writing or podcasting or speaking or whatever your kind of mechanism of value delivery of choice is,

It keeps you active for the rest of your life. It's something you can dig into, build a legacy of. I'm a bad podcaster. I probably shouldn't talk as much as I do, but I want to share this with you because we were discussing stuff. There's this open source tool. We're talking about OpenClaw, right? There's this open source tool. I'm a firm believer that...

I've kind of come to this realization recently, but that we need to have a local server. It could be a Mac mini. It could be a Mac. We need to have a local hard drive that's in our residence or our business that.

holds who we are holds our our our files our history all this stuff because the cloud is becoming more dangerous with ai etc and i think having a version that's on site it's almost like we flipped you know back going all the way back to the 90s when everything was on prem okay yeah so

There's this open source tool called Obsidian, which I started playing with. And it's essentially, think of it as a lightweight neural network for the content that you create. So I have pulled from LinkedIn X, my podcast and my website, every piece of content that I've created over the last 10 years. And I have now put it into this neural network.

It's insane when I can start to prompt my AI agent Max Effort and say, you know, where I'm like, hey, I really want to start working on an article around insert topic, right? Now what he'll end up doing is going, he's not just like going out finding some stats and just pulling together an outline. He's going, well, you talked about this like in 2015.

19 on this podcast with you know so and so where you kind of broke this down into this really cool quote I want to pull that in so now he's able to go back and have and I actually have a I have a database mind mapped by topic by by a medium of creation of everything I've created thought shared every stupid thing I've tweeted or posted on LinkedIn for the last decade and like

When you talk about finding your brilliance, finding your zone of genius, your expertise, holy shit, man. It's crazy, because you forget what you were thinking 10 years ago. Absolutely, yes. You might have this loose idea, but it was 10 years ago. I can't remember what I was doing 10 minutes ago, let alone 10 years ago. And now all of a sudden, these agents are able to dip into this pool and come back and go, you wrote this LinkedIn post in 2022 on the idea of, I think I told you that,

I have a book that I'm working on, it's called Easy Mode. You didn't use that term, but you kind of talked about it here. Let's pull that reference in.

This is amazing. I mean, and I think about what, you know, what the people you coach do for a living, right? Like, this is like gold to a coach, because now you can extract your own, like, oh, I was actually struggling with this same problem as my client seven years ago, and here's the post that I wrote about how I fixed it. Oh, I completely forgot that I had this step in there. That's amazing. Pull that out. So it's like,

We're just living in this world where I think what you're advocating, right, like, I hate to say this because it sounds huckstery, but like monetizing your expertise and experience, like this is the golden age for being able to do that.

It's just that, even when they're humanoids, I mean, maybe when they're, you know, AGI and they're walking around like ex machina, maybe, I don't know. I feel like we're a little ways away from that. I mean, I know they do flips and cartwheels and shit now and they're strapping machine guns to them, but I don't see them like giving keynotes from stage and the audience like, because, you know, and I'm sure you felt this and anyone who's spoke, who's listening to this right now, I'm sure you've had this experience as well, but...

There are moments in a presentation or performance, I like to call them performances, they're all unique. For almost five years I did almost the same slide deck, but I never did the same presentation.

For five years. The topic that I was talking on at the time, it was relevant to the insurance industry. Everybody wanted me to come speak. I did probably 200 gigs in those five years. It was crazy. I was on the road all the time. It was almost always the same exact slide deck.

Never the same presentation ever. Because you're watching the way the crowd reacts. Are they tired? Are they energized? Are they leaning forward? Did they just come back from a CE class and they're all bored to death? Are their bellies full of pasta and chicken? Are they all hungover in the morning? What are we dealing with? And then your job sometimes isn't

Your job as a performer in this case, at least from my perspective, and I'm very interested in yours, sometimes it's not always to deliver the message that they hired you to deliver. Sometimes when you show up, I've even had event organizers do this, in the moment go, hey, everyone's staring at their phone, how do we kick this up? You got a story or something, and now all of a sudden you have to do what

what a what a human can uniquely do which is read in a situation feel the energy and try to change the vector that that current audience is traveling and

I feel like we have to always preface this. We have literally no idea what AI will do in the future. I'm fairly confident that in my speaking lifetime, AI will not be able to deliver that in person in the way that a human can. And there's also just something to connecting with the people that you listen to, that you read. For me, it was Jordan Peterson was a big one. I've met him twice now in person. And I've watched...

monta kuukautta hänen konttinsa. Haluan hänen tavoitteensa. En edes riitä kaikkeen, mitä hän sanoo, mutta haluan... Joku, joka ei ole koskaan nähnyt hänet, hänellä on tämä tavoite. Oletko koskaan nähnyt hänet puhua live? Kyllä. En ole nähnyt hänet puhua live, mutta kyllä. Olen ollut Albanyn New Yorkissa, pieni pientä kaupungia.

He came for some reason and spoke in Schenectady, New York, which is an even tinier town about 20 minutes from here. So I was like, oh my God, small venue, Jordan Peterson, he's crazy. I bought front row seats, bought the VIP thing. I was like, here's this guy I've been following for a decade. This is amazing. This is before his most recent illness, which hopefully he's continuing on the mend. I know he hasn't been in great shape. But my point in saying that is, even having watched all of this content and read all of his books,