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Ryan Hanley

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Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

So now we're slowly iterating to where eventually I won't have to touch any of it.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

And I'll just have great guests that show up that I then can just do what I like to do, which is the research and the interview part.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

And

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

That, you know, I tracked it, you know, in the last month, it saved me about two and a half hours a week of time just removing this process.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

And it's smoother for my guests because now they're not waiting for me to go back into my email and find the, you know, did they respond yet?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

Like all that, it just gets handled.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

And like, this is where,

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

I think this is where my question is coming from.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

That long diatribe is to say, I feel like we're looking at AI and we're looking for these big home runs.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

And to me, especially in these early days, a lot of the wins are just in finding a half hour in your day here, an hour in your week here, two hours here that like these little functions that just give you small chunks of time back that when you start to stack them up,

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

man, now I have the time to sit back and go, you know what, Nicholas, I'm gonna, I'm gonna think about this decision, right?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

Where before, because I had 10 bazillion things going on, and I was so hassled, I'm just making these snap decisions.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

It actually allows us to be leaders again, is what I'm saying is like, it's, it's like, is this do you believe that what AI is really going to do is kind of give give leaders and people in leadership positions

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

their jobs back to a certain extent, which is actually dissecting and making decisions and then actually advocating for them, right?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

This busy work, I feel like, is so much of the reason that we don't do those things.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

But AI can solve that.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

Yeah.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

And the best part about this, you know, is so you figure out who your highest lifetime value customer is and you get a good feel for that avatar or avatars.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

And then it's not like you can't then go back and now optimize for conversion of those specific people.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing

So, you know, guys, what Nicholas is not saying is just