Continuing with my new protocol, here I’m going to share content I consumed and learned from. This week, I spent time doing general learning about a variety of topics.

What I consumed this week and what I learned from it:

• AI brings execution to the smartest people – YouTube interview with Taylor Holiday, founder and CEO of ad agency Common Thread Collective. He said that AI brings execution to the smartest people, and this really hit me. Holiday’s point is that AI now gives people the ability to execute faster than ever, so it doesn’t make sense to try to bring strategy or strategic thinking down to the people who execute. Changing their ability to think strategically may not be effective. It makes more sense to bring the ability to execute rapidly up to the people who already understand strategy. Before, it didn’t make sense for a high-level person to spend an hour executing a task. But now, they can execute it in a minute using AI, and that does make sense. Having all data in one central place allows you to use AI agents to quickly build HTML pages instead of spending a week creating a deck (see here) to answer data-related questions. Those HTML pages are essentially live dashboards that answer those data-related questions.
• Intensity transforms, consistency maintains – YouTube interview with Canadian entrepreneur Jonathan Goodman. He believes that you need to be intense about something to change or push it forward. Once a change has happened, consistency is needed to maintain it. Consistency alone won’t lead to big changes. You need intense periods of focus to change things, and then you need to figure out what you need to do consistently (but less intensely) to maintain the change. Also interesting were his insights on the differences between your job and your work (see here). A job is what you do for money. Work is what you do for yourself. Once you’ve made enough money from your job, he thinks you should stop the goal line from moving. Conversely, the goal line for work is always moving, and you should pursue your work for the rest of your life.
• How the keto diet controls bipolar and mental disorders – YouTube interview with Roblox CEO David Baszucki and his son Matt, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Fascinating interview about how Matt struggled for years and cycled through various drugs that didn’t have a material impact. Moving to a keto diet completely changed how his brain works, helped him control his disorder, and eliminated his manic episodes. I found it fascinating to learn about the history of human diets and how diet impacts brain chemistry because changing my diet had a big impact on me (though not to Matt’s level).

That’s what I learned from what I consumed last week.

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