Podcast Payoffs
Meet Me In The Middle: Navigating AI And What It Means To Make Things
Gord Vickman and Dan Sullivan dive into the concept of "Geometry For Staying Cool & Calm" and its relevance in the emerging age of AI. Drawing on a recent MIT Sloan study on the impact of AI in the workplace, they explore how anyone can thrive when they focus on constantly creating new things.
In This Episode:
- Dan and Gord share the concept of "Geometry For Staying Cool & Calm" as a mindset for living in the digital network economy.
- An MIT Sloan research paper showed that AI can significantly boost productivity for less experienced workers.
- Academic credentials are being left behind in a networked world where people only care if you create value for them.
- The current educational system is stuck in an industrial economy that makes little sense to continue following.
- Podcasting invites everyone to have their voices heard without needing permission.
- Dan makes an important distinction between efficiency and effectiveness.
- Productivity in the future won’t be contingent on tenure but rather on one’s ability to leverage AI and embrace the habit of always creating new things.
Resources:
MIT article: “Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI”
“Geometry” For Staying Cool & Calm by Dan Sullivan