Speaker:
Hello and welcome to Notes from
the Den, coming to you from a
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secret location in the South Downs.
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So I am back from a nice holiday away.
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I went to Japan, which was amazing to
experience lots of different things in
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terms of culture, food, places, people.
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Yeah, it was an amazing experience
and yeah, really enjoyed it.
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However, it is also good to be back.
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And I'm today up in the den,
weather is very changeable.
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It's going between incredibly
bright sun and quite strong
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wind, and then very heavy rain.
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So you might hear a little bit of
that in the recording, because the
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den keeps shaking and wobbling around.
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So, , What have I been working on?
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So Recently I've been listening to a lot
of podcasts about AI, a lot of changes
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in the world of Google and ChatGPT, and
some of these large language models that
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are out there, and what I've been hearing
in these podcasts is that a lot of these
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models that we've seen developing over
the past year or so are all going to
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be updating and in front of a lot more
users, I think, by the end of the year.
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So there's some quite substantial
changes coming to the world of search,
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the world of email, to the world of
marketing, to the world of content.
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video podcasts, blogging, it's all
going to be changing very quickly.
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So I've decided that I'm going to be
doing the next series of blogs, videos,
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podcasts written by me, a human in a
small converted horse box in the South
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Downs, about some of these AI changes
that are coming because I feel like
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there's a lot of hype about them.
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There's some doomsday thinking out
there saying we're all doomed and
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we're all going to lose our jobs
and everything's going to go to pot.
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and Then there's a lot of hype as
well about all these things they're
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going to be miraculously able to do.
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People saying , it's the end of
video content creation and the end of
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blogging and all this sort of stuff.
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And I wanted to offer my opinion that
I hope is somewhere in the middle.
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It's being realistic about it, but
also trying to highlight some of
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the changes that are coming and how
that is going to affect coaches,
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consultants and small businesses.
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So yeah, my focus really is
going to be on that side of AI.
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I've also been networking quite
a lot since I've been back.
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I've been to three networking
events, which in hindsight was
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a few too many to jump back into
in the first week of being back.
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But it's been good to catch up with
people and see a lot of familiar faces.
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But also I've been having some really
interesting discussions about those
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AI topics as well as just where
businesses are at and how they're
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using it and things like that.
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So yeah, that's also been informing
a bit of my thinking around that.
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I've also recorded a video update
for my subscribers, so I've got into
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a bit more detail as to what the
content of the blogs are that I'm
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writing, as well as exploring some of
the new book ideas I've got, and also
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another secret project I'm working on.
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So if you'd like to get those video
updates then do become a subscriber
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on my website, link of course in
the description, that is the end of
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the shameless plug for this episode.
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The other thing that has started this week
is the preparation for Summer Camp 2024.
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So if you know the Happy Startup School
at all, you'll be familiar with their
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annual event, which is a three day
business festival for business hippies
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that happens here in a different
location in the South Downs, and they
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get together a lot of people from all
over the world, in fact, who fly in.
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It's about 150 people who come, and
there's some keynote style talks.
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There's lots of activities and workshops
and good food, and you stay in these
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amazing tents, and there's an enormous
big teepee where it all happens, and
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it's on a farm in the South Downs,
and it's quite an incredible weekend.
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one of those weekends that's quite hard
to describe, but I've been doing it for
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about five years now, and I'm part of the
team that helps bring it all together.
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They have a team of people who go along
and , help get the event set up and look
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after everybody while they're there.
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And we had our first team meeting this
week, so that's really exciting to
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hear what they've got planned for this
year, because there's a few different
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changes coming to what's happening
this year, and also to hear all the
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different speakers they've got booked.
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So if you're looking for something a
little bit different and you want some
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in person connection then I would highly
recommend looking into Summer Camp.
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There's a few tickets left I'll pop a link
in the description because it's definitely
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a well worth event checking out.
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Even if you can't make it this
year maybe you can jump on
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the wait list for next year.
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So it feels good to be back in creative
mode, writing and making content again
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for you all, and I'll be back next
week from the den with another update.
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So until then, happy marketing!
