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AI Consulting Ideas: Y Combinator Podcast
Byjack
Major takeaways from video:
- 50% of YC focused on AI, but not because they focus on AI, but because they focus on smart good founders, and many smart people are focusing on AI
- Tarpits are things that seem really exciting for a lot of founders, but actually isn’t that great…might be hard to solve the real problem
- Example tarpits for AI: copilot, chat interfaces
- Use UX and software, and instead of chat interface, add in LLMs in background
- Boring is often good
- Example of boring: AI that is able to search government contracts and apply for relevant ones
- If someone doesn’t want to buy your AI product, try to compete with the market itself
- For example: if you develop a product for a industry and they won’t buy it, see if you can build your own company in that industry and see if you can beat them
- I think this is KEY for consulting for big ideas like I want to do (solve their biggest issue) I need to think of ideas that would run them out of business if I made a company enhanced with AI
- Specific is important: don’t do a catchall, include a lot of business logic
- Prompting and GPT wrappers is the future: SAAS is basically a MySQL wrapper
- AI security is the future
Workpost 29: Health
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling really tired. I felt undermotivated to do the things that I want to do: take walks, write in my journal. I think I’ve also been finding it hard to retain purpose for some reason, or motivation or energy to power that purpose.
I realized this morning that a big reason as to why is simply health. I felt too much discomfort in my stomach in my head, too tired.
Today’s goals are simple:
- Clean up my apartment to a level that I could invite people over and feel good about it
- Focus on my health and wellness, drink lots of water and take naps, eat good food
- Move around a lot, I have a lot of todo list items, and I can take them different places
I’m really excited for the last one, to get outside my apartment a little more. I have more money now to do these sorts of things, so I would like to explore austin a little more, go to the library, parks, coffee shops and just have a good time while I’m working through all the different to-do list items. I have some truly excellent protocols for figuring out how to work on the move and I want to use them.
Workpost 30: Refocus
Byjack
My mind feels wild
Like a disordered pair of weeds
Blowing in the wind
They seek home
Somewhere to rest their aching knots
And yet
I cannot find any purchase
The loose threads of my mind struggle
To connect into anything cohesive
Today I was feeling confused about a question:
Why do I no longer feel any motivation to do coaching? Is it because I’m scared to propose a $20,000 product? Am I scared to start a community?
And so I went for a walk. On my walk, I determined that it was because I desire to focus more than anything. Currently, I am focusing on posting for 50 days on LinkedIn and it’s taking a lot of energy. I need to be able to have fewer things on my plate.
However, when I sat down to write this journal. I realized that I’ve lost my way in these posts. I no longer do the hard work to grow and articulate how I am feeling. When I did, my poem revealed to me that I feel extremely lost and scattered in my mind. I’ve forgotten the helpful intentions I use to set myself into the mode of preparing my day:
- You are in my house
- Take your time, be patient
- Be ok with silence
- Take risks
- My house is a place where anything is possible
- Connection theory + flow theory
When I immerse myself in these intentions, I feel the distinct taste of possibility coming back to me and my world is opened wide enough to do the planning that I want to do in these posts.
Today I want to continue the work of yesterday and I want to focus on three things:
- AI project
- Linkedin post process
- To do list
Workpost 67: Feeling a little scattered
Byjack
Today I feel a bit scattered between cooking and working on multiple things at the same time. I feel the need to create some order or at least some vision for today.
Here are the possibilities today:
- Work on consulting work
- Work on my AI business
- Work on my art coaching business
- Watching hunger games
- Work on my relationship
- Cooking
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Workpost 28: Taxes & Art Therapy
Byjack
Today I feel very tired but at least better rested than normal. I really want to finish my taxes today and I also want to experiment with art therapy and exercise to help get through the stress and effort of finishing.
My initial thoughts about art therapy is that it is all about reconnecting with your body…to do flow theory or follow what you feel. Art is about touching the forms with lines and paint, music is about creating sound, dance is about moving your body.
I’m doing more research. Here is a video that talks about using art to find a safe place:
Here is another video:
Current art therapy ideas:
- Express what you feel kinesthetically
- Scribbling
- Banging on the piano
- Flow theory dance
- Free writing
- Create a safe space, express what feels safe
- Drawing
- Writing
- Music
- Repetitive motions
- Shapes
- Chords
- Motions
But how does this translate to greater art creation? How does this create a world?
Thinking about this more, art creation is about the following:
- What you want to share with others
- What you find beautiful
- What you feel wonder about
- What stories you want to tell
- What is quirky, unique, and creative
- What worlds you want to live in and provide others
I have a couple ideas of how to transition from therapeutic art to art art:
- My therapy exercise (take a problem and solve it in the story by making the main character face a problem 10x more painful)
- Express what emotions you are feeling strongly
- Capture a memory
- Start with a characters
- Start with world
- Do a fanfic
- Daydream
Workpost 31: On an Adventure
Byjack
I feel like I’m on an adventure, even though I am only 40 minutes away from my apartment in Austin. I am in the city of Leander, northwest of Austin and I’m feeling a bit tired but excited about the solar eclipse today.
I’m in the library and I feel at home but also lonely. I think there is something about being in close proximity to books that remind me of my childhood and about daydreaming and reading about people’s lives and wanting to find close friends and conquer the world.
I feel lonely, and I wish it was easier to connect with others.
The library reminds me of elementary school when everything was pretty simple. If you wanted to be friends with people, you just became friends with them.
I’m feeling really tired because I didn’t go to bed very early last night. I also think the sleeping appliance and my sleep mask are not things I’m used to sleeping with so I don’t sleep as well with them.
I’m focusing on recentering on my house, and that anything is possible in my house.
Today there is a solar eclipse, and I’m excited for that. Maybe I will read a book really quick, then get some work done and drive over to watch the eclipse from this really cool park nearby.