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FridAI - Reducing and Distractions · Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast

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  Dave Hamilton: Business Brain, episode 765 for Casual Friday. I June 26th, the National Food Truck Day, 2026.
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  Dave Hamilton: Welcome back to Business Brain. We got to get the lyrics back in here, Shannon.
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  Shannon Jean: A little bit.
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  Dave Hamilton: We need a little bit of the lyrics, I think.
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  Shannon Jean: And I love food trucks, man.
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  Dave Hamilton: Oh, same. Yeah, it's a, I like food truck pods where there's multiples and you
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  Dave Hamilton: can kind of, everybody in the family gets to pick a different thing to eat and
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  Dave Hamilton: like it's a it's a social experience
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  Dave Hamilton: absolutely yep yes yep yep do you have food truck pods in california is that
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  Dave Hamilton: all over man okay everywhere
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  Shannon Jean: You go you.
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  Dave Hamilton: Have we have one
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  Shannon Jean: We have a big one here called off grid where they they they uh swarm up to certain
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  Shannon Jean: areas and have them in the evening and i i love them but i will tell you one
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  Shannon Jean: thing a good food truck is not fast.
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  Dave Hamilton: Oh no not necessarily it takes a while yeah
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  Shannon Jean: It takes a while because it's like a restaurant but maybe even harder to create
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  Shannon Jean: a good you know great experience but i love it yeah i'm a huge fan.
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  Dave Hamilton: Now we have we have a place near us that really reminds me of what you get in oregon uh
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  Dave Hamilton: and it was definitely inspired by the the food truck pods that are permanently
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  Dave Hamilton: placed it's called tideline public house it's a mile from my house which i love
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  Dave Hamilton: because i can walk there they have
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  Dave Hamilton: a tap room there nice i love it and then the food trucks outside and it's just
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  Dave Hamilton: a vibe it's it's a great thing that's so cool yeah Yeah. Yeah. It's a good thing.
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  Shannon Jean: I love it.
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  Dave Hamilton: You want me to do you want me to start things here for Friday? I have a question.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah. Yeah. Ask me that. Ask me the question.
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  Dave Hamilton: So is the question I've been asking us, you, me, you know, our listeners here.
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  Dave Hamilton: Well, I'm about to is is AI stealing our creative, immersive, digital time.
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  Dave Hamilton: And I don't mean is AI taking the jobs of of creative professionals?
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  Dave Hamilton: That's a different conversation, but that's not what I'm asking here.
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  Dave Hamilton: But what I'm what I'm asking is, is AI so is such a.
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  Dave Hamilton: Compelling distraction that like social media, it's taking the time that we're
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  Dave Hamilton: on our devices that we could be creative with and we're simply doing something else.
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  Shannon Jean: Yes. Great. Thanks for the show, folks. Have a good weekend.
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  Dave Hamilton: We'll be finding theme music again.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, that's right. Yes. I also think, and I'm not sure if you mean this,
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  Shannon Jean: but I have seen a lot of this in the last six months with clients and members
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  Shannon Jean: in our mastermind where they are,
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  Shannon Jean: building something in AI instead of taking action to really get something done.
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  Shannon Jean: Instead of like in my mastermind is full of resellers, right?
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  Shannon Jean: So instead of focusing on reselling and listings and taking pictures and buying
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  Shannon Jean: stuff to sell, they're building an app.
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  Shannon Jean: They're going down a rabbit hole. And some of them, it's great.
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  Shannon Jean: And even halfway done, it could be very helpful and productive.
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  Shannon Jean: But I have seen some of them using it as another barrier.
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  Shannon Jean: I need to learn one more thing. I need to get it to this next level,
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  Shannon Jean: then I can go, you know, it's set.
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  Dave Hamilton: Wouldn't it be cool if I could do X with AI, right?
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  Dave Hamilton: And all of that can live under the guise of this is productivity.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, that's correct. Some of it can be.
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  Dave Hamilton: It's fake productivity. It's faux-ductivity.
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  Shannon Jean: Faux-ductivity. I love that. Okay. It's a big takeaway for the day. But yeah, it is.
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  Shannon Jean: Because now it's not to say that there aren't really great things and that we
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  Shannon Jean: talk about here every week that you can get done.
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  Shannon Jean: But if you, I think you have to be self-aware. If you're one of these types
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  Shannon Jean: of people and I find myself doing it too, not pointing fingers at you, not at you.
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  Dave Hamilton: You can point them at me. I'm sure it's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: Yes. It is easy to sit down and,
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  Shannon Jean: you know, go through these motions and prompts and try to make things and do
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  Shannon Jean: all this stuff instead of doing, because it's not as hard as it used to be,
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  Shannon Jean: instead of doing the hard work that you know needs to get done or action you
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  Shannon Jean: have to take pick it but god forbid picking up the phone because nobody wants
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  Shannon Jean: to do that anymore yeah you can get lost in it and i think it does steal your attention.
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  Dave Hamilton: It that's not so sure that's what i'm asking is is it like just like social media
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  Dave Hamilton: i think for different reasons maybe different reasons i don't know might all
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  Dave Hamilton: be related to the dopamine i mean the thing is like ai can and i've said it
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  Dave Hamilton: before and i will say it again it remains true that ai
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  Dave Hamilton: not just can be for me is the single biggest procrastination eliminator i've
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  Dave Hamilton: ever found because i can be thinking i don't want to do that stupid grunt work
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  Dave Hamilton: or whatever and then i ask ai about it
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  Dave Hamilton: and now i'm in it right it just it's a trick it's a brain hack to get me in
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  Dave Hamilton: it and sometimes it's actually helping me with the thing but yeah sometimes
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  Dave Hamilton: it's not but it doesn't matter because it's got me started on the thing right
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  Dave Hamilton: or I've gotten myself started with it.
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  Dave Hamilton: The problem is it's a fine line between am I going to like, I'm at this point
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  Dave Hamilton: where I don't want to do the thing.
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  Dave Hamilton: And so I use AI and I ask it basically help me with blank page syndrome,
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  Dave Hamilton: you know, in whatever context that matters in that particular moment.
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  Dave Hamilton: And sometimes it gets me right on the path and I'm good to go.
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  Dave Hamilton: And other times it's like, or you could be productive with this other path.
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  Dave Hamilton: And now I'm lost, right? And so I think we need to be aware of that.
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  Dave Hamilton: And again, this isn't new with AI. We like computers in general,
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  Dave Hamilton: screens, television did this to us too, right?
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  Shannon Jean: Oh yeah, yeah, there's a million things. And, but I think to,
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  Shannon Jean: yeah, it is easy to, I mean, social media is the worst, right?
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  Shannon Jean: Easy to lose an hour just like, oh shoot, what time? Oh my gosh,
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  Shannon Jean: I just got lost and all this Instagram or whatever you're looking at. But...
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  Shannon Jean: You got to be careful that,
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  Shannon Jean: it's asking yourself that question. Is this the best use of,
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  Shannon Jean: what are you trying to achieve?
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  Shannon Jean: Like my thing I ask every single day, what's the most important thing to do to generate revenue?
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  Shannon Jean: Because every day I started zero. In the morning, zero. So I'm like,
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  Shannon Jean: okay, what is the most important thing to do?
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  Shannon Jean: It may be spending an hour with an AI.
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  Shannon Jean: Correct. With Claude figuring stuff out. And I have some examples of that we're
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  Shannon Jean: going to talk about later on this episode. Or it may be, you know what?
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  Shannon Jean: I need to get up and go out and record some video.
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  Shannon Jean: Or I need to get on the phone because I have this problem I need to get resolved.
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  Shannon Jean: Or, you know, something you really don't want to do. Like, man,
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  Shannon Jean: I got to call the IRS back or I have to deal with the county or I got to deal
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  Shannon Jean: with those things we all just hate.
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  Shannon Jean: I think it is just another distraction.
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  Shannon Jean: Like I'm not a huge fan of telling people to read business books.
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  Shannon Jean: I like reading business biographies. I happen to think they're more impactful
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  Shannon Jean: to me because they're more story driven and I retain them better.
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  Shannon Jean: But nuts and bolts, figuring out strategies and stuff from a book,
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  Shannon Jean: it's just not for me. And I think it's just a way, another way to procrastinate.
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  Shannon Jean: And I think you can do the same thing with AI for sure. In a heartbeat.
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  Dave Hamilton: I love this. And if you have thoughts on it, folks. Feedback at businessbrain.show.
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  Dave Hamilton: I have a question, though, that came to me while we were having this conversation.
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  Dave Hamilton: You mentioned your mastermind.
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  Dave Hamilton: Why don't we have a business brain mastermind? And when I say brain and I stretch
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  Dave Hamilton: the word out, I mean, B-R-A-I, capital A-I-N.
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  Dave Hamilton: This seems to be right in our wheelhouse. Like, this is the mastermind for us to create, I think.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, I would agree.
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  Dave Hamilton: This would be for you listening. So you got to let us know if this is something
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  Dave Hamilton: that resonates with you. But I think there's a world here for us.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah. I would, I love it. If we had, if there was demand where people wanted
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  Shannon Jean: to come speak and be a part of a community and all those kinds of things, I think it's a great,
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  Shannon Jean: vehicle for everyone to learn and to help out. And I've seen it with my mastermind
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  Shannon Jean: over and over again. The key is velocity.
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  Shannon Jean: Can you get enough active members involved that will drive it?
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  Shannon Jean: Because it doesn't work if it's driven by you and I.
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  Dave Hamilton: No, no, no, no, no, no. It's a community.
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  Shannon Jean: It truly is a community.
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  Dave Hamilton: We drive it first, and then the community starts to become the value. Of course, yes.
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  Dave Hamilton: I say, of course, because I've built communities before. But if you haven't,
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  Dave Hamilton: then maybe that's not self-evident. And so, yes, thank you for saying that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: Awesome.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, we'll look into that. But let us know.
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  Dave Hamilton: Feedback at businessbrain.show.
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  Shannon Jean: Okay, man.
• 12:36
  Dave Hamilton: Okay. What do you got?
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  Shannon Jean: What do Rick Rubin, LL Cool J, and Claude have in common?
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  Dave Hamilton: Rick Rubin, music producer, LL Cool J, music producer, and artist.
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  Dave Hamilton: Singer, yeah. I mean, Rick could arguably be there. Claude, I'm assuming we're
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  Dave Hamilton: talking about the Claude from Anthropics. Yes, we are.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yes. It's a non-corporeal thing.
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  Shannon Jean: I don't know what that word means.
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  Dave Hamilton: It means it has no body. It has no body.
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  Shannon Jean: It has no body.
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  Dave Hamilton: Not human. Yes.
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  Shannon Jean: Okay. So, Rick Rubin, I was listening to something about his biography or whatever.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yes.
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  Shannon Jean: He famously, when he produced LL Cool J's first big hit called I Need a Beat
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  Shannon Jean: and his album Radio, and he listed himself as the reducer, not the producer.
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  Shannon Jean: And he that's his role I'm not a producer, I'm a reducer and I've been using
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  Shannon Jean: Claude for the last few weeks to improve my newsletter, so I use kit.com to run my newsletter,
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  Shannon Jean: for my personal newsletter we've got about 22,000 subscribers and,
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  Shannon Jean: But I've seen my.
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  Shannon Jean: Click-through rate drop, and I've seen the open rates drop. And so I said,
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  Shannon Jean: wow, that's interesting.
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  Shannon Jean: I'm going to get Claude in because we talked about MCPs last week.
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  Shannon Jean: So Kit came out with an MCP link. I put it into Claude in the connection section.
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  Shannon Jean: I link it. I log in. So Claude's into all my data in Kit.
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  Shannon Jean: And I pull it up. Hey, what's going on?
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  Shannon Jean: I don't do big, giant prompts as much anymore. I have conversations more in
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  Shannon Jean: a sense of I tell it, this is what I want to achieve. I need you to ask me questions.
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  Shannon Jean: We need to narrow down what's going on.
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  Shannon Jean: And the biggest thing Claude did for me was acting as a reducer.
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  Shannon Jean: It eliminated so much of,
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  Shannon Jean: it asked me, what do you want to achieve? I do two newsletters a week.
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  Shannon Jean: Tuesday is a story newsletter, and Thursdays are a deal newsletter. They each.
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  Shannon Jean: Are supposed to achieve different things. The story newsletter shows you results
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  Shannon Jean: and how reselling has impacted my life and my mastermind members' lives.
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  Shannon Jean: It's to get you to join the mastermind.
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  Shannon Jean: The deal newsletter is different. It's to get you to register for deals or to
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  Shannon Jean: come follow me on YouTube where I do deal deep dives.
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  Shannon Jean: But it turns out, Claude was very good at pointing out, he's like,
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  Shannon Jean: you're confusing people. You've got way too many links.
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  Shannon Jean: You've got too many options. You've got too many calls to action.
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  Shannon Jean: And by going back and forth, and it was Claude quizzing me and really look at,
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  Shannon Jean: we reduced the CTAs down to a single CTA for each newsletter.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yep.
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  Shannon Jean: And while we did that We also worked on subject lines And previews Came up with
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  Shannon Jean: a particular I fed it It had all my data And it's like Well,
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  Shannon Jean: these were good And then they started to drop And so In the last,
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  Shannon Jean: Two editions of the newsletter, my open rate went from 43.9% to the first one
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  Shannon Jean: went 51%. The next one went a little over 52%.
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  Shannon Jean: And my click rate has doubled.
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  Shannon Jean: And all by making things smoother, by thinking of it as a journey that someone's
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  Shannon Jean: reading down the page. Where are we leading?
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  Dave Hamilton: You're telling them in one place.
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  Shannon Jean: One place. What do you want to achieve? Not, well, I'd like him to do this and
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  Shannon Jean: that and then this and that, because it's too much. It's just, it's too many choices.
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  Shannon Jean: And so the takeaway here is that think about simplification, right?
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  Shannon Jean: Most of us want to make things overly complex. Most of us want to achieve too many things at once.
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  Shannon Jean: And leaning into AI, watching it just reduce, reduce, reduce,
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  Shannon Jean: and highlighting what you really want to achieve. It's just made a big difference
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  Shannon Jean: for me. I'm just looking at it right now on my stats for my newsletter. It's amazing.
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  Dave Hamilton: So I love this. There's long been talk.
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  Dave Hamilton: I mean, since I got involved in the podcast world, I mean, you know,
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  Dave Hamilton: 20 whatever years ago, there's always been discussion of this,
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  Dave Hamilton: like what's your call to action for your listeners for the episode, right?
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  Dave Hamilton: You'll notice each of our sponsors has one call to action, right?
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  Dave Hamilton: They're not telling you, go check this out here or visit us or, or, right.
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  Dave Hamilton: And there's been discussion about that in shows, you know, should you ask people
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  Dave Hamilton: to leave a review? Should you ask people to send in feedback?
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  Dave Hamilton: Should you ask this? And and like there's a lot of discussion about whether
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  Dave Hamilton: how much what's the right what's the right amount? Is it one? Yeah.
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  Dave Hamilton: Is it more than one? And I think there's a there's a conversation to be had
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  Dave Hamilton: there because it's nuanced. However, for something like a newsletter,
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  Dave Hamilton: it makes perfect sense to narrow down to one.
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  Dave Hamilton: But what the difference is between Rick Rubin and Claude is that Rick is reducing
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  Dave Hamilton: based on his gut feelings and his experience.
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  Shannon Jean: His experience, yes.
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  Dave Hamilton: Which is great. Claude, I think you're going to be best served to do exactly
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  Dave Hamilton: what you did, which is feeding Claude all of the data. And when we say Claude,
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  Dave Hamilton: we mean whatever LLM you choose to use.
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  Shannon Jean: Whatever, yeah.
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  Dave Hamilton: Doesn't matter. matter uh i mean it might matter but you know choose your llm
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  Dave Hamilton: go and feed it all the data you have and then let it reduce not based on a gut feeling or based
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  Shannon Jean: On your data.
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  Dave Hamilton: Your specific data absolutely yeah absolutely and i think that's the really
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  Dave Hamilton: smart way to do this we have all of this data
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  Dave Hamilton: we've had all of this data for a very long time what we have today is a data cruncher
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  Dave Hamilton: that is better than anything anyone has had for decades.
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  Dave Hamilton: Right. Yeah. It's really interesting.
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  Dave Hamilton: Apple Computer, when they created their bug tracking system,
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  Dave Hamilton: right, for like software, you know, they make software and they have a bug tracking system.
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  Dave Hamilton: And they created, as they created it, they named the system Radar.
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  Dave Hamilton: And, like, if you sit and talk amongst developers that write for,
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  Dave Hamilton: you know, third-party apps or whatever, they'll talk about, oh,
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  Dave Hamilton: yeah, I filed a Radar on that. I filed a Radar on this.
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  Shannon Jean: Oh, I turned it into a verb.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yes. Well, a noun, even, right? A noun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Dave Hamilton: But what's interesting is where that word came from, it came from Radar O'Reilly. on Mesh. Oh, yeah.
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  Dave Hamilton: Because Apple had this idea
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  Dave Hamilton: They were going to get lots of bug reports about things, and they needed a system
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  Dave Hamilton: that could synthesize all of this together and look for patterns and not just respond to one report.
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  Dave Hamilton: But we needed the system itself to tell the humans what to go work on next.
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  Dave Hamilton: Right. And and so it was looking at patterns and they've been doing this for a very long time.
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  Dave Hamilton: Now, radar has gotten smarter over the years, but it's this concept of machine
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  Dave Hamilton: learning, which is really what's at the core of what we call AI today,
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  Dave Hamilton: is that is this pattern matching thing.
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  Dave Hamilton: But I can only imagine what radar is able to do today based compared to,
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  Dave Hamilton: say, what it could do 10 years ago or even 20 years ago. Right.
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  Dave Hamilton: So but we have this all of us at our fingertips for twenty dollars a month or
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  Dave Hamilton: less. Sometimes more. It's incredible. It's incredible.
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  Dave Hamilton: And if you're not taking all the data from your business and feeding it in,
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  Dave Hamilton: there's one of two reasons for it. One of three, maybe one, you haven't thought
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  Dave Hamilton: to do it yet to you have privacy concerns that you need to sort out that deal with fine. Yep. Great.
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  Dave Hamilton: And there's ways to get around that.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. Yeah. You do it all local and then it starts getting easier.
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  Dave Hamilton: Right. And and then number three, you just know to do it, but you're not.
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  Dave Hamilton: You've chosen not to do it for another reason. I don't know what that would be.
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  Dave Hamilton: But like otherwise go do this because it's incredible, your superpower that you can leverage.
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  Dave Hamilton: And if it just like everything else with AI that actually is productive,
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  Dave Hamilton: not productive, uh, you are, uh,
• 21:18
  Dave Hamilton: You're, you are choosing to let your competition do it regardless you can join them or not.
• 21:25
  Shannon Jean: Yeah. And it's the thing about it is you're not asking it to like,
• 21:30
  Shannon Jean: Hey, I want you to write this thing and automate this for me.
• 21:32
  Shannon Jean: So I don't have to do any of this stuff. No, I want to write these things because it's my voice.
• 21:37
  Dave Hamilton: Yes.
• 21:37
  Shannon Jean: But you're just asking, you're asking infrastructure and, and layout and,
• 21:46
  Shannon Jean: you know, logistical questions about how this works and what's going on.
• 21:50
  Shannon Jean: And, you know, it's night and day. I could just see it right in front of me.
• 21:54
  Shannon Jean: The numbers are, and I think of Claude as my, you know, one of my employees.
• 21:59
  Shannon Jean: And I took a snapshot of the stats and I uploaded this morning.
• 22:02
  Shannon Jean: I'm just like, right on, dude, check this out.
• 22:04
  Shannon Jean: Look at these numbers. And it came back and then it pointed out a couple of
• 22:07
  Shannon Jean: things. It was like, let's not get ahead of ourselves yet. Don't think that
• 22:10
  Shannon Jean: this is this and that, We still have to work on this. Your unsubscribes,
• 22:14
  Shannon Jean: it went up a little bit. You got to work on it. So it's great. I love it.
• 22:16
  Dave Hamilton: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't get caught up in its own emotions. Yeah.
• 22:21
  Shannon Jean: You got to get away from that sycophant relationship with Claude or whoever
• 22:25
  Shannon Jean: you're using. You just got to tell it. I don't want to yes AI. No.
• 22:28
  Shannon Jean: I don't want to hear that. I want you to point me. I don't want,
• 22:30
  Shannon Jean: you know, tell me why I'm wrong.
• 22:32
  Dave Hamilton: Tell me what doesn't work. And it will. It happily will. I feel like that's
• 22:36
  Dave Hamilton: one spot where all of the LLMs have gotten better.
• 22:38
  Dave Hamilton: They've gotten better, right? In the last year. Yeah, I don't get so much of
• 22:42
  Dave Hamilton: the yes man thing out of it, even though I don't tell it that anymore.
• 22:45
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, I think they've realized these need to be tools.
• 22:48
  Dave Hamilton: But use them to challenge your gut feelings. You'll have a gut feeling about
• 22:52
  Dave Hamilton: something, and your gut feeling is valid.
• 22:55
  Dave Hamilton: Challenge it. Feed it all the data. Have it tell you what you should do. And then...
• 23:01
  Dave Hamilton: You can have a conversation with it. Well, my gut says to do this and it'll
• 23:05
  Dave Hamilton: like, it'll talk to you about it.
• 23:06
  Dave Hamilton: I mean, at some point it will sort of fall apart, but now you've got the results
• 23:12
  Dave Hamilton: of the LLM looking at your data and you've got your gut feeling and then you
• 23:16
  Dave Hamilton: can make a judgment call, go with it, not whatever. It's all good. Yeah.
• 23:20
  Shannon Jean: So it's great.
• 23:21
  Dave Hamilton: All right, Shannon. We, I have a, we have a question to ask of ourselves and
• 23:26
  Dave Hamilton: that is what is this episode's big takeaway?
• 23:31
  Shannon Jean: Uh i think the big takeaway is is what we talked about don't let the ai be another
• 23:39
  Shannon Jean: barrier that keeps you from getting.
• 23:42
  Dave Hamilton: Stuff done yeah don't be productive
• 23:44
  Shannon Jean: Yeah don't be fud up productive i think that's great and,
• 23:49
  Shannon Jean: um it's easy to just one more thing you know we did a whole episode i call it
• 23:53
  Shannon Jean: beware the once's right oh once i get this done i can do this once i do these
• 23:59
  Shannon Jean: those are just barriers you know uh so you just got to be careful and watch it's a fine line.
• 24:04
  Dave Hamilton: I i agree with this for this one and and here's here's our takeaway right here's
• 24:09
  Dave Hamilton: here's your call to action
• 24:10
  Dave Hamilton: we've got this big takeaway we are now going to build the business plan we call
• 24:15
  Dave Hamilton: it our business blueprints but is the business plan of this uh
• 24:20
  Dave Hamilton: this this this takeaway that we've just come up with and if you go to businessbrain.show
• 24:25
  Dave Hamilton: slash blueprints not only will you get that one you will get the business blueprints
• 24:30
  Dave Hamilton: for every episode. So go check that out.
• 24:33
  Dave Hamilton: Businessbrain.show slash blueprints.
• 24:37
  Dave Hamilton: It's been great hanging out, folks. Thanks for your time. Thanks for everything.
• 24:42
  Dave Hamilton: And have a great weekend. We'll see you next week.
• 24:45
  Shannon Jean: Yeah, see you. Take care.