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the telos method is freaking rad

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kinda stumbled across and ended up watching the whole thing.

i watch network chuck from time to time because i love the topics he covers and his editing style and general vibe. he’s a good dude, you can tell he’s a smart man and he’s designing his life now and ahead of him.

this is my first time coming across Daniel Miessler, he seems super focused on making sure he has a million agent versions of himself to cover all his bases when he’s not 100% himself – i love this.

i might be tiny potatoes in the way i’m making daily bear files (could be exported as .md files) but his whole process is really interesting to me because this method really speaks to me in terms of what i’ve been thinking about but just purely for content creators – this has opened the flood gates to be a much bigger idea than what i had thought.

and it makes perfect sense right, to have .md files that llm’s can ingest easily and it’s basically a blueprint/roadmap for who you are, who you was and who you wanna be. i think he even mentioned something about getting uploaded into the cloud when his body gives out, which really opened me up to the potential of this digital legacy when you combine that with ai/llm – because if you have ever made any content digitally and it’s on the web, you are now able to build upon that.

and what’s the important factor there in a world of generative? the ability to control that, the ability to be a source of truth of that, admittly it’s what “you” believe of yourself and i’m sure we will see methods for creative remixing of that from “trusted” partners that see you differently but it’s kinda of the “reputation management” i thought about years ago as social media took off.

it was the missing piece for me – the classification of you, what that looks like, what happens when you and your meatsack are asleep and yet the llm’s are whirring away around the clock wanting to hire you, onboard you for a project, need your input or insights, what does that look like in terms of handoff, can it be done with out, how will you get paid, cash money or tokens?

see, i’ve been thinking of ai and agents that do things for me when i sleep in simple terms, things i can wake up too and action but i’m realising now that we need to train the aggregators of the human (we) in the format that llm’s are going to expect and hoover up, the more the cloud knows about you and you want to interact with the more you are going to get relevant things that are more aligned to your values.

the key take away line for me was. . .

" without being able to remember why your doing what your doing "

that really hit me, because this is the world i hit everyday when i get to the computer, there is more than ever an infinite amount of things that i could be getting into, there are a million things that i’m interested in, there is ways and means now for me to format and intake that information in a way that does not trigger me, that does not overwhelm me, where the notion of a digital butler can relatively understand my “capacity” of the day based on my health data.

it’s all possible, but if we attack it headless without any classification we are just stumbling around in the dark in prompt land, we have to give it so much education as to the why for us that it removes the benefits of getting that time back.

totally recommend checking out the complete video, a great kinda fireside chat about the method, i need to dig into this much further, and i thought my now page was where it was at – i was wrong, i’ve got work to do!

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