Comment: Weekend review
Transcript: Okay, gonna go over some of the things that came out this past weekend. Generally, I found pretty good resonance with Chelsea and Colin, as well as with Hamad and Lauren, I guess, as well, but definitely Hamad and Gene to some degree, as well as Ryan. So, overall, pretty good in terms of being able to explain things to people, but I'm trying to remember exactly what resonated. In the conversation yesterday with Gene and Hamad and all of this, I kind of started with personal AI, and generally, that didn't seem to really resonate at all, but when I gave examples of food, for example, that was pretty understandable for people. People got what I was talking about, so that was interesting, and similarly, when I'm like, oh, we're gonna wanna share photos at the end of this. Why do we need to click a button effectively? And I guess making computing easier definitely resonated a little bit. It wasn't immediately obvious that it did, but it did to some degree. And what I will say is that the privacy and security thing was something that generally people at least understood to some degree. They kind of get it, and that I think that there's different levels of privacy. People kind of understood that. So, yeah, and then the bigger thing was, I think I also said it was kind of like journaling, effectively like journaling, and that seemed to resonate to some degree with Colin and, why is her name so hard to remember? Colin and Chelsea. And Chelsea even picked up on some of the storytelling stuff in the sense like she suggested like, well, it would be great to have a real movie of a trip I went on that was a combination of my voice notes, my photos, my videos, the places that I ate, all of this kind of thing. And she was like, yeah, that would be amazing. Which is great, because also that was something I was trying to create. So clearly that kind of thing also has resonance, which is really cool. And beyond that, I gave her, and I basically responded to her and said, yes, exactly. And also, my example of this storyline is through a pair of pants. And immediately that was recognized. So that's interesting. It's, again, this like personal media, it can generate personal media artifacts for you. And probably ones that are good, like apples are fine, but to have the multi-modality of it, I think does add a lot. And being able to kind of put together a story for you is interesting. And quite frankly, I would love that too. To have a little memory or memento out of a weekend experience is, I don't wanna relive every moment of it, but to have the little highlights and photos and videos and stuff of an experience, yeah, that would be pretty sick. That would be really nice. So, I like that. And the multi-modality of it speaks to me. And I think like in AR, VR land, that's something very interesting. So that was really insightful. And then talking with Hamad and the group yesterday, definitely the privacy thing came up. And basically, like clearly, that's something important to me. It's something that I care about. It's something I'm passionate about. And it's probably part of the story that I wish to tell. And just generally bringing data. into one place is, even as a developer today, that is a hard thing to get access to. But if we can make that easy, then that's great. So, and some of this follows the patterns of centralization and decentralization, or the waves that come and go. So, all of that felt pretty good, and Hamad also tapped into some of the music aspect for me, which was also quite helpful in figuring out, or re-remembering, rather, that a lot of this is like, I wanna bring things back to the person and give them more individual power. And quite frankly, we have more of that than ever, and that's great, and I think we should just continue that journey, right? And I think this is why we centralize and decentralize. Mainly because now Spotify has all the control, but it's probably gonna go back to a more decentralized model of individual creators being able to make more money elsewhere, potentially. Right now, Spotify is the distribution platform, and they're the best distribution platform. So, until something usurps it and makes artists more money, that distribution platform will continue to exist. So, and it's the easiest to use. So, yeah, I mean, I think that's just kind of obvious. But yeah, I think that's kind of an overview of the weekend. And a lot of it is about balance, right? Is wanting to take people away from staring at their phones, or computer screens in general, and getting them to look up and see the amazing world around us. And maybe even with that, is being able to experience it more fully. We can enlighten more things. And right now, we can do that through people, but what if other people can light up frames that we don't have? And if that strikes our curiosity now, it really, really is amazing. Because the way that Gene, him being an arborist, he's able to pick out every plant and just call it by its scientific name. And I would love to just have that brain capability in some way. And I know that I could do that, but how amazing would it be to just turn on his lens effectively? And I get to experience a little bit of it through language, but I wanna experience it in even more fidelity, quite frankly. And that's also not a lens that I need to have on all the time. Maybe I want it sometimes, or maybe I don't other times. So, I mean, that's me going a bit far out, but just bringing the wonder of the world back out, I think is really part of this. Because the world is quite wondrous. And one thing to mention on the wonder side of all of this is when you look at something close up, you get a very different perspective. And we don't have a lot of photos of something extremely close up. I mean, we have microscope photos, but what about just looking at a rock? When I'm looking at a rock, the amount of information that you can get, just staring at that rock is unbelievable. So, we don't have vision computer models that understand that, as far as I'm aware, in the sense, it has a certain resonance with the human body and human spirit. So, yeah.
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