A couple years before my time, but a cheerleader was assaulted and killed on campus while waiting to meet up with her team.

We had to use newspapers, books and encyclopedias - lots of print stuff. Or someone taught us. Sometimes we learned stuff from tv. Less efficient for sure. It seems like there was less misinformation. It was different, but I don’t think of it as bad.

Nap.

I don’t unpack my day very often with my husband - unless it was really stressful. The minutia of my work is completely unrelatable for him. I do want to unpack my work life with people who understand - and I have a great network for that. In contrast, I share almost all of the memes I think are funny with him because I want him to experience the same joy.

Tacking onto this, if you can find AI prompt engineering courses, that might be a sellable service that few people offer in this moment. Does make you part of the larger AI problem (probably on par with owning a gas station or drycleaner), but if you can stomach it ethically, there’s a big market for it.

Professional services of any kind typically don’t require much, if any inventory - because you are selling your time and expertise.

My personal experience in founding/running a business and mentoring other founders is that you will need both an interest in (bordering on passion for) whatever you sell - and decent business acumen. Without an interest in what you are selling, the temptation to offload the work will be high - and you will lose control of quality and serving your customers (hello, Boeing). Without business acumen, you will struggle to keep the business viable (mostly - there are a few exceptions out there). Also, get a good accountant to do your monthly books and taxes - they are worth their weight in gold.

If you are in the US, SCORE is a non profit of volunteers who either are current or former business owners. They offer mentorship to people wanting to start a business and are fantastic.

Finally, be aware that business ownership is high risk high reward, and a shit ton of work. If you are successful, you can be really successful. You can also lose your house.

Feel free to DM me if you have specific questions about getting started.

100%. My nice to have task list is mile long. And I want to get to it because they will make a real, meaningful differences for my team and clients. So, while there are real challenges with AI, the potential to help me, my business and my team is there.

I think this is a much bigger issue than people are thinking about. And while you see it first in education, it rapidly becomes an issue in the workforce. Employers have to figure out how to move entry level employees to experts rapidly. Because someone has to be standing at the end of the AI machine verifying the outputs.

This reminds me of something I heard: AI isn’t going to take your job. The person who knows how to use AI is going to take your job.

To be fair, due to rate compression, I can’t afford to pay for someone to do this work. So no one was getting hired. The question is whether or not I could complete the work. I do pay several people to work for me - none of which can do the work I’ve assigned to my AI agents. But I for sure wouldn’t hire someone who is so resistant to change that they can’t even handle AI summarizing my emails for me.

I have had good experiences setting up agents to do my work for me - saving me up to 10x the time on certain tasks (I own my own business, so I’m using it to extend myself). It does not replace expertise or reviewing work products. And it can take weeks to get an agent to produce usable work products. But for me, AI is a tool to help me be more efficient. 🤷

We are talking about different things. I’m talking about clothing.

We are talking about two different things. I mean clothing tags. You are right about prices on shelves.

That is harder for clothing stores, just functionally. Probably works for things that are more stationary.

I don’t think the retailers are saying they can’t price at the store-level. They are saying it is inefficient and burdensome - particularly as inventory moves (and would need to be recalculated and retagged). Anywho, it’s something you get used to, even if it is a weird way to operate.

Sales tax varies city by city, which means a business cannot have a central distribution center where price tagging occurs, nor could they move inventory (something that happens in retail quite often) - substantially shifting the burden onto businesses. For better or worse, I’m sure that’s how the price tagging discussion went…

Taxes aren’t on the price tag, but I figure them in as I am buying stuff. Tip too if it is at a restaurant or other tip-able service.

Edit: it does provide some transparency into where your money is going (are taxes high or is the store gauging you).

I don’t like muscles from the Puget Sound because they taste like it smells and I cannot get past that.

1992 - and it has all of the luxuries that 1992 had to offer in a house (oak everything! almost no right corners! shiny brass fixtures!)

Dumb question: why can a person be trained to have new skills?