FUTURISTIC 29 <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:00 ] Cameron: Welcome back to the Futuristic Steve Sammartino, episode 29. You’re looking sharp as always, man. Look at you. You look like a, I don’t know, he’s just stepped out of a venture capital meeting in Silicon

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[00:00:20 ] Steve: Finance, 6, 5, Trust Fund, Blue<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:23 ] Steve: Eyes.<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:24 ] Steve: really finance, 5 6. Finance, 5 6, not 6 5. I’m <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:29 ] Steve: not 5 <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:29 ] Steve: 6, but anyway.<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:31 ] Cameron: I look like I’ve just come off stage at a Grateful <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:33 ] Steve: You actually do, you’ve got the, what have you got on there? The<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:37 ] Steve: bandana.<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:38 ] Cameron: It’s a beanie, cold enough. One of the few cold enough days in Brisbane to wear a beanie. I’m going to <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:44 ] Steve: have you got on there? A <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:45 ] Cameron: I’ve got a <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:46 ] Cameron: got A<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:46 ] Cameron: bit of, <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:46 ] Steve: lovely 23 degrees or<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:48 ] Steve: something. <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:48 ] Cameron: yeah, that’s <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:49 ] Steve: is real. <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:50 ] Cameron: I got a, I got <o:p></o:p>

[00:00:50 ] Cameron: a, got an annoying cough. So I’m going to have to keep muting my mic to cough. Hold<o:p></o:p>

[00:00:54 ] Cameron: on. Yeah. All right. Uh, Steve, uh, tell me one. thing of note you’ve done that’s futuristic y since we last spoke.<o:p></o:p>

[00:01:03 ] Steve: Futuristic y. Is, I’m trying to balance my screen usage. I’ve never really looked at how long, I’ve spin on the screen because it was always justifiably, well, it’s work for me. And to be fair, I don’t really spend a lot of time doing things on the screen that aren’t work. Uh, but I looked, and it’s an average of 5 hours and 46 minutes a day on my phone.<o:p></o:p>

[00:01:27 ] Steve: It’s an average of 92 pickups. And so, I went out and bought a few books. This week I asked you for a couple of recommendations and I have some on the way and every time I go to pick up my phone when it’s not an absolute necessity to do a task on it for work, I’m going to instead pick up the book. Uh, because I actually think that there’s a really big difference between knowing about, hearing about something and knowing about it. <o:p></o:p>

[00:01:58 ] Steve: And I think we hear about a lot of things and the screen lets you hear about a lot of things. I don’t think Enables deep understanding, like reading a book and really going deep into it, into a topic.<o:p></o:p>

[00:02:13 ] Cameron: Well, one of the things I was going to add to our talking list, but I ran out of, well, we had too many things already, but I was started watching a video last night, uh, an interview with Dwarkesh Patel, who does a lot of AI videos on YouTube, but he was being interviewed on another YouTube channel. And he was talking about how he thinks you don’t learn very well from books.<o:p></o:p>

[00:02:35 ] Cameron: And I think we talked about this in an earlier episode, and he’s come up, he said, like, when I interview people that are experts in a topic, I need to, you know, get smart on that topic really quickly, and often they’re topics I don’t know a lot about. Said he had a geneticist on his show recently. So he’s developed this workflow that he puts into Claude, his AI tool of choice at the moment, that creates, um, uh, spaced repetition.<o:p></o:p>

[00:03:03 ] Cameron: And he said he can upload an EPUB. of somebody’s book into Claude and say, tell me what the key points are that I should know before I interview this person and then test me on those. Um, you know, give me questions and answers and test me on it to test my basic knowledge. And he’s developing a system, which I haven’t fully finished the video to integrate it yet, but I think, you know, we’re moving into an era where Books are going to be a component of how we learn, but there’ll be an AI layer wrapped around that, that will create a, um, educational context.<o:p></o:p>

[00:03:42 ] Cameron: What do you call it when somebody’s an educator? You call it, uh, uh, there’s a word for it that’s escaping my memory. Hold on, I should ask GPT. Um, what, what, what’s, what do you call a system of education that, uh, leads you through the learning process?<o:p></o:p>

[00:04:02 ] Cameron: Scaffold. <o:p></o:p>

[00:04:04 ] Cameron: Or pedagogee was the word I was trying to think of..<o:p></o:p>

[00:04:07 ] Cameron: He’s talking about it’s a scaffold <o:p></o:p>

[00:04:09 ] Steve: yeah, and that’s a nice way