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Focus wins.

We need more entrepreneurs. 🤩
We need more innovators. 😍
We need more investors. 🤑
We need more builders. 💪

And it's important to celebrate the honest challenges faced by those that choose to create new things and try to create value for others.

Building new things may be easy with AI.

Building new things that make a difference is still freaking hard.

The rollercoaster is real. AI doesn't change that.

There's no point sugar-coating or pretending.

But we also should celebrate those that take a swing.

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A couple weeks ago I got access to Instinct, the personal assistant AI.

I'm always hesitant to give AI assistants access to stuff.

Of course, the person that sent me the invite said, "Ben, you've probably shared way more information on a whole bunch of websites, many of which have already been hacked."

True.

Instinct is very cool. The no-UI, pure integration into WhatsApp or texting, makes it feel like a real person.

I started using it to book hotels and dinner reservations. Simple stuff.

It needed access to my credit card, which I did through Link. Reluctantly. A couple times it didn't work, I suspect because the bank was blocking it.

Then I gave it access to my calendar so it could put reservations on it.

A few days later I got a message from Instinct: "You have a conflict on Thursday this week, want me to deal with that?"

I had never told Instinct to read my calendar. It just did. I asked it to stop. It said, "OK." But I'm fairly sure it's going to keep reading it. 😏

AI assistants are very cool, but a bit creepy too. And they're not perfect either. Instinct messed up a couple things -- nothing severe -- but enough that I just went back to the good old fashioned way of getting things done. On my own.

I have to believe that we'll all eventually have AI assistants doing more and more work for us, reactively and proactively. The hype is insane, the reality...not quite there yet, but it's only going to get better.

Now I'm off to get Instinct to buy more stuff for me that I don't need...