The Intersection of Technology and Self-Perception

Welcome to five Minutes with Grey Hair Dave.

He has gray hair and he has a gray beard and he also wears glasses like the guy in the artwork.

Oh, and the guy in the artwork is better looking now, tariff free.

Here is Grey Hair Dave.

Yes, indeed, folks.

Welcome back to five minutes with gray hair Dave.

I'm back.

That was 11 Labs I.O.

That's spelled E L E V E N L A B S IO I now and have been for quite some time, use them for my intro.

Every once in a while I will change the voice or maybe change the intro a little bit here or there, but I try to keep it as uniform as possible and so you understand it when it's coming and maybe you find it fun when there's somebody new there.

I hope you're doing well today.

I. I am.

It's been a interesting, interesting week here at Gray Hair Productions.

And the only reason I say that is that it's.

I've been.

How do I put this?

I've been thinking a lot about life and what's going to happen from this point on in my life and what I'm doing with this business and, and everything else that's going on.

And I confused myself.

You believe that?

I confused myself.

I confused myself into believing that I had to have all the answers.

Boom.

Right now, right?

Just minute.

And I don't.

I realized that, but I was worried about every little thing.

And it's like, I'm going to start this thing, but I don't have everything done well.

I don't care anymore.

Emails going out and they all went.

Now we do want to tell you about some of the things that led up to this that are personal, but they're cool.

Right?

So let's jump right into it.

Okay?

We're going to start right off and change right into AI.

Okay.

Remember last week I told you I was going to bite the bullet and I was going to go ahead and I'm going to sign up for Claude Cowork.

Well, I did.

I went to Claude and I upgraded to the PRO version.

And the pro version compared to the free version gives you cowork and it gives you Claude code.

Now, Claude code is way more than I'm ever going to need.

I'm not going to even attempt to learn that.

But when, and I don't know if any of you have done this yet, but if you sign up for Claude Coworkers or Claude Pro, it helps you set things up.

It asks you important questions like who you are, what's your role, what are you Trying to accomplish, you know, not only what is your role and what are you trying to accomplish, what is your goal, where do you want to, where do you want to go with this?

And I, I gave it all that information and I spent oh God, who I want to say just yesterday playing around with it some more.

I played with for 3 or 4 hours non stop just going, going because it kept coming back with great responses or it would come back with responses that weren't quite good enough for what I was looking for.

So you know, me and Claude, we went back and forth and you know it came up with and it's very well written to a Word document for my emails to that said that these are the emails you should send out.

Here's the verbiage and here's how I would write it.

Put it into a Word Doc.

Now you all know I'm an Apple guy, but I didn't convert.

I let, I do have all the Word, you know, all the, the Microsoft products on my computer.

So if I put that, put it into a Word Doc and I saved it and it, it's so nice compared to what I got from Perplexity.

Now yes, I'm going to change it, I'm going to make it more me, but there's not that much that I need to change.

And then it came up with an Excel sheet of the, the properties in, in my centralized area.

It knew because I told it where I lived but I told it that I wanted to do all 40s and it said well we want you to start here because these are closer.

And it gave me some ideas that I never thought about.

So that, and it put it in an Excel sheet and it also gave me contacted, not contacted, all that kind of thing that I had to ask Perplexity to build for me where this just with code work.

It knew what I wanted.

I also gave it permission, asked it to go into some of my files and I have all the files for this project, you know, the Gray Hair Day project, have them all in one folder on my desktop.

And I gave it permission to go in there and look at them, read them, give me its opinion on what was right and what was wrong.

And it had some, some unique ideas on pricing.

Now it suggested that I separate some things and as I'm reading this it's get.

Gave me reasons for this and it also gave me some basic pricing of other people who are doing parts of what I want to do.

I also asked it to go look online to see if there's any.

If I have any competition here in Florida, I couldn't find any for what I want to do, which I thought was fantastic.

You know, there's that, right?

I mean, to say that.

I mean, there are some.

It did say that there are some communities who already have something to this effect, but not to the extent that I want to do.

I'm not looking to take over what they're doing.

I'm just looking to do what I want to do and help those who need help.

That's my goal.

So I am taking some of these things that it gave me yesterday and going through them and now I have to make it more mine.

But yeah, the emails are going out so hopefully soon I start getting some return emails to go out and talk to people.

So that's, that's, that's, that's big for me this week.

Also, also other things that have been going on.

I was talking with a friend and we got into a conversation about perception.

And you know, perception is very, very important in what I want to go do and who I am.

I mean, people want to see me.

You know, if a person walks in to do something like I want to go do for them, you know, perception is important.

Well, how does he look?

What does as he look professional?

Does he look, you know, does he have good equipment?

These kinds of things, you know, and that's perception.

And not that perception is everything, but it's a lot, don't you think?

If you're young and saying going out on a date with somebody, perception is important, how are you perceived by that other person?

If you're at work, how do your counterparts or your boss or your employees, how do they look at you?

How are you perceived?

Perception is a very, very important thing.

So if anything else comes to mind today, I think that the main topic of today is two things.

Perception is king.

And I enjoy using AI And I have found that Co Work, Cloud Co Work is going to be my new virtual assistant.

I am going to let it do some of the emailing for me.

It's.

I'm going to set it and it's easy to do.

You set it up.

So will get your template already put the insert the name, you know, once I get it all worded properly and then once I hit enter, it'll start.

It'll take care of the replies if I want it to, but it'll definitely flag them for me so I see them right away or it'll send me notifications right away.

It'll do all kinds of amazing things.

And I guess what I'M trying to get at here, folks.

And you right there, that one.

I'm talking to you.

Don't be afraid of AI.

I know there's, there's always people who are naysayers and, oh, it's going to take over the world.

No, it's not going to take over the world.

He's not in our lifetime.

I mean, if you remember back to the, in the Matrix movies, well, who knows?

But not yet.

Not yet.

So I guess, like I say, if anything, it's perception.

And it's also.

AI is your friend.

Let it be your assistant, your virtual assistant, or your, you know, artificial assistant.

Yes, let it be your assistant.

Here's the odd thing, folks.

I was, I was editing this, this podcast because I always edit right after I record.

That way it's fresh.

I know what I was saying and everything else.

And I had had to make some stops for noises and then start again.

I guess the last one I forgot to hit record on.

So again, I think the, the gist of this whole podcast today is don't be afraid of AI and don't forget about perception in your life, in your world, in your work, and in your, your everyday life.

Just remember, people are watching.

So be careful with that.

Now, you know somebody who doesn't know what a podcast is, never heard of it, or they say to you, hey, what is this podcasting thing?

Do me a favor.

Grab their phone, their iPad, their, their tablet, their computer, whatever they use.

And now you can even do it on Netflix, you know, or on YouTube.

Show them what the genres are.

Show them how to follow, how to subscribe.

Use 5 minutes with Gray Hair Dave as the example and maybe they'd like my show.

You never know.

So again, five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave is a great example to show them one of the weird genres that are out there.

Also, I know you and I think you want to start a podcast or you know somebody who wants to start a podcast, or you and your friend or you and your family want to start a podcast.

You're not sure when or how or why or how it's done.

I have a couple options for you.

Go to Gray Hair Productions.

Gray is spelled with an E, G, R, E, Y.

Send me a message on the contact me page and I'll reply and I'll give you a hand.

And if you're really nice and say nice things about me, I'll go ahead and send you a copy of the book.

It's still free today.

For the rest of the week after that, it may go maybe priced at a something where I might make a little money at.

Anyways, don't forget, contact me @gray hair productions.com.

Also, while you're out and about today, if you see somebody you don't know, smile, wave, say hi.

You might just make their day, which will, in turn, make yours.

So, on behalf of everybody here at Gray Hair Productions, that's me, myself and my alter ego.

You all have a great week, a great weekend, and I will talk to you next week.

Bye.

Bye.