THE MACSPARKY DISPATCH

Hi Friend,

I'm proud to announce I just released a new podcast, and I've been wanting to tell you about it for months.

It's called Intentional AI, and it's a show about using AI to actually get your work done. Not the doom. Not the hype. The practical, useful stuff that gives you your time back.

The origin story for this goes back to my co-host, Chris Bailey, and me looking, in vain, for a show like this. Everywhere we looked, the AI conversation was either about the world ending or about AI fixing everything by Tuesday. Neither one helps you on a Wednesday afternoon when you've got real work to do. So we decided to make the thing we wanted to listen to.

Let me brag about Chris for a second, because I get to co-host this with one of my best friends and one of the smartest people I know. Chris has spent more than a decade studying productivity and written four books about it, including The Productivity Project and his newest, Intentional. He comes at this from the productivity side. I come at it from the technology side. He's the big-picture productivity guy, I'm the big-picture tech guy, and this show is where those two paths meet.

The idea we keep circling back to is a simple one. Anyone can cook. If you've been telling yourself this AI stuff is too complicated for you, it isn't. Teaching the Robot Assistant Field Guide has convinced me of that.

I've watched regular people build real, useful tools, and the barrier is a lot lower than anyone thinks. You used to need programming knowledge to make a computer do serious work for you. Now the computer brings the programming knowledge. You just have to learn the ingredients.

There's a first-mover thing here, too. Most of the world hasn't yet realized that the donkey work of daily life can be handed off with little effort. The people who figure that out early will get the most out of it. None of that is meant to scare you. It's early, and being early counts.

Episode 1 sets the table. We lay out why the show exists, introduce ourselves, and I close with a Show and Tell on the Circle community I built with a robot, including the part where I asked it to make the whole thing look like a Wes Anderson movie. From there, we get into the architecture, the pieces, and the tactics, one at a time.

Intentional AI is part of the Relay podcast network. New episodes drop every two weeks. There are audio and video versions on YouTube, so you can listen or watch, whichever you prefer.

You can listen to Episode 1 right now over on Relay, and you can find the whole show here. You can watch the first episode on YouTube here. Come along for the ride.

Your pal,
David
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