Inspired with Alexa von Tobel
00:46:27 · Alexa von Tobel, Dan Lorenc
[00:46:27] S1: Mhmm. It it makes life a lot easier. I I couldn't agree with you more. What's an underrated risk in software today? [00:46:35] S0: I I I flip it a bit, and I I... The the biggest risk that I worry about in software is, non software teams now being software teams, and not knowing what that means and not knowing how to do that safely. So, yeah, I I I think the risk is now everyone is a software engineer whether they know it or not. [00:46:52] S1: No. I... I'm a software engineer. I I I deeply appreciate that point. What's your best tip of how you're using AI in your personal life where you're just like, wow. That's better. What is that? [00:47:07] S0: In my personal life, the same as my professional life, honestly. Like, reading, planning, writing, thinking about things. I use it, not like a... I'm not one of these people that got addicted to g p t four o and had a codependency or anything on it, is kinda terrifying. But, yeah, like, a a a thought partner. I just dump in ideas, dump in notes all the time, whether it's about personal stuff or work stuff, know, using the memory feature to recall all these conversations, give me advice, researching things I'm gonna buy, kind of all of this. You know, the ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude UIs really have replaced search engines for me.
00:47:07 · Dan Lorenc, Alexa von Tobel
[00:47:07] S0: In my personal life, the same as my professional life, honestly. Like, reading, planning, writing, thinking about things. I use it, not like a... I'm not one of these people that got addicted to g p t four o and had a codependency or anything on it, is kinda terrifying. But, yeah, like, a a a thought partner. I just dump in ideas, dump in notes all the time, whether it's about personal stuff or work stuff, know, using the memory feature to recall all these conversations, give me advice, researching things I'm gonna buy, kind of all of this. You know, the ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude UIs really have replaced search engines for me. [00:47:46] S1: Similarly, I really do use it as a thought partner, and there's, like, no topic that it's not a thought partner on. It's a thought partner as an investor for research. It's a thought partner. I... As a mom, the number of times it's saved me a doctor's visit is actually wild, but but I I agree with that. Last thing is what's a pinch me moment? You know, you... You're so... It's... In so many ways, you've accomplished so much in such a short period of time. But what is the moment that kinda you got home from work and were like, I can't believe that we did that? What what was it?
00:47:46 · Alexa von Tobel, Dan Lorenc
[00:47:46] S1: Similarly, I really do use it as a thought partner, and there's, like, no topic that it's not a thought partner on. It's a thought partner as an investor for research. It's a thought partner. I... As a mom, the number of times it's saved me a doctor's visit is actually wild, but but I I agree with that. Last thing is what's a pinch me moment? You know, you... You're so... It's... In so many ways, you've accomplished so much in such a short period of time. But what is the moment that kinda you got home from work and were like, I can't believe that we did that? What what was it? [00:48:22] S0: The coolest one for me is always just... Like, you know, I I post a ton on LinkedIn, and I never think about them. I just write stuff like the... And it's hard to, like, kinda see that audience. It's not the same as Twitter where everything blows up completely. But, like, one of the coolest things for me is always just when I run into someone at a conference that, like, I've never met, didn't even know what was around, and, like, they tell me they've been reading all this stuff I posted, and it's like, that's always sort of a wake up moment. Like, people actually read these things.
00:48:22 · Dan Lorenc, Alexa von Tobel
[00:48:22] S0: The coolest one for me is always just... Like, you know, I I post a ton on LinkedIn, and I never think about them. I just write stuff like the... And it's hard to, like, kinda see that audience. It's not the same as Twitter where everything blows up completely. But, like, one of the coolest things for me is always just when I run into someone at a conference that, like, I've never met, didn't even know what was around, and, like, they tell me they've been reading all this stuff I posted, and it's like, that's always sort of a wake up moment. Like, people actually read these things. [00:48:49] S1: I I I will say it it, it is nice to see the community that you can build of people who are interested in the same topics you're interested in. Well, Dan, first of all, thank you so much. We are rooting for you. As someone who was Chief Digital Officer at a Fortune 50 company myself, I so appreciate what you're doing. I understand the problem. And I also really look forward to a world that feels like it can take advantage of these advancements, but actually do it in a way where we don't have massive attacks that create and wreak havoc on humanity. So we're rooting for you. Keep up the incredible work. Thank you so much for your time today, and best of luck. [00:49:30] S0: Yeah. Thanks for having [00:49:39] S1: We'll be back again with another episode of Inspired with Alexa von Tobel. Thank you.