Keeping up with Tech | LIVE

With all this new tech coming out daily do you wonder how you can keep up? Join us for our live conversation on how to manage it all.
1. Don't Be Afraid of New Tech
2. Reach Out to People You Trust
3. Look to What Your Profession Needs
4. If We Can Do It, So Can You!

Transcript

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thank you
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hello
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hi Charlene how are you good how are you
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doing it has been a long time since we
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have had one of our episodes
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true but you know what two minds today
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it's fresh any day so I'm excited
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absolutely welcome back to two minds
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today was the Pod where he'll let I give
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our take on how to get ahead in your
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professional career and we are so
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excited to be back with everyone it's uh
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it's been nice even though we were on
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Hiatus seeing that people are still
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listening
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um and uh and getting to know us a
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little bit absolutely and we're so
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excited what we're going to be doing
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from here on is we're going to be going
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live on Sunday evenings and the purpose
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of that is for those of you who like to
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get ready for the week you know you'll
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you'll get a little tidbit of advice on
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your professional week starting Sunday
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nights and if not like you'll see it
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Monday morning in your streams just to
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you know a little bit of something to
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get you going
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exactly exactly and we really were
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thinking about this whole idea for today
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of going live and there's so much Tech
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accessible and what makes sense at this
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point right like I I will fully confess
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I my entire Tick Tock is covered in um
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AI chat GPT and we'll go over all of
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that if anyone is totally new to that
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but it it really feels like every day
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there's a new technology so we thought
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we would kind of break down our thoughts
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of is it important to stay active and
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involved and know what's going on and at
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what level
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absolutely so is it important right I
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think that the older you are sometimes
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the less you think it's important
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because you've been on this planet for
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such a long time things are working and
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maybe you have a job or a profession and
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you're bringing in money and you don't
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really need to know what the latest
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gadget is and as a matter of fact it
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just seems like a little gimmick while
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you already have it all and it's and
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it's working for you fine so I think
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that sometimes the older you are it's
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easier to fall into the Trap of thinking
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that you don't really need to be up to
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date
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yeah I
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um so it's funny because I feel like I
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had a drop off I've always been
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moderately Tech and ml super aged myself
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and like when the first film computer
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came in and and exploring and figuring
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that out and I so I've always been
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fairly interested in technology and then
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there gets to be certain apps and things
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like that where I'm like no like I gotta
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let this one pass by right so for me it
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was Instagram
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um I like I have a Twitter account I
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have an Instagram account I don't use it
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unless somebody says can you you know
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follow me or message me or be here on
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this specific thing but so I sort of
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skipped over Instagram and then I but
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and then Tick Tock I was like no no no
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um and then I then I joined Tic Tac
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um and so it's really interesting for me
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to reflect on what technologies have I
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said I'm gonna not that I'm gonna sit it
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out and maybe that's the clarifying
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right it's not like I sit it out and I'm
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like Instagram doesn't exist in my world
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it's that we choose different
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technologies that we're all in on versus
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ones that that are around us and that
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really depends on our field right if I
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was still in marketing there's no way I
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could have sat out Instagram
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you know it's interesting that you
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mentioned Fields because I do think that
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has a lot to do with it and if you are
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for example someone who is working with
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their hands and is a botanist and it's
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out in the fields you might not need all
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of this Tech and you may have purposely
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chosen certain professions let's say
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you're working with with younger Nursery
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School age kids or families or just so
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many professions out there that you
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don't need to be on The Cutting Edge of
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tech and maybe I'll amend what I said at
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first maybe it has nothing to do with
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age but it has to do with your desire
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and interest and capacity to learn new
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tech and it really defines whether
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you're going to be in it or Not So
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speaking to me in this moment right of
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of this the fields you you've mentioned
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right agriculture is a huge one where
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technology is totally like it's a field
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where you think technology is not a part
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of it but it is so ingrained especially
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with water and irrigation and so I I
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think what's the most important is
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finding out and becoming an expert in
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the tech that is related to your work
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right so you may not know how to
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um uh do a database management system
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but you are fully integrated in the
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irrigation system right so it's Tech is
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such this broad word where we can't
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possibly be experts at every single
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technology and we shouldn't be in every
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single technology exists but I think
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what I am looping really around to is
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how do I get to know enough to stay
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current in my role in my job job in my
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place in society because you don't want
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things to pass you by right I know like
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you wrote an article on chat GPT so do
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you want to like us right so high level
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actually I was thinking about tattoo BT
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as you were saying this so chat gbt for
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those of you who haven't given it a shot
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yet it's just an it's a different kind
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of search engine right just like you go
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on Google and you search stuff out chat
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gbt it's just a much higher power uh
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search engine you can ask a complicated
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questions and ask it to draw conclusions
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for you and ask multi-step you could say
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hey chat gbt I'm gonna upload this
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document I just want you to think about
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you know just hold it for a second don't
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summarize it until I give you some more
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information yeah and then you also right
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and so when you talk about in certain
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professions you need to know the tech
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for your profession but not necessarily
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other things my question becomes are
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there certain texts that you that we
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really can't get around not knowing like
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chat gbts
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is like one flavor of right like we call
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it Kleenex
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um all tissue and we do that with tons
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of Branch Cola soda so Tech GPT is one
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artificial intelligent piece that has
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predictive text indicator it all it does
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is predicts one word at a time and to
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get to um how her legs might like this
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complicated algorithm of notes once you
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get past that one word at a time and
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um
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and I what it is so here's there's been
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so much going around about this because
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it people are like is it please it's not
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plagiarism right it's not been written
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before it's just written by artificial
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intelligence and I know and I like
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Google is coming up with one and chat
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gpd's integrating and there's playground
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and we can go on and follow much more
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tech savvy people
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um then then me
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um if you want to really get into it but
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there's some super cool stuff you can do
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and and what I think is it's really
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going to become this AI predictive text
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is is like your first level right I use
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it a lot of times for a first draft of
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something or as a hey give me like the
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top five titles to call something right
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give me you know I we we do um every
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week we do I do a different
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um program and there's theme stage
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program and and we start with a song
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it's 30 seconds and but I like to start
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with the songs I'm like hey give me five
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options for a song to start with on this
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theme and then I pick right so I think
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it's what what's really important is
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that you take the AI
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and you take any text and you're
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layering it you're coming into it not as
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a base level right my
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um 10 year old could ask Chachi BT to
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write it a five paragraph essay on the
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giver and many fourth graders across the
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country are doing just that and honestly
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it produces pretty good results we did
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it for um my son and he's like wow this
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is like really close to what I wrote and
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so it's not like you can't do it
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um you can but then the question is okay
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well what's the layer how are you
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getting better and stronger and how are
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you using this to make you better and
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stronger and not use this to make you
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okay I did it in check a box right
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um
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I I agree with you I don't with respect
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to this predictive Tech of of the new
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search engines I don't this is the
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future right so that we can't we can't
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get around and and I don't think it's
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wrong it's you we're just gonna have to
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adapt to work with it and if you're not
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doing it you are going to fall behind in
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whatever your work is you're going to
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fall behind because someone like
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Charlene will have in in two seconds
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figured out the top five songs you know
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and picked it and you sat here for a
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half an hour to see which song I should
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do so you do need to use it I do think
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that I but to your point of how do you
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know which check to dive into and to
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figure out I think that's a little
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trickier a lot of people for example
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stayed out of Facebook for a long time
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who back in the day and over time
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Facebook became so ubiquitous that you
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couldn't stay out of it because that's
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how you connected to to lots of
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different websites online it just made
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it easier for you to navigate and go
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from things so you had no choice but to
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be connected to it so I think sometimes
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you can hold back a little bit but
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ultimately you do have to come in but to
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our big question of the day uh you know
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do how important is it really to hold on
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learn the next new tech you like Tech so
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I would what's you I I think I can guess
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what you have to say as a tech lover but
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it's funny I'm actually not an early
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adopter I know when iPhones came out
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there was all those studies which um
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where it was like this amount of people
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are the early adopters right they're
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going to try everything no matter what
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it is then there's the next slave of
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people that's probably where I sit where
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I'm like oh I'm gonna let you buy the
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thousand dollar iPhone I'm gonna wait
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and check it out and see what happens
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and see how it goes okay then I'm gonna
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try it right especially for me when it
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involves like a financial commitment
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versus something like Chachi DBT which
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is open AI which was free
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um I'm more I'm much more likely to dive
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into free stuff versus paying stuff more
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quickly
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um and then there's like you know that
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midsection where for most people and
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then eventually it's like the late
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people who all the other phones all the
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flip phones are back but all the other
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options are gone
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um what can we do and I I think that
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what I think for your profession the
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most important part is one to be aware
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of it right you need to know what your
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employees are doing and knowing and and
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pretending it doesn't exist or
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um is not going to help anybody so I you
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know so being aware of what's out there
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I I equate this to excel right I feel
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like there's so much I do not know but I
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know it can be done and I whenever I try
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and use Excel which now you can connect
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Excel and chat GPT and that's like a
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whole nother level which one day I will
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explore or I think it's Google Sheets
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but it's it's being aware of what is
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there and then knowing who and how to
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access it if you need it right it
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doesn't mean you need to be the expert
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on it somebody you know needs to be the
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expert on right that's my opinion I
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think that is true and to get to that
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point I do think a lot of people need to
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overcome their fear I think there's a
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huge Fear Factor when it comes to new
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tech not just in the preliminary oh can
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I learn this right so many of us have a
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lot of insecurities about our
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intelligence and ability to understand
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stuff and we're like oh thank God we're
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done with school I don't ever have to do
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that again right and then here you are
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oh shoot I got to learn this I I thought
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I'd say you know now I gotta learn
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something new I'm not going to do that
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I'm going to fail I failed every test
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you know so I think there's like a fear
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factor of learning something new that's
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one big hump to get over but to your
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advice which I think is really good is
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that even if you have that Fear Factor
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at least have the wherewithal to accept
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what you don't know and go to somebody
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else who knows it right like wise is the
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man who knows what they don't know and
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knows where to go to get it like I think
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so even if you are afraid it's okay
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um
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I do think though just as a human being
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you know
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a value of each person should have is we
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should try and overcome our fears and we
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should try and Learn and Grow I think
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that's a nice thing to do but
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but it's hard for some people especially
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with tech it's it's a little bit scarier
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than oh try this new restaurant or some
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new food Tech it's like reminds you I
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think it reminds me of schools sitting
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behind a computer typing stuff out it
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brings out a lot of insecurities I think
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I think the the essence is we are in a
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society right now where there's so much
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information and we don't know who to
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trust and where to trust it right like
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it is the data I mean just think of your
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streaming services I have like 700 and
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still nothing to watch right but the
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amount of content available in in all of
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these facets is in scene and you you're
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as genuine is is a lot and it's about
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how do you filter how do you find the
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people you trust right because like I
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can tell you can look up any of these
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things and you're going to be find
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people that are like go left and go
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right on the same Tech on the same data
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on the same everything so I think it's
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it's sourcing for yourself it's also so
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thinking about what you want to take
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with and what you want to leave behind
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right we we just we're coming to the end
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of our podcast and we shared a couple of
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things and if you are like yes I want to
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take that piece with me or no I want to
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leave that behind great you should do
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that we should always be listening to
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everything with a critical year and
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thinking about what resonates for me and
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what will work for me
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and I would add to that
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don't worry have no regrets if you try
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something and it doesn't work it's okay
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next time try something else you know
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it's a long enough life we all make
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mistakes and I do think that in this age
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there is a lot of forgiveness because it
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is coming at us so quickly I think that
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there is a lot more understanding if
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people aren't at the top of their game
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um so if you admit it and acknowledge it
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and say okay I did this that was the
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wrong path now I'm going to try another
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rude that's okay yeah I I am a person
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that likes to iterate I like to put it
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out there try Fast and Furious and and
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okay this work this didn't work let's do
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it again really quick right and
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I knowing who you're who your partners
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are and and partners in the larger sense
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like who are you working with knowing
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how they operate is going to help know
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if that is something you can do too
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right you may have bosses that are like
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you got to get this right the first time
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and and then you have to try your
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practicing somewhere else or you may
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have a whole team of people it's like
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great that's a Mark's super let's try
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something else so it always goes back to
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relationships and always goes back to
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knowing your audience and I would say
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for all of you out there please look to
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Charlene and I here we're playing we're
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playing with this Tech we're playing
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with doing this live we haven't done it
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live before and it's our way of you know
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in our playground to figure this out
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while at the same time imparting the
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knowledge and advice and wisdom that we
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have from well from what we're learning
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but please feel free to share comment
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tell us what you're thinking because
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we're all in this together and like you
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said just find the people that you trust
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and you feel comfortable with and to
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take that path yes well from two minds
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today we're here I'm asking everyone to
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learn just a little bit more every day
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so thanks everyone thanks take care bye