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I’ve noticed since the emergence of AI there seems to be two camps.
Camp 1 - People who are obsessed with AI and how they will use this new super intelligence to enhance every part of their life.
Camp 2 - People who believe that humans should focus on cultivating the emergent inner intelligences in opposition to AI (e.g., intuition, source connection, emergent gifts).
You might say it’s the artificial intelligence vs. natural intelligence debate.
This is yet another great example of the pattern of polarized thinking which is the tendency to view things in absolutes like one or the other.
For the better part of the past 5 years, I was more oriented towards Camp 1. I was using AI every single day to enhance my workflow and life, but deep exploration was never a focus of mine.
I felt like most busy people probably feel right now…
I knew there’s something there and more I could be doing, but I had “too much on my plate” to focus on it. This was my story.
At the end of last year, I took some time off mostly for health reasons. Coming out of this, I felt this urge inside of me to hold off on diving back into everything I was doing before and finally fully dig into AI. I specifically wanted to focus on how I could build software as a non-engineer and amplify my existing projects with agents.
One month in, I’ve been blown away.
Right now I’m working on 5 different software apps and I’ve built a few agents to enhance certain workflows at Conscious Talent. Everything I’ve been building is something that I’ve wanted to exist, but never found a great solution for. I’m mostly productizing stitched together workflows that have been helpful for me. I’m generally excited about the utility that what I’m building might provide other people. But if that doesn’t happen, it’s okay because I am customer number 0 for everything I’m creating.
I’ll be launching the first product next week and if you’re on this email list, you’ll be the first one to know about it!
Back to the original question…
To focus on AI or consciousness right now?
I’ve noticed the new capabilities AI has provided have incited this kind of mania.
People on X are talking about how anyone ambitious is waking up and building stuff from the moment they wake up until they sleep (and then the agent continues the work). There is now a new source of stress that you don’t have agents doing work for you all the time. And when you do, people are stressed that they only have one agent instead of a team of agents!
Reading between the lines, there’s a whole lot of people that are afraid of getting left behind.
These reactions driving the mania originate from someone’s consciousness, of course. But hey, maybe if we just buy a few more Mac Minis for more agents, we’ll eventually feel content and okay in this world!
I’m not here to cast stones at this behavior. In fact, my new mac studio for agents and local models arrived today.
The truth is that I’ve felt just as tempted by the mania and have been watching my patterns flare in this environment. It’s been an incredibly fertile ground to use all this reactivity for consciousness work.
Having this awareness doesn’t mean foregoing fully engaging in AI. There’s a middle way where you can actually use your relationship to all of these dynamics to expand your consciousness. This is the subject of my book Conscious Accomplishment.