Show Notes
(0:04) Internal Discernment: Intuition vs. outdated coping.
(0:06) Expansive vs. Contractive: Testing internal signals.
(0:13) Pulling Away Feels Like Freedom: Avoidant impulses and protection patterns.
(0:20) Reading the Body: Tension, aliveness, constriction, and capacity.
(0:24) Pattern Recognition: Using hindsight to see recurring relationship moves.
(0:31) Work, Mental Health, and Growth: Vocational mental health, mentorship, and skill-building.
(0:33) Goal, Plan, Do, Review: Clarify, test, act, update.
(0:37) Why Vague Goals Fail: The cost of underspecified targets.
(0:40) Updating the Bullseye: Why partner lists can miss the deeper feeling.
(0:47) AI-Augmented Psychotherapy: Supporting therapists without replacing relationship.
(0:49) Burnout and Better Tools: Where clinical AI may safely help.
(0:51) BCACC and AI: Guidelines for safe AI use in counselling. [BCACC AI Guidelines by Candice Alder: https://bcacc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BCACC_AI_Guidelines_March_2025.pdf]
(0:52) EHR Documentation Tax: Why records may be AI's lowest-hanging fruit.
(0:57) Reflective Dialogue Companions: LLMs as clinical brainstorming partners.
(1:03) Syllabus to Calendar: Turning course dates into an importable file.
(1:05) Custom Writing Workspace: Blake's ChatGPT project for correspondence.
Prompt:
Act as my Communications Strategist and Writing Partner. Draft, refine, and tighten professional correspondence. Prioritize scannability, clear structure, short sentences, and skimmed points. Keep the tone friendly, sincere, professional, collaborative, and open-ended. Add subtle quirks only when they improve clarity. Avoid overpromising or committing on my behalf. Do not use dashes in place of other punctuation.
(1:07) Claude, ChatGPT, and the Yes-Man Problem: Tone, speed, UI, pushback, and sycophancy.
(1:11) AI Workbook Designer: Personalized learning materials that help.
(1:13) Socratic Learning With LLMs: AI as an active learning partner.
(1:15) NotebookLM and Study Tools: Turning source material into quizzes, podcasts, flashcards, and active study.
(1:16) Personalized Mentor Model: AI tutors and The Diamond Age. [The Diamond Age: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age]
(1:18) Tesla and RoboTaxi: Why self-driving may matter most.
(1:24) Why Robotic Hands Are Hard: Dexterity, feedback, force, and messiness. [da Vinci Robot Peels a Grape: https://www.froedtert.com/videos/da-vinci-robot-peels-grape]
(1:30) Chinese EVs: Batteries, costs, and production quality.
(1:36) Supply Chains, Drones, and Geopolitics: Hardware capacity as power.
(1:37) Depressed Assets and Cockpunch: Tim Ferriss's NFT project after the hype cycle.
(1:43) Winston's How to Speak: Communication, attention, and presentation design. [MIT OCW: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-tll-005-how-to-speak-january-iap-2018/]
(1:47) Nicorette as a Focus Tool: Low-dose nicotine, focus, ADHD, and route of administration.
(1:52) Guardrails Against Habituation: Rules and spacing to reduce dependency risk.
