WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:05.400 Hey, everybody, and welcome to the Friday wrap up on the streamlined solopreneur, a short episode 00:00:05.490 --> 00:00:06.840 where I talk about three things. 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.940 What's on my mind this week, recommended reading, and recommended media. 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:16.560 This is the show that helps you automate your business so you can take time off worry-free. 00:00:17.100 --> 00:00:20.940 And hopefully, this curation will help you think more about your systems. 00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:27.740 I'm your host, Joe Casabona, and here's what's on my mind for Friday, June 12, 26. 00:00:28.940 --> 00:00:32.320 Okay, so number one, what's on my mind this week? 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:34.000 WWDC. 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:39.460 I've gotten away from watching the WWDC keynote in recent years. 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:44.400 I invariably schedule something at the same time, 00:00:45.739 --> 00:00:48.080 which inexplicably happened again this year, 00:00:48.150 --> 00:00:51.360 despite it being on a Monday, usually a no-meeting day for me. 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:56.160 But the coverage is so good that I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:08.260 And I can usually get the highlights from places like six colors and Mac stories and David Sparks without the kind of self-aggrandizing that Apple does. 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:13.560 And maybe some of that self-aggrandizing is deserved. They're very good at what they do. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:19.880 But if I have to hear, this is the best version of iOS we've ever released again. 00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:23.680 I'm going to do something terrible to myself. 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:30.020 So this year, Siri was the benefactor of a huge update. 00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:37.060 Apple appears to be delivering on their AI promise from two years ago, 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:41.360 and it's getting its own app, and it's a lot smarter. 00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:45.660 I installed the MacOS beta on my laptop, which is my B machine, 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:49.200 and the iPad OS beta on my iPad. 00:01:50.080 --> 00:02:01.480 I will reserve installing the iOS 27 beta on my iPhone until probably after I take this trip in July. 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:07.920 I just don't like having beta software when I'm somewhere unfamiliar. 00:02:09.179 --> 00:02:14.520 But this one does look a lot more stable than betas of years past. 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:19.400 And so with the new Siri, you have to apply for it. 00:02:19.460 --> 00:02:24.640 and I have applied for it, and I just haven't gotten to take it for a spin yet. 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:27.600 But from the demos, I've seen it's definitely a lot better. 00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:30.480 Way more aware of context. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:36.120 You can ask it continuing questions, and you can ask it vague questions, like, 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:41.300 what's the weather going to be like where I'm going to be this weekend? 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:46.480 And it will look at your calendar, get the location for the weekend, and give you the weather. 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:48.420 I think that is super neat. 00:02:48.820 --> 00:02:54.480 My biggest question is one that many other users, creators, pundits have. 00:02:55.320 --> 00:02:59.800 How well will the new Siri work with apps other than the defaults? 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:06.220 Sure, it's going to work great with Apple Calendar, Notes, Reminders, probably mail. 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:11.840 But I use fantastical, Obsidian, To-Doist, and Mimstream. 00:03:12.820 --> 00:03:16.400 Can I do the same things using those apps? 00:03:16.460 --> 00:03:20.180 because if I can't, then this is going to be a largely useless feature for me. 00:03:21.100 --> 00:03:23.880 But the claim is yes, so we'll see what happens. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:30.060 And I know I'm a pretty Apple ecosystem heavy user here. 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:31.220 It's what I use. 00:03:31.940 --> 00:03:37.520 I am genuinely excited for this iteration of Siri because it is what I use. 00:03:38.420 --> 00:03:42.360 But I also think it's the right application for AI. 00:03:42.540 --> 00:03:46.380 Apple has always taken a measured approach when they do things. 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:54.620 things. Some people don't like that. Some people feel that's why Apple is behind in the AI wars. 00:03:55.400 --> 00:04:04.560 But I will definitely take their approach over the insecure flailing that Dario Amode does when claiming 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:11.640 that AI is going to run the world tomorrow. And Claude is so amazing. Maybe we should slow down 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:14.140 and also, hey, check out my upcoming IPO. 00:04:16.019 --> 00:04:18.320 So I like this application of AI. 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.380 I feel like it's going to be much more accessible 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.000 to a lot more people who aren't thinking 00:04:24.620 --> 00:04:28.320 that AI can run their lives for them because it can't, 00:04:28.780 --> 00:04:32.860 but it will surface important data as needed 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:35.900 without having to jump through as many hoops. 00:04:36.440 --> 00:04:39.020 To quote my own personal AI philosophy, 00:04:39.880 --> 00:04:45.300 It is a computer program doing computer program things really, really well. 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:47.560 So I am excited for that. 00:04:47.700 --> 00:04:49.500 That is what's on my mind. 00:04:50.020 --> 00:04:54.040 I don't cover Apple too much these days. 00:04:54.260 --> 00:04:59.800 I wish I covered it more sometimes, but I'm not sure if I'm going to give you hot 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:04.880 takes on Siri and the new app and the new operating system. 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:08.020 Lots of people do that way better than me. 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:14.360 So we'll just see if there's something really interesting, I'll end up writing about it. 00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:28.340 But, you know, don't check out Mac stories and the links in the show notes for actual coverage of WWDC and the betas and everything that's going to be happening from here until September when the new operating systems come out. 00:05:29.400 --> 00:05:29.700 Okay. 00:05:30.380 --> 00:05:36.480 So moving on to recommended reading, this story is absolutely insane. 00:05:36.640 --> 00:05:43.920 this is the story of reckless Ben on YouTube, Ben Schneider, versus bricks and mini figs. 00:05:44.260 --> 00:05:47.380 This is a story I've been obsessed with for the past week or so. 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:55.100 Basically, a man named Brian co-signed his, or consigned his dad's massive Star Wars Lego 00:05:55.320 --> 00:05:55.520 collection. 00:05:55.740 --> 00:05:57.500 Some say it's worth over $200,000. 00:05:58.420 --> 00:06:00.500 It's the biggest Star Wars Lego collection in the world. 00:06:00.940 --> 00:06:06.580 He consigned it to a bricks and mini-figs franchise in Oregon, basically saying, 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:15.620 these Lego are still mine until you sell them and then you get a cut of what you've sold. 00:06:16.540 --> 00:06:22.740 And this is an agreement that Brian entered into with bricks and mini figs. 00:06:24.460 --> 00:06:30.880 It's turned into a legal mess because the franchise owners sold it back to corporate 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:34.140 and corporate says that they don't have to honor the contract. 00:06:34.400 --> 00:06:45.740 and Brian, out of desperation, reached out to Reckless Ben, who is a, I'm going to call him an investigative 00:06:47.960 --> 00:06:56.140 journalist comedian. I don't, that's not exactly right, but he will do, I'm going to say that he 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:01.000 doesn't feel constrained by some of the things that an actual investigative journalist does. 00:07:01.060 --> 00:07:07.720 he really pushes the boundaries of what is technically legal. 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:09.900 And he tries to do everything above board. 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:22.360 But bricks and mini figs has basically turned into a cartoonish villain here with like an owner 00:07:22.760 --> 00:07:25.840 that has a skinny, twirly mustache. 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:30.980 And they are trying to sue Brian and 00:07:31.020 --> 00:07:40.420 Ben into oblivion and the local police in Utah where bricks and minifigs corporate is located 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:48.820 is, and this American Fork is the name of the town. Undoubtedly, chillingly corrupt. 00:07:49.400 --> 00:07:54.140 Like, no matter, I've been watching a lot of legal analysis too, obviously, because like Ben is 00:07:54.200 --> 00:07:59.700 telling a very specific documentary style story. But I've been watching legal analysts. 00:07:59.740 --> 00:08:10.900 and by and large, it is very clear that the American Fork Police Department is incredibly corrupt. 00:08:12.200 --> 00:08:19.720 And it sounds like this has been a known issue in the Lego community for a while, but Reckless Ben has brought it to the mainstream. 00:08:20.900 --> 00:08:26.880 And I link in the description in the show notes to a timeline of everything that's happened so far. 00:08:26.980 --> 00:08:28.260 It's absolutely wild. 00:08:28.880 --> 00:08:30.660 It's David versus Goliath. 00:08:30.780 --> 00:08:32.020 There's corrupt cops. 00:08:32.599 --> 00:08:33.400 There's Mormons. 00:08:34.460 --> 00:08:38.099 And it is very much ongoing. 00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:40.620 This is not something that's happened a few years ago. 00:08:40.740 --> 00:08:44.159 It's something that started a few years ago and is currently being updated. 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:53.160 A temporary restraining order or TRO was issued this week against Ben, preventing him from 00:08:54.150 --> 00:08:56.800 releasing part three of this story. 00:08:57.640 --> 00:09:27.160 So I'll continue to follow this closely, especially as more lawyers do analysis. That's the thing I am most interested in. One place I'd recommend staying away from is Reddit. There are a lot of, we'll call them big feelings over there. But it's a wild story. And one of the reasons I wanted to bring this up is because it is deeply human and it is an ongoing story and people are really interested in deep. 00:09:28.220 --> 00:09:35.240 human stories. And this has, I mean, Ben Mesrick is going to write a book about this in a couple of 00:09:35.280 --> 00:09:40.280 years. I have no doubt about that. This is the guy who wrote Bringing Down the House and 00:09:41.520 --> 00:09:46.100 accidental billionaires and he has a new book coming out about the chess cheating scandal. 00:09:46.920 --> 00:09:52.120 There is no way he doesn't write a book about this in a few years. It's absolutely wild. So 00:09:52.820 --> 00:09:56.840 it's something that I've been obsessed with this week. And it's really, really interesting. 00:09:58.640 --> 00:10:26.600 Okay. Now, moving on to recommended media. Truth be told, I moved a lot of this stuff around. The Reckless Band thing was going to be recommended media. WWDC was going to be recommended reading. And I had a different thing that's on my mind, but I haven't fully fleshed that out yet. So for recommended media, I listened over the past week to one album from one band from every letter of the alphabet. 00:10:27.560 --> 00:10:32.580 I decided to do this because I realized that I was listening to music, a playlist I made, 00:10:32.580 --> 00:10:35.500 and it went from Fallout Boy to the Gaslight Anthem. 00:10:36.280 --> 00:10:39.960 And so I decided to see if I could do this for the entire American English alphabet. 00:10:41.260 --> 00:10:46.900 I was able to get a band from, a band I know, from every letter except X, 00:10:47.680 --> 00:10:49.580 which I went with the XX. 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:56.860 You've probably heard the song intro from, I think, their debut album. 00:10:56.880 --> 00:11:00.820 it's in a lot of places movie and TV soundtracks. 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:06.760 But the rules for this little game I created for myself were simple. 00:11:07.460 --> 00:11:09.940 I need to listen to the entire album before moving on. 00:11:10.660 --> 00:11:11.240 No shuffle. 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.000 I need to listen to the album from start to finish in order. 00:11:15.060 --> 00:11:17.960 The only word that doesn't count is the. 00:11:18.760 --> 00:11:22.560 So the gaslight anthem would count for G, not T. 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.840 And I can't listen to anything else except for when play. 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:32.540 playing the drums because I have a drums playlist, and long car rides with my kids who will 00:11:32.820 --> 00:11:39.260 invariably revolt if I start listening to some of the albums on that playlist. So those were the 00:11:39.260 --> 00:11:44.740 two rules. A couple of observations from this little game, it really felt like a slog sometimes. 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:50.340 I'm fairly specific about what I want to listen to and when I want to listen to it. So making 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:56.820 myself locked into this format took some discipline. I also rediscovered a bunch of 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:02.720 songs mostly from high school and early college. And I did not like the XX, which is the one band I 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:12.220 didn't already know. Now, I have some stats aggregated by Claude. I will link to the thread. 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:20.120 I live posted this on Blue Sky every time I moved on to a new album. I did the number, the letter, 00:12:20.820 --> 00:12:26.800 and then the band, the album name, and the year the album was released. 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:35.420 I am very proud of myself because I was pretty much, I was within a year of knowing the release 00:12:35.580 --> 00:12:41.700 year of every album, which I'm very impressed with myself about. But anyway, so most common genre, 00:12:41.980 --> 00:12:49.899 pop punk slash emo, no surprises there. Most common year was a tie. There were four albums each 00:12:49.940 --> 00:12:59.880 from 2003 and 2005. I think 2003 makes a lot of sense. I was 18. It was my last year of high school. 00:13:00.500 --> 00:13:08.600 2005, really interesting. I turned 20. There were a lot of, I think a lot of different music was 00:13:08.630 --> 00:13:14.500 being introduced to me, but I still had that pop punk emo feel. The outlier year was 1981. 00:13:14.810 --> 00:13:19.260 I picked Queen's greatest hits. I don't know if that's cheating. It's, that wasn't a rule, though. 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.900 So that, it was their 1981 greatest hits album. 00:13:23.520 --> 00:13:26.620 The full year range was 1981 to 2015. 00:13:27.560 --> 00:13:30.740 So no albums that came in the last 10 years. 00:13:31.500 --> 00:13:43.860 And the most common three year range, which you could imagine, because I had two of the most common years, 2003 to 2005, with 2000 to 2002 coming in close second. 00:13:44.500 --> 00:13:49.260 I will link to the entire playlist with all of the outlets. 00:13:49.280 --> 00:13:53.120 albums in Apple Music and Spotify. 00:13:54.640 --> 00:13:54.900 All right. 00:13:54.980 --> 00:14:04.300 Now, before I move on to wrapping this thing up, I do want to mention a free workshop I'm doing. 00:14:04.460 --> 00:14:10.720 So if you are wondering how I, with all of the other content I'm doing, and I don't know 00:14:10.760 --> 00:14:14.400 if you heard my kids running around in the background, they're upstairs, but they were 00:14:14.500 --> 00:14:15.260 being very loud. 00:14:15.920 --> 00:14:21.220 If you want to know how I still put this weekly show together, despite everything else I'm doing, 00:14:21.220 --> 00:14:30.540 if you want to behind the scenes look at this, I am doing a free workshop with e-cam on June 25th and 26. 00:14:30.780 --> 00:14:36.940 It's a one hour across, it's one hour each day for two days. 00:14:37.700 --> 00:14:44.800 Most people I talk to want to use AI as part of their content creation process to make the production faster. 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.520 But faster isn't better. It's just faster. 00:14:49.160 --> 00:14:56.080 The real problem is that we have so much to do that we need to prioritize certain things and find shortcuts for other things. 00:14:56.920 --> 00:15:05.680 But if you can find the right shortcuts, you will have the time and space to create authentic content that helps your audience connect with you. 00:15:06.500 --> 00:15:14.760 So in this workshop, I'm going to look at everything, walk through everything I do to produce the Friday wrap up. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:21.160 I barely use AI and I can produce an episode in about an hour. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:28.600 You will learn my three favorite functions of e-cam, how to storyboard an e-cam so you don't have to edit much, 00:15:29.660 --> 00:15:36.800 how the stream deck can help you level up even more, and what to do when you do need to trim the fat in post-production. 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.000 So you can head over to e-cam.com slash Joe. 00:15:41.040 --> 00:15:43.060 I cannot believe they gave me that URL. 00:15:43.700 --> 00:15:49.660 and it will show you what I love about e-cam and it also links to my free workshop. 00:15:50.950 --> 00:15:58.120 So e-cim.com slash joe. 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