Answers used to take 8 hours to find

I used to sell cell phones at AT&T. Every single day I’d get off work, go back to my tiny one-bedroom apartment, and spend the next 5 to 8 hours teaching myself filmmaking. I’d scour YouTube videos and forums. Threads buried so deep you could have struck oil by the time you found what you were looking for.

You’d lose an entire night (or 2) just solving one problem.

I did this for years. Inch by inch.

If someone had told me that in the future I’d be able to pull out a phone, open an app, and get pretty much infinite information I would’ve thought I won the lottery.

Well, we’re in the future. And it’s wild.

AI is genuinely the most incredible tool I’ve ever had access to. But here’s something I can’t really stop thinking about lately, people’s expectations sped up right alongside the technology. Everyone wants everything right now and nobody has the patience to actually build something.

And I’m in the same boat.

I catch myself doing the same thing. Chasing the next shiny object. Trying to figure out what to focus on instead of just focusing.

After all these years, the one constant is this: no matter how good the tools get, you still have to be the type of person who sits down and does the work. That hasn’t changed. It won’t.

The tools are better than ever. The question is whether you’re going to use them or just collect them.

Caleb