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00:30:55 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:30:55] S0: I got a two point o request for you. Okay. I wanted to... I want you to create a series of keywords that when they come up in your Plaud, trigger actions from your Grok bot or whatever. Yeah. So, you know, if you say action item, email Jay Cal. Action item, make me a... Add to my to do list. All that kind of stuff. Mhmm. I wanna see if you can maybe, when you do a follow-up to this Plaud post, kinda get into that because I need to have that for ski season. When I'm in ski season Yeah. What frequently happens to me is, I'm on a lift and, first world problems here. I see a couple of things in the email. I have gloves on. I can't, you know, start taking my gloves off and typing. It's snow. It's gonna... I'm gonna drop my phone, all this kind of craziness. I wanna just have that stream of consciousness. Then when I get to the bottom of the lift, after I ski a run, it will sync with the Wi Fi. Right? The... These places all have Wi Fi at the bottom. Mhmm. When it syncs, then I wanted to take the actions and send those actions to the team. Yeah. That's what I need, in this crazy world. [00:31:59] S2: Set this up through Plaud. I think you need [00:32:02] S0: to go into figure it out. [00:32:03] S2: Tell Plaud agent, anytime I say this keyword in a recording, forward it to this Grok bot so that the Grok bot could do this or that, whatever. Or you could just do... I mean, you could... There's there's, like, five ways to do this. But that
00:32:03 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:32:03] S2: Tell Plaud agent, anytime I say this keyword in a recording, forward it to this Grok bot so that the Grok bot could do this or that, whatever. Or you could just do... I mean, you could... There's there's, like, five ways to do this. But that [00:32:15] S0: I want a whisper sync on my plaud. This is a little feature request. You know, when you get a a Kindle, you pay... I I don't... I think it comes with Kindle that they pick up low data usage Right. Over, like, five g to download the books. And I and I think Amazon has a data plan built into it. So you don't have to subscribe to this. So if you bought a book, it will download it. Right? Yeah. So you don't have to pay for another 5 g plan. I would love for Plaud to have that in, like, a $2.99 or $399 Plaud. So somebody send this to the CEO of Plaud and CC me, or I'll tell my Plaud to do that. What I really wanna have is if it had LTE or five gs, three gs, whatever, then it's just always syncing, always syncing. Right? That would be super magical for me. I need, like, an enhanced hardware version. I'm willing to pay for it to my friends at Plaud. Who knows what they Ad[00:33:10] S2: have in the lab? Get in on all of this with us and start experimenting with your Plaud. Check it out at plaud.ai/twist. Use the code Twist, and they'll give you an extra 10% off on your Plaud pin. And you could experiment with all the things you can do with your Plaud now that it's connected to literally every other AI app. Ad[00:33:28] S0: How great is our life that, we have partners, and we love their products. It makes life so easy.
00:33:28 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris, S1
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00:34:48 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:34:48] S0: Okay. Alright. Let's keep going. What's next on the agenda? [00:34:50] S2: On Thursday, OpenAI published a set of new data center commitments we can't get away from data centers. Just two days after voters rejected the rapid expansion of AI at the polls, reaffirmed its promise to pay the full cost of powering its data centers, says that for centers it owns and operates, it will solicit community input, publish construction plans, and it will avoid NDAs with public officials. A separate policy blueprint encourages lawmakers to enact similar commitments as laws per ballot PD and CNBC. Oh, we already talked about Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic all have outlined similar commitments. OpenAI told investors back in February it's targeting 600,000,000,000 in total compute spend by 2030. What do you think of this plan? Does any of this move the needle for the public on data centers? [00:35:36] S0: Does any of it move the needle for data centers? I I think it's great to be proactively communicating your plans. And so, yes, I think everything helps getting ahead of this. I'm not sure in this proposal if there's anything revolutionary, but [00:35:52] S2: No.
00:35:52 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:35:52] S2: No. [00:35:52] S0: Right. They have to just... You know, part of leadership is repeating yourself Mhmm. Over and over and over again and meeting with people and listening to people. This is what I've learned about, like, leadership, true leadership. You gotta listen to people. You gotta repeat back to them what they said so they know they feel heard. And then, when you actually have, a statement to make, you gotta repeat yourself. One of the things Trump does over and over again when he's doing these, like, clips, so when he's, like, getting out of the helicopter or whatever, he's doing a stand up with the press, whether they call that a gaggle or something. Yeah. [00:36:23] S2: They do.
00:36:23 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:36:23] S2: They do. [00:36:24] S0: When he does, like, these gaggles, he's like, you know, Iran can't have a nuclear, bomb, and, you know, the war's gonna wrap up, and we can't have Iran having a nuclear bomb. There's no way Iran can have a nuclear bomb. We can't let them have a nuclear bomb. And you're like, bro, you said it four times, and you made five statements, and four of them were the same thing. It's like, yes. Yes. So they just have to say over and over, data centers aren't going to impact your local electrical bill. We use recycled water only. We use much less water than the golf course, and you have seven golf courses there. Of course, we're not going to affect your electrical bill. And we use much less than a golf course, like even just one golf course. We use less than a golf course. And we're going to pay our taxes, and it'll have no impact on your electricity, and certainly no impact on your water far less than a golf course. Of course, and you have seven golf course. And you're just like, Oh my God, it's so annoying. But you know what? As a dad, as a CEO of companies, a leader, man, I know I sound annoying sometime when I do it. I just know if I repeat it three times, the chances of it actually being understood go way up. It's repetition equals people remembering it. So that's what they need to do. They just need to be out there all the time. The leadership needs to be saying it over and over and over again. And, yeah. Man. Great job.