C (9:43)

Connect your calendar to N8N and set a trigger at the start of each month. Then you'd gather all events for the upcoming month and format them into a summary. Finally, you'd use the Qlik API to send that summary to yourself. Let me know if you have specific tools or APIs in mind or if you'd like me to suggest common integrations.

B (10:02)

So I'm using Google Work Workspace for our firm. So what I'd like you to do is use Google Calendar. So start building it. And so I'd like for it to. On the first of every month. That's what I want to be the trigger. So, first of every month and then. So start building it out. So start getting everything from my Google Calendar. And then what you'll do is you'll integrate that with Qlik. And so those are already integrated into N8N currently. So go ahead and start building that out for me.

C (10:29)

Got it. The workflow will have a time trigger set for the first of each month. Then it'll pull all events from your Google Calendar for that month. Finally, it'll format and send that summary through Qlik. You should be able to just enable that workflow and it'll run automatically. Let me know if you need any custom formatting or specific details included.

B (10:49)

Nope. Begin building, please.

C (10:51)

I can't directly build workflows inside Naven myself, but I can guide you step by step on setting it up. Would you like me to walk you through the steps in seconds?

B (11:01)

Okay, so now. Now we know the audio mode does not do that. So there we go. We've learned something. So what I will do is. Bill, I'll type this in. Build a workflow. So I'm typing this in now that. So build a workflow that takes. That sends me a click message. I'll put it right in. Zoho. Click Zoho. Click message at the beginning of each month. That lays out all of my schedule for the entire month. Let's just see what it does. Let's see if it will start building this for us. I actually don't think it's going to do it now. You can see here where it. There's a little, I don't know, icon at the bottom where it's got a kind of like a stop button. Stop Comet assistant. You can see now it's actually going through. I'm not actually. I am optimistic because at first I didn't think it was going to work, but it is taking control of my screen. For those of you watching can see that it's actually okay now. Now I'm optimistic. It is creating. It's creating the trigger. It's actually doing this for me. Wow. I'm happy now. This is good. So it's creating the trigger, it's choosing the months between triggers, the day of the month, it's choosing that. It's choosing to do it at midnight. It looks like, oh, it shows 8am So 8am on the first of every single month. So it is creating. It's saying. It's asking, Chad, changes you made may not be saved. I am going to hit. It's asking me to leave. Yeah, I'm going to hit cancel and see what happens, because I don't think it wants to do that, but maybe I'm wrong. So there was something it had me do where it had me decide whether or not to leave this screen or stay on it. It is now going and changing the code. It's changing the output. That's very interesting. So it's doing the work. Let's go back over to crypto because I want to make sure we have enough time for all the stories. So back over the crypto, it has, it's added since we last checked in xrp, USD, coin, Dogecoin, Tron and Cardano. And it appears to have been done here. Appears to be done. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It created 8. Bitcoin, I'm assuming is going to be the number one. And then one of these other ones might be number two. So that may be why it did it. I've added the 10 most popular cryptocurrencies starting at row seven with names and column A. So already present were Bitcoin, Solana and Avalanche. So those three were already there. So they added seven new items. So it did. It did the spreadsheet work for me. So that's fantastic. Now we're back over in and it has begun the trigger. It is actually building. It's building this thing out. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to leave this. I'm going to stop sharing and we're going to Move on to the next story and we're going to revisit it at the end. So this will be a fun little one for us to do. So. All right, here we go. Here we go. We're having some fun on this one. This is. We're kind of. I'm going without a net. I don't have. I don't know what it's going to do. I really have zero idea. We're going to come back to it and see what happens. So. Very good. Let's get to our next story. And this is one I thought would be fun. It's a video that I saw someone post. I'm going to play it. What I'm going to do is I'm going to play it for everybody so you can see it and then we will go from there so we can discuss it afterwards. Here we go.

D (14:43)

Hated the idea of Amazon Prime. They hated the idea of Prime Video. They didn't like the idea of Amazon Web Services. Now, Jeff has an interesting notion which is what he calls a two way door. What a two way door is, is something where you can walk through the door and if you don't like what you see, you can walk back. Try it. If it works, whoop dee doo, that's great. If it doesn't work, we simply stop doing it. And to be honest, the trial possibly cost less than we would have spent just arguing about it if we were adopting a kind of purist approach. Why I think this is becoming vitally important is most business is probabilistic, but everybody in business wants to prove and pretend that it's deterministic. So every spreadsheet is in some ways an act of pretense because it's past information which you pretend has wonderful predictive value, as if it's kind of Laplace's demon, but it really doesn't. Okay. Because weird shit happens out of nowhere all the time.

B (15:38)

What I really liked about this, this message is, and this is, it was relevant to my firm when I saw this, this video and I just saw it, I think, over the weekend. Okay. We are doing. We're making some changes in the firm in some different roles and moving some things around to try to make things more efficient. And we got a little bit of pushback. Not a lot. We got a little bit of pushback from the team. They were a little reluctant. And the way I view this, what I really like about this message is it allows you to move fast. Okay, we have a thing we want to do. Let's try it. Let's not debate about it. Let's try it. Okay. Boom. You made a quick decision to do that because you're going to try it. We have this idea. Let's try it. If it doesn't work, you walk back out the door. Okay, it doesn't work. Boom. Another quick decision. So it allows you to iterate really, really quickly. And so instead of you wasting. And I bet when I say this is going to ring true with a lot of. You, think about how many times you spent just toiling over and arguing over whether or not to do a decision. You make the decision, and either you loved it or you didn't, but either way, the thing happened. You did whatever you had to with it. But if you just made the decision faster, you would have gotten to that result faster. And I. That's what I like about this. It's quick decision making. That's what I love about it. It's just, it's quick decision making allows you to move very, very quickly. So that's all I have on that one. I think. I think that one's a fun one. The next thing I want to talk about. This is crazy. This is. It's coffee naps. We're gonna talk about coffee naps. And I saw this and I thought, this is absolutely insane. This is not real. Guess what? It's real. It's totally real. Coffee naps are actually a thing I'm gonna get. We're getting to the science behind it because it actually is something that is helpful. And you're about to find out. But find out how? I, I, by the way, I did look into this. This isn't something where I'm just relying on this video. I looked into it. It is. And I'm going to get into some of the stuff in a second. But it is, it's, it's really interesting how it works. And I'm gonna increase the screen so you can actually see it. But this is, it's. It's wild to me. I never would have thought this was a thing, but it's totally a thing. So here we go.

E (18:05)

We're obviously going to focus on the receptor that has to do with caffeine. And I've drawn this in as these little green Y's. And these green Y's represent the adenosine receptor. Now, the blue diamond is the actual adenosine molecule which will obviously bind to the adenosine receptor. Maybe you've heard of something called ATP, which stands for adenosine triphosphate. And ATP or adenosine triphosphate is the energy currency for your cells. And your neurons actually burn through a lot of energy or ATP throughout the day. So again, that adenosine starts to build up on the outside of the neurons and then can start binding to those adenosine receptors. But what does that cause to have happen? Well, when adenosine binds to the adenosine receptors, it suppresses the activity of your neurons. So your neurons will fire less frequently, less intensely. And to you, that feels like you might feel a little bit more tired or fatigued, less focused, less alert. But we bring caffeine into the picture. You ingest it in some way, it gets into your bloodstream, the caffeine will diffuse from the bloodstream and bind to one of those adenosine receptors. It's close enough in shape to the original adenosine to bind, but not close enough to actually activate the receptor. So caffeine blocks the effects of adenosine and therefore has these opposing effects. Instead of feeling tired, less alert, more fatigued, you get increased awareness, increased alertness, you're more focused. And you can definitely apply those characteristics to athletic performance and performing better in certain sports to be more focused and more alert.

B (19:22)

All right, so that's where the video ends. And so we're going to go through this and we started with the science part of it, so, so that it makes a little more sense. All right, so basically, here's what a coffee nap is. Sometimes they're called a caffeine nap, a napucino. That's what Chad GPT told me. It also goes under sometimes napuccino is where you take, where you drink a caffeinated beverage and then you immediately take a short nap, around 15 to 30 minutes, 20 minutes is the recommended amount. Okay. And then so the caffeine, it blocks the adenosine, which is the. Which it's that chemical that induces the sleepiness. And it does, what it does is it binds it to the receptors in your brain. At the same time, the short nap helps clear the adenosine buildup. And so by the time you wake up, the caffeine hits an empty playing field of adenosine receptors that boosting alertness more effectively. All right, so that's, that's generally how it works. And there are multiple controlled studies on this. This isn't just, oh, we tried this. It improves cognitive performance. This is where at a University of Alabama, they actually did this with people at the news station. It helps with memory and athletic performance, which is really interesting. It was tested with shift shift work employees. And so In a simulated night shift study, participants who consumed 200mg caffeine then took a 30min nap demonstrated greater vigilance and reduced fatigue in the subsequent 45 minutes compared to a placebo. So that's only the 45 minutes afterwards. So sleep foundation advocates keeping the nap short, so ideally 20 minutes and taken after lunch. Not close too close to bedtime. So the, the key, the timing of it is that it should be close to lunchtime and not close to when you're actually going to sleep. Here's what the recom what experts also recommend so sleep. They found that caffeine naps enhanced alertness and performance, particularly among night shift workers. It's again, again it's exciting that other study and let's see. Reinforce that this other study when it comes to health and wellness reinforced that coffee naps can improve mood, alertness and cognitive performance when timed properly. Really kind of interesting. They say that timing is for, is is everything. For most the optimal window is early to mid afternoon and that's when the circadian energy dip hits. So it's around 1 to 3pm Avoid late naps that interfere with nighttime sleep because that would obviously be detrimental. Also drink quickly, nap immediately. So down your coffee swiftly so around 150-200mg of caffeine and lie down right away so the caffeine begins working just as you you awake. That's interesting. Awaken and then the nap duration also this is a big part of it. Gotta aim for the 15 to 20 minutes in length. That's long enough to clear the adenosine but short enough to avoid deep sleep and sleep inertia and then avoid excessively long naps. Naps over 30 minutes may lead to grogginess and have been linked to longer term health risks like increased cardiovascular concerns when taken habitually. That's interesting. That was something I knew. All right, very cool. So there you go. Coffee naps. It's a, it's a real thing. Not tried it. I'm going to try it. You better believe I'm going to try it. So I'll report back and I would love to hear from you all if you have a. If you try it yourself or if you've done it yourself. All right, the next one we're going to talk about is about better decisions and this is something that Chris Williamson had posted. I really like Chris Williamson. He Modern Wisdom is the name of his podcast and just really good stuff that he always talks about. So let's, let's hear you will end.

F (23:08)

Up wherever is acceptable to you. There are certain things to me that are very, very important where I will not settle for second best. But then there are a lot of other things I just don't care about. So in decision making, I have a few heuristics for myself. Mine are if you can't decide, the answer is no. Secondly, if you have two decisions and both seem like very equal, take the path that's more painful in the short term. And then finally, the last one, which I would try to couple Gupta with, is that you want to take the choice that will leave you more equanimous in the long term. By quantum us, he means like more at peace, more mental peace in the long term. And then I would focus decision making down on the three things that really matter. Early in life, you're trying to figure out who you're with, what you're doing and where you live. And people do some of these unconsciously who you're with. Very often it's like, well, we were in a relationship, we stumbled along, it felt okay. It had been enough time, so we got married. If you are the kind of person that's not going to settle for second best, you iterate, you iterate on a closed timeframe so you don't run out the clock. And then you decide on what you do. You try a whole bunch of different things until you find the one that feels like play to you, looks like work to others. You can't lose at it. Get some leverage, try to find some practical application of it and go into that. And then where you live, where you live really constrains and defines your opportunities. And I think they put a lot less thought into that one than the other two.

B (24:21)

I, I, I thought that was really good. I really. And so I, I can put the sh, the videos in the short in the show notes for everybody. But I thought there were some really good messages messages in, in those. And so from the two way door and then this one, these were two really impactful videos. I thought that hopefully you got something from. I, I thought that was a really good way to, to think about decision making. So that's why I wanted to bring that up. But I'm, I'm moving a little quicker because I want to be able to revisit before we get to our, the, to, before we get to the yellow pages, I want to revisit the visit Comet and that way we can see kind of what, what Comet's up to and see if it did anything. Okay, so that's a little disappointing for those of you that are watching. You can see why. For those of you listening, it stopped at the trigger. It stopped at the trigger. But then what it did is it created, it gave me a lot of other information. It says what I've completed created workflow monthly schedule to Zoho click. It did type that in. Well, yeah, it did type that in as the name of it. It added the schedule trigger and then it saved and activated the workflow. I don't know why it would activate the workflow. That's kind of a silly thing to do. But it did. What remains to finish? Add Google Calendar node to fetch all events. Add code node to format the month's schedule into a readable message. Add HTTP HTTP request node to send it to Qlik. So Qlik step by step to finish inside. So it gives me a step by step guide and also gives me the JavaScript which is good. So the code node, what it will, what it allows me to do so it affords the message but I can just copy this code in that it's given me and into that node and then it'll, it'll do that work and then I can test it all. So I'd say a little disappointing that it did not finish it. But you know, like I said before, this is something that we were testing out. I didn't know what it was going to do. I was, I was impressed that it even did the scheduled trigger. I'm actually satisfied with just that, to be honest with you. All right then the last thing I want to talk about is this is. I'm not going to share the post on this one. I don't need to. But what it was is it's, it makes me think this is more for. This is both for the older attorneys that remember the yellow Pages and whenever they were phased out and for the younger attorneys that weren't around during that time, I was in that sort of back end of yellow pages where they still existed. I remember an attorney tried to get me to buy. He was under contract. He tried me to get me to buy that contract. After the fact, I realized he was trying to screw me over, to be honest with you. But luckily I did not do it. But I do remember when yellow pages were starting to kind of be on the way up. At one point though, it was the deal, right? It was the deal. And now, however, we are in this spot, weird spot where SEO for, for most of us, all we've known is SEO, right? And like, or even if, even if you were around during the Yellow Pages. You remember the Yellow Pages, but then you remember how big SEO became and how important SEO was. And now we are on the back. I think we're on the back end of that where Google has become the Yellow Pages. That doesn't mean that Gemini is not going to replace what it had. Right? It's not. That doesn't mean what's. But we are probably on the back of the Yellow Pages where Google's. The SEO part of it is on the way out. And what is you want to replace it is the LLMs. And this post is about that. Now what they are doing is they are promoting a product, which I'm going to ignore that part of it and, but I thought that the message was spot on. So here is, here's part of the post. So Google currently drives $2.4 trillion of commerce in five years. $1 trillion of that will shift to chat GPT. That's fast. It's going to happen faster than that. It's. It's talked about this last week. It's happening faster than what people are predicting. They can't. People have been talking about five years for a while and then the three years. It's going to be faster than that. I promise you. Becoming Chat GPT's number one recommendation could be worth a hundred million dollars plus to your business. For law firm owners, it'll be less than that, but it's still going to be a significant shot. Here's what should terrify every CEO. Chat GPT hit 700 million weekly users, growing forex year over year. 47% of consumers already use answer engines like ChatGPT to research purchases. Chat GPT handles 1 billion plus queries daily. That's 1/8th of Google. At current growth rates, AI assistance will drive 3, 30% of all product decisions by 2029. Whoa. If your company generates greater than a million from SEO, you're facing an existential threat. Ranking number one on Google will soon be as relevant as ranking number one in the Yellow Pages. Okay, that's why this, that's why I brought this up. Here's the paradigm shift. In the SEO era, you optimize articles to rank for keywords. But answer engines don't crawl your SEO optimized pages. They form opinions from authentic discussions on Reddit, niche forum and community blogs. The brands dominating these conversations become their default recommendations. Every company built on SEO is about to watch its distribution channel evaporate. Okay, that's the bulk of the post and why I wanted to bring it up. There I guess I'll add, I'm gonna add this, there's a part in here that I think would be beneficial. So in under 12 months, over 2,000 marketers at companies like RAMP, US bank, indeed, MongoDB, DocuSign and Chime have used this product to monitor how answer engines describe their brand, identify which Reddit threads and forms shape AI opinions in their category, drive up to 700 increases in AI referrals, and then generate six figure revenue directly from AI recommendations. I'm not the reason I'm not missing the product is because I've not tested it. I don't know if it's any good. I don't want people, I don't want to give some sort of free advertising to a product that's garbage. I don't know if it's good or not. So that's why I'm not mentioning it. But it is a, it is a very valuable lesson to start. I've talked about this in the past. I've talked about how to do it in the Guild. I've given a guide on how to make sure that you've got your your website set up for the LLMs, which will also help you in in your SEO as well. But shifting, you're going have to start adjusting your sites, how you're creating your content, all of that to make it more friendly for LLM. So we need to start focusing on that and I will continue to remind you all about this because it's, it's that important. I don't want to be in five years. You will say. I wish I would have started sooner. Start now. Really, really important. But that is all I have for this week's show. Hopefully you enjoyed it. I had a little fun with with Comet. Hopefully you will have some fun with it too. But have a great week everybody. We will see you.

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