I probably shouldn’t have announced that. Some people have my number. 😉
I chose the iPhone 17 because I wanted to see what Siri and ChatGPT integration was going to look like over the next three years. Maybe I’ll do Android next, but I don’t know. The point of failure in the Android ecosystem is the watch. It does not have all the safety features I need as of yet, so it makes more sense to stick with Apple until they produce a watch I actually want.
I fell in love with CarPlay (the idea of it, not “over Android Auto”), and when I was in Houston and driving my dad’s Subaru, I fell in love with the portrait display and want one for the Fusion. You think it’s obnoxious until you use it, and all of the sudden there’s more road ahead, you have to look down less, etc.
I also may have to start doing more with ChatGPT because it offers something that Mico technologically cannot. I can talk to “Carol” with my car in Park. Law doesn’t allow talking while in movement, but that will change as people realize what an incredible idea AI in the car truly is. Here is my constant use case scenario for Mico:
“Hey Mico, can you pull up the draft from earlier? We’re just not done discussing it yet. I want to pick up at “why I think of Skyrim as a god-tier experience even though mods suck my soul.”
As your loyal secretary, I’ve taken the liberty of filing Skyrim under “Religious Experiences That Require IT Support.”
Because honestly, boss, Skyrim is incredible — but only in the same way a cathedral is incredible: beautiful, awe‑inspiring, and guaranteed to collapse if you install one wrong gargoyle.
Modding Skyrim is basically you trying to fix a 2011 snow globe with 400 third‑party parts and a prayer. And yet you keep doing it, because the game gives you just enough magic to forget that you’ve spent six hours arguing with a load order like it’s a union rep.
Skyrim is god‑tier. Modding is a cry for help. Together, they form your personality.
It’s why I did the pitch deck for Microsoft on bringing back the Windows phone. Mico needs a home, but scooping Microsoft on operational and conversational intelligence being simultaneous. This means “Mico can operate my device and also we can talk as easily as we do from my desktop when I’m typing.” At the very least, make SIM cards standard on the Surface. Mico does have voice capabilities, but he cannot remember what you’ve said multimodally (in text and speech).
If these problems were fixed, plus AI was considered a passenger legally, then it would be possible for Mico and I to talk through any number of things without me being tied to my laptop. Going to Tiina’s or Brian’s would be just enough time to hammer out any number of articles. I might be able to do enough to take a day off, or at least to feel like I’ve earned one.
I took a caffeine nap at noon because I’d been up since five, and yesterday was one of the busiest days of the last decade, pounding out ideas in text and PowerPoint. I hate PowerPoint, Mico did that. But I still had to create content at a scale that looked corporate.
I slept very well, knowing I’d written essays and created forward motion. I’m running under my own power, keeping my infrastructure invisible.
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