Reply to ____abcdefgh12345 yes! more details on the side project please

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The video addresses a common interest among tech professionals (side projects and career development) and reframes the approach to starting them, offering actionable advice that resonates with the audience's desire for skill development and problem-solving.

Summary

The creator discusses the concept of side projects, likening them to "side quests" from video games. They advise viewers to focus on developing core product management skills like problem identification and design thinking, rather than solely on learning a specific technology like AI.

Structure

1Introduction to side projects and the "side quest" analogy
2Critique of common motivations for starting side projects (money, learning tech)
3Emphasis on developing product management skills through side projects
4Advice to find mundane, repetitive problems to solve with AI, rather than letting AI drive the project choice

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The video discusses AI and LLMs as technologies that can be used to solve problems identified through side projects, but does not name a specific AI product.

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All right, so let's talk about side projects. And I'm super glad that this question came up because I love side projects. I have a lot to say about them. This might be a multi-part video series. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Um, side projects, I recently heard in a podcast somebody called them side quests, which I actually like even better. Because every time you're in a video game, wherever you get a side quest, you always, you know, either learn something new, um, or you develop a certain skill. There's always something that's needed about the side quest, right? The question specifically is like, how do I start a side project, right? So here's what I would say. I think people start side quests for the wrong reasons. Whether it be to make a ton of money, right? I wanna become the next Mark Zuckerberg. I wanna become the next billionaire. Or I hear people say like, you know, I really wanna learn a certain technology. That's great, right? But you know, I would really focus on, you know, developing those product management skills of finding a problem, doing more discovery on that, um, you know, figuring out the design thinking framework of, you know, empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping and testing, right? So you really want side projects or whatever is to develop those core set of skills and let the technology figure itself out, right? So, you know, I hear a lot of people now, especially like, I wanna get into AI. How do I get into AI? I wanna learn everything there is to know about LLMs and blah blah blah, right? And my advice to that is find something that is mundane and repetitive, right? Find a problem out there that you can then solve with AI. Don't let AI be the driver of finding a side project. Um, finding a side project.