I’ve used teleprompters for years; it's how I get all the garbage in my head onto the screen.

I built my own teleprompter as part of my personal content creation app about a year ago, but it always moved at a fixed speed, which doesn’t allow for the pacing changes that are so important for delivering a good speech. I dreamed of having some union bearded guy with a gut just off camera moving my teleprompter forward as I talked, like all the great late-night talk show hosts.

But last week, I made my teleprompter vastly more useful by adding two new features:

1. I made it mobile first. So the same place I write down my content ideas and store them (my giant content creator app, which I’ll reveal to you shortly) is the same place any script I’ve ever written can instantly go to teleprompter.

2. My teleprompter now listens to me with my phone’s built-in microphone and scrolls at exactly my pace — and if I skip a paragraph, it finds me again, even from 15 feet away.

The teleprompter follows the speaker's voice using speech recognition and fuzzy text matching, with mobile-friendly controls.

This means that for the first time ever, I can take my scripts out of the studio, performing my content in places like this without having to lug around my big main camera or studio teleprompter screen.

I just put my phone on its own stand next to my camera, and voilà.

It’s one of the thousands of features of my all-in-one content creator mega app, a project so diabolical it can’t be contained in one post.

You can’t fake a good story.

Socrates said, "Be as you wish to seem." As a business or a professional, you shouldn’t sell your customers or your employees on a story that isn’t true.

Case in point: the documentary The Queen of Versailles profoundly changed my life. It made me realize deeply that more showy wealth just means more stuff. More garbage. More headaches.

But there’s another part of that movie that no one remembers: the part that shows how they made their money… the sales floor in Vegas where they amped up their sales staff to go out and aggressively convince people to buy time shares.

The boss’s son tells all the staff—with a straight face, no less!—that what they are doing is saving lives by selling time shares. That their work is as noble as that of doctors, firefighters, nurses, etc.

Give me a break.

Of course, the tactic looks like it worked in the movie, and they did do hundreds of millions of dollars in sales on this premise. But would any intelligent person believe that story?

That selling time shares is saving lives?

When a quick Google search reveals countless people for whom their timeshare is a crushing, ever-increasing burden that they can’t get rid of, even in death?

Now obviously your team will be more loyal to you if they believe they are “saving lives” vs. “selling people expensive crap they don’t need and can’t afford".

But for a good business story to REALLY be a good story?

It has to also be true.

You’ve seen what AI can do with video, and likely been very impressed by it.

But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect…

At aloa.agency, we’ve gotten wildly better results by combining real, technical 3D modeling with AI video.

Instead of asking AI to make information up based on a few photographs, we built a custom software tool to input real 3D models that our expert 3D designer created by hand.

The upshot is that we can get a result that is more technically accurate while still having all the creative freedom that AI workflows allow.

Nothing is better than merging old-school craftsmanship with cutting-edge tools!

The title? “Your AI Is Cheating On You”.

The idea?

There’s a right way and a wrong way to use AI.

The right way is uniquely you, human, and full of near-limitless possibility.

The wrong way is what you see on 9/10 social media posts today.

I’ll be sharing some videos from my trip shortly, but in the meantime I still maintain that there is no better feeling than getting together and laughing with a group of like-minded people.

Josh Kerr just smashed the world record for fastest mile.

But it took until 1954 before the first human being, Roger Bannister, ever broke a 4-minute mile.

But soon after the barrier was broken, others did the same thing.

For some reason, we humans sometimes need to see the next leap forward before we ourselves are capable of achieving it.

In the AI world, a typical debate goes like this:

Person A: “I used AI to code this cool app!”

Person B: “But your code is bloated, you didn’t optimize images, and you didn’t bundle your JS to save space on load…”

Person A: “Ok, I’ll just copy your exact complaints into AI, and watch it fix it.”

Because if you can explain the problem with a codebase clearly, you can use AI to fix the problem. This capability will only grow.

So the “gotchas” that are used to say that people experimenting with AI software should stop what they’re doing are really just prompts that lead to the next round of fixes.

If you are experimenting with AI in your workflows, don’t let the experts convince you to stop, because your personal app isn’t as secure/robust/optimized as a mission-critical, Fortune 100 commercial app.

Some of us just need to see what’s possible first to believe it.