Learning And Relearning To See
May 1, 2026
Early in life we are taught to make a plan. Decide what you want to do and plan your career. But those lifelong plans rarely work out the way we initially intended. I went through several businesses with a “plan” for each one to be a huge success. Life has a funny way of changing plans.
Today if you tried to make a 20 year plan it would be pointless, especially if it’s a business plan. What happened? Technology happened. And it is summed up by this quote:
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
That day has arrived. It didn’t sneak up on us, it ran up and punched us in the face. That quote is telling us, among other things, that we have to learn and relearn to see. We used to make plans for our businesses or our career that went out 5, 10, or 20 years and beyond. That is no more. The ability to see that far out well enough to plan your next several moves is fading fast. We rarely end up exactly where we planned to be anyway. Why should this be any different?
Here comes another quote:
“We’re gettin’ nowhere fast!”
Moe, Larry, and Curly The Three Stooges
That’s kind of how things feel right now. There are so many incredible new AI tools coming out and so many people teaching us how to use them that it’s impossible to keep up with it all. It requires us to learn, unlearn and relearn. We have to learn and relearn to see. To see what? Opportunities. Choices. Business. Maybe everything. Here’s something I’ve noticed while studying AI use in business. The aggregators and consolidators are the ones with a clear advantage. While everyone is running from one shiny object to another, the aggregators and consolidators are gathering together multiple tools in an organized manner designed for a specific purpose. They are putting them under one “roof” for easy access and ease of update rollouts and expansions.
Here Are 2 Examples:
ojoy.ai
The ojoy platform is a collection of tools that use Anthropic/Claude to provide a system specific to marketing for a small business, although it is probably very scalable to almost any size. It’s a collection of 12 tools (so far) with more being added periodically. It helps you generate ad copy, memes, ad images, sales letters, scripts, it can rewrite any document you give it, and it will even analyze your current business and tell you where you are missing out on revenue. And there is a lot more to see in ojoy.ai.
Google
Google has some very useful tools that I’ve only just started to explore. The two I hear about most are Gemini and NotebookLM. Here is Google’s explanation of Gemini: “Google Gemini is a family of multimodal generative AI models and chatbots developed by Google, capable of understanding and combining text, images, audio, video, and code. It serves as a personal assistant integrated across Google Workspace (Docs, Gmail) and Android. Key features include advanced reasoning, coding, and web searching.” I tested it on a simple task using a script generated by ojoy to create a slide presentation. It did a wonderful job creating a presentation with relevant images in a nice professional layout. It would have taken me a couple of hours to do what it did in 5 minutes.
From Google: “NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking tool by Google Labs that uses Gemini to analyze user-uploaded documents (PDFs, Google Docs, websites). Key features include automatically generating audio summaries (podcasts), study guides, and mind maps.” I haven’t been in this one to test it yet. But from what I’ve read and seen about it, it promises to be a very useful tool that a user could become very dependent on.
Shorten The Timeline
So instead of designing a 5 year plan for our business I find myself thinking in shorter terms. Maybe a 1 or 2 year plan with re-evaluations every 6 months. Be more flexible. Be able to adapt quicker and be open minded about doing it. The survivors in business will be those who can learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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