On the Go: Your Tech-Enhanced Summer Vacation

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Web 2.0 innovation collaboration software, metadata got the world turning as fast as it can hear how technology can help legally speaking with two of the top legal technology experts, authors and lawyers, Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. Welcome to the Kennedy Mighell report here on the Legal Talk Network

Dennis Kennedy:

And welcome to episode 394 to the Kennedy Mighell Report. I’m Dennis Kennedy in Ann Arbor,

Tom Mighell:

and I’m Tom Mighell in Dallas.

Dennis Kennedy:

In our last episode, Sarah McCormick from hanman LLP joined us in our fresh Voices on Legal Tech series to talk about a bunch of cool things, including some of what Hanman is doing with AI in the trenches of the law practice. Great stuff. Highly recommended. If you haven’t listened to it already in this episode, we wanted to return to our tradition of talking about how to use tech to make your summer travel better. Tom is our resident expert on this topic. Tom, what’s all on our agenda for this episode?

Tom Mighell:

Well, Dennis, in this edition of the Kennedy Mighell report, we will indeed be talking about using tech to enhance your summer travels or any other time you’re traveling. In our second segment, we’re going to try a new AI experiment in which AI tries to guess what I will say. So looking forward to that. I will judge how well it does there and as usual, we’ll finish up with our parting shots, that one tip website or observation that you can start to use the second that this podcast is over. But first up, tech for travel. It’s one of my favorite, favorite topics to talk about. It’s a tradition here to talk about travel tech each summer, usually just before or after I go on a big vacation. I’m not really going on a big vacation this year, but I am going somewhere for a week since Dennis is now teaching.

His concept of summer vacation is just a tiny bit different from mine these days. The great thing about travel tech is that every year there’s really something new to try. There’s other things we talk about which have been evolving slowly. I can genuinely say that there are things that I’m going to talk about this year that I’ve never talked about before, and I think it’s cool. Some are good, some are not so good. It’s always evolving. I really love it. Let’s get practical and talk about using tech to enhance travel. Dennis, are you just going to say AI and be done with it or do you have other thoughts?

Dennis Kennedy:

There’s part of me that wants to say perplexity, but I’ve decided to keep AI out of the script until the B segment. I know that you love this topic and we’ll have many things that we can learn from. I just want to start with what I think is the easiest thing to overlook, and there are many aspects of it and I think it’s especially easy to overlook on domestic trips and it’s more top of mind on international travel, but that’s security. So how about we start there, Tom?

Tom Mighell:

I think it’s great, but I’m going to take back for just a second because we are going to talk about AI for 30 seconds because what’s really cool is that there are a number of AI related travel sites for you. Don’t just think about using chat g, BT or perplexity, although those are great, we’ll save that and talk about that in the B segment. But there are tools like layla.ai, mind, tripp.ai, they’re both really cool sites that are designed just for traveling. You plug in where you want to go and it does the same thing, but it’s geared primarily toward traveling. So if you want to try something a little bit different, those are good AI tools to try. I think one of them mind Tripp is free up to an extent. Layla’s not going to let you do too much before it asks for $9 and 99 cents a month, but they’re both very intriguing as travel AI tools.

But getting back to your question, Dennis about security, I mean security really should be one of the most important things you think about because there’s nothing worse than having your technology stolen anything stolen, nothing worse than being in a hotel and having somebody hijack your devices. You want to make sure that your data is secure. You want to make sure that your devices are secure. And so I think that one of the first things you want to do is make sure that the travel documents that you need, having a digital copy or a passport is super important. Being able to have all of your other travel documents that you have. If you’re going international and you need to have some, if you did some immunization, some shots that you needed to go to a foreign country, you need to have proof of something like that.

Whatever the documents are, you need to use a secure vault. Whether you are using the vault version of OneDrive, OneDrive’s got a decent vault feature, you can use the secure notes feature of your favorite password manager one password’s a great one for that, but there are numbers of places where I think you’re going to want to put those records and I think as Dennis has put it here in the script, it’s your digital go bag being able to have access to it. You may not need to access it very often, but it’s good to have it there in case of emergencies.

Dennis Kennedy:

So Tom, I am sort of sitting here thinking that you actually jumped into AI before I did with a lot of enthusiasm, but security, I think that, like you said, in domestic travel, I think people downplay it a little bit too much. I mean, you think about going through TSA and people think a lot about that, but as you said, there’s a lot of things that you need to either carry with you or keep secure and you wouldn’t go to court or negotiation unprepared and you shouldn’t travel without your own secure digital plan these days. And so I think there are a lot of things in the wallets on your phone, other things that you do. Even taking pictures of things can be really helpful if you need to prove up something anytime. And it’s handy both for security and to have everything in one place.

So you can say you’re checking in a hotel and they say, what’s your loyalty number? And boom, you pull it up. So there’s a lot of things like that that are great, and so there are ways that you can take things with you and keep them secure and it’s not the same. It is a lot better than carrying around pieces of paper all over the place. I think the other thing is that once you have stuff secured is that we are generally at airports and hotels are terrible security risks for wifi. And so that brings us to the world of VPNs and travel VPNs and why you need to use them on all your devices, including your phones and anything else. And you can go pretty far down this road, but there are little routers you can use as a firewall in hotels and other places. But the VPNs I think are really, really useful and it seems like there’s a lot of improvement in that with that technology. What do you think, Tom?

Tom Mighell:

Yeah, no, my biggest challenge with VPNs in the past has been that they tend to slow wifi down, especially on an airplane, is that the airplane wifi is just not good enough. It struggles against A VPN. I think that’s getting better, but because I totally agree with you, I think that anytime you have to use public wifi, whether it’s on a plane, whether it’s in the airport, a hotel, a coffee shop, anywhere, you should be using A VPN. That just should be your default. My go-to right now is Nord Nord, VPN. I was an express VPN user for a while. I liked it a lot, but I do like Nord better. One of the reasons I like it is it doesn’t slow things down as much on the plane as Express VPN did. So that’s a big seller for me, but whatever VPN works for you, I think you should just make sure that you use it anytime you’re on a wireless, a wifi connection. It just makes sense. Not a good enough reason not to use something like that.

Dennis Kennedy:

Yeah, I absolutely use Nord VPN. I’ll mention one thing that I’ve noticed about VPNs that will show up occasionally when you’re traveling is that because the VPN shows you reveals to the world that your IP address that you’re coming from is potentially in a different state or different country, you sometimes go to, especially I was recently at a university speaking, ran into this problem, but sometimes you find it in hotels, conference settings, other things like that is that the rooms are still geofenced for some reason on wifi and that you’ll find that you can’t connect to wifi and it’s because the provider there at the location thinks that you’re in Oklahoma or something and won’t let you on. So that can be a trick, but that does point to the big thing that we all consider when traveling is like how do we connect to the internet? And my daughter talks about when she traveled in Europe a while back, she always felt like at the hostels, and you would see this also at conferences and things as well, that people are walking around going wifi password, wifi password, trying to find out what it is. So that connecting is really important, but there’s different things and I know Tom, you’ve mentioned this before, but I think it it’s a good point to go into this again, is the whole notion of eims and what they can do for you when you’re traveling.

Tom Mighell:

No, totally agree about this. I up until recently was still a, I’m going to buy more data on my current wireless plan, which is terribly expensive. I mean even I think the price is cheaper than it used to be, but I think that both Verizon and at and t will charge you, I think $12 a day and only give you a certain amount of data for that. And after you run out of that data, you can still use it, but it will ratchet it down to just snail’s pace. It’ll be really terribly slow. So now that our phones will support, I don’t think that there’s a good reason necessarily to use to purchase additional data or roaming international data from your phone carrier. Just go and buy an EIM when you’re ready and you can then switch back and forth between your carrier and the other carrier easily.

The one that I used last year is called alo. I think that’s how it’s pronounced. It’s A-I-R-A-L-O. We’ll put it in the show notes and I was in the UK for a week. I bought an EIM for that. I didn’t run out of data the whole time. It was super fast. I was connected to their networks the whole time. It worked really well. It even lets you bypasses on airlines, which is interesting. There are all sorts of, you can buy a regional one that gets you into certain multiple countries and it offers a lot of different configurations, so different ways to think about, and it seems to be for wanting to be flexible for how you travel and wanting to travel to multiple countries, you can configure an EIM to what you’re doing, I think. Great idea, no-brainer. Something you should be doing if you’re traveling outside of the country.

Dennis Kennedy:

When I was doing the research for this time, I saw people saying that maybe not now so much, but in the very near future that it might make sense to buy the eim and then even if you’re domestic, you could switch between carriers to get better reception. Does that make sense to you?

Tom Mighell:

That’s an interesting idea. I’ve not thought about it and I’ve not seen that. I would be very surprised if the carriers weren’t smart enough to prevent you from being able to do that in some way. But given the eim nature and what it’s able to do, I think that’s a very intriguing way to say you look at a map and you see that Verizon is good here, but it’s not good over there. Maybe you use at and t or T-Mobile somewhere else. I think that’s an intriguing, intriguing use of multiple carriers.

Dennis Kennedy:

Yeah, you do hit these dead spots when you travel where you just can’t get reception. So yeah, it was intriguing to me. Like I said, I don’t think it exists yet, but they were predicting it. The other thing that can happen of course when you’re traveling and especially as we get older, is that you lose stuff or you more politely, you misplace stuff. So tracking the stuff that you have can be really important. People leave phones in cars and stuff in their hotel rooms, things like that. And so if you think about how do I track my assets that I’m taking with when I travel, I mean you have things like the apple air tags, you have tile that you can even put in your luggage and attach to your most important travel items that could, I think that could be really helpful when you travel, especially if you’re making multiple connections or staying in a number of different places instead of being at one place. And it’s nice to know that as you check your hotel room as you’re leaving, that you have one more backup to make sure that you didn’t leave something important there.

Tom Mighell:

Yeah, tags are the one thing that I just don’t use and I probably should use them. Part of the reason why I don’t is I do not travel that often where I’m checking luggage or luggage out of my site. Now when I do travel internationally, I do travel with a suitcase, but American Airlines has a great feature where it will tell you where your luggage is. It will let you know where it was last scanned. So I’ve always thought that that was good enough, not quite as good as an air tag probably, but I’ve never used it. But I think again, it’s a great idea if you are worried about if you’re carrying something that’s valuable or you want to keep track of it, I think it’s definitely, there’s no downside to having something like that in your bag.

Dennis Kennedy:

Yeah, this sort of portfolio of different things you can do. I probably should give a shout out to our friend of Callaway because he always had this great kind of low tech, high tech tip of traveling, which is you go to a hotel, they give you your card to get in the room and they write the number on the little folder for you. You go check in your room, you go to the dinner or whatever you’re doing and you realize you have no idea what the room number is. And Jim always says, so what you do when you go to a hotel, he just takes a picture on his or the room number and he doesn’t have to worry about it and it’s this great low tech like, oh my God, this is the best. I don’t have to kind of sheepishly go up to the counter and say like, I forgot my room number.

Tom Mighell:

Same thing goes for parking at the airport. Take a picture of the nearest sign that shows where you are. The last thing that I want to talk about in this section and then we’re promised we’re going to take a break. It’s been a while. While we’re talking about asset management and things like that, there’s a money service that I found that is actually kind of cool to mention. It’s called Wise Multicurrency app or card. You can have a card and what it does is it lets you spend in over 160 currencies. The nice thing about it is you can switch to a specific currency, so you do not have to pay the currency conversion fee when you’re in that particular country. You can just switch to that currency and it will let you pay as if you are of resident of that country doing that.

So it is super useful. You can do it either through the app, it’ll let you connect through either your Apple wallet or your Google Wallet or you can actually get a physical card to use and you can program the card using the app. I think it’s a very interesting notion given that when we travel, get a lot of currency conversion fees, a lot of things we don’t want to pay attention to. Having this take care of it for you, you don’t have to worry about anything I think is an interesting evolution of how we make payments when we’re on vacation. Alright, we’ve got more to talk about. We’ve got more apps and gadgets and tools and fun stuff to talk about, but we definitely need to take a break for a word from our sponsors

Dennis Kennedy:

And we are back. Tom, let’s talk more about travel tech that can really work for you to enhance your vacation travel.

Tom Mighell:

All right. We’re going to talk about some efficiency tools. We’re going to talk about some travel apps. There are apps that we can talk about. I’m really going to focus on two apps that are not necessarily travel management app. They’re sort of, but they’re not really, I mean obviously you can use tools like TripIt and others. I haven’t used TripIt in forever. That’s something I used to use all the time. I will say that my favorite travel app is flighty. The flight tracker unfortunately only available on iOS, so I have to use it on my iPad and I can’t use it on my phone, but it is in my opinion, the best flight tracker that exists. Period, end of story at all. It is a fantastic thing for knowing where your plane is, where it’s going to be. It will give you an AI prediction about what’s going to happen to the flight that I’ve seen is really fairly accurate with what’s going on.

But the two that I want to talk about are one old app that’s got some new tools and one new app that you may not have heard about. The first one’s about Airbnb. The reason that I know this is because the vacation we’re going on, we’re going to be staying in an Airbnb and exploring around the app. As I was reserving the house that we were going to be staying in, I noticed that they have two new, one is called services and one is called experiences. The services tab is AI matched to your stay dates, and so you look at it and it will offer you, here are the services that are available to you. For example, I plugged up, pulled up where we’re going to be and it automatically gave me a list of over 20 in-home chefs to come and cook at our house for us and do dinners for a certain amount and have a gourmet dinner for two to do something like that.

There are other services that it offers, but it’s geared towards your trip and the different things that you might want to do. I think it’s a great addition. I think Airbnb is expanding out and I think this is a great option for what it’s doing. The other one is an app that is addressing the need that we had because even though we’re at Airbnb, we still want to work out no gym at this house that we’re staying in. No gyms that we found that were nearby that we really liked. And even if we did, not all of them offer a day pass. However, we found an app called resort pass resort pass.com. They have arrangements with hotels, with gyms, with spas where you can buy a day pass from them and go and spend the day. We found a gym that we like. They have a day pass. We’re going to take advantage of this while we were there and be able to go to a gym that we like. If you want to take the kids for a swim in the pool of a hotel, you can do that. If you don’t have a pool where you happen to be, you can go to a cool place and spend the day by the pool. It’s a very interesting way to do other things on your trip that you otherwise might not have been able to do.

Dennis Kennedy:

Yeah, at MSU, we do have access to TripIt, so I’ve been using it. So I think some of these things, some of those travel apps, I think of the analogy for lawyers is be like case management for your vacation. Say like, oh, can I find everything in one place so I know what I’m doing, put in my itinerary, see what, as Tom says, services or other things are around there, what you’re doing, and I think they can really help you to kind of manage things all in one place. And then Tom, you mentioned gadgets. I actually think in travel, I prefer to think of ’em as tools rather than gadgets, and there’s a whole bunch of ’em that just seem really essential these days. I think we could almost do a whole podcast on the advances and the different types and the convenience of all the chargers out there these days.

The noise canceling headphones, I put in my old AirPods the other day and it was like, oh my God, I take for granted how much my AirPod pros do in noise canceling just when I’m out walking around, we’re starting to see real time translations, the watches, the Apple watch, Google watches, I guess Android watches is what I call ’em. And different apps just give you so many different things. So you can say, Hey, depending on where I’m at, there’s things that can be really useful. There’s this great app that called iNaturalist, and there’s different versions of if you’re going hiking, this is help you identify plants, animals, birds, those sorts of things. And so I think there’s just a lot of tools out there that if you think about the travel that you’re doing like Tom did with the b and b that you say, oh wait, I can kind of fit what I’m doing here. But to me the big one really these days is chargers.

Tom Mighell:

Well, the problem with chargers is there’s too many options and they tend to be all good options. I would say that in my opinion, you can’t go wrong with any anchor charger. I think the anchor chargers are my favorites. They have MagSafe ones for your iPhone. They have smaller phone chargers, they have larger power banks. I use a power bank. It’s a little big, it’s kind, but it will charge your phone four times on a charge. It’ll charge your USB laptop at least one time, and it has multiple outlets to charge things in. So I actually bring that on my trips in case I need to charge not only my phone, but if I have to charge two phones or multiple things. It’s really helpful. I will say also in addition to a charger, and especially if you’re traveling internationally, and we’ve talked about this, I know before you need a converter, you have to have a converter for the power outlets while you were there.

The one that I bought before is still, in my opinion, the best one. It’s called Ika, E-P-I-C-K-A or epica, maybe it’s epica. Epica Universal is the best. It’s got one USBC port. It’s got four USBA ports plus what you plug into the wall, and it’s only 20 bucks. So it’s, it’s a great tool to use. You talked about translation and things like that. That’s the other area that I think is super interesting right now. You can’t go wrong with something like Google Translate or even Microsoft’s got to translate, but the translation apps are good. Google Lens, can’t remember if we’ve talked about this on the podcast before, but Google Lens has really upped its game. Now. You can find it if you’re an iOS user, you can find it inside your Google app. You can find it in the Google app for Android users. It’s inside your camera app, little different place.

You can take pictures of things that will automatically translate for you. So take a picture of that menu or that street sign or something else. It used to be not very good at translation. It is so much better. Now, the one that the things that I’m interested in are what you just described now about kind of automatic translators. This is where it gets really interesting. One example that I found is called the and Fear or nfi M three translator earbuds. You put an earbud in your ear and someone else puts an earbud in their ear and when you talk, you’re hearing the translation in your ear. I think that’s super cool, but I’m never going to find somebody on the street that I’m going to want to give an earbud to and say, here, please put this in your ear so I can talk to you. I just don’t know that that’s practical. When you’re traveling, it might make sense if it’s somebody that you’re spending time with or you’re staying at their home or you’re going to be spending more than about 30 seconds with them. But I really like how they’re getting closer to the universal translators that they had on Star Trek, but with using earbuds rather than the little tags on their shirts,

Dennis Kennedy:

I could see they’d, it could be super useful for international business meetings. So I thought we’d wrap up, Tom, and I’ll let you go first on this. What’s the one single piece of travel tech that you could not imagine traveling without and the smartphone doesn’t count?

Tom Mighell:

Well, okay, Dennis, I’m just going to completely reject your rules and say it has to be the smartphone. I mean, there is so much on it that you have, we’ve talked about the apps that are available on it, your maps to be able to get to stuff. And most of the tools that we’ve talked about have some way of getting onto your phone or accessing them. So I think that if all the other things we talk about, if I didn’t have ’em, I would be okay, but if I didn’t have my phone, I would be in serious problems. So I’m going to ignore your rules and say the smartphone. Dennis, what about you? I’m sure you have something more creative than I do if

Dennis Kennedy:

Something that is so essential that people won’t think about it, but once you hear this, you’re going to agree with me. And that is extension cords with multiple plugins. You never know what you’re going to run into in a hotel or any other place. And the extension cord with multiple outlets. To me, I can’t imagine traveling without.

Tom Mighell:

So I would say you’ll be surprised to hear this, but I never use an extension cord on a trip at all. I will say I need to bring enough charger cords and I use a charger that has multiple outlets and I need to have that so I can charge my iPad and my phone and another iPad and my watch and all of those things, but I literally don’t use any extension cords where I’m going. So that’s how I’m different. It’s the phone. The phone is the most important thing. So anyway. Alright, anything to say? You want to wrap this up? I think we’ve kind of exhausted the topic.

Dennis Kennedy:

Yeah, I think so. I think this is, travel is just a great way to think about technology, I think, and I think I wrap it up by saying if you use your tech to help you be secure, prepared and efficient, that just allows you to truly relax and enjoy your vacation. And what could be better than that?

Tom Mighell:

Well, I would just say make sure that that doesn’t happen because technology has the capability of taking over your vacation. So you want to get to a position. The technology allows you to enjoy it and relax from it. There are some who are listening to this that would say, well, you should be disconnecting from technology. We’re never necessarily going to be those people. It’s just figuring out how to use it appropriately. Alright, we’ve got more to talk about, but before we move on to our B segment, let’s take a break for a quick message from our sponsor. And now let’s get back to the Kennedy Mighell reports. I’m Tom Mighell

Dennis Kennedy:

And I’m Dennis Kennedy. We want to remind you to share the podcast with a friend or two that helps us out in this segment. We beta test a new idea and let us know what you think about it. The idea is that I ask an AI in this case, Gemini Pro 2.5 should predict how Tom will answer a question and Tom will judge how well the AI does. So here we go. You ready, Tom?

Tom Mighell:

I’m ready.

Dennis Kennedy:

The idea is what would Tom say about the value of AI for travel assistance specifically for his upcoming trip to California? And here’s what Gemini came up with. Tom would say, okay, for the domestic trip like California, I’ll admit I trust the AI a bit more. It’s less of a risky intern and more of a well-meaning local friend who sometimes gets things wrong. So real strength here isn’t just planning the whole trip but handling the smaller in the moment Questions like finding the best route up the Pacific Coast Highway with a good lunch spot or suggesting a specific winery in Napa. Based on my taste, I still wouldn’t let it book anything non-refundable because it’s big as flaw as reliability. You might confidently tell your restaurant is open on a Tuesday when it’s been closed for months. So for California it’s an excellent top tier research assistant, but you still need to be the managing partner who makes the final call and checks the facts. Sound like you Tom.

Tom Mighell:

I would say that that’s pretty accurate from my experience. Although to be honest, I wasn’t really focusing on what it got wrong because of what it actually got. I ended up testing out both chat GPT and perplexity. I want to believe that perplexity is better at web searching to plan a trip, but I found that I actually like the chat GPT results a lot better than perplexity. I feel like it has more of a personality. It’s more interactive than perplexity is. I said I’m going to California, it’s going to be a six day trip. We’re going to spend some time just relaxing in our Airbnb. Like I mentioned, we’re going to spend a couple of days doing day trips out to various places. Can you plan a six day itinerary For me, it planned every day down to the minute it gave yet eight o’clock you’re going to do this and at 10 o’clock you’re going to get on the road to go do this and you’re going to get there by 10 30 and you’re going to tour this place here.

It was a little regimented, but guess what? I’m a planner. And so I appreciated. It was good for me. I really liked it. I would say it had mostly good suggestions about what to do. I liked the fact that it had suggestions so I could go and research and look at them better figure out what I liked and what I didn’t like. Some of the suggestions were not great. I’m not a wine tasting, so there were wine tasting options, but just not ones that were for me. But I would say the most impressive part of it as Gemini would put it in what you said the smaller in the moment questions was that we’re going to be there, we’re going to be in California on the 4th of July, and it gave us an entire list of fun things we might do on the fourth. And all of them are absolutely real things that are going on in the town that we’re going to be in on the 4th of July.

It actually said things like, here’s where to park to avoid 4th of July traffic. Here’s a hotel that’s going to be hosting a 4th of July barbecue on the roof. Here’s a place where you can go and hang out and be relaxed for the 4th of July and here’s where the fireworks start at nine o’clock at night. Make sure you get there early enough to get a good seat. It was super helpful to think of all the things we might want to do and we’re probably just going to do nothing on the fourth and not really do much. But the fact that it knew all that stuff and it was right, and not to my knowledge hallucinating about any of it, I thought I would call it an excellent top tier research assistant like you described. And frankly, I made all the final calls, which is the way it should be. So I think that the ag got it right. So Dennis, does this make you want to go on a vacation?

Dennis Kennedy:

Yes, it does. And I have some ideas. I still am wary of using AI connected to the internet. I like perplexity a lot. I think it can do a lot of things, but I think you really do have to check a lot of things. And then I think you want to make sure that you iterate with the ais and follow up on what they tell you and chase it down. Perplexity is really interesting because we’ll give you the answer to something and we’ll give you four or five different related questions. And I usually do click on one or two of those just to have it asked the same question in different ways and compare the results. But I think the trick is that with the eyes, they’re going to be better at some things than other things and it’s going to depend on where you’re at. But I like using AI a whole lot better than using search engines these days. Remember those search engine things that people used to use and then also I think the iteration and then to really develop your prompts to let them know more in the prompts, indicate more of the context that you have and what your interests are. So that’s my thought. So yeah, I thought you did a really nice job, Tom.

Tom Mighell:

Alright, well, so now it’s time for our parting shots at One Tip website or observation that you can use. The second that this podcast ends for. Once Dennis, you go first.

Dennis Kennedy:

You would’ve shocked me if I hadn’t seen it right here in the script, but my parting chat is to challenge you to you the listener, to automate one T is task this week using AI as your helper. So I recently went to combine several different files, actually more than several many different files into a single Google Doc, which is usually a painful copy and paste marathon. Instead, I explained the process in English to Claude asking to tell me how to create a script for Mac automator. It worked perfectly. And now a multiple step process is a one click action. So don’t just ask AI for information, ask it to build a tool that solves your problem because it can be good at it. And then just a little shout out for my new personal quarterly offsite newsletter called Personal Strategy Compass and the new issue talks about the very important half year personal quarterly offsite Tom.

Tom Mighell:

So the reason why I went second in this is because my parting shot is somewhat related to Dennis’s automation parting shot, slightly related, and that is that perplexity, we’ve talked about it a lot today. Perplexity recently introduced its Perplexity Labs, which is available to those who have a subscription to perplexity and perplexity describes labs as something that can do your projects, bring your projects to life faster than ever before. You can create reports, spreadsheets, dashboards. It’ll create simple web applications. It’s basically a place where it’ll take some instructions from you, work on its own self supervised and bring something back to you. They have a number of example projects. They have a projects gallery that will say things like, please create a potential customer list for us. Here are the target companies are B2B American companies in the development of technology. Or visualize the Formula one GP qualifying times for 2025 versus 2024 by team and include all teams.

There’s education research about Vienna and Wright, an age-friendly overview, history, fun facts and things for travel. What I like about this is is that you can give it instructions that it can come back and give you more than just some answers. It might actually give you a spreadsheet or an application or maybe even on automation to try out. So yet another way that it’s trying to improve, like Dennis mentioned, there’s things about perplexity that I really love. I’m hoping to love this also. But you do need to because it’s connected to the web and it’s like this, it is a little bit different from using the other ones. Take it all with a grain of salt. Alright, so that wraps it up for this edition of the Kennedy Mall report. Thanks for joining us on the podcast. You can find show notes for this episode on the Legal Talk Networks page for our show. You can find all our previous podcasts along with transcripts on the Legal Talk Network website. If you’d like to subscribe, again, you can do so on the Legal Talk Network website or in your favorite podcast app. If you’d like to get in touch with us, remember you can always reach out to us on LinkedIn or we’d love to get your questions. Leave us a voicemail at 7 2 0 4 4 1 6 8 2 0. So until the next podcast, I’m Tom Mighell.

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