By Steve Moran
I am in the middle of planning the Foresight AI Lab, a deep dive event that will allow senior living organizations to rapidly accelerate their AI journey, taking place in January 2025 in Las Vegas. I promise that in five years, every senior living organization will be using AI as a part of their technology stack. It will be as vital as their EHR and CRM platforms.
Over the last few weeks I have had dozens of conversations with speakers and potential speakers, plus vendors and thought leaders, and my head feels like it is about to explode with information and ideas and confusion.
Frustration and Fear
When I get to this stage with a new project or idea, I hit a point of terror where it feels impossible to make any sense of all the bits of information in my head. Worse, I am in constant fear that I will forget something really important or come to some wrong conclusions.
Magic
I have learned that something marvelous and wonderful follows the brain jumble, and it feels like magic. A new picture forms where all the parts start to fall into place. As this picture emerges, I begin to see what is important and what is not. Then one day, I wake up and have it more or less all figured out.
A big part of this magic is not really all that magical. It is maybe more like putting together a complicated and confusing jigsaw puzzle. It looks and feels impossible; then you find a few pieces that go together in the right places, then find more pieces that fit on the outside of those first pieces.
Foresight AI Lab
As I write this, I am still in the big brain jumble part of the process, but a few pieces of the puzzle are connecting, and I am beginning to see the picture of what it will become. I am already thinking about how to make this conference the best thing anyone has ever attended — thinking about all the ways innovative senior living leaders will be able to do HR better, resident engagement better, dining better, hiring and firing better. Better health care, longer lengths of stay. The list seems endless.
I would love to hear from you: Do you get brain jumbles like this? How do you work though it?
Generally, Steve, I go backwards first. I find the most authoritative / comprehensible explanation of the underlying issue and study it until I’ve wrestled it to the ground.
This is what I’ve done with AI and it works!