Learning Coaches

I've been away on a LinkedIn hiatus. Took a break from Social Media to be more involved in actual social and community engagements. To those that I had the privilege to meet over various academia, business and kopitiam engagements - you inspired me to write this article about coaching.

I had the opportunity to participate in the Penang Chapter launch of Coaching Culture International a fortnight ago. From that event, I reflected upon the value and recognition of coaching in today's AI assisted world. Is coaching still relevant? Would the top certified coach be as needed tomorrow to provide you guidance when Chat-CPT4o can provide you the answers today? Would a top art teacher help you create a better artwork than Midjourney, Leonardo or DALL.E2? Would Window's latest Recall and Co-pilot be better than a personal assistant in identifying your blindspots and remember better?

Would a human coach matter as much as yesterday?

While I welcome your thoughts on this, I'd love to share mine:

1. Humanity Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence: Having the privilege of being in the team that created the world's first AI PC, or in a department that's literally named DataCenter and AI group, I see how some of the smartest people created the smartest devices you use today. You see, the millions of TOPs operations are created by some smart talents. The deep learning, inferences are made possible by engineers who had deeper learnings and a drive to create an Intelligence Assistance for humanity. One that distributes wealth wider, predicts weather better, and solve problems faster.
2. AI can be an efficient coach, but my Human Coaches are the one got me the results: I've got the best buddies ever. They are my coaches in health & wealth, in learnings and musings. They all keep me honest. They push me hard and make me think from different perspectives. I lost count how often they put me into intensive perspective sparring discussions. These coaches are really smart.....having experience designing AI microprocessors, wrote algorithms that recommends stock purchases, figured out how to amass profitable assets in a downturn, could probably sell ice to any eskimos and ranked pretty darn high as a chess master. Yup, my coaches are pretty darn smart fellas. And unlike AI who knows me, my coaches knows the real me + the potential me. The me that I want to be, AND the me that I can be (they know that difference). That's something machine learned data can't (today).
3. AI will help you make that goal, Coaches will help you keep (and grow) that potential. I had an impactful breakfast with my friend who played the role of my wealth coach yesterday. It took a few probing question for him to help me unlock much more potential from an investment plan I have been exploring for months. I paid that forward by helping an elderly kindergarten teacher whom needed the learnings even more. AI won't be able to do that (yet). Theoretically it could do that soon, but who's going to feed in localized thought data to infer and refer? There's shallow learning at best, let alone deep enough learning to be effective for a personalized AI recommendation.
4. And finally, here's another shoutout for the inaugural attendees. If you would like to reach out to these wonderful coaches, go to Coaching Culture International . If you want to reach out to me for a coffee chat, go to https://superpeer.com/yeezer Use this Promo code for a free exploratory call = "FRIENDSOFYZ" or "COFFEE" to buy me coffee over that call.