Hi everyone 👋 I’m a tech-savvy Virtual Assistant who helps manage the backend, admin tasks, and communication that keep communities and businesses running smoothly. I can support with: • Admin & organization • Community and message management • Marketing support & content coordination • Systems, tools, and workflow organization My focus is making things organized, efficient, and stress-free so teams can focus on what really matters. Happy to connect and support where needed 🤝

Hey everyone 👋 I’m Preston, 24. I recently graduated college and am currently working in restaurant operations/management, alongside doing some part-time fitness coaching. I’m also exploring a future transition into sales and real estate. I’ve been using AI for about two years, and at this point it’s a daily tool for me. I use multiple AI tools to help with thinking, learning faster, research, planning, and generally optimizing how I run my life. The main area I want AI to help me with is optimization and efficiency — helping me identify what actually matters for my goals and building systems that allow me to move faster with less wasted time and effort. I joined this community to learn how others are using AI as a practical life and productivity tool, and to sharpen how I apply it to work, personal systems, and long-term goals. Fun fact: I used AI to help me polish this intro and I’m a huge Auburn football fan. Looking forward to learning with everyone here 👊

One of the most common emotions people experience with AI is not excitement, it is anxiety. A quiet sense of being late to something important, of missing a memo everyone else seems to have read. That feeling is uncomfortable, but it is also deeply misunderstood. Feeling behind with AI is not a personal failure. It is a signal that change is happening faster than our mental models are updating. ------------ Context: The Emotional Cost of Rapid Change ------------ Every major technological shift creates a gap between exposure and understanding. We see what is possible long before we feel capable of participating in it. With AI, that gap feels wider because the progress is so visible. New tools appear weekly, headlines promise transformation, and social feeds are filled with confident demonstrations. Inside organizations and teams, this often shows up as quiet hesitation. People attend sessions, skim articles, and nod along, but avoid hands-on use. They worry about asking basic questions. They fear revealing what they do not know. Over time, that hesitation hardens into a belief that they are already behind. What makes this especially challenging is that AI progress is nonlinear. Capabilities jump, not crawl. This makes even highly competent professionals feel disoriented. Skills that took years to master suddenly feel adjacent to tools that produce similar outputs in seconds. The mistake we make is treating this emotional response as a verdict on our ability. In reality, it is a predictable human reaction to accelerated change. Feeling behind is not evidence of inadequacy. It is evidence that the environment has shifted faster than our confidence. ------------ Insight 1: Feeling Behind Means You Are Paying Attention ------------ Apathy is the real danger in times of change, not discomfort. When people truly fall behind, they usually do not notice. They disengage, dismiss, or ignore what is happening around them. The fact that AI creates unease is a sign that it matters to us.