Episode 9: The Best AI Is Boring - Finding the Work That Pays Off

Episode 9: The Best AI Is Boring - Finding the Work That Pays Off

The most valuable AI project probably isn’t the one you’ll brag about at a cocktail party. It’s the tedious, time-consuming task your team would happily never do again. Practical AI adoption often begins backstage. This conversation explores how businesses can find valuable opportunities within repetitive tasks, disorganized data and inefficient processes—without chasing flashy new tools. From searching emails and reconciling records to organizing inventory and automating document handling, discover why “boring AI” can deliver the fastest and most measurable returns.

Episode 8: The Digital Nomad Advantage - Remote Work, AI, and the Freedom to Choose

Evan Ryan spent nearly four years living as a digital nomad, working remotely while traveling through 35 countries and 180 locations. In this conversation, he shares how global connectivity, mobile tools, and AI have made it easier to work from almost anywhere. The discussion explores how AI removes everyday friction, from planning travel and translating conversations to navigating unfamiliar cities and managing remote teams. But it also raises a deeper question: as AI makes work faster, does it create more freedom, or make it harder to switch off? At its core, this episode is about flexibility, trust, and the freedom to choose where and how we work.

Episode 7: Let AI Fill Your Sails

What do self-driving cars, grandchildren creating superheroes, and a career pivot in your 50s have in common? In this episode of AI in the Human World, Gary Mothershead and Evan Ryan explore how technology becomes exciting when we stop treating it as something to fear and start using it as something that helps us move forward. From everyday convenience to business transformation, they discuss how AI can become a powerful tailwind when people use it with curiosity, purpose, and imagination.

Episode 6: The Clarity Trap

AI can feel helpful right up until it gives you more possibilities than you know what to do with. Gary and Evan unpack how AI can create “TMI” moments, where one question turns into a rabbit hole of options, follow-ups, and unnecessary complexity. They explore how to get better results by asking for the few things that matter most, using “tough love” to force more direct answers, and remembering that AI should support human judgment, not replace it. The big takeaway: the goal is not to use AI more. It is to use it with more clarity.

Episode 5: Making AI Easy - How to Bring Your Team Along Without the Drama

AI adoption sounds exciting in theory, until you have to bring it into a real company, with real people, real workflows, and real hesitation. In this episode, Evan and Gary unpack Gary’s journey from AI curiosity to AI implementation. They explore what it takes to introduce AI without creating fear, confusion, or chaos — from digitizing first, to building trust with the team, to finding internal champions who can help make the change feel practical and human. At the center of the conversation is a simple but powerful question: how do we make AI easy enough for people to actually use?