Gil Friend
Full name: Gil Friend • Sustainability OG • CxO Coach
Key Insight: Automated Transcript De-identification
Gil's main check-in topic was developing a "vibe coding" technique for automatically scrubbing personally identifying information (PII) from transcripts.
Main Points
Context: Working as an executive coach for CXOs and founders of purpose-driven companies.
Problem: Needs to de-identify coaching conversation transcripts before feeding them into AI bots for analysis.
Solution Development:
- Previously used manual global search and replace
- Built two custom bots:
- One on Delphi
- One custom-built with Alex Kladitis (more sophisticated)
- Claude Code helped build a drag-and-drop tool
- Finished configuring it, testing with clients
Personal Journey: This represents Gil's "first re-entry into the world of coding in, like, 100 years" - finding it "remarkable what's possible" with modern tools.
Other Contributions
Sustainability & Business
- Working with Capgemini on net positive projects
- Second year of training cohorts of 100 Hispanic-background managers/executives in sustainability and net positive
- Mentioned presentation by Andreas Sjöström on AI applications
Information & Narrative Tracking
- Referenced Ben Hunt and Epsilon Theory
- Mentioned Panoptica.ai - new site tracking narratives globally
- Ben Hunt's Second Foundation Partners (asset management)
- Marshall Kirkpatrick's work on sustainability/regeneration scanning
Books & Media
- Mentioned Michael Lewis's work (The Big Short, Moneyball, etc.)
- Discussed credit attribution for famous quotes
Chat Contributions
- Noted that renewables now exceed coal and nuclear globally
- Suggested looking at data centers through "lens of pioneer species in ecological succession: fast, inefficient, temporary"
- Referenced "The Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft" by Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin
Philosophy
Expressed appreciation for:
- Silence during calls as valuable
- Revolutionary Legos concept - building pieces that self-propagate
- "It's amazing what you can get done if you're not concerned with getting credit for it"
Related Concepts
- Automated Transcript De-identification
- Panoptica and Narrative Tracking
- Sustainability and Net Positive
- Remixability
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Pages that link to this page
- AI Financial Bubble
- Alex Kladitis
- Andreas Sjöström
- Automated Transcript De-identification
- Ben Hunt
- Books and Publications
- Capgemini
- Chat Thread - AI Bubble Discussion
- Chat Thread - Curiosity Decline
- Concept Index
- Curiosity and Attention
- Index
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
- Michael Lewis
- Organizations and Initiatives
- Panoptica and Narrative Tracking
- Panoptica.ai
- People Referenced
- README
- Remixability
- Revolutionary Legos
- Rusty Gwynn
- Second Foundation Partners
- Sustainability and Net Positive