Shoulders of Giants – How learning from others helps you grow

Cat & Cloud Podcast

Cat & Cloud

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4.8 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, we dive into why learning from others is one of the fastest ways to grow. From drawing lessons out of brands like Disney to observing how peers structure their systems, it’s about finding insights that reveal blind spots and adapting them into something true to your own vision. The real value isn’t in copying but in connecting those ideas to your own culture and goals. Whether it’s another coffee shop, a global brand, or even a friend’s workflow, growth comes from taking what resonates and making it authentically yours. 🔖 Chapters – 00:36 A.I. tools at work 07:31 Living in Santa Cruz 21:00 Learning vs being told 🔗 Links – Cat & Cloud: Instagram www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/ Webstore www.catandcloud.com/ Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: www.chrisbaca.com/ We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with the mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes. The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for us to share our experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week we sit down to talk about new challenges as business owners, how we utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen! Enjoy!

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0:00.0	I had some tea in me now.
0:02.8	Flavors.
0:03.4	Feeling pretty good about it?
0:04.3	Sure, man.
0:05.0	Nice.
0:05.6	It's a way for me to get some fluids, you know? I like it. You get your fluids in, but they're flavored, so it's easier to drink them and you're not just like more water. Yeah. Water feels a little anticlimactic. No, I like water, but I have to be thirsty, like feel thirsty to want water. like after you eat a whole pizza
0:02.1	or workout. That's more like soda.
0:04.3	You want something sweet after pizza for me. I do want something fizzy. Always sweet. Fizzy water. But yeah, like when I'm working out and you're just like, you know, when you work, yeah, you wake up and the water tastes sweet. You're like really thirsty. Oh, this water is literally sweet. That's the gym. Dude, I was hanging out with Nick yesterday at B-line.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:40.4	And I was inspired by his AI-powered workflow that he's got going on.
0:47.4	Tell me more.
0:48.0	Tell me more about how it powered him.
0:49.7	All right.
0:50.1	So this was his thing.
0:51.3	He was sending me, he was sending me like drafts of mission statement,
0:59.2	vision planning stuff. And jokingly, he's like, yeah, I was just like kicking it around with Nick GPT for a while.
1:05.6	Right. And I got a little chuckle out of it. And then we met up and turns out...
1:11.2	So I've never done this, but you can create your own GPT.
1:16.0	So you've got chat GPT.
1:18.5	And then you can create a GPT within that that has certain directives.
1:22.1	Okay.
1:22.5	So basically he's got the generic chat GPT 5 or whatever.
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