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It almost feels like cheating.

I fear that I'm getting dumber and lay easier.

Like if I'm on a flight and there's no like internet connection like that, I just don't feel like working anymore.

That's Peter Yang.

He spent a decade building products at Reddit, Meta, and Roblox.

Now he runs a newsletter for 140 ,000 people with no team.

Almost all of it through AI.

I'm like an employee is never going to leave you.

And it's only getting exponentially better.

Last 10%, you got to add your human touch to it.

And you don't have to be a creator to make this

i see a lot of creators they like to get ai to generate like 10 posts per hour

and like the slop goes viral this is heartening for someone

who's trying to stay ahead in this ai era what should they be doing

so step number one is use codex or clock code and step two is to

so i really wanted to make this podcast practical for everyone

who's watching there is something that's going on in ai right now

that everyone is talking about is self -improving

and you recently build cause self -improving skills

and the whole narrative is like stop prompting your ai make

it figure out what to do next can you talk about that

and is self -improving a reality for people who are just

using ai versus researchers yeah there's like different ways to do

it i think uh first of all like you know i

think all your audience knows the skill is just like a text file with a bunch of instructions right

and yeah i have skills for making my podcast for editing my newsletter posts

and so on most basic ways to do a self -improvement is after you use a skill

and you have a back and forth conversation with the ai because it never gets it right in one shot

then you just say like hey based on our conversation can

you please update the skill to account for you know to

try to get to it in one shot faster right

and then it'll make a bunch of changes and you should review it

and then hopefully you'll do it better the next time

when i integrated ai into every part of my work it almost feels like cheating

and a year before that you said you were drowning in meetings

and projects what are the top three things

that you deployed in this year that dramatically changed how productive you are

so i can tell my creative work since we're both creators

and uh you know being a creator is like a lot

of repetitive work right like a lot of repetitive copy

and pasting back and forth

and like changing things from like a newsletter post to like

uh like youtube description to like social posts like a lot of kind of like different formats

and i i just decided to spend one day like just like you know no meetings

and just sat down with codex

and be like hey i basically just brain dumped all my workflows to codex

and here's how i do it manually

and i use a thing called whisper flow just like brain dump yeah it's my voice

so there's like a couple major ones like uh you know

prepping the podcast post -production there's editing my newsletter posts there's posting to the various social media platforms

and another one is i just like setting up an advisor

to kind of give me like business advice like checking ideas

is it like an agent that's running it's just like a scale that's a thing to a google doc file

that has like a bunch of personal information about my business

and then it kind of gives me advice talk to me

about uh posting on different platforms yeah how does it work do you dictate something with your voice

or does it see what kind of videos you produce

and repurposes them uh i have some like uh crown jobs

which is basically like you know like this game morning briefings weekly reports

that sent me how like other channels are doing what kind

of videos are popular now I post to your social media

platforms through Codex directly before I was using this tool called type for fully these like social media tools

but like some of the platforms I post to like substack

notes they don't have any kind of like API integrations right

so I just told Codex hey like I want to schedule

posts to substack notes can you help me figure it out

and then it went to the browser and sniffed out some internal apis

that they're using to post so it's not all internal apis

and then it could also do computer use right it can also do computers yeah

so you can do both but now

but now i can post to like four platforms i can post to x linkedin threads

and uh subset notes at the same time

and in in the skill it has like some nuances like

for example on x you want to tag the person

that you interviewed right you want to find the handle

but on linkedin you can already tag it's kind of hard to tag

so like i can't just bring dump it all the codex

and now i can actually do tweaks for for me

so it kind of saves me a lot of time do you get the final approval before it posts

or it just goes ahead

and goes by itself i still draft it i don't just get it to generate copy to post

so i still i just like you know use whisper flow

and bring bring down some random thing into codex

so you talk to it it takes your voice

and just like creates different social media posts it creates some

media posts it also has my you know examples of posts

that i've done that have gone very viral

so it can help me like clean on my brain dump into like a more polished post yeah

and then i'll take a look

and i'll be like okay go post it to all four

platforms does it have access to your analytics to assess what's

going on right now uh it does yes it has access to analytics from various platforms

and also typefully the thing i use also has analytics

so it is some analysis like for example it found

that uh on linkedin i don't know if it's good

or not but like

if you just do a post with a bunch of links to all your tutorials

and stuff tends to do better than if you do a single one

so i i had no idea about that

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so i'm gonna do more of

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that now what about newsletter is it the same process where

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you talk about what you want to have in your newsletter

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and it creates it newsletter depends on what kind of post i'm making

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so for example like um i think by the time this

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goes out i have published a post about why i'm leaving my job

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so that one i just kind of like went on a walk

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and kind of dictated to whisper florida's voice tools and kind of just like brain dumped my real thoughts.

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To Codex direct into Codex.

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I don't know

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I could do it to Codex but I use this tool called like Super Whisper

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that records like 10 minutes of my brain dump

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and then I copy and paste the whole thing into Codex

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because Codex I'm just worried like if I dictate for 10 minutes Codex will get confused.

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That's my worry too or something stops working and it just keeps processing

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and nothing happens that happened to me a couple times

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and it's not just Codex I think it's the context field that is not designed for a 10 minute

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prompt and how many how many edits do you typically do with uh in this process um it's interesting

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because like with ai i'm kind of giving a feedback for

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it to edit it's actually hard to just edit yourself

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and just give it feedback right

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so like i i bring top it i give it a codex it does a bunch of editing

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and it uses my best examples to edit

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and then inevitably there's something wrong so i have to read through them

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and i kind of voice takes a bunch of feedback

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and it doesn't are past

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and then maybe the last 10 i have to manually change

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change stuff yeah like it's actually important like i always emphasize

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like the last 10 you gotta add your human touch to

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it you can can just like ai sloppify everything basically all

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your written content is yeah created with the help of ai talk to me about the strategic uh thing

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that you're doing is that like in the morning it briefs you on what's performing what's not

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or every week it sends me a brief about how much money i made this week

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and and also like um how did my past 30 days content perform

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and also like all the other channels

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that make similar content is there any kind of outliers you know

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so uh and it does that for youtube and also for sub stack

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and and for sub stack it doesn't have api

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so it has to use browser use to look up everything yeah

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so that would probably take me an hour to do manually

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but like it does it

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if your days are back -to -back meetings you don't want

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to spend extra time 40 minutes after each meeting reconstructing what

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was decided who owns what what the next step actually is transcriptor records transcribes instantly

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and generates structured summaries with clear next steps there's also a

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search function across all of your past meetings you ask a specific question it pulls who said what

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which decision was made and

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when i talked to founders who actually use it for onboarding

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using archives of the past six months of calls instead of rewriting everything from scratch enterprise -grade security

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so it works whether you're a five -person startup

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or a larger org link is in the description sign up

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with your work email you get free 300 minutes you mentioned

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some of your editing is done with ai yeah is

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that where you do you dump a transcript and it edits it out

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or what's the process yeah for video editing i feel like maybe haven't gotten deep into it yet

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but i still use like a human like a video editor uh

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but transcript is very useful because i dumped the transcript into codex and it tells me

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here's the moments where like you had like all awkward positives

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or like stuff you should cut here's the timestamps

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and also for like the intro here's kind of like we

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should pick like here's like the the spicy quotes from the interview

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that you pick yeah it's it's fascinating how this has become

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so much faster versus a year ago yeah it's just uh yeah it's a different reality these days

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so you've described all of these things

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that you've built how often do you build something you pretty

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much every single time i talk to ai something something changes right like i'll take some skills

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or something changes but you're someone like from zero to one

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or well my hope is that i can uh streamline a lot of my content production

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and you know for the audience i'm not going to stop everything i'm still applying taste

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but i'm going to streamline a little bit

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so i can save more time because i actually want to be a builder

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because you know i spent a decade of my career just building products inside big companies

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and i want to now that we have all these agents

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and tokens we can use i want to like build different tools like open source tools

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or things that you know solve my own problems yeah

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so i want to do both i don't want to just be a creator i want to be a creator

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and a builder nice so i'm going to spend more time doing

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that how do you make decision when to build something and

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when it's okay the way it is um it's usually i

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i feel like you know it's best to kind of build stuff to solve your own problems

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so like uh for example i built like a fitness app i mean everyone's doing fitness apps

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but i i built a fitness app that helps me trap my workouts

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and then uh it has mcp to kind of like send

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me emails on my health health you know that's one thing

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i built i'm doing something else right now you know in gmail like you get a lot of scam scammers

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and and like um my parents have no idea like they like you know their bank sends them an email

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but it's actually like xyz at hotmail .com right

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so i'm trying to build like some sort of extension to just highlight

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that this is a scam how long does it take you to build I think to get to 80 % there, it probably just takes a couple hours.

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because you just make a plan and you get quotes do it

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but you actually make it good and to test it

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and polish it that that takes more time

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that takes like a couple days

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or like you know depending on where your quality bar is

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yeah where you want to go before we start building something

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you have this system with five layers of ai adoption can you walk me through them

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and let's decide

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which layer do we want to land on today i made this five layer thing actually like six months ago

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so most people are in layer one

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which is just using ai for everyday answers they're using chat gpt

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and cloud and asking questions i think the second layer is like using ai for daily work

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so you're still in chat gpt and cloud but you're using projects

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and other things to like um to not do too much copy

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and pasting to like set up projects for different things like

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i don't give me your life advice automating your content stuff

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but um because it's in chat gpt and cloud you still have to copy

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and paste the output to somewhere else right

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so it's still like a lot of going back

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and forth yeah um and then

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and i think this is more from like a product perspective but then a lot of people

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in my you know as a product manager you want to use ai for prototyping

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because like product managers we all used to just write a bunch of documents

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that none of our engineers want to actually read

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so now with all these tools like lovable and like um replet

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and you know codex and everything else you can actually build prototypes of your uh products

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so like i usually take a screenshot of my product

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and i'm like hey can you make a prototype of this

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and make some changes and show it to my engineer

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and the designer so that's then

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and then you can use ai level four to build different apps

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so like there's never been building a personal app for yourself

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and trying to like build an app that like millions of people use right so

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when I say building apps is a lot of it's just

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like personal apps for yourself where do the agents go in these layers well

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if you're just building an app like you know you can just put it on Vercel

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or something and then have a link that people can use

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so it's not it's not really looping or anything okay yeah

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so and that's layer four they were four yeah

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and layer five layer five layer five is what we've been talking about

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which is like you actually use ai kind of for like as a personal agent to try to like streamline

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and automate as much as you can right and like

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and it sounds like very complicated

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but really it's just about like sitting down like like canceling all your meetings for a day

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and sitting down

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and like thinking through your past week all the time you spend time manually doing stuff

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and just like sharing it with your ai friend can you walk me through a process

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that we just talked about uh in a very practical way so

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that people who've been using ai on like level one maybe

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some level two yeah can move to maybe ideally level five

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uh where it's more i i feel like the most practical step

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that most people should take is just to like stop using chat gbd

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and claw and just start using codex or claw code that's like step one

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and like people get intimidated by this stuff like coders

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and clock code like this is like a programming sounds very nerdy yeah yeah

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but in reality it's just like you're still just chatting with the AI right

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and like when I use codex like 80 percent of time I'm not building I'm not coding

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or doing any of that it's just more powerful

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because uh you know these two apps they have um you

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can build skills for them they have access to apis

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and integrations so they can actually get work done across your other apps

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and they're just like way more powerful than just default chat chip between cloud

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so basically like what I recommend you do is use codex

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or cloud code and set up a new folder call it like personal os

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or whatever you want to call it just a client folder right

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and then i asked it like what are the main workflows

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that it can do here and you can kind of see here

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that um oh you asked codex to come up with well

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this is all the stuff i've set up over time right

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so basically like you know as we talked about it uses like various different skills

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and skills are just text files to do work for me

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so like for example to to edit my newsletter it has this skill to shape a rough note into transcript

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and then it also uses this other skill called last three days to add fresh research

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and they use another skill called no AI slop to make the writing clear I like

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that what what

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if you don't ask it for last 30 days it's just

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gonna yeah I think somewhere in the skill I have some

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instructions like hey do some online searches to you know make

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sure I'm like you know saying stuff that's actually true another thing like people should recognize is

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that there's a lot of like open source skills

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that are really good you know

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so last 30 days is like some open source skill

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that I found on github and it does like searches across like reddit x

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and all these other platforms i need this

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and then it uses no yes lob to and

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and then eventually the newsletter post gets to a good enough point

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and i used social writer skill to make uh to turn newsletter into like a bunch of threads right

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so that's for newsletter

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and then for podcasts it's a very similar format like i use this podcast prep skill to research guests

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that i have and then

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and then you know as part of making stuff on youtube

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you know this is better anyway you're gonna have a really good thumbnail title

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and copy so i have whole skill to just like test different thumbnails

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and titles and then and then based on

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that i decided the podcast is even worth doing

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and then i do like a post -production skill like turn

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into all kinds of stuff yeah sponsors we both have sponsors it's like a lot of work

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so i i i asked to keep track of my sponsors through different skills

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and also help me draft

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and brainstorm sponsor copy help me you know Schedule stuff on the inventory and all that kind of stuff.

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Yeah, so so I guess the TRDR is like

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These workflows are done by connecting different skills together that you build

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and like for all these skills I don't actually Can you

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show one of them like just go into like strategy for example where it's built

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and like walking through how you built it?

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Yeah, sure.

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Let's just say open personal

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I think one of the most useful skills that I built is just like a personal advisor skill because I guess

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my wife is tired of me asking for advice all the time it literally is just a text file right

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so it's a text file to give me honest advice and you know you're my trusted life and business advice

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and then keep your tone warm right

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and then uh this stuff is like a little bit more fancy there's like evals

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and stuff but we can talk about that later learnings md is

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that your file yeah it's codex itself has memory

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but i asked it to save another text file called learnings .md to save memory from our past conversations

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so it kind of learns about me this is kind of the self -improving stuff

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that we talked about with something they've released yesterday

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because they released something

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when it now remembers all of your conversations like has this

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expanded memory do people still need learnings md well i don't actually know how their like system -wide memory works

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so maybe you don't need it

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but like it's also useful for me to read learnings .md

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and see what kind of like uh conversations i've had with

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it in the past for learnings md file do you ask it how do you prompt

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so that every conversation contributes to that file yeah

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so um you also have to think about managing the context window

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because you don't want it to be like super long yeah right

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so i i have some instructions saying like hey like after

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every conversation you should ask me like you should recognize kind of like patterns

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and like learnings that you have and ask me if

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if i want to save in learnings .md so ask me

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and there are more strategic learnings right because this is your personal advisor

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so ever after every single conversation uh

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if you use his best judgment whether he wants to ask me

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or not and then uh i i also ask it like

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if you're gonna save it there just like have a few lines just like have one

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or two sentences like don't don't write like huge paragraphs

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so that's the way it's

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so interesting with these like how what what ai actually remembers about you

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because sometimes you think maybe it remembers everything and you hope

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that it does but in reality it doesn't remember stuff

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that you don't really care about yeah so these learnings and these

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so you basically prompted it saying what where does this prompt

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go does it go it's just in the skill file like

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the the main skill file of like hey before you before

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you answer any questions i have like just quickly skim through learnings .md

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and uh once we finish conversation

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or like in the middle of a conversation we see something ask me

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if this should be added to this learnings md file

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and the skill runs across everything that you do

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because skill is triggered based on like uh your description your skill description in the top

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which is like so here i say like use whenever the user is stuck on decision

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or working through a hard problem or asking for a gut check

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but sometimes it doesn't trigger sometimes i have to like actually do like slash give me a slash personal advisor

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and then ask a question how do you come up with all the like for me

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when i'm building this yeah there's so much brain work going into this like

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when i trigger this skill all the nuances do you use codex for

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that as well yeah i i never write any of these files man manually

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but you still no it's even no writing it's just thinking

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about all the nuances yes i can think about a lot of things for you

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but then there are so many different things

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that you want to remember like

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when to trigger the skill yeah what types of information you want to go there oh maybe

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and then you wake up in the middle of the night

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oh i forgot to add this that's right yeah i have a skill to build skills right

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and anthropic actually has a skill to build skills yeah personally

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i'm like very worried about just like it becoming slobify like

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it just like starts adding stuff i don't even read it

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and it becomes like super slop like it's like super yeah

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because you also want to make sure you're in control of whatever is in the skill

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and if ai just built a huge skill for you yeah exactly then you don't have time to read

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so so my

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so my i have like a skill editor skill is very basic it just like looks for like duplicate instructions

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or like slop content

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and tries to remove it like okay like i i tell

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you try to keep my all my skills to like one page max

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so i can actually read through it and see

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if it makes sense or not let's take a deeper look at what's what's next uh yeah

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so so yeah so like update the plan and and

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and then and then and then like

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so for this personal advisor thing i have my you know

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what why don't i just ask it to um can you read my plan google doc

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and share its overall structure without sharing confidential info so

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so basically like

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and this is just the way i i do it like i have my actual plan

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or like you know my business plan or whatever in a google doc

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and like i find it's very useful to as creator to like have some principles to help you make decisions

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so basically it's like a one pager with my goal my principles like background my business positioning

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and uh some other stuff like energy

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and other stuff right like i don't know what your goal

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but my goal is just to like make x amount of money

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and just like actually be in control of my time

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and who i want to meet with

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and then my principles are like like i have a problem where i tend to take on too much stuff.

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so i asked to like just keep the main thing the

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main main thing like that's one of the principles like

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which is like you know people invite you to conferences

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and like you know do all kind of like try to write write a book

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or do all kind of stuff and just you have to say no

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because you want to you should focus on making a newsletter

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and a podcast great yeah and it's

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so hard to yeah stay focused right yeah but but

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because i have that principle so when it gives me advice it has

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that principle in mind so you can kind of check me um

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and then the business stuff is more just like um

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you know like all the financial information

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and i i think one important section is like what gives me energy

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and what takes energy away and just like a couple of bullet points

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but like you know what gives me energy is like you

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know vibe coding with codex what takes energy away is like i don't know like doing too many zoom calls

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or something yeah so so like

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so i i think i think it's very important like you

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don't have to be a creator to make this document right

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for any kind of career you have just make this document uh

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and putting a google doc somewhere and then set up a skill to reference this document when it gives you advice.

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And I think that it's literally one of my most useful skills.

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It's not super complicated, but it helps me make a lot of decisions for better or for worse.

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Most people use Claude like a search engine.

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They type in a question, they get an answer.

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Most times they're not really satisfied with it and they close the tab.

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I did the same thing for months

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and I was looking at people who were saying AI is changing their life and I'm like, hmm?

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Then I spent one afternoon setting it up properly, uploaded a few files about how i think and how i work

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and it completely changed i wrote the whole process up step by step you get it

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when you subscribe to my newsletter future proof it's free the

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link is in the description yeah well this is very powerful

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because then you can use it for anything that you do

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so it adheres to your principles yeah do you have a team uh i have like a video editor

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and a few contractors

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but no i don't have a full -time team have you

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ever tried building like a ai chief of staff uh yeah

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i have one uh uh right now i'm using this thing

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called hermes uh -huh yeah what can you talk about this it's like open call

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but it's like a little bit more reliable and there's like a team

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that built it uh but you can also just set up in codex too

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but like i i'm using hermes right now

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because i like having it in my messaging apps like in telegram

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and like wherever i want to use it how do you use it talk to me about that

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because i'm to build something you are i'm trying to build

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uh i'm trying to build an ai chief of staff yeah

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uh where first of all like my strategic decision making happens on zoom calls

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and in telegram where i give feedback to my team

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and i say yes or no yeah uh

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so i want ai to learn my strategic decision making style

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and then i just talked to you know who i interviewed um the front of Kalshi

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and she has a team of developers

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but they build this thing where it goes across all the slack chats they have every Sunday

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and tells her where the team is stuck what was promised to be delivered what hasn't been delivered

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so somebody who just watches the whole operation

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and everyone accountable I see well were you trying to build it with our mess

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so you just have to think about what are the inputs what are the what are you trying to do

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and what that word outputs right

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so the inputs for like any kind of business is probably like a like slack yeah

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and if you use granola to record immediate meetings there's transcripts there just set up all

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that just ask like codex or ermes

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or whatever just set up all the integration be like hey

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can you hook up to my granola can you hook up to my slack

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so for anyone who's at level two let's say

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and wants to get to level five what are the steps

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they should be taking i think this is the step number

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one really build something like a strategic mindset yeah behind all of your ais

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and projects and agents yeah what are the next steps

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so step number one is as i said like you just actually use codex

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or clock code just just start using

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that instead of like the the regular stuff right even projects like you yeah i i switched away from projects

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because like i i set up all my projects here instead

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because like um like with a project

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if i want to edit a newsletter post it spits out an output

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and i have to copy and paste the output to google doc

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or like manually update stuff yeah

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but this stuff can just update google dot for me

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so it saves a step right makes sense

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so now someone has to use the right apps

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and step two is to um just ask the right questions like bring down your workflows

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and ask the right questions

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because i feel like a lot of people don't realize what

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this stuff is capable of doing you know like this stuff

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is basically capable of doing in my opinion any kind of knowledge work that you have

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as long as you're patient with it and give it the right context yeah so just ask the right questions

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and then set up the workflows like we just talked about

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and then build the skills and integrations

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and then you're off to the races what do you think your life is going to look like in a year

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a year i've always worked in big companies where there's always

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been a lot of cross -functional alignment right you gotta align different teams

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and different orgs i really actually do really miss my engineering team

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and people like that i enjoy working with at work

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but i feel like these days like uh this is like the era of solopreneurs

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and i feel like you can get so much time as agents

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stuff that you don't want to do um

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that you can it really frees up your time to do stuff

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that gives you more energy you know and even the stuff that's like strategic

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or gives me energy i i feel like now i have this partner

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that knows me yeah and can like like kind of be my pair programmer

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or like partner to kind of figure stuff out do you think you're going to be working less

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or more in a year uh well i i think i'm pretty type a

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so i don't know if i'm going to completely check out

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but um i hope i'll be doing more work that i enjoy

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and then i feel like if you

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and i retire we'll be bored of our mind probably go play golf or something

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but it would be very boring of course yeah i think we're gonna keep working yeah we'll keep working

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but we to do work that we actually enjoy not like the monitors copy

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and paste or like you know

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that kind of work do you have any fear around ai uh i feel like i i fear

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that i'm getting dumber

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and lazier like if i'm on a flight

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and there's no like internet connection like

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that i just don't feel like working anymore

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because i don't i don't have this partner you know that's evolution

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if you take our grandparents even my grandparents like they would never understand my lifestyle

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because they were constantly working yeah it's either at home like my mom raised me

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while working while cooking while cleaning

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and i'm like oh i can't clean i have i need

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a cleaner oh i just bought a robot vacuum cleaner i

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don't know how i lived without it we're becoming laser

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and laser that's true yeah uh

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but i think it's it's actually then we have more time for kids

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and meaningful time with uh with our loved ones i i do worry about our our kids

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because like at least you and i grew up without ai

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so we have like 20 years of like doing the basic stuff like basic critical thinking skills

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and like you know learning how to do math and stuff

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but i feel like our kids these days they can they can start using codex right right now

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talk to their you know computer yeah

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so like uh you kind of have to make sure they

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actually still learn their fundamentals what's what's your solution to

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that what are you trying to do with your kids that's

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different from how yours is i have kind of like a

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radical thing i i feel like they need to um

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and maybe this is my bias

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but i feel like they need to just like maybe start a business

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or something and learn the real things

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because i i feel like reflecting on my journey my education

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i didn't learn a ton from the classroom i learned by like failing

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and like making mistakes yeah

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so i feel like they need to have the right mentality to do

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that kind of stuff and like learn how to fail

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and just go out there

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and like try to do something do you ever have fear

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for your career yeah my career yeah i i'm talking to a lot of creators these days

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and i see them at events and a lot of people think

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that creator economy is getting oversaturated because everyone is suddenly a creator

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because it's so much easier to create content yeah um do you think

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that might be a problem i i do think it's a problem

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because i i see a lot of creators like just making

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a slop like they did like they get to generate like 10 posts per hour

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and like the slop goes viral

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and it's kind of like um this is heartening do you see

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that but i feel like that i think that's why it's

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so important to find your principles and values

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because like i i never want be someone who just makes tons of slop even

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if it goes viral it makes me a lot of money yeah you know

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but but i do think um but maybe people get tired of a slop

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and people will be like hey i actually want human craft

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and human touch on this stuff let's finish with an action plan yeah for

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um someone who's trying to stay ahead in this ai era for the next week what should they be doing Okay, I think to stay ahead,

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get the $20 chat GPT plan,

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download Codex, and just start saving time and building workflows and building skills to save time and asking Codex to do it.

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Because I feel like that's more productive for you

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because you will immediately recognize that you can start saving time versus what a lot of people do, which is like they go on Twitter and try to like read all the news and like try to,

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you know, take some courses or something.

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Like switch from consumption mode to actual build mode output yeah what

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if they come back and say oh i tried

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but it didn't work i don't know what you're talking about it's

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so bad it's so much easier to just do everything by yourself well it does take longer

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so it's interesting

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because like with ai you have to settle the system first before you can see the fruits of the output

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and it does take time to set up the system

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but it probably only takes like one day to do it right

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and you have to have some patience

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because uh even now with all this stuff i built it still cannot one -shot exactly what i want

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so there's always kind of a back and forth

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and as long as you're patient and you give it like feedback

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and how to save it in skills

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and memory it will get better over over time yeah you know

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and unlike like a employee is never gonna leave you it's gonna be there it's never gonna leave you

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and it's only getting exponentially better yeah the model will get better single month yeah peter thank you

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so much it was a very very productive conversation thanks marina thank you for coming

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 564 sentences and 6753 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:34. The speaker talks fast, about 228 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
skill noun	/skɪl/	A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
newsletter noun	/ˈn(j)uzˌlɛtɚ/	A periodically sent publication containing current events or the like, generally on a particular topic or geared toward a limited audience.
creator noun	/kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/	Something or someone which creates or makes something.
layer noun	/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/	A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
edit verb	/ˈɛdɪt/	To change a text, or a document.
principle noun	/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/	A fundamental assumption, fundamental law or guiding belief.
dump verb	/dʌmp/	To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
strategic adjective	/stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/	Of or pertaining to strategy.
podcast noun	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
manually adverb	/ˈmænj(u)əliː/	By hand.
cloud noun	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
output noun	/ˈaʊtpʊt/	Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
feedback noun	/ˈfiːdˌbæk/	Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
advisor noun	/ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/	One who offers advice.
trigger noun	/ˈtɹɪɡɚ/	A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
bring down verb		To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power.
come up with verb		To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
go out verb		To leave, especially a building.
read through verb		To thoroughly read something to check or proofread it.
sit down verb		To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come back verb		To return to a place.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	we've been talking · who've been using
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've done · have published · haven't gotten
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is not designed · was decided · was made
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who are · people who were · somebody who just

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 124 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, analytics /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪks/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, repetitive /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like skill, newsletter, creator.

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How to practise with this video

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