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Everything Ali personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"We usually have several thousand people from all around the world on a Zoom call planning our goals together."
"you can always just say to Claude or ChatGPT, hey give me a video script for this particular title and it's annoyingly good"
"I've used Zapier. I've used Make. I've used n8n before. I kind of get the theory around how to automate stuff."
"I wear a Whoop. I've got like a I've been using this for the last like 380 days or something. I've got a 380-day streak on it and so this gives me a sleep score."
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"I personally like having a Kindle on my bedside table because then if I'm struggling to go to sleep, I can just read like a spirituality book or something on Kindle."
"the book that I'm currently listening to on Audible, in this case, Dark Age by Pierce Brown."
"So, I now go for a run, I put my AirPods in, and I listen to amazing books on Audible."
"The one we've been using for the last 5 years is called Grain"
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"someone who's been like obviously got a ChatGPT generated LinkedIn auto apply application"
"I was like, 'Okay, well, I should probably read Sapiens cuz everyone is reading Sapiens and it was kind of boring and I got stuck on it for like three months"
"When you see films like The Wolf of Wall Street and stuff and you see the stuff like 'Sell me this pen.' It frames sales as this sleazy adversarial thing."
"I've tried reading Wuthering Heights and it was like boring."
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"you can always just say to Claude or ChatGPT, hey give me a video script for this particular title and it's annoyingly good"
"Alternatively, you could do that with like Claude or ChatGPT."
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"You can just Google it or ask ChatGPT or Claude to give you a system for goal setting."
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"I've been using Claude as like a ChatGPT replacement for like 2 years now."
"you're probably spending a lot of time talking to an AI in some capacity, whether it's ChatGPT or Claude"
"you can use ChatGPT, you can use Grock, you can use Claude, you can use Gemini"
"someone who's been like obviously got a ChatGPT generated LinkedIn auto apply application"
"The temptation is there to just put stuff into ChatGPT and get ChatGPT to generate your content. You haven't yet developed the skill of actually doing the content or the taste for what makes good content."
"you put your business idea into ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity or whatever and you ask it to give you a market analysis"
"you can always just say to Claude or ChatGPT, hey give me a video script for this particular title and it's annoyingly good"
"Alternatively, you could do that with like Claude or ChatGPT."
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"You can just Google it or ask ChatGPT or Claude to give you a system for goal setting."
"My personal preference is Claude by Anthropic for most things"
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"you're probably spending a lot of time talking to an AI in some capacity, whether it's ChatGPT or Claude"
"I've been using Claude as like a ChatGPT replacement for like 2 years now."
"On my home screen, I also have Momentum, which is a habit tracker."
"I will immediately open up my phone, go to amazon.co.uk and just buy it on Kindle"
"the book that I'm currently listening to on Audible, in this case, Dark Age by Pierce Brown"
"Right now, I'm listening to Dark Age by Pierce Brown, which is book five in the Red Rising series, which is absolutely sick."
"On my days off, I will listen to fantasy fiction audio books by Brandon Sanderson usually"
"Most of them were fantasy fiction books by Brandon Sanderson."
"the book that I'm currently reading on Kindle, in this case, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman"
"I've got Day One, which is a journaling app."
"I have my AirPods in and I'm usually listening to some kind of audio book."
"So, I now go for a run, I put my AirPods in, and I listen to amazing books on Audible."
"I realized this when I was listening to the Wheel of Time series on Audible."
"I have an account on Goodreads. It synchronizes with my Amazon Kindle account."
"the book that I'm currently listening to on Audible, in this case, Dark Age by Pierce Brown."
"I put my AirPods in, and I listen to amazing books on Audible."
"I've got the Waking Up app, which is a meditation app."
"I've got Voice Pal, which is like a ghostwriter type app."
"I personally like the Kindle because the light means that I don't need to have like a reading light or whatever."
"I personally like having a Kindle on my bedside table because then if I'm struggling to go to sleep, I can just read like a spirituality book or something on Kindle."
"Thousands of people attend every time. It's on Zoom."
"Thousands of people attend every time it's on Zoom."
"We usually have several thousand people from all around the world on a Zoom call planning our goals together."
"we usually have several thousand people from all around the world on a Zoom call planning our goals together"
"we usually have several thousand people from all around the world on a Zoom call planning our goals together"
"Arrange Zoom calls with them"
"Basically, a free 20 minute, 30 minute Zoom consultation where you are basically trying to add a lot of value to them"
"Basically, a free 20 minute, 30 minute Zoom consultation where you are basically trying to add a lot of value to them"
"you put your business idea into ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity or whatever and you ask it to give you a market analysis"
"The biggest place where we actually learned the skills of being a doctor was in fact right here on YouTube. The amount of stuff you can learn on YouTube these days is literally like the best medical physiology lectures in the world."
"I've got a bunch of free videos on my YouTube channel that talk about how to start your first business."
"I procrastinated for seven years before starting my YouTube channel."
"And he makes YouTube videos that help students land jobs in software engineering."
"It's actually okay to treat books kind of like they're YouTube videos. Like, you wouldn't feel like you have to sit through an entire YouTube video if you stopped enjoying it."
"and also breath by James Neestor which is all about kind of the power of like nasal breathing rather than mouth breathing which also helps when I'm on my runs."
"I recently also relisted to The Psychology of Money by Morgan Hel, which is fantastic."