Productivity YouTuber, doctor
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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Ranked by repeated personal use, excluding sponsorships.
Personal use in 4 episodes
"If I want to, I can just chuck it into Claude and be like, 'Hey, can you just clean it up to make sure there's no typos and shit?' Previously, I used to use our app VoicePal and used to walk around and sort of dictate what I wanted to write about. Then I would chuck it into Claude and then go back and forth with the AI for absolutely ages."
▶ 4:38"It took about 6 hours from start to finish, and it didn't cost anything on top of my Claude subscription. And now that I've done this once, I've firstly got all of the code that Claude generated, and so it'd be easier to do it again."
"You know, I don't really like this. I actually prefer how Claude does this. Can you give this to me with more like interactive diagrams or something that I can click on?"
"I asked Claude to teach me the skill. I watched like two YouTube videos about it. I got up to speed and then I started tinkering around with Meta Ads Manager and we managed to run some Instagram ads profitably."
Personal use in 3 episodes
"We actually did do like a quiz thing a few months ago just to test it out, and we just got Claude Code to make a quiz. So like what's the deal with ScoreApp versus just vibe code it with Claude Code for myself?"
▶ 45:43"Wow, we're about half an hour in. So far, we've managed to buy and download DaVinci Resolve Studio and Claude Code is cooking away on trying to do the HyperFrames method."
"Over the last year, there are three things that have changed my life. The first one was having a baby girl. The second one was discovering Claude Code."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"If it's on a Zoom call, we get out a Figma board and put Post-it notes on the thing and we just do this as a messy, divergent, creative process."
▶ 14:39"just like drawing stuff out on a Figma file and sort of constructing it"
Personal use in 2 episodes
"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."
▶ 16:44"I use a Whoop to track my sleep, but you don't need it."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"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."
▶ 16:34"I personally like the Kindle because the light means that I don't need to have like a reading light or whatever."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I've used Zapier. I've used Make. I've used n8n before. I kind of get the theory around how to automate stuff."
▶ 18:18"something like N8N, which I've been playing a lot with recently"
Personal use in 2 episodes
"So, I now go for a run, I put my AirPods in, and I listen to amazing books on Audible."
▶ 0:17"I have my AirPods in and I'm usually listening to some kind of audio book."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I like to do it on an airplane because I don't get the Wi-Fi. I just open up a blank Apple Notes document and I'll just write out the different life areas and write out what do I want and what do I not want."
▶ 9:58"And then like the inertia of getting back to the system, it's just like, fuck it, I'll just go back to Apple Notes."
Warned against
"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."
"So at this point, I would rate HyperFrames as being like probably a 7 out of 10. DaVinci Resolve, I would rate it being probably a 3 out of 10."
"I bought that and I gave up in not even a week, like three days, I gave up. I'm like, there's no way I need 60 properties for a task. that that doesn't make any sense."
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"Yeah, I mean they're beyond a free user of ChatGPT."
"If you don't want to use Superfocus, you can always try and connect different apps to ChatGPT and run a routine overnight or something to flag these."
"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"
"Of course, you can get a lot of free business advice off of ChatGPT. But the problem with ChatGPT is that ChatGPT gives you very generic advice."
"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."
"Then it would pass it on to something like GPT-6 Astra, which would be better at writing it up for the team."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"You know, I've taken quizzes on BuzzFeed and stuff but like I've never bought anything from BuzzFeed. I don't even know if they sell anything."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Like for example, today, we were thinking, 'Oh, if we have time after this filming, we'll just record a quick Loom.' But actually, a quick Loom is not how we would actually explain the value of this."
"It automatically creates for you a proposal that you can record a loom over and send to the client"
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Maybe they dabble with Claude Code or Claude Cowork or Codex, but they're not running their own Hermes agent on a VPS."
"Understanding like what is Claude Code, what is Codex, what's Perplexity up to — who are the interesting people to follow in the AI space."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Maybe they dabble with Claude Code or Claude Cowork or Codex, but they're not running their own Hermes agent on a VPS."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Like the process we learned in medical school for like how to talk to a patient follows a framework. It's called the Calgary-Cambridge model and there's like a series of questions that you ask and for the most part you're doing 80% of the listening."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"James Clear happened to be there, the bestselling author of Atomic Habits, and he gifted me a pen."
"The final rule relates to something that James Clear talks about a lot in his book atomic habits which is the identity shift."
"I was at a writer's retreat where James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, happened to be there and so we were hanging out."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"This means that I can campaign to the wife that I need the fully decked out M5 Max Studio, right? Which costs about 20,000 USD, but it's worth it."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Three different pipelines. So, one option is the DaVinci thing with an API. Okay. Descript for the cut and then Resolve for grade, graphics and finish."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"This is a lovely diagram from Greg McKeown's book Essentialism."
"Greg McKeown has a book, Essentialism."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Whether you have a system that is based on the Google Suite or the Apple Suite or pen and paper or the bullet journal or using Superfocus or just using ChatGPT, whatever your system is, as long as it's helping you figure out what you want... I'm very agnostic."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Literally it's a Wednesday today and at 6:00 p.m. I'm going to play pickleball with the boys. Then we're going out to Flatiron Burger to have a burger."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"I'd like to operate it headless via SSH. Maybe via Tailscale. What do you reckon?"
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Explain this all to me using Harry Potter analogies and world... Debian is like ancient, serious Hogwarts... So immediately, I've now connected this thing about Linux to a world that I'm very familiar with."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Ah, Home Assistant server. Okay, SwitchBot Curtain 3."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"SwitchBot Curtain 3. They're retrofit motors. You attach them to the curtain rail you already have. Oh, sick. That's cool. Okay, nice. So now this is going to be my next home lab project."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"If you are interested in diving deeper into how to use Claude Code in particular, this is my beginner's guide to Claude Code, which lots of people have said to me has changed their life and was the thing that got them into actually doing coding with AI."
"Understanding like what is Claude Code, what is Codex, what's Perplexity up to — who are the interesting people to follow in the AI space."
Mentioned in 5 episodes
"ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini or Grok or whatever your favorite AI model is these days does an insanely good job at like speaking to your level and explaining things in an interesting way."
"Guarantee you'll get an amazing response from Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini that will teach you the skill of doing that."
"especially because you're saying nice things about Gemini and Google Keep and Google Mail and stuff"
"you can use ChatGPT, you can use Grock, you can use Claude, you can use Gemini"
"Then it would pass it on to Gemini because Gemini is better at deep research and deep analysis."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"What's all the latest stuff I read on Twitter about Omarchy? Explain this all to me using Harry Potter analogies."
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"I'm now basically never going to forget what the difference between Debian and Ubuntu is, now that I have the visual metaphor of, oh, okay, it's sort of like Hogwarts."
78 recommended · 33 sponsored · 3 warned against · 203 episodes