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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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Clear filters"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."
"I've never managed to finish a Charles Dickens book."
"you might want to read fourth wing or some romanty thing or whatever"
"Most of them were fantasy fiction books by Brandon Sanderson."
"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."
"This brings us on to the next rule which is a tip I got from Naval Ravikant. And the rule here is read what you love until you love to read."
"It's a really long series by Robert Jordan where the final three books are written by Brandon Sanderson."
"The final rule relates to something that James Clear talks about a lot in his book atomic habits"
"Gary Keller has a book, The One Thing."
"Cal Newport's book, Slow Productivity, talks a lot about this."
"Greg McKeown has a book, Essentialism."
"most people still don't have access to VO3 or have not used it to try and start TikTok accounts or Instagram pages or YouTube channels"
"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."
"you're probably spending a lot of time talking to an AI in some capacity, whether it's ChatGPT or Claude"
"You can use an Apple Watch, you can use a phone, or you can just aim to sleep 9 hours a night."
"It's easy enough to create like a very basic mockup of an app using something like Lovable or whatever."
"How do you make a thumbnail using AI, using Photoshop, using Canva, using whatever."
"How do you make a thumbnail using AI, using Photoshop, using Canva, using whatever."
"I've also built a full YouTube production system in Clipflow, and content is now running like clockwork."
"Very recently he actually launched his own physical product, New Tonic, which is going really well."