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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"Short Form is basically like having your most intelligent friend break down a book for you."
"This is where I love the app Wispr Flow, which is an amazing kind of speech-to-text dictation-y type software... I'd really recommend Wispr Flow. It's absolutely fantastic."
"If you're serious about growing your YouTube channel this year, then you're going to want to check out three of my courses that are actually available on Skillshare that are very kindly sponsoring this video."
"What I love about Skillshare is that every class has a project. So you're not just passively consuming stuff. You're actually making stuff."
"if you want to build automations into your work or your life without paying a fortune, then head over to hostinger.com/aliabelvps"
"Hostinger is your one-stop shop solution to build your online presence. We've been using Hostinger for a few years now, and they're the host of all of our different websites."
"One service that I find super helpful that I've been recommending to everyone for ages now is called Stan, who are very kindly sponsoring this video."
"Trading 212 is an online investment platform that lets you invest in stocks and shares and exchange traded funds, ETFs, and my wife and I have actually been using it independently for years, long before they ever sponsored the channel."
"They've also recently launched their trading 212 card which gives you up to 10% cash back on your everyday spending with no monthly fees, no hidden charges and currency conversion at the true interbank rate."