Mike Israetel
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Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I used a since-deprecated model, GPT-4.5, and I used it to do smoothing of prose. So what I would do is write my prose and be like, can you reword this in a way that sounds to me like it would have more of the following emotive features, etc. And it would do a great job... Every idea in that book is my own, and I used AI for what I would call verbal smoothing, unbelievably unapologetically."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I love Claude. I'll literally just start a voice memo and I'll just go and go and go, and then I'll say, come back to me with five points... I just start a voice memo, talk for five minutes, and it's able to synthesize all of that information very well."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"What car is that? A Tesla Model S Plaid. It's the single greatest vehicle I've ever been in."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"I would amend Greg's advice in one way. Start by just recomping for like one to two years. Like you just maintain your body weight, eat plenty of protein, good healthy foods, and train with weights pretty hard. You're going to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time for like literally two years. And then getting lean is a matter of maybe losing just 10 pounds and then you're already jacked."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"50% of my stocks are to like broad ETFs cuz I don't typically want to bet too much against the market... The best thing to spend your money on by a long shot I think is general stock market investing."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"Once you get lean, not only is it healthier to bulk because you're not getting super over fat... you start lean and then you go and you bulk and you end pretty lean. And so even at the top of your bulk, you're not disgusting looking... And also you can have this process where you see your body changing in the mirror because you're still lean enough to see the muscle shapes changing."
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- ChatGPT Uses and recommends it "I used a since-deprecated model, GPT-4.5, and I used it to do smoothing of prose. So what I would do is write my prose and be like, can you reword this in a way that sounds to me like it would have more of the following emotive features, etc. And it would do a great job... Every idea in that book is my own, and I used AI for what I would call verbal smoothing, unbelievably unapologetically." +155 others
- Claude Uses and recommends it "I love Claude. I'll literally just start a voice memo and I'll just go and go and go, and then I'll say, come back to me with five points... I just start a voice memo, talk for five minutes, and it's able to synthesize all of that information very well." +245 others
- Tesla Model S Uses and recommends it "What car is that? A Tesla Model S Plaid. It's the single greatest vehicle I've ever been in." +4 others
- Body recomposition Recommends it "I would amend Greg's advice in one way. Start by just recomping for like one to two years. Like you just maintain your body weight, eat plenty of protein, good healthy foods, and train with weights pretty hard. You're going to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time for like literally two years. And then getting lean is a matter of maybe losing just 10 pounds and then you're already jacked." Only Mike
- Broad market ETFs Recommends it "50% of my stocks are to like broad ETFs cuz I don't typically want to bet too much against the market... The best thing to spend your money on by a long shot I think is general stock market investing." Only Mike
- Gemini Uses it "Gemini logo. I used Gemini's Nano Banana model to make the images for the book. Period. Exactly. What is wrong with that? I don't think there's anything wrong with that." +71 others
- Lean bulking Recommends it "Once you get lean, not only is it healthier to bulk because you're not getting super over fat... you start lean and then you go and you bulk and you end pretty lean. And so even at the top of your bulk, you're not disgusting looking... And also you can have this process where you see your body changing in the mirror because you're still lean enough to see the muscle shapes changing." Only Mike
- Paired-set training Recommends it "You can do squats and pair it with upright rows... you do every movement you do paired like that, back to back, and you do six movements, it's going to take you about 30 minutes... But 40 minutes twice a week, man, you're going to get in unbelievable shape." Only Mike
- Fish oil Recommends it "Fish oils that are properly attended to. EPA, DHA, healthy fats, omega-3s are not a waste of money." +15 others
- Training close to failure Recommends it "False. But you have to get close. Within three, four reps away from failure is where most of the good gains seem to be happening." Only Mike