Explore communication

Rewriting and updating an old academic dissertation with current information

"So I had ChatGPT rewrite her dissertation that she wrote 20-something years ago, but everything is now current... She was like, 'This is amazing. What AI is this?' And I'm like, 'It's ChatGPT.'"

a16z

Fact-checking and research

"Oh my god, you kids have it good now. I love ChatGPT and Claude and so on. It's so much easier. You need to know how to interrogate the system."

Tim Ferriss

Accessing AI agents for clients inside team chat

"I actually set up this kind of Slack-based AI agent for my clients all the time. It's a really, really good way of accessing your AI agents, and this is awesome to see OpenAI moving into this category and making the agents and dots accessible within Slack."

Liam Ottley

Team communication, messaging AI agents in channels

"Because I've connected my Slack plugin into the ChatGPT app, my Dot can fully control my Slack. You can send people like John on my team a message."

Riley Brown

All text input instead of typing

"This is Wispr Flow on steroids, right? Yeah, I mean, I've stopped typing. I just use Wispr Flow for all my input."

Peter Diamandis

Dictation

"Well, right now I'm on Wispr Flow, but no hate on Wispr Flow. I think it's kind of just where I landed first."

Starter Story

Screen recording herself building Zapier workflows while narrating her thought process, to capture authentic content to feed into AI for article drafting

"I recorded myself — like I did a screen record, like a Loom, if you guys use that tool — and I would build the automated workflow and I would narrate as I was building it."

Steph Spector

Having job candidates demonstrate their skills and work process instead of submitting résumés

"I like people to show me in Loom videos. I'm like, what's the point of an interview anymore? There's no point in submitting résumés. Instead, I like when they show me — show me what your calendar looks like, show me the list of people you reached out to, sh..."

Codie Sanchez

Brain dumping thoughts and notes during hikes and walks, then importing into Cursor

"I use Monologue. It's from Naveen. I love it. It's on my Apple Watch, on my iPhone, it's everywhere. And I just dumped it in Cursor."

Kieran Klaassen

Voice-to-text input when interacting with AI tools like Cursor

"I do a lot of voice to text these days. I use this app Monologue. I've tried a few of these — I've tried Whisper Flow and Super Whisper and Monologue. I don't know, it just gets me."

Wade Foster

Sending vendor/manufacturer outreach emails, with Codex browser agent drafting messages inside the app

"I used to let it go into Superhuman and set all of these up for me, but I really want to click the send button before — just to check its work."

Yana Welinder

Email client with high retention due to refined product experience

"If you've used Superhuman, you've likely stayed using Superhuman just because every little element of that product is hyperrefined to make you want to continue using it."

Matt Swulinski

Video conferencing for client review meetings conducted remotely

"Video conferencing, still Zoom — we use Zoom — but now have Microsoft Teams, which is very different for us."

Wendy Ciehanski

Always-on team coordination channel replacing traditional meetings and project management tools during a 10-week zero-to-one product build

"The only thing that we had was one permazoom. So we had a Zoom meeting that was going 24/7 — people just hop in and out — and Claude Code, lots of Claude Code tokens, and that was it."

Eddie Kim

Building niche gaming communities for casual players, particularly dads who want to connect with others

"I'm assuming you haven't heard of the Discord group called Dads of Marathon. There's 13,898 members. It's a Discord group of dads or basically casual gamers who don't have time to play video games, who don't have time to play competitive video games. This D..."

Jonathan Courtney

"We started this with Discord to be honest. Um, you know, we started a Discord community. Like we had the idea in November. We started a Discord, got it to like 10K people"

Albert Brotherton

Building career and interpersonal relationships

"I am a true Dale Carnegie enthusiast and I feel like I've built a lot of my career on how to win friends and influence people."

Bryce Rattner Keithley

Transforming leadership approach from self-focused to service-oriented

"I was at Fox when I read it. It was a book that changed my life. I turned it upside down. Like immediately turned my life upside down. I shifted that to how can I be of service to you? How can I be of service and how can I get to know you?"

Strauss Zelnick

Overcoming fear of public speaking by giving a speech every week for a year to develop communication and enrollment skills

"He said, 'Go to a place called Toastmasters. You can find them all over the world. Find one in your local city.' And I signed up that week and I went every week and I gave a speech every week for a year. I didn't care if it was 2 minutes or 20 minutes. I sh..."

Lewis Howes

Overcoming fear of public speaking by getting repetitions in a supportive, safe environment

"I took a year of public speaking class with Toastmasters just to get reps in a group of people that are going to give you positive feedback and in a safe environment so I could just get in front of a room, practice a 5-minute speech and know that I'm going ..."

Lewis Howes

Interface for communicating with OpenClaw AI agent for business automation tasks

"I actually just have mine on my phone. I just text it back and forth. It's nice to do it via iMessage and with the little blue bubbles just kind of makes it feel more personal."

Brandon Doyle

Interface for AI assistant, voice commands in car

"The nifty part about integrating with iMessage is that you automatically are integrated with the rest of the Apple ecosystem. When I'm in my car, I can also just talk to the car and be like 'Yo, send this to Lindy.' It just all works out the box because it'..."

Flo

"You can use a burner or you can use Google Voice. You can spin up a Google Voice number very easily from any G Suite"

Tim Ferriss

"You can call a Google Voice number that would ring the cell phones of the four founders and one of us would pick up."

Tony

"I have a different modality of communication for most of my CEOs. Like I literally have WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, text, email, FaceTime by preference."

Byron Deeter

"you could use Signal on there and those other things and you're going to be relatively safe"

Bill Thompson

"I remember when Blackberry died and iPhone. I was one of the last people. I kept that Blackberry... I kept the Blackberry deep into the game. I needed that keyboard."

Bradley Cooper

"There's actually you're modeling a very good model from the book Crucial Conversations which is the STATE model where it talks about certain difficult conversations."

Matthew Hussey

"At the very least get on FaceTime to see if you feel something through FaceTime in the absence of an in-person meeting."

Matthew Hussey

"I teach them NLP, neural linguistic programming. NLP stands for the study or the science of the effect of language on your nervous system."

Tony Robbins

"Read Non-Violent Communication. Figure out how to talk to people without sounding overly defensive or aggressive."

Tim Ferriss

Writing workflow for capturing thoughts and monologues while developing arguments

"I would just monologue into my computer into a proof document."

Dan Shipper

"what I like about proof is yes, we have all of these, but there are all these connotations around them... proof's job is to communicate about writing and about ideas and about where it comes from"

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Framework for building a feedback culture within her production team; conducting post-mortems after every shoot

"Kim Scott, for example, emphasizes so well with radical candor — giving feedback and receiving feedback is a skill and an art that is teachable and learnable and vital and critical. Having the bravery to ask for that critical feedback is mission critical."

Michelle Khare

"I have recommended Radical Candor to pretty much everybody I know who's a content creator trying to figure out their business."

Michelle Khare