What are the top three things that you deployed in this year that dramatically changed how productive you are?

Hmm.

So I, w- I can talk about my creative work since we're both creators.

And, uh, you know, being a creator is, like, a lot of repetitive work, right? Like, a lot of repetitive copy and pasting back and forth and, like, changing things from, like, a newsletter post to, like, uh, like, Y- YouTube description to, like, social posts.

There's, like, a lot of kind of, like, different formats.

And I, I, I just decided to spend one day, like, just, like, you know, no meetings, and just sat down with Codex and be like, "Hey," I, I basically just brain dumped all my workflows to Codex, and here's how I do it manually.

And I used this thing called Whisper Flow just to, like, brain dump-

For the next week, what should they be doing?

So can you maybe help explain how you think of a workflow, and then what is a workflow? How do I actually document those things or figure out what workflows I'm even doing day to day?

I think a workflow is basically just, like, a task that you have to do, like, let's say more than once a week.

And, like, document them is literally just, like, listing all the steps that you take.

So I have this, like, pretty fancy slide for, you know, how I used to run my podcast manually.

But you don't have to make a fancy slide.

You just literally just have to list all of the things that you do, right? So for example, for running a podcast, before you even record anything, you have to prep the interview guide.

You gotta research the guest, you know, manually go through a bunch of YouTube interviews and online research.

It's like, when you're building systems, it does take a while and take a lot of iteration, right?

Do you imagine spending more time on the podcast and the newsletter, or do you actually think you'll spend the same amount of time on the podcast and the newsletter, but simply backfill the rest of that time with your own projects, like in your own building time? Or do you actually want to ramp up the time you spend on the newsletter and the podcast?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like, I want to increase the quality of the newsletter and podcasts, but at the same time, I'm also actively building skills to streamline a lot of the, you know, manual copy and paste work.

Right.

So like I now have skills to like, I have a skill to do research for the podcast for the guests and it outputs like a whole doc for me.

And then after I record a podcast, it makes like five different assets for me for social media and like YouTube and everything else.

knows you just quit your job.

Mm-hmm.

It can update Google documents for me, it can build little web websites for me.

But if I was honest with you, dude, like I mostly just talk to it through voice and get voice replies.

And like every other day I ask it to give me like a pep talk.

[laughs]

Okay.

And it gi- it gave me like...

Like I, I remember I was on a walk and it gave me like a three-minute pep talk that was like really amazing, really amazing.