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Makes: Apollo

Sources by year: 2019: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2026: 4

Also named in the threads: Ali teaches himself the piano from YouTube tutorials in his third year of medical school · Ali gets into Harry Potter fan fiction, starting with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2025)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

person, problem, solution (3) · Harry Potter (book series) (3) · unfair advantage (2) · Twitter (3) · Google (2) · LinkedIn (2) · Angus (general manager) (2) · Skillshare (2) · Feel-Good Productivity (book) (3) · Instagram (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2026

  • 2026-04-25 · I got cancelled for my 2x speed — Ali: A few years ago Ali made a video about watching TV and anime at double or sometimes triple speed; it got more than 50% dislikes, and people on Reddit called him toxic productivity. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-07-10 · i am begging you to try harry potter fan fiction — Ali held that view of fan fiction until about the middle of 2025, when he came across a Reddit thread about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. — 00:01:23
    • Ali expected The Rigel Black Chronicles to be trashy gender-swap nonsense from its plot summary, but Reddit fans were keen, and he concluded he should not judge a book, or Harry Potter fan fiction, by its premise. — 00:13:51
  • 2026-10-10 · How to Learn So Fast People Assume You’re Naturally Gifted (with AI) — Ali: Before AI you had to google, read Reddit or a blog post and trust the author; because AI has basically read the internet, Ali says, you can ask it to argue with itself. — 00:15:26
  • …and 1 statement more in 2026 — all statements of 2026

2025

  • 2025-01-17 · How to Actually Get in Shape in 2026 - My Evidence-Based Guide — recommendation: Ali: To find a workout plan, Ali suggests Google, Reddit, Nerd Fitness or Jeff Nippard's YouTube channel; he bought one of Nippard's guides and finds it really good. — 00:12:54
  • 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali suggests giving the AI different personas to distort the mirror, such as a drill-sergeant prompt he found on the ChatGPT prompts subreddit. (hedged) — 00:17:00
    • Ali's memory-based prompt for ChatGPT, from the ChatGPT prompts subreddit, asks: what is my hidden narrative and subtext, the one thing I never express, the fear I don't admit? — 00:26:13
    • A single ChatGPT prompt copied from Reddit hit Ali, he says, in a way none of the professional coaches he has paid ever have. — 00:31:55
  • 2025-06-13 · He Built a $1M Business in 12 Months - Every Step Explained (Case Study) — recommendation: Suhail Idrees: To find problems worth solving, Suhail says to listen out for people complaining, reflect on recent conversations, or browse forums like Reddit where people complain about software and daily issues. — 00:33:55
    • Suhail Idrees: To find first users without contacts, Suhail would edit a few videos himself to learn the problems, then go into every forum he can think of, such as Discord, Slack and Reddit groups of editors. — 01:25:35
  • 2025-08-15 · The best Harry Potter fanfiction? — Ali: After Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Ali thought nothing could be better fan fiction, then searched Reddit for recommendations and came across The Debt of Time. — 00:00:36

Also named in: How to finally start your first business in 2026

2024

  • 2024-01-27 · The Story of Filet-o-Fish1066 🐟 — Ali tells how in June 2016 the Reddit user Filet-o-Fish1066 made headlines for being fired after six years as a software developer testing software in quality assurance, work Ali calls deeply boring. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-06-12 · Start a Business While Working Full Time 🧑‍💻 — recommendation: Ali: Instead of thinking of business ideas, Ali says to think of the problems your chosen group of people has, using weekends and evenings to talk to them or browse subreddits to pin those problems down. — 00:00:17
  • 2024-07-26 · THIS Cured My iPhone Addiction — Ali: Scrolling YouTube on the toilet kept Ali up until midnight or 1 a.m.; Opal now blocks YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit on his phone after 9 p.m., so he reads and sleeps on time. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-10-08 · How to Study for Exams with Flashcards (Anki Masterclass) — recommendation: Ali: Find pre-made decks through an online community for your subject, such as Reddit, and pick the decks everyone uses, which are better fact-checked. — 02:52:12

Also named in: Reading Mean Online Comments About Me

2023

  • 2023-10-13 · How to Make $10,000/Month Writing Online — recommendation: Ali: Good places to write online, Ali says, are platforms that already have an audience: Twitter (X), LinkedIn for business content, Wattpad for fiction, Quora, Reddit and Medium. — 00:05:04

Also named in: My Productive Phone Setup

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