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2026

2026-01-27 · 22 ONE-MINUTE Habits That Save Me 25+ Hours a Week — recommendation: Ali: Although he types about 156 words per minute, Ali speaks faster still, so he dictates to his computer and to AI tools, which he says saves far more time than typing. — 00:04:55
2026-02-04 · The top mistake people make in setting goals — recommendation: Ali: If you struggle to turn a vague goal such as "stop procrastinating" into a SMART goal, Ali suggests asking an AI such as ChatGPT or Claude to help. — 00:00:29
2026-02-12 · You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Learn AI in 19 Minutes — Ali gives a five-phase process to become fluent and productive with AI in about three months: foundations in week one, AI as coach in week two, AI as worker in weeks three and four, AI as a system over one to two months, and AI as infrastructure from month four. — 00:00:00
2026-02-12 · You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Learn AI in 19 Minutes — recommendation: Ali's third AI foundation: talk to AI rather than type, with Wispr Flow, built-in dictation on Windows and Mac or the AI tools' own; you speak faster and ramble more, and he says this one habit transforms how much value you get. — 00:00:58
2026-02-26 · If I Started A Business in 2026, I'd Do This — recommendation: Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy gives students feedback on their niche choices; without a mentorship programme, Ali says you could get that feedback from Claude or ChatGPT. — 00:23:52
2026-03-12 · If I Started YouTube from Scratch in 2026, I’d do THIS — recommendation: Ali: For a video's packaging, Ali suggests recording a voice note on the concept and having AI generate title ideas and thumbnail concepts to pick from, then editing the photo in a tool such as Canva. — 00:29:58
2026-03-25 · The Competition Paradox — recommendation: Ali's bronze standard of validation, very easy to do: put the business idea into ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity and ask for a market analysis, without being nice, of whether there is a market, how much people will pay, where to find them and who the competitors are. — 00:00:29
2026-03-26 · How I'd Create Content in 2026 (If I Had To Start Over) — recommendation: Ali: A mistake Ali sees beginners in his Lifestyle Business Academy make is having ChatGPT generate their content before they have the skill or taste; at the start, doing it manually builds the skill. — 00:10:46
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali's AI flywheel: get AI to interview you about your work, have it suggest what to build to save time or make money, and learn how the AI works while it builds. — 00:00:29
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — recommendation: Ali's second prerequisite: talk to AI through dictation software instead of typing; he uses Wispr Flow, which puts his words on screen within milliseconds. — 00:02:04
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — recommendation: Ali: To learn AI, Ali suggests building something really useful for your work or life rather than following tutorials, and asking the AI to interview you to find what would save time or make money. — 00:02:27
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — recommendation: Ali: Someone with a job can ask the AI to interview them about their job, Ali says, for example when going for a raise or trying to improve their performance. — 00:03:41
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali: The danger with AI, Ali says, is spending so long building agents that orchestrate agents that nothing useful gets done; useful means it adds value to customers, saves you time or makes you money. — 00:23:01
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali: What holds people back from the AI flywheel is unwillingness to push through technical friction, Ali says; being willing to figure it out is what separates you from your grandma. — 00:42:18
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali: Automation once needed a hired developer, then no-code tools such as Zapier, Make and n8n; now, Ali says, you do not need them, as Claude Code can be your full-time developer. — 01:04:45
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Jeff Su: Jeff says this is why context engineering matters for AI: giving it an example of good output, such as a video script, works far better than asking for a script in someone's tone of voice. — 00:35:45
2026-05-28 · I See 800 Applications. Here's What Gets Hired. — recommendation: Ali: For each dream job, Ali advises working out the problems the company is likely to have, for example by asking Claude to research the company and surface them. — 00:14:29
2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — recommendation: Ali: To get good at AI, Ali advises staying on the cutting edge: stop using the free version of ChatGPT and follow AI accounts on Twitter every day, because that is where the conversation about AI happens. — 00:00:00
2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — recommendation: Ali advises using AI every day, understanding Claude Code, Codex and Perplexity, watching the annual conference talks of OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, and working out how to apply AI to your business, life or work. — 00:00:00
2026-06-23 · Best AI Tool for Every Use Case — recommendation: Ali: For other AI jobs Ali picks ChatGPT Images 2.0 for image generation, VoicePal for turning voice recordings into ideas on the go, Wispr Flow for computer dictation and Perplexity Deep Research for research. — 00:00:02
2026-07-23 · How to Get Rich Without a Degree — recommendation: Ali: To learn a skill such as making Instagram ads, Ali advises asking ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to teach you, for example which AI workflows are best, and guarantees an excellent answer. — 00:10:51
2026-08-04 · How to Make Your Job Optional — Ali: Information is not the problem in starting a business, Ali says: ask Claude or ChatGPT how to start one and it will give pretty reasonable advice. — 00:21:14
2026-09-07 · How to make your first $1,000 online — recommendation: Ali: On whether to register a business, Ali would describe your situation to ChatGPT, which he says gives very reasonable financial advice on it. — 00:04:04
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali now writes LifeNotes with no AI: he used to dictate it into VoicePal on walks and work it over with Claude, but since finding the splurge he prefers writing creative work himself, keeping AI dictation for non-creative work. — 00:08:48
2026-10-10 · How to Learn So Fast People Assume You’re Naturally Gifted (with AI) — Ali: One of the most underrated uses of AI, Ali says, is not search queries or getting work done but using it as the world's best personal tutor. — 00:00:00
2026-10-10 · How to Learn So Fast People Assume You’re Naturally Gifted (with AI) — recommendation: Ali advises talking to AI by voice rather than typing, with dictation software such as Wispr Flow or the voice feature built into the AI. — 00:03:10
2026-10-10 · How to Learn So Fast People Assume You’re Naturally Gifted (with AI) — recommendation: Ali: When you get stuck on a project, Ali advises taking photos, sending them to the AI and asking it to help you through. — 00:26:09
2026-10-16 · How a plastic surgeon could use AI — recommendation: Ali: If a doctor in private practice focused on one AI use case, Ali would pick marketing, where there is much less concern about risks to patient safety. (hedged) — 00:01:44
2026-10-16 · Brutally Honest Advice About Productivity in 26 Minutes — recommendation: Ali suggests putting the clarity journaling prompts into your favourite AI and asking it to interview you to help figure out what to do with your life. — 00:09:53

2025

2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali starts a piece of writing by rambling into VoicePal whatever is off the top of his head, usually not at his desk but on a walk with his AirPods in; that is how he creates the bulk of his content. — 00:02:34
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali's newsletter shares his own thoughts, so he uses AI to augment it, helping him pull ideas out of himself rather than doing the work for him: the seed of each idea comes from him. — 00:04:06
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali almost always gives Claude and ChatGPT basically the same prompt and compares the drafts; he keeps a LifeNotes project in each. — 00:05:28
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali finds Claude better at writing about 80% of the time, but ChatGPT's memory function means it knows more about him, so about 20% of the time it gives a better first draft. — 00:05:56
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali: A mistake Ali often sees is expecting AI output to be amazing straight away; he generates four or five outputs across tools until one is about 80% good, then edits it himself in Notion. — 00:07:18
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: Even with AI, when Ali has a clearer vision of what he wants to say, typing it himself helps him express himself, as in a paragraph fanboying about Tim Ferriss's podcast interview with Brandon Sanderson. — 00:10:09
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali uses Notion AI, opened with Command J, to suggest 10 subject lines for a newsletter email. — 00:10:56
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali: Data analysis is another major use of AI for Ali: any CSV or spreadsheet he can give to ChatGPT or Claude to analyse. — 00:12:08
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali: A follow-up prompt Ali likes to try with almost any prompt: tell the AI it has given a level one response and ask it to go deeper with a level two and three response. — 00:13:24
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: In Taiwan, Ali and his wife spoke any question they had straight into Claude and read the answers to each other: Claude was their own personal tour guide. — 00:15:51
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: For casual voice search such as tour guiding on the go, Ali prefers Claude to ChatGPT because Claude transcribes with one click where ChatGPT needs two: the friction removed decides it. — 00:16:46
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali generally prefers to speak to AI tools and get their responses in text, going back and forth. — 00:17:46
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali: For the last 18 months Ali has used various AI tools as a personal life coach; he was sceptical at first, but the results surprised him. — 00:00:00
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali sees a lot of value in giving an AI life coach more kinds of raw input than typing: voice recordings, photos of handwritten journals, call transcripts and screenshots. — 00:01:28
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali: Feeding the transcript of a coaching call into AI usually gets Ali a lot more value from the coaching session, because he can reflect on it afterwards. — 00:01:28
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali: To get around AI sycophancy, which he calls glazing, Ali asks the AI to challenge his thinking: for a steel-man counter-argument, the strongest counter-argument, or a scathing critique of what he said. — 00:02:26
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali: Expecting truth from an AI's explanations of you is a recipe for disaster, Ali says: they are not necessarily true but can be useful, so treat them as a suggestion or hypothesis, not a commandment. — 00:03:25
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali runs an AI's recommendation through his own filter of whether he thinks it is a good idea, rather than outsourcing that thinking to the AI. — 00:05:22
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali: AI tools are very good at synthesis, Ali says: feed one thousands of words of your own journaling and ask it what patterns are coming up. — 00:05:22
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali thinks of both a life coach and AI as a life coach as a mirror, not a source of gospel truth or a superintelligence that knows everything about you. — 00:07:48
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali's test for what to ask AI: would he take the problem to a smart, well-read acquaintance without qualifications who does not know him well? Not crippling depression or suicidal thoughts. — 00:09:49
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali has written his own obituary by answering VoicePal's obituary questions and asking the AI to write it from the cleaned-up transcript. — 00:11:50
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali uses VoicePal's frameworks extensively on what he wants from his life and business, and finds speaking his thoughts and going back and forth with AI far easier than typing. — 00:12:19
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali: Readwise's chat with your highlights answers a question from the books you have read and highlighted, which Ali finds far more useful and personal than asking a generic chatbot. — 00:13:20
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali calls his AI 90-year-old self's answers useful, not true, after the title of a Derek Sivers book: none of it is necessarily true or necessarily false. — 00:16:31
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
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali: One of Ali's top tips for using AI in general: get it to argue the exact opposite of what it first says, which avoids it affirming everything you say. — 00:20:41
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali's long-form podcast prompt: tell the AI you are the host of a long-form podcast with two named guests, such as Kapil Gupta and Jed McKenna, who answer your questions. — 00:21:04
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali: In the podcast prompt Ali likes to pit two guests with very different outlooks against each other to see what happens. — 00:22:52
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: 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
2025-06-13 · He Built a $1M Business in 12 Months - Every Step Explained (Case Study) — recommendation: Suhail Idrees: Suhail encourages using AI to get up the learning curve faster, but not as an excuse to skip speaking to users and vibe code something, then look for users later. — 02:22:45
2025-06-23 · 5 AI Tools I Use Every Day — recommendation: Ali records all his Zoom calls with Grain, which transcribes them and picks out action points and takeaways; when a call with a friend, coach or team member produces good ideas, he puts its transcript into Claude to generate ideas for writing. — 00:00:29
2025-08-14 · Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Journal — recommendation: Ali: You can photograph or type what you journal into ChatGPT or Claude so the AI responds to it, which Ali calls journaling on steroids since AI tools came out; Claude is his personal favourite. — 00:00:58
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — recommendation: Ali: You can ask ChatGPT to teach you these business skills or to interview you and help you find your niche, Ali says. — 00:43:33
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali uses Claude more than his business coach: he pays the coach $3,000 a month and Anthropic $20 a month, and gets more value from Claude. — 00:43:33
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali: If you don't know who would pay for your skill, ask ChatGPT, Ali says: with Claude and ChatGPT you really don't need a business coach, though one still helps; he personally likes Claude. — 00:09:41
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali suggests recording customer conversations with permission, for example on VoicePal, the app he and his wife built, and asking ChatGPT or Claude for business ideas from them. — 00:13:58
2025-09-30 · If I was a student again, I’d do this — recommendation: Ali: To find high-income skills to learn as a student, Ali suggests simply asking Claude or ChatGPT. — 00:22:17
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: In Ali's AI workflow Claude is the processing hub for everything; outputs go to Google Docs, to Firecut for videos, and to Notion for content and business work. — 00:02:44
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: Claude has replaced Ali's ChatGPT use: ChatGPT's memory of past chats was the last reason he used it, and since Claude added memory a week ago he has not needed ChatGPT for anything. — 00:05:17
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali prefers Claude to ChatGPT because its personality is nicer and more engaging, its writing is better, and it is less of a sycophantic yes man. — 00:05:17
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali keeps a Claude project for each area of his work, so Claude can reference that project's files and has context when he switches between software, content and courses. — 00:11:29
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: Hooking attention, such as YouTube titles and thumbnails or the first three seconds on Instagram and TikTok, is one of Ali's least favourite parts of making content, so he likes AI tools to do that work. — 00:19:02
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: A common mistake with AI for creative work is to dismiss it over the ideas you dislike, Ali says: generate 50 to 100, you will probably like 5 to 20 % of them, and use those. (hedged) — 00:20:38
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali does not let AI write his scripts: outsourcing too much creativity to AI loses some soul, and he does not want a language model putting words in his mouth, though AI hooks are fine. — 00:22:14
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali's app team sends users surveys and puts the CSV of results into Claude to parse what people say about the app and decide roadmap priorities. — 00:22:14
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: Whenever Ali starts something new, he begins with a voice transcription to get as much out of his head as possible, often interviewing himself in VoicePal on a walk. — 00:24:32
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali finds that at least about 800 words of spoken transcript is a good amount of material to give Claude to process. — 00:30:07
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali puts the CSV of Lifestyle Business Academy applicants' responses into Claude to see which issues students will likely face at each stage of the roadmap. — 00:33:29
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali puts transcripts of his coaching-call recordings into Claude and asks what the coach recommends to make the programme better for students. — 00:35:04
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: All of Ali's AI use comes down to input, processing and output, with different AI tools to help at each stage, whether for software, content or online education. — 00:37:57
2025-12-12 · How to change your life by journaling in 2026 — recommendation: Ali's fourth tip is that starting to journal has never been easier because you can talk to an AI, for example asking it for journaling prompts; his favourite AI for this is Claude, but any tool works. — 00:20:22

2024

2024-01-19 · Why You Feel Lost in Life — recommendation: Ali suggests writing out notes on how you want to be remembered and putting them into ChatGPT to draft your obituary, or writing it yourself. — 00:20:35
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali now plans videos and course modules by walking with AirPods in and talking into VoicePal, which transcribes his thoughts and asks follow-up questions. — 00:13:17
2024-11-29 · How to Build a Business Part-Time — recommendation: Ali: With ChatGPT or Claude you can whip up a sales page on your phone in about ten minutes, Ali says. — 00:29:31
2024-12-03 · 5 Simple Steps to Earn $10,000 Writing Online — recommendation: Nicolas Cole: Asked about automating outreach with ChatGPT, Nicolas Cole says the big misunderstanding with AI is wanting to automate things you have never done: you can't automate what you haven't done. — 00:31:19
2024-12-03 · 5 Simple Steps to Earn $10,000 Writing Online — Nicolas Cole: Doing outreach by hand first seems the longer road, Nicolas Cole says, but it teaches you what drives the outcome so you can then leverage technology; skip it and the shortcut ends up being the longer road. — 00:32:02
2024-12-03 · 5 Simple Steps to Earn $10,000 Writing Online — recommendation: Ali's takeaway: go through the whole process yourself first so you understand how it works; AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can come later, but using them as a crutch early means you probably won't make it. — 00:32:35
2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — recommendation: Ali: Without VoicePal, Ali suggests any speech-to-transcript software, then pasting the transcript into ChatGPT and editing it in Notion, Google Docs or Microsoft Word. — 00:20:52

2023

2023-01-26 · 7 Side Hustles Ideas to Make $1000/Month — recommendation: Ali: With AI writing tools, Ali says, being a decent writer is now often about using the right AI tools to create a first draft, then editing it into the style of the people you write for. — 00:07:18
2023-03-26 · 6 AI Tools I Use Every Day — Ali's main personal use of ChatGPT is idea generation: for a chapter of his book he asked it for scientific case studies linking play, dopamine, novelty and productivity. — 00:00:58
2023-05-10 · 5 Steps to Start Your First Business — recommendation: Ali suggests using artificial intelligence to help come up with business ideas and refine the value proposition. — 00:02:24
2023-08-04 · I Read 107 Productivity Books. Here's What Actually Works. — recommendation: Ali: As a second optional extra, Ali suggests adding systems for leverage, such as AI tools that leverage your own inputs. — 00:17:03
2023-08-30 · I Tried 137 Productivity Tools. These Are The Best. — recommendation: Ali: Otter.ai transcribes Ali's meetings and conversations almost perfectly and uses AI to summarise them; on walks he dictates video ideas into it instead of typing on his phone. — 00:14:55