Can a Productivity System Help You Find Love?
2025-08-10 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:17 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Relationships and personal life · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Family
In a Short, Ali gives his hot take that people serious about dating should run it like a business with a productivity system: optimise the profile for matches, aim for the single KPI of one or two dates a week, and become picky only once hitting it; his wife and several friends did this.
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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — A productivity system for your dating life
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★★★ Ali's hot take: anyone who wants to take dating seriously should build a productivity system around their dating life and treat it like a business or a work project. — 00:00:00
“build some sort of productivity system around your dating life”
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★★ In Ali's dating productivity system, the first step is optimising the dating profile to maximise the number of inbound leads, that is, matches. — 00:00:00
- ★★★ Ali says a good dating productivity system optimises for a single KPI, the number of dates per week, and you should aim for one or two dates a week. — 00:00:00
- ★★ Only once you have more matches than you know what to do with, Ali says, should you become choosier about who gets your date slots, for example adding a height requirement. — 00:00:00
- ★★ Ali says his wife Izzy had her own productivity system for dating: a Notion page on which she took notes after every date she went on. — 00:00:40 · Izzy Sealey, Notion
- ★★ Ali knows a handful of people who built productivity systems around their dating life, among them an entrepreneur friend now in a long-term relationship and a male friend who is now married. — 00:00:40
Threads in this video
- refine · How do you find a partner? — Ali advises running dating like a business with a productivity system whose single KPI is one or two dates a week, and becoming picky only once you are hitting it. (00:00:00)
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