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Ali Abdaal
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What’s an important lesson you’ve learned over the years? 🤔
Here are 5 key things I learned I now know at 30 but wish I knew at 20.
If you're interested in getting more of my life lessons and personal reflections, you can sign up to my free 5-day email series here 👇🏼
https://lnkd.in/gzD9Bbmc
Here are 5 key things I learned I now know at 30 but wish I knew at 20.
If you're interested in getting more of my life lessons and personal reflections, you can sign up to my free 5-day email series here 👇🏼
https://lnkd.in/gzD9Bbmc
WE'RE HIRING - LOOKING FOR COFOUNDERS & A FOUNDER’S ASSOCIATE 🚀
Over the last few months we’ve been building an AI-native platform to better connect creators and brands. We’ve been working closely with Notion, Superhuman, Wispr Flow, Viktor and others (in closed beta), brought-on a world-class technical team, and are close to launching our agent-powered workflow. We’re bullish that this could be a category-defining venture, and want to continue building a world-class team to match that ambition.
Who we’d love to work with:
👉 A Cofounder to lead product/operations: https://lnkd.in/ehsRjaqB
👉 A Cofounder to lead growth: https://lnkd.in/eSeUmizy
👉 A Founder’s Associate: https://lnkd.in/efzmau-a
If joining a rocket ship with high autonomy, high trust, and high upside is your idea of fun, please go ahead and let us know by filling those forms.
Please note that we review applications on a rolling basis: we’re in active conversations with a number of candidates, and expecting to fill each position very soon.
Over the last few months we’ve been building an AI-native platform to better connect creators and brands. We’ve been working closely with Notion, Superhuman, Wispr Flow, Viktor and others (in closed beta), brought-on a world-class technical team, and are close to launching our agent-powered workflow. We’re bullish that this could be a category-defining venture, and want to continue building a world-class team to match that ambition.
Who we’d love to work with:
👉 A Cofounder to lead product/operations: https://lnkd.in/ehsRjaqB
👉 A Cofounder to lead growth: https://lnkd.in/eSeUmizy
👉 A Founder’s Associate: https://lnkd.in/efzmau-a
If joining a rocket ship with high autonomy, high trust, and high upside is your idea of fun, please go ahead and let us know by filling those forms.
Please note that we review applications on a rolling basis: we’re in active conversations with a number of candidates, and expecting to fill each position very soon.
Every quarter I sit down and do the same three-step exercise.
And every single time I'm reminded how much clarity comes from actually doing it rather than just turning it over in my head.
Step one is reflection: rating where things genuinely stand across work, health and relationships, not where I wish they stood, and journaling on what's working versus what isn't.
Step two is alignment: picturing what my ideal day-to-day looks like three years out, so the next quarter has somewhere to point toward.
Step three is planning: picking just two main quests, one for work and one for life, instead of the ten I'd be tempted to pick if I let myself.
It's a simple framework, but most of the value is in actually sitting down and doing it rather than skipping straight to goal-setting without the reflection underneath it.
I'm running this live as part of my Summer Reset workshop this Saturday (4th July), to reflect on the first half of the year and align on goals for the second half. You can register for free here - https://lnkd.in/ecBbfcRY
hopefully see some of you there :)
And every single time I'm reminded how much clarity comes from actually doing it rather than just turning it over in my head.
Step one is reflection: rating where things genuinely stand across work, health and relationships, not where I wish they stood, and journaling on what's working versus what isn't.
Step two is alignment: picturing what my ideal day-to-day looks like three years out, so the next quarter has somewhere to point toward.
Step three is planning: picking just two main quests, one for work and one for life, instead of the ten I'd be tempted to pick if I let myself.
It's a simple framework, but most of the value is in actually sitting down and doing it rather than skipping straight to goal-setting without the reflection underneath it.
I'm running this live as part of my Summer Reset workshop this Saturday (4th July), to reflect on the first half of the year and align on goals for the second half. You can register for free here - https://lnkd.in/ecBbfcRY
hopefully see some of you there :)
One of the most-viewed videos on my YouTube channel is about typing.
It's got over 10 million views but that same video probably wouldn’t work today.
It came out of a random idea because I thought others might be interested in learning how to type faster. I’d managed to get to 156 words per minute through all the record keeping and notes I'd have to make as a doctor in the NHS, but my typing speed became a bit of a thing so I thought I'd make a video and it ended up doing quite well.
The thing is, these days I don't type nearly as much. What I've realised is that even at 156 words a minute, typing was never actually my bottleneck. I speak at closer to 300 words a minute and that gap is not unusual - most people talk faster than they can type. In fact, the gap between how fast we can talk and how fast we can type is usually pretty large, and once you've actually noticed it, it's very hard to go back to just typing.
So one of the tools that I now rely upon on a daily basis is Wispr Flow, a voice-to-text tool that runs right across your desktop, so it works in Slack, Gmail, Notion, Claude, ChatGPT, wherever you already write. You press a key, talk, and it turns the way you naturally speak into clean, formatted text that's ready to go.
For me, where it's genuinely changed how I work, is with my AI tools. I used to give Claude these short, lazy prompts because typing out the full context felt like too much effort, so I'd get fairly mediocre answers back. Now I just ramble for thirty seconds, provide all the context and all the nuance in my head, and the outputs are dramatically better.
It's the same with first drafts. I talk the messy version onto the page and edit once the words actually exist, instead of sitting there warming up on a blank document.
If you'd like to try it, head to https://lnkd.in/eiktSubP and use the code ALI to get a month of Wispr Flow Pro for free.
#ad #WisprFlowPartner
It's got over 10 million views but that same video probably wouldn’t work today.
It came out of a random idea because I thought others might be interested in learning how to type faster. I’d managed to get to 156 words per minute through all the record keeping and notes I'd have to make as a doctor in the NHS, but my typing speed became a bit of a thing so I thought I'd make a video and it ended up doing quite well.
The thing is, these days I don't type nearly as much. What I've realised is that even at 156 words a minute, typing was never actually my bottleneck. I speak at closer to 300 words a minute and that gap is not unusual - most people talk faster than they can type. In fact, the gap between how fast we can talk and how fast we can type is usually pretty large, and once you've actually noticed it, it's very hard to go back to just typing.
So one of the tools that I now rely upon on a daily basis is Wispr Flow, a voice-to-text tool that runs right across your desktop, so it works in Slack, Gmail, Notion, Claude, ChatGPT, wherever you already write. You press a key, talk, and it turns the way you naturally speak into clean, formatted text that's ready to go.
For me, where it's genuinely changed how I work, is with my AI tools. I used to give Claude these short, lazy prompts because typing out the full context felt like too much effort, so I'd get fairly mediocre answers back. Now I just ramble for thirty seconds, provide all the context and all the nuance in my head, and the outputs are dramatically better.
It's the same with first drafts. I talk the messy version onto the page and edit once the words actually exist, instead of sitting there warming up on a blank document.
If you'd like to try it, head to https://lnkd.in/eiktSubP and use the code ALI to get a month of Wispr Flow Pro for free.
#ad #WisprFlowPartner