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Auditing every 15-minute block of your day forces a confrontation with the default behaviors that other people's incentives built into your life — and that confrontation is the precondition for any real productivity gain.
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- You are early-stage in AI services or automation and want an unfiltered read on whether the market has shifted in the last year.
- You want to pitch someone bigger than you — whether to hire you, collaborate, or give you a shot — and you keep getting ignored.
- You spend a lot of time consuming information about productivity or business without feeling like you are actually moving.
- You are young (teens to mid-20s) with time and ambition but limited cash, trying to figure out where to start with AI tools.
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- You are already running a mature AI agency and want advanced operations or hiring content — this is aimed at people starting from zero.
- You want technical deep-dives on Claude Code or n8n; this is strategic framing, not implementation.
The full version, fast.
The B2B AI services market has shifted toward Claude Code and education as sellable products, not just automation implementation. The real bottleneck for most beginners is action, not information. When pitching someone larger than you, the A-tier move is to identify a specific problem they have, fix it yourself without asking, then offer to keep fixing it for a fraction of the value — eliminating all oversight cost on their end. The Lifestyle Audit distills this to the personal level: map your 64 daily 15-minute blocks, ask whether each is intentional or just inertia, and redesign your environment before willpower runs out.
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00:00 – 00:35
01 · Channel intro and goal
$300k/month current, goal $500k. Format: YouTube Q&A, build-in-public, growth stats.
00:35 – 07:00
02 · AI agency landscape
Ali from Mississauga asks how B2B AI services have changed. Claude Code education now sellable in days not months, n8n still worth 4-5 hours to learn, agentic AI transition real but 2-4 years out.
07:00 – 12:02
03 · Staff Autonomy Tier List
Jacob asks to join the team. Answer becomes a pitching framework: C-tier asks to work free, B-tier shows work done free, A-tier identifies a specific problem, fixes it, and offers to keep fixing it with zero management overhead.
12:02 – 13:40
04 · Agentic social media
Skepticism validated: full automation produces AI slop. Right model is agents handling admin labor (transcript compilation) with humans signing off on output.
13:40 – 15:10
05 · Speaking on camera
Replace um with silence. Speak slower than feels natural so viewers can speed up. Anchor cadence low.
15:10 – 19:57
06 · Getting started at 18
Get paid AI tools now, learn at the level clients operate at. Young people spot process inefficiencies faster. Proactive outreach: solve first, pitch second.
19:57 – 25:03
07 · Lifestyle Audit and growth stats
Track 64 daily 15-minute blocks, examine each intentionally, redesign environment before willpower runs out. New environment is an opportunity to design from scratch. Channel: 456,907 subs, Maker School stable at ~2,090, ~$45k from annual conversions.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Most people fail to start a business not because they lack information but because they refuse to stop gathering it and start acting.
- Claude Code has made AI education sellable in a week instead of months — a workshop can show ROI before the invoice is due.
- The A-tier pitch eliminates all three costs a busy person faces: evaluating you, placing you, and managing you.
- Offering to work for free is not compelling when money is not the bottleneck — results are.
- Agentic social media that bypasses human review produces AI slop; the right use is invisible admin labor, not audience-facing output.
- Replacing um with silence makes you sound more confident, not less — listeners fill the gap with competence.
- Speaking 20-30% slower than natural lets viewers speed you up while you sound articulate to everyone.
- Young people spot process rot in legacy businesses faster than veterans because they have no memory of when the process worked.
- The 64 fifteen-minute blocks in a waking day are your real unit of time management — not tasks, not goals.
- Default behaviors are not chosen; they are incentive structures built into your environment by other people.
- Willpower is a finite daily resource; every time you resist your environment it costs points you cannot recover.
- Converting monthly subscribers to annual reduces churn by a percentage that compounding makes outsized over time.
- The calculus of when AI replaces services agencies depends less on model capability than on how fast organizations can actually implement it.
- Getting the paid tier of AI tools is not a luxury when your future clients all use the paid tier — you are learning the wrong tool otherwise.
Your environment is always designing your day — do it first.
WHAT TO LEARN
Most people live by default: the notifications, feeds, and routines other people built around them. Examining each 15-minute block of your day is the only way to see which behaviors you chose and which were handed to you.
- More information is rarely the bottleneck — acting on what you already know almost always is.
- When pitching someone more successful than you, eliminate every unit of work they would have to do: evaluate you, place you, manage you. Present a completed result, not a resume.
- Offering to work for free is compelling only when money is the constraint. When results are the constraint, the offer signals you have not identified what the person actually needs.
- Full AI automation of audience-facing content produces low-trust output; the right use of agents is invisible admin labor that humans review and then publish.
- Speaking slower than feels natural gives your brain time to find the right word, and viewers who want speed will apply it themselves.
- Young people have a structural advantage in spotting business process rot: they have no memory of when the inefficient process worked, so they see it clearly.
- Willpower is a limited daily resource. Every time you resist a bad default behavior in your environment, you spend points you cannot recover. The fix is to redesign the environment, not to try harder.
Terms worth knowing.
- Lifestyle Audit
- A structured review of every 15-minute block in a typical day, used to identify which habits are intentional choices and which are default behaviors imposed by the surrounding environment.
- Staff Autonomy Tier List
- A three-tier framework for pitching yourself to someone successful, ranked by how much overhead your approach creates for them — from requiring full evaluation and management (C-tier) down to presenting a completed zero-overhead solution (A-tier).
- Agentic AI
- AI systems that operate autonomously across multi-step tasks without continuous human direction, contrasted with tools that assist a human who is still driving each step.
- Default life
- The pattern of daily behavior that emerges when a person never consciously chooses their habits — shaped by notifications, platform incentives, and social defaults rather than personal intention.
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03:32productMaker School
06:10productLeftClick
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“People's problems are not related to the amount of information they have. You already have most of the information that you need to succeed.”
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“When money is not the bottleneck and results are, this is just what you want to do with anybody big.”
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“The cost of a decision is way, way more expensive than the cost of a slight mistake.”
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“There is no future where AI does not do the vast majority of economically valuable work for mankind at this point.”
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00:00Hey. Welcome to my daily updates channel where I show you guys how I'm making over $300,000 a month using AI automation, Clog Code, and everything else.
00:08Uh, my goal is to 500,000 a month, so I wanna go up by 200 k. And essentially, what I do in this video series is I show you guys how I'm closing the gap. I also provide a lot of value through YouTube comment q and a, um, building and strategizing in public, aka actually showing you guys the the step by step.
00:23And then finally, I wanna go see my growth across YouTube, Instagram, and the rest of my products just so you could see what actual growth looks like for somebody in my situation. K. This is the main channel over here.
00:32It's at 456882. And then this is the one that you guys are on right now, the the daily updates one. So I'm just gonna head over to the community tab and then scroll down, sorting by newest to get to the last comment.
00:45And I think the cutoff is three weeks ago. That's sort of how I'm operating. So basically, every comment from Gabbi, Jondo, and up, I'm answering.
00:53And so if you guys want me to answer your questions, then feel free to to stick them in. So he says, welcome back, Nick. I just have to resubscribe.
01:00Woah. Unsubscribed. Who the hell unsubscribes on YouTube?
01:03Don't know. K. Ali from Mississauga, Ontario here says, how has things changed since a year ago for somebody looking to start a b to b services agency today?
01:12Are no code platforms now obsolete because of Adjunct AI, or are there different use cases for both? Should a beginner still learn Maker N8M?
01:21And how will things change going forward? And is Upwork still the best way to start? If you had to start over from scratch, what would you do?
01:27I'm new, so trying to figure out the best place to position myself starting from zero today. So obviously, Ali's got a lot of questions. I want you to know, for the most part, people's problems are not related to the amount of information they have.
01:40You already have most of the information that you need to succeed. Really, the thing that stops you from achieving what you want is just action. So while the answers to these questions, I think, can seem helpful in the short term, they can also be quite distracting and constantly lusting for information as opposed to just, like, taking actions and then sort of figuring this stuff out organically, uh, was a key problem of mine that prevented me from starting a business and scaling it to even 5 or $10,000 a month.
02:05So how things changed since a year ago? Um, to make a long story short, there's a lot more emphasis on cloud code based solutions. There's also a lot more emphasis on education.
02:15Um, and I think that it's actually somewhat viable for you to sell education now, as opposed to implementation through services, not like a channel like mine.
02:25What I mean by that is, uh, you know, a few years ago, you couldn't really teach somebody an eight m or make.com or Zapier or Power Automate without there being, like, quite a quite a high skill curve and that level of education being very difficult to justify cost wise until, you know, maybe like three or four months in when a person's at like a level where they can actually start meaningfully contributing within their company.
02:47With Cloud Code, Cloud Cowork, and these other tools, you can actually, like, give a team a workshop. And then within a week, they could see a return on investment.
02:56And so the calculus has changed a little bit, and you can actually sell education specifically around Claude, um, and arbitrage the fact that you have a little bit more knowledge than somebody else because maybe you watched my four hour Claude course and so on, which makes it a lot easier just to get into. So even on like the jobs landscape, like job platforms, hence your question on Upwork.
03:14Like you see a lot of people now asking for like ClodCode coaching, ClodCode education, you know, Codex, uh, workshops and so on. And that's something you can actually feasibly sell. And I didn't even make this part of the Maker School curriculum, but I'm seeing a lot of people now doing that.
03:26They're actually like going into education. Hey, I just sold this workshop. Hey, I just sold this seminar.
03:29Hey, I just sold this like, uh, two month coaching series. And, uh, you know, we're also doing internally within LeftClick for, like, big big businesses, but it looks like people can also do that pretty reliably with small to mid sized businesses as well.
03:43So maybe what this means now is, you know, instead of you spending all day pouring over becoming the best any then implementation specialist ever, You know, you spend your time learning AgenTik AI. Uh, well, a portion of your time doing AgenTik AI and the rest is doing sales, marketing, and outreach.
03:58And then you sell that little delta, um, in knowledge and you can actually make a fair amount. And if you lead with the return on investment, hey, will upscale your team with Claude. You guys are currently making somewhere between 50 to $100,000 a month.
04:10I can almost guarantee you we will at least make your operations 10% more efficient, either saving you this or making you that. Um, you know, you guys can get to the point where you can implement everything you need within one month, one calendar month. I think you can probably also start working with some pretty interesting guarantees.
04:25Alright. Should a beginner still learn Maker any done? Yeah.
04:27I recommend you still learn, um, one drag and drop no good platform. So, you know, I recommend any done. And when I say learn here, mean, like, get to a very foundational level of knowledge.
04:35Spend four or five hours on it. You could do this today. Once you've, you know, done it today, taking some accelerator, wink, wink, mention, hundred tree heaven maker school, you know, you're at the point where you can now capitalize on, like, keywords on jobs platforms like Upwork, freelancer.com, Fiverr, stuff like that, And then use those keywords to bootstrap.
04:51Right? Make more money than you spend on connects and so on. Um, and then once you're there, you know, then you can transition to selling NA done services more broadly, um, or, you know, Cloud Code and stuff like that.
05:02A lot of people are like, well, why would I even spend my time learning NADN, uh, you know, in a world where AI and automation and, uh, everything is leaning more agentic? And my response to that is always like, well, it's really not that much time.
05:15It's like four or five hours. Like, do you not have four or five hours to, like, carve out a return on investment? Literally being able to pin yourself as, an n eight n or no code developer or something with four or five hours of knowledge is well worth the time that you spend investing in your own education.
05:33And that's really like something you do in an afternoon, right, like a day. How will things change going forward? I mean, like, eventually, we'll get to the point where these models are just so good.
05:40They do everything for us, like, just being pragmatic with you. I don't hear a lot of people talking about this because obviously they wanna, like, consolidate their careers and their leads. But, I yeah, mean, like, there is no future where AI doesn't do the vast majority of economically valuable work for for mankind at this point, I would say.
05:52But, um, I don't think we're there yet. And I think the distribution of that, like, getting from today where AI is, like, assisting maybe 20% of organizations achieve big outsized results to a future where AI is assisting everybody do everything, that, like, gap between the two is exactly what our services help.
06:09Right? Like, that's that's the the gap that we bridge, essentially, making what we are doing probably the most valuable thing I can imagine in the next, like, three or four years, which is why I'm so bullish on, um, on doing it.
06:21So I don't know at what point the calculus breaks down. Being transparent might be three years, might be two years. I don't know.
06:26It depends on the pace of AgenTeq AI and then the ability for people to implement it within their organizations. Keep in mind that there have been incredible tools and technologies and inventions throughout mankind since basically the dawn of inception. But it's not like when the technology gets invented that society starts to see the benefits.
06:45It's not when, you know, Fable came out that everything changed. It's after Fable was slowly and gradually rolled out through skills and structured pipelines to 50% of all of the companies in the world.
06:59That's when things will fundamentally change for our industry. And, uh, you're the one that does that, so you get to reap the benefits. K Jacob Automate says, hey, is there a way to join your team?
07:09Built out an app that might be very valuable for you and your clients. It's founder led marketing vid on my YouTube. Not really looking to build my own business, more join the team and add as much value as I possibly can.
07:18I have experience with b to b closing sales marketing and recent recently finished a computer science engineering degree in building with it. I've been following you for a while. Yeah.
07:25And I appreciate the, um, thoughts here. The thing is, you know, when you approach somebody in my shoes asking to work with them, generally, you know, you can't just give us, a list of your curriculum vitae or whatever that really can't just give me a list of CV things.
07:40Hey, I just finished a CS engineering degree. I also have experience closing with sales and marketing and building with AI. I've also been following you.
07:47Because that's not really inherently that sexy and what you're doing, which nobody will really tell you unless you're on a you make it to a position like I'm in, is when somebody's like, hey, can I work with you?
07:59Can I work with you? I'll even do it all for free. That's not actually valuable to me because money is not the constraint right now.
08:04The constraint is results. And so when you're like, can I work with you for free? You're not actually solving a thing that I care about, which is like money, which is results.
08:13You know, I could hire tons of people that have way more experience than you do, and I'd be happy to pay $10.20, $30.40, $50,000 a month if they could grow my top line by, like, x, y, and z. Right? So you're not actually targeting the bottleneck, you know, asking to work and join my team.
08:28Um, what a much more compelling offer would look like is if you use this tool of yours, and this is, I think, just a good mental model for anybody that's looking to approach anybody that's making more money than them with an offer. Use this tool of yours to actually go and do something for me that eliminates a problem that I'm currently not spending my time and energy on, and then do it all yourself, like an offer to continue doing it yourself, um, to generate some sort of return on investment with no supervision.
08:53There's like this autonomy chart, um, and I just have to find my little lucid spark. Sorry.
08:58I have, like, so many tabs open right now. K. Let's not leak all of my Spotify hits because I don't want anybody judging my playlist.
09:05But there's sort of like the tier list of autonomy.
09:10It's like staff autonomy
09:13tier list.
09:15And I saw this circulating on Twitter, and I'm probably gonna butcher it, but basically, like, down at the very bottom, and maybe this isn't staff autonomy as much as it is like pitching, maybe we'll make this like three tiers.
09:25So the shittiest tier tier three, or actually, let's just go, let me see. Let's do like c tier.
09:32Hey, I want to work with you for free. Here are all of my skills x y z.
09:41The problem here is now I still have to do the labor of figuring out where you fit in my organization, which is a fair amount of time and energy on my end and it's not very sexy. If I had the perfect spot available, if I just so happen to have like the the use case that your skill set and so on and so forth best apply to.
09:57And obviously, might be able to fit you in, if not, it doesn't really make sense.
10:02Okay. B tier,
10:05rather than saying, hey, I wanna work with you for free, is, hey, I've already done work with you for free.
10:12Done some work for free. Here it is.
10:17I also want to work with you. Can you fit me in somewhere?
10:24And then if you think about it, a tier, like, a tier reaches. Hey, I've noticed you're leaving x y z on the table.
10:34I just fixed it free. I want to keep fixing it and I'll charge you, you know, x y z divided by five.
10:42This will take zero time on your end, no energy whatsoever, and I'll manage it all myself. This is like this is like a list, a tier.
10:53And the reason why is because down over here, it's like, I still need to do work. Right?
10:59So it's like, what work do I have to do? I have to evaluate you.
11:04I also have to place you, and I have to manage. That's like a lot of work. Okay.
11:10Right over here, if you think about it tier list wise,
11:14you know, I don't have to evaluate you because you've already done it. All I have to do is I have to, like, place you and I have to manage you. And if you think about this over here, you've already figured out where to fix my problems, so I don't need to place you.
11:28You've already given me some sort of value here, and hopefully, you're pretty straightforward about proving it. Like, hey. I just made you this money.
11:34Here are all these leads that have come in your pipeline for the last five days. These are all leads that I've driven you because of XYZ problem. Here you go.
11:39Um, and then I don't even have to manage you because it takes zero time on your end, no energy whatsoever, and I'll manage it all myself. So this right here is, like, best because I don't have to do anything. And, uh, yeah, I mean, like, in any situation where money is not the bottleneck, like results are, this is just what you wanna do with anybody big.
11:56You know, you wanna you wanna work with people that are like self starters that can solve all these problems for you and so on and so forth. K. Let's hide the Spotify again.
12:04Vamp Fox Lily says, I have a very negative view on agentic social media marketing. I just don't believe it works. I know it's wrong because this helps with scale.
12:11Could you help break me out of this mindset? Agentic social media marketing. I don't actually know what that is.
12:15Is that like a big buzzword that's floating around the ether nowadays? Uh, I presume it just means using agents to help you with your social media marketing. And there are many degrees to which agents can help you with your social media marketing.
12:27For instance, a very simple way that we do this is periodically on, like, a weekly basis, we compile everything I've ever written and said in that last week. Uh, we'll, like, use agents to go and scrape all the resources. So all the transcripts of the videos, we'll scrape all of the docs that I've written, all of my posts in various communities and so on.
12:43And then we just, like, have, like, a one giant knowledge base sort of thing that we scrape. And then once a week, somebody just goes through that with an agent, and it compiles that into all of, like, the high level, like, interesting takeaways. Then And all of those interesting takeaways can basically be used to create a post.
12:57You know, we can have agents draft the post and so on. But the key thing is you need to have a human in the loop actually, like, signing off on and actually creating the thing. Right?
13:05Like, you can use all that for ideation and inspiration and just, like, make the logistical administrative aspect of compiling all the content easier, but I would never actually fully replace it. And so your limiting belief, your negative view on that is probably informed by, like, truth. Because you go on LinkedIn and you see people that are just trying to automate everything with agents, there's just shit.
13:21Nobody cares. It's all AI slop. Right?
13:24Um, I think the reason why a lot of my content, uh, tends to still resonate is because I don't actually do all that. I just use AI, I think, where it's sort of hidden to do a lot of the non client or non audience facing customer labor and, uh, labor. And then, you know, I actually show you, like, results from my work, which is nice.
13:41FYP Central says, love the content. Congrats on all the success. Thank you.
13:44I have a YouTube channel
13:46where I make educational long form videos.
13:49Even though I know a good amount about the topic, I can find it difficult to speak without pausing and saying, um, you seem to really get any tips for scripting or speaking on camera for long periods of time. Yeah. There's a quick hack.
13:57Just instead of saying, um, stop. What I mean by that is you'll notice I probably have kind of a halting cadence from time to time. And the reason why is because I don't know what I'm gonna say next, so I have to say, I would have said, um.
14:08But instead of that, I just say nothing. And it sounds a little bit weird from time to time, but you seem a lot more confident. Another quick hack if you're a total noob and you're doing things like recording Loom videos is just speak much slower like this.
14:22This will give your brain more time to catch up to what it is that you'd like to say. And then, people in post, people that are watching your video, will actually speed it up themselves. And so you get the benefit of appearing articulate because you have an extra 20 or 30% time to come up with what it is you want to say eloquently.
14:44And you also get the benefit of sounding like you're speaking at a normal pace to the people that are listening. And so this is a hack that a lot of educational long form content creators do, myself included. People tend to be okay increasing the speed and typically, they're not okay decreasing the speed, so it's best to anchor lower.
15:05That said on the daily updates channel, don't really give a crap. Just riff. One more from boss.
15:10He says, have a question. I'm 18 in January. They'll finally let me use my own money to subscribe to tools like Cloud Code.
15:14Until now, I've avoided using my mom's credit cards. I've been waiting before seriously building projects. I'm watching your videos on the main channel since I was 15, and I've been reading about Anne machine learning since I was 14.
15:23Nice boss. The thing is I know a lot of stuff, but I don't really know where to start. Sometimes I feel a bit lost.
15:29Over the next four months, what do you recommend I focus on the most? Should I spend my time creating content, learning new skills, building projects, finding clients or something else? Right now, I'm experimenting with the free versions of Codex and anti gravity, but I'd love to hear your advice on what someone in my position should do.
15:43So I guess, I think what Boss is getting to is, hey, where do I start as an 18 year old with probably pretty limited cash, but a lot of time and, you know, ambition on my hands. So what what would I do?
15:55My recommendation for you is I mean, you like give me a big list of different things you could do. Um, I would get the paid versions of these tools ASAP because the paid versions are just markedly better than the free versions. And I think you'll immediately have a lot more latitude to do cool things with the paid versions, understanding as well that the businesses you'll be working with will be using the paid versions.
16:13So you should just learn on this platform or on the level of the platform that the businesses that you're gonna be selling to in the future will will be using. It'll help you learn what actually works, not weird hacky workarounds to get Sonnet 4.5 working at the same level as, you know, Opus 4.8 or Fable. So I would do that, like, ASAP.
16:31I mean, your mom's credit card, what? It's, $20 a month or something. Like, go do something for her.
16:34You know, be proactive. Hey, mom. I just cleaned the garage.
16:37Hey, mom. I just did x y and z. Can I get a subscription to an AI tool that will help me make money for $20 a month?
16:44I mean, I'm sure she'd be happy to help you with that so long as you take the initiative and your high agency. Treat your mom like the tier list that I just talked about and go do something valuable for her that takes things off her plate and just, like, have her pitch. Um, you don't need to wait four months to do any of this.
16:57Could do it today. And then once you've done that for a little bit, uh, you know, I don't know what that is, like a week or so, you know, continue consuming content like mine. Look for problems that people are suffering from that you realistically kind of squint your eyes at and be like, what the hell?
17:09Why is this person suffering from this problem? That seems very basic. These sort of moments, I think, will grow more common the better you get with these tools.
17:17But they're everywhere. And especially for somebody that's young and motivated like you are, somebody that's been with this stuff since 15 or 16, you will probably intuitively grasp these technologies far better than even I because I learned these pretty late in life, you know, 24 or something like that, as opposed to having that hardwired into my freaking neocortex.
17:36When I was getting up and running with my first content writing agency, there were just so many inefficiencies I noted in a lot of other content writing agencies.
17:46And so what I would routinely do, or what Noah, my partner, and I at the time would do, is we'd actually sign up to, like, other content companies, and we would submit orders for requests, and we would just see what people would say back and how they would treat us. And we would basically compile all that information into, a dossier doc and be like, why are these guys sending me a follow-up email once a week?
18:05If I submitted a request, shouldn't they be following up with me every five minutes? I mean, like, it's clear that I want the thing. Why are they not checking in with me more often?
18:13Why are they not addressing me by my first name? There are all these, like, very low hanging fruit that just seemed so stupid to me as somebody that was young. Uh, the reality is a lot of these organizations and processes have just existed for a very long time and they worked back in the day.
18:25As the bar has gotten higher, their margins have slowly gone down, but not appreciably or noticeably enough for them to actually be like, woah, what's going on? These people tend to be more veteran business owners that have just had something that's worked for a while, they just don't have the time to actually, like, go, uh, you know, look at every individual tiny process and then piece it all together.
18:44And then when you're young and you're motivated, you immediately spot that and you're like, is so stupid. Let me solve this for somebody. And then just take a proactive approach solving it.
18:52Ideally, with AI, you'll be able to solve many more problems than no one I were able to do. And I think you'll do quite well. Uh, no no major issue as long as you approach it from a position of giving value.
19:02So what does that look like? Maybe that looks like doing a certain number of, uh, cold emails every single day, cold DMs if you can't reach the person through cold email, cold LinkedIn messages, cold videos. Just solve problems for people.
19:13Maybe it involves scraping YouTubers like myself or other people that you watch with. Identifying gaps in their own funnels because we are a pretty, uh, you know, public audience.
19:22You have a lot more visibility into us. And then pitching us on ways to solve problems and and improve our businesses. You know, one of the guys that I worked with, uh, from a while, and I think he was a little older than me, but I'm pretty sure he was still, like, 20 or something when he did this, um, was named Malik from, um, Egypt.
19:35And he basically did this from my understanding. I'm pretty sure he took, like, the exact same impression I'm talking about here, saw and spotted inefficiencies, and then leveraged his knowledge.
19:43And that was during one of my highest growth periods on YouTube when I was gaining, like, thirty, forty thousand subscribers a month. And, uh, I paid him a ton of money.
19:50So, yeah, I mean, lots of growth.
19:52Okay. Anyway, then we have Maxi over here, which, uh, I think I'm gonna skip and leave for tomorrow. Okay.
19:58Cool, guys. I hope you appreciated that video. Was really fun to do some q and a.
20:03Uh, I just set up my studio here. Well, it's not really set up. I have, like, my girlfriend's desk, which is kinda tiny and very uncomfortable, but figured I'd, like, put the camera on and stuff.
20:12It's really nice. Um, I have this beautiful view into, like, this gorgeous lake outside, and it's, like, grass is green. This massive park, you see, like, this mountain backdrop.
20:20It really is, like, top 1% view, I would say. Yesterday, there was a double rainbow that just happened to arrive while, like, a god ray was beaming over a mountain. Quality life here, think, is gonna be really cool.
20:32I'm really excited to get a bunch of stuff. So one big thing I always do in maker school is I do this thing called lifestyle audit. And I'm not gonna talk too much about it because obviously that's a big point of value in the program.
20:43But basically, what a lifestyle audit is is it's where you walk through everything that you currently do on a day to day basis, and then you examine it intentionally.
20:53What I mean by this is, like, most people, you know, they'll have a morning that'll look something like this, They're kind of like wake up, kind of like roll around in bed, grab phone, scroll reels for twenty minutes. They'll go downstairs or whatever, you know, make coffee, sip coffee while browsing news.
21:13They'll make breakfast, go on computer, check emails.
21:19I don't know. You know, they'll just sort of like they'll live like the default life, which is the life that incentives that other people have crafted around you have forced you or at least encouraged or pushed you into living.
21:31They will look at the notifications on their phone and then without knowing get derailed for forty five minutes reading some rabbit hole thing, which maybe enriches some aspect of your life, suppose, but it's not really all that valuable and probably certainly not what you wanted to do.
21:44My technician for the Internet's arriving soon, so I just have to keep an eye on this.
21:49And so the whole idea behind a lifestyle audit is we just consciously examine every single one of those things. So what I mean is we will literally, like, will ask you to examine every fifteen minute block from the moment that you wake up until the moment that you go to bed, which is, if you think about it, 64 blocks. And I have you track that for a few days.
22:06And then I also have you go through every single thing and ask yourself, is this worth doing? Is this what I want to do? Is the inertia of my life that I've been caught up in?
22:15You know, is this is this in line or aligned with my goals and the sort of person that I eventually wanna become? And I find this super impactful because most people have just never actually done that form of analysis. We just live default lives.
22:26We sit in the default chair that, you know, was recommended to us on Amazon. We work on the default desk. We go to the default gym.
22:33We eat the default foods that we find most convenient to us in the supermarket. And the reality is, like, this is a manufactured environment. Now the benefit to auditing your lifestyle as well is most of the time, these default behaviors also include a lot of friction.
22:47And so it's very high friction for you to stop scrolling and then be like, okay, I'm gonna put my phone away and get to work. If you consider your willpower every day as a limited resource, maybe you have like a 100 points of willpower.
23:00Well, maybe every time you do that, you spend 20 points of willpower. Now you only have 80 left over for the rest of the day. There's only so many times you can make that decision before eventually the .
23:10And so the point that I'm getting at, why I'm bringing up the Lifestyle Audit, is because now that I'm here in this new environment, I don't actually have these preset behaviors already. Right?
23:19It's a new environment. I mean, I have some, obviously, but I'm in a new bed. I'm in a new city.
23:22I have new things. What I get to do now is I get to design my lifestyle in a very high ROI way.
23:29So that's what I'm planning on doing. And I also need to, you know, purchase a bunch of things that are gonna make my life easier. I need to purchase, you know, a garbage bin because I don't have one that fits my kitchen.
23:39I need to purchase some appliances and tiny little things that I can, you know, put my food in. The instant pot that I used yesterday doesn't have a little O ring, so it doesn't do, like, pressure cooking well. You know, a lot of these tiny little things.
23:49And, uh, I'm I'm very excited to be able to do that. So, yeah, one of the highest ROI parts in Maker School by far, um, but also, you know, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to do this yourself, uh, if you didn't wanna, you know, actually shell up the pony up the funds and join the community. Although, would highly encourage that you do do something like that because, yeah, I mean, like, an unexamined life is not worth living.
24:07I think that was Seneca. Okay. I'm gonna leave it there.
24:11Let's do some growth stats. So I'm gonna head over to tracker, which is right over here. YouTube main from 456882 is now 456907.
24:22Nice.
24:25So if I do the math on that, crazy. We're actually growing much faster, um, which is nice.
24:31We're growing way, way faster. Think about that point 32%. I don't know what happened yesterday, but something on my main is like really taking off.
24:37Then my daily updates channel here, just gonna zoom back out and then do dashboard. You got 19 o 17. Like for instance, a really higher way thing that I do now is I just get the best internet possible.
24:51What I mean by this is I'm gonna get like three gigabit a second internet installed, and I'm gonna basically be living in like a Starlink satellite. And the reason why is because, you know, I realized and I examined that I open something like 600 pages a day.
25:07And if every single one of those 600 pages is open just point five seconds faster or something like that, that's literally three hundred seconds or five minutes to my day I eliminate. But then there's a lot of friction that gets removed and so I can stay in flow, open pages quickly, upload videos quickly, and so on.
25:22There there are a lot of these tiny little things, I would say, that, you know, when you when you figure yourself out sorry. Just have to do the thing where I don't show people's personal info, so I'm gonna move myself over here.
25:31You know, when you when you kind of figure it out, you become a lot more effective. Thank God that I can bum the Internet from downstairs though. Otherwise, today would have been really rough.
25:41Okay. Uh, let's go back here. It looks like Maker School has actually gone up again, point 14% and Maker School position is still two.
25:52So, yeah, I mean, we started position 55, um, ten days ago in our position two. We're definitely crushing the search traffic aspect, which is nice.
25:59Uh, and that's something that I'm very, very happy of. But I don't wanna spill too much of the sauce because, obviously, we have a lot of people that run communities that watch my stuff, there's only so many spots at the top. Something different from a automation where I think you'd have, like, hundreds of thousands of people in there here.
26:12There's, like, literally, like, three positions at the top three, which I wanna be in. Anyway, um, yeah. I mean, like, Maker School is literally just stuck exactly around 2090, so some of my churn reduction efforts here are working.
26:22Uh, probably some of the cancellation off boarding stuff that I've been doing over the course of the last ten days is working. I'm very happy to say that, um, adding more value to the annual offering has clearly actually succeeded.
26:32I think we've had, like, 20 or 30 now sign ups on annual. And I've tracked that, but if you think about it, it's like one, it's like 45 k of immediate cash that's been ejected in my business in the last, like, week and a half or so, which is nice. But two, it's reduced my churn proportionally by what's that?
26:46One shit. Fiftieth?
26:49Hold on. What's 40 times 50? Is that yeah.
26:51I think that's 2,000. So, you know, one fiftieth, 2%. That's pretty cool.
26:55That's probably why these numbers have stabilized because we've, like, reduced the churn by 2%, which if you think about it, it's, like, pretty sizable. Right?
27:012% of my churn, that's, like, 50 people or something like that that haven't churned that could've, um, which is why, you know, the trajectory of my business, at least the maker school business, was basically like this slowly going down.
27:15And then I've now bumped up and now stabilized it fully. So, yeah, we'll see how that continues, but my take is all of the work that I'm doing here on the daily updates channel and then communicating with you guys have both inspired people and shown them that I'm committed to daily consistency, so they're probably less likely to churn.
27:32And then it's also inspired me to, like, be more accountable to improving the quality of my community. Once my community is good, I'm just gonna rinse and repeat this over and over and over again on all of my mediums and all the ways that I'm making money.
27:43One final thing that I'll leave you guys with is I need to do more Clarivost sales. I've been waiting on a transcript for a few days now, and I have been unable to get it. So I think I'm just gonna start.
27:54Yeah. I think I'm just gonna start. I mean, I meant to make this campaign, and then I got it already.
27:58And then I was like, shit. You know, I kinda wanna make sure we have, like, a good perfect sales funnel before I do it, but I'm just getting lost in the weeds. I think I just need to kick it off.
28:05Now it's a Saturday. You know, it's gonna be July 4 Independence Day in The States and stuff, which probably gonna unpack things a little. So, yeah, I mean, just get moving.
28:12The cost of a decision is way, way more expensive than the, um, cost of a slight mistake. I'll leave you with that.
28:20Thanks a lot for watching. Have a lovely rest of day. See you.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The number in the title is not arbitrary. There are exactly 64 fifteen-minute blocks in a 16-hour waking day, and most people have never consciously chosen what goes in a single one of them.
Named ideas worth stealing.
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Staff Autonomy Tier List
- C-tier: I want to work with you for free, here are my skills — recipient must evaluate, place, and manage you
- B-tier: I already did some work for you for free, here it is — eliminates evaluation, still requires placing and managing
- A-tier: I noticed you are leaving X on the table, I just fixed it free, I want to keep fixing it and I will charge you X divided by five — zero oversight required
Ranks pitching approaches by overhead they impose on the recipient. Winner solves a specific identified problem before asking for anything.
Steal forAny cold pitch, partnership ask, or job application
20:57model
Lifestyle Audit
Map every 15-minute block in your waking day (64 total) for a few days. For each block ask: Is this intentional? Is it aligned with who I want to become? Redesign to remove friction from high-value behaviors and add it to defaults. Most powerful in a new environment before old patterns have re-formed.
Steal forProductivity reset, new-city or new-job transition, annual planning
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
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“Thanks a lot for watching. Have a lovely rest of day. See you.”
Soft close, no explicit subscribe ask. Main channel growth mentioned passively as social proof throughout.
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