How I’m Getting the Most Out of AI

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AI isn’t just a tool, it’s a strategic advantage when used intentionally. From filtering what’s worth your time to making sharper decisions, here’s how I leverage AI to think better, move faster, and stay ahead.

YouTube Time Worthiness Scoring

Your time is worth everything, and with so much information out there, things can start to feel a little overwhelming. What to read? Who to follow? What to watch on YouTube? In terms of that last question, I love immersing myself in really solid podcasts and interviews with founders, builders, authors, and influencers. But so many options exist when it comes to the content that I want to catch up on, and sometimes I don’t even know where to start. Recently, however, I came across an amazing tool called NoteGPT, an AI tool that turns long YouTube videos into fast, digestible summaries. After pasting a video link into the site’s engine, it generates the content’s key points, transcripts, and notes within seconds. It’s essentially a time-saving shortcut for learning, research, or catching up without having to spend your valuable time watching the full video.

This is how I use it: I simply insert the link for a one or two hour-long YouTube video, one that I’m wondering whether I should expend my time watching, then click “Generate Summary”:

It generates the full transcript of the video, as you can see in the example provided below:

Then, I paste the transcript into ChatGPT, giving it this prompt:

I’ve pasted the transcript from a video I’m interested in. Rate the content in terms of my entire chat history and what you know about me. Provide:

Key insights

What’s actually new to me vs. what’s obvious

A time-worthiness score on a scale from 1 to 10

A final determination of whether I should I watch full video, skim it, or skip it entirely

Not only will this provide you with the video’s key insights, but it’ll also reveal how the video relates to you and your interests, any lessons it contains that you’ll find useful, how it ranks from 1 to 10 in terms of whether it’s worth your time to watch it, and the overall positives and negatives of the content in general—all tailored to you specifically.

I utilize this method for any video that I’ve been planning to watch or listen to, and a significant benefit of this is that it also gives me a final comparison of those videos and how they all rank:

Here’s an optional pro tip: To avoid having to give the same prompt each and every time, create a “Project” in ChatGPT and enter the prompt. By doing this, you can simply go to that project any time you’re curious about a video, paste the transcript that NoteGPT generated for you, and you’re all set.

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Mentor Mode

Recently, my son did something that made a significant difference in my AI experience. Using my phone, he entered a prompt into ChatGPT:

What’s the benefit of doing this? Lately, ChatGPT has been giving responses that are far too optimistic and positive. While this is sometimes what you’re looking for, there are many other times when you want brutal honesty, similar to how a coach or mentor would advise you. With this prompt, my son basically enabled what I like to call the “mentor mode.”

My son learned about this incredibly useful hack from a video he came across on YouTube. It’s changed how I use ChatGPT, because now the platform really challenges me and pushes back on my assumptions, enabling me to make much more informed decisions.

Deep Research

I pay $200 per month for my ChatGPT subscription, which is the highest tier that the platform offers. If you think that sounds like a lot, consider this: We pay hundreds of dollars every single month for our phone and TV, streaming services, online tools, apps, and so on. While all those things are essential, AI will be highest-value creator in our lives going forward. I roughly estimate that ChatGPT gives me at least 10 times the value of what I pay for it (in other words, I get about $2,000 per month out of the $200 I spend). And that’s my conservative estimate; the value I receive from this platform is likely much more than that, especially when it comes to Deep Research, which is one of its best features.

Deep Research is basically PhD-level research. It basically serves as your own analyst—it uses logic and strong reasoning, researches the entire internet, creates incredibly insightful reports, provides an executive summary, and can equip you with data points, charts, and references. It’s almost limitless in what it can do.

It’s worth noting that this process can take upwards of between 10 to even 30 minutes, but here’s what that means: If it’s taking that long to do something, imagine the level of intense rigor it’s employing.

Here’s an example of a prompt I recently gave to Deep Research:

I regularly conduct research for market opportunities (e.g., AI startups), tools (e.g., YouTube summarizers, lead generation tools), trends (e.g., AI, actuarial space, insurtech, biotech), and just “what should I pay attention to?” in general. I’m often scanning for asymmetric upside opportunities, and Deep Research has been significantly helpful to me in those regards.

Strategic Thinking & Decision-Making (My Top AI Uses)

Many of us use ChatGPT to challenge our assumptions, think through business models, evaluate tradeoffs, and pressure-test ideas before acting. Some of the more precise examples of how I use it include:

• Whether to stay a contractor or become a recruiter

• How to position myself as a fractional Chief Actuary

• Whether to pursue acquisition or stay independent

• Whether to consider relocation to a particular city

• How to optimize my taxes

• Determining the asymmetric upside and if I’m thinking about it correctly

• Evaluating private startup companies to invest in

• Launching pursuits such as a private community for independent actuaries, advisory calls, etc.

ChatGPT turns all of that from scattered thinking into structured, high-quality decision-making. It makes my decisions faster and clearer, and it enables me to make them with far more confidence.

Content Creation Engine

I heavily use ChatGPT to improve or edit my LinkedIn posts so that they’re viral-focused and structured, edit and otherwise enhance my newsletter content, and provide me with hooks, positioning angles, and messaging for offers like advisory calls and communities, among other things. I’ve even defined my own frameworks (trailer → hook → body → summary), iterating on tone (simple, conversational, and with no fluff), and optimizing the content for virality, authority, and monetization. This has given me massive leverage that I didn’t have previously.

Business Building & Monetization Systems

I also use ChatGPT to design revenue streams (consulting, advisory calls, job board, my newsletter), funnels (landing pages, pricing, CTAs), product ideas (courses, a community of like-minded individuals, reports), and scaling strategy (delegation, systems, assets vs. income, etc.)

Here’s an example: I recently launched 1:1 paid advisory calls, and I needed a landing page to showcase my offerings. I used ChatGPT to refine my ideas, improve my positioning, enhance my landing page content, and even determine the pricing for the advisory call. Take a look at the landing page here. I find it incredibly impressive, and it’s vastly better than anything I could have produced on my own.

Operational & Tactical Execution

ChatGPT also comes through for me when writing messages to employees, tenants, and admin, or simply as reminder messages; structuring workflows like landing pages, Calendly, and Stripe setup; and simply processing things with more clarity, such as how to handle certain meetings). I now delegate thinking work before delegating execution.

Parenting & Personal Life Decisions

In terms of more personal matters, I’ve asked ChatGPT about children’s sleep behavior, education gaps, books, family communication matters, how to improve family relationships, and so on. I’m able to now apply structured thinking to my personal life, not just aspects of my business.

Communication & Positioning Coaching

We all use ChatGPT to improve the tone of our messages, help us decide what to say (and what not to say), steer us away from sounding weak or too emotional, and build our authority in terms of communication. But it’s also undeniably useful in consciously shaping perception, authority, and leadership presence, and I use it for these purposes every day.

Learning & Curiosity

This one’s a bit more selective. I ask ChatGPT about recommendations and opinions on all sorts of things, ranging from movies, physics concepts, food, exercises, and knowledge in general. However, using the platform for these purposes is minor compared to everything else I utilize it for. But the point is that now, I don’t browse randomly. ChatGPT helps me to learn only when it determines that something is useful or interesting enough.

Use AI to Give You a Strategic Edge

When used with the above tactics in mind, AI will sharpen how you think and raise the quality of your decisions across the board. The advantage comes from using it deliberately. It turns scattered inputs into clear judgment and consistent momentum that you can use to act with more clarity, execute decisively, and always stay one step ahead.

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