3 posts tagged with "Productivity"

I recently checked my OpenRouter stats and discovered something surprising: I've used more credits than 98% of people on the platform. Not because I run an AI company or manage a team of engineers. Just me, using AI to augment my daily life.

Over the year, I've accumulated hundreds of millions of tokens across different models as I upgraded, experimented, and built systems that work. That's roughly equivalent to writing 4,000 novels worth of text. All this testing and development has taught me deeply about how AI models work together, what they're each good at, and what it really takes to build reliable AI systems.

I used to subscribe to way too many newsletters. Each one had good insights, but reading through them every morning felt like wading through the same ideas dressed up in different words. I was spending an hour each day on information I could have absorbed in ten minutes, and the redundancy was killing me.

I used to think I was a productive person. I loved spending time alone reading psychology books and thinking about my life. That all felt very manageable when it was just me.

When I realized my son was coming, I panicked. How could I keep growing as a person while being there for my child? How could I balance my own goals with being the father I wanted to be?

The first month was rough. There was so much to do, so little sleep, and I felt like I was failing at everything. But slowly, we found a rhythm. I had to let go of my old approach and figure out what actually worked in this new reality.

With a newborn, I managed to build a multi-portfolio investment strategy, develop my AI trading recommendation engine, and work on several other AI automation projects. People ask me how I got all that done. The answer isn't working harder or sleeping less. It's working completely differently.