Month of May 2024
//Generated on MidJourney with Insightfaceswap for May 4th Star Wars day. Personally love the shadow from the lightsaber.
Theme of the Month - Clembot Interviews & Europe Trip
The questions/thoughts that led me to the posts for May 2024 were:
How can I make interviewing a clembot into a fun shorts series?
If AI will make everything online meaningless, then let’s try more in-person things!
What do I care about around the house?
How do you have a fun time in Amsterdam?
What exotic foods have I eaten?
How did I manage my portfolio in 2021?
Clembot interviews were super fun to create. I was surprised at the engagement as I did get 15k plays on one of my videos on Tik Tok. Why will it get banned after I created the account? Yay! I got one of the try-things done!
Some people ask me - how do you find the time to do this writing thing? There’s no trick. I genuinely like writing and the logistics are 100% automated, so this whole blog only takes me around 3 hours a month. The whole Clembot Interview project took around 8 hours for the whole month, which is only 16 minutes a day. Right now, I can record one within 6 minutes end-to-end. I honestly spend more time rewatching the videos and responding to comments then actually creating.
I’m on vacation right now (Zurich-Portugal-London), so this post was definitely written lightly.
The blogposts I’ve published this month were:
30 Clembot Interviews Challenge - What a fun journey this has been! I’ll write reflections when I’m back from vacation.
30 Try Guy Things - Since AI is going to take everything over, I might as well embrace the joys of physically doing more things. This will incorporate into my 40 under 40.
30 House Things I Care About (Sept 2020) - Taking care of a house is not easy. We want to keep its value.
[Travel Advice] Amsterdam (again) - An oldie, but goodie. I made a few yearly pilgrimages to this great place for some table tennis and excellent food. I can’t wait to visit with Vinessa.
30 Exotic Foods I’ve Eaten - I’ve eaten a lot of crazy things on my trips and generally being from Hong Kong.
Strategic Investing and Portfolio Management (Jan 2021) - If you need an example allocation of funds from 2021.
Some ideas for June 2024?
Bootstrapping Web3 with AI Tools Course - I’m considering launching this in a slightly different way with my Clembot AI answering some FAQs.
30 Clembot Interview Reflections - I don’t mind sharing my secrets on how this is done. Looks like GPT-4o is going to make this much more believable. There’s only minor editing magic.
30 Day Origami Challenge Reflections - Folded origami throughout the pandemic and now it’s used for our Christmas tree decorations.
[Travel Advice] Portugal - Awesome summer Euro-trip filled with some fresh advice to some new visits.
30 Tips from Beat Bobby Flay - An output of love and drool from watching Beat Bobby Flay episodes on (HBO) Max.
30 New AI Careers - Rethinking our post-labor economic jobs. Let’s all switch to the gig economy.
Reflecting on 10 years of writing lists of 30 - I still love writing lists of 30! It’ll define my whole life.
30 Future Decade Goals - We split the next 30 years into goals per decade as mapped out by Evie’s age. This was a great activity in long term planning for her ages 6-16, 16-26, and 26-36.
30 Ways to Stretch Time - Wealth doesn’t mean money, but time. It’s our only limited resource.
30 Things I do for Self Care - We all need to figure out what restores our energy and keeps us sane.
Kicking off “Her Life in Lists of 30” - I think I have enough material from my monthly lists of 30s to cover this and launch it in 2024. Maybe I’ll find a publisher for this book? I think I’ll be happy with more substack subscribers than a single book defining a decade. If it’s popular, maybe I’ll do a book tour!
Thank you for reading and I hope everyone stays safe!
Please suggest a list of 30 and I’ll write it! I’ve written 260+ lists of 30 and only publish ones that I think other people would enjoy. It’s my fun brainstorming routine.