I’d be doing you a disservice if I didn’t share this.

A few weeks ago I went down a rabbit hole watching videos about AI.

Not the rubbish hype, the actual practical stuff - how people are actually using it to get more done.

I came out the other side having completely restructured how I work, and the time I’ve got back is something I genuinely can’t put a price on.

Before I get into it, 2 things:

1. I'm running my Anki Masterclass here this Sunday. Click here if you're interested for full details and use the code FIRST for a 10% discount (only 3 left!). If you're unavailable and still want to join, here's a waiting list for the Summer Anki Masterclass.
2. I want to address something. There’s a valid concern that AI is making people intellectually lazy, offloading thinking they should be doing themselves. I believe that. I also believe that anyone who refuses to use AI for the mundane, repetitive, time consuming parts of their life will fall behind, very quickly.
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   When the internet arrived, some people held onto their textbooks. Today, those people simply can’t compete.
   AI is the same shift.
   The smart move is to use it well, protect your focus for the things that actually need your brain, and let AI handle the rest.
   Here’s what that looks like for me right now 👇🏽

My Weekly Calendar

Planning my week used to take longer than it should. I’d describe my schedule to ChatGPT, it would give me a plan, and then I’d have to manually transfer everything to Google Calendar myself.

No colour coding. No direct connection. Just extra steps.
It was faster than doing it manually, but still long.

With Claude Cowork, I connect it directly to my Google Calendar. I set my preferred colour coding once (work, study, gym, prayer, meals) and then every weekend I send one messy voice note describing the next week.

I press enter, walk away, and come back to a fully populated, colour-coded calendar.
This calendar is synced across my devices including my Alexa, who kindly reminds me of events if I'm at home.

Sometimes I my alarm and start late, I message Claude and say “I started 30 minutes late, push everything forward and remove anything that no longer fits.”

It readjusts the whole day and tells me what it removed.
This is literally like having a personal assistant 24/7.
I’m living by my calendar even when the day doesn’t go to plan.

Here is an example of this week's plan - yes I have blurred it for privacy but as you can see, it's nicely colour coordinated! You can also see the day that I snoozed my alarm haha.

Organising My Files

I had over 100 files sitting on my desktop.

Screenshots, video edits, brand contracts, random documents. No structure whatsoever.

I gave Claude access to my MacBook, told it I wanted five main folders with everything categorised inside, and left it to it.

Came back to a clean, organised system.

Didn’t lift a finger.

You can do the same with Google Drive. Give it access, describe how you want things structured, and it handles it. Same with Gmail. Claude can go through your inbox, unsubscribe from unwanted emails, and help you clear the clutter.

Tasks that used to take hours, or that I’d eventually need to hire an assistant for, now get done for £16 a month.
As a creator and someone who heavily uses his laptop, this is a huge win for me. I love having a clean filing system and an email inbox that I can actually keep up with.

Creating Notion Pages

I was explaining diabetes to a friend still in medical school and wanted to put together a proper Notion page for them.
I described what I wanted, referenced the UK guidelines, and Claude built the entire page from my prompt.
I didn’t have to open Notion once to build it.
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I have used many AI tools for a medical school, and I've always struggled with ChatGPT as it constantly makes mistakes and doesn't know how to stick to the UK guidelines. With Claude, I can upload the NICE CKS guidelines PDF for a certain condition, and I can tell Claude to only use this for the treatment section of the page it's about to create - and it never fails.

I've even got a prompt for making UK MLA practise questions with Claude after giving it the UK MLA content map and example questions from the exam, honestly, if I had this stuff during medical school, I would have been even more of a machine.

Dispatching Tasks Remotely

If you’re away from your computer, you can still send tasks to Claude Cowork from your phone using the dispatch feature.

I could be at the gym, think of something I need done, open Claude on my phone, dispatch the task, and by the time I’m home it’s already handled. for this, you do need to leave your computer plugged in and running at home, and what I'm describing is the tip of the iceberg.

It genuinely feels like having a PA in your pocket at all times and the potential with this is insane.

Wispr Flow

This one I didn’t expect to love as much as I do.

Wispr Flow lets you dictate text on any platform, laptop or phone, just by speaking.

The world record for typing speed is 216 words per minute. I speak at well over 400, so no matter how fast I type, I will always be able to write faster by speaking with Wispr Flow.

That alone means I can produce work in roughly half the time it used to take me. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and I’ve already dictated over 10,000 words. It is single handedly, the biggest game changing software I have used since the invention of Notion.

I’m replying to messages faster, writing scripts faster, and my screen time has actually dropped because I can close my eyes and talk rather than stare at a screen and type. Also this newsletter you're reading? I spoke it out loud. Claude cleaned up the grammar, I read through it once, and the whole thing was done in under 20 minutes.

Wispr Flow has proper data protection built in, which matters to me given the kind of work I’m talking through.

I have a referral link for one month free, and if you're a student, you can get a three-month free trial, so you can probably use Wispr Flow for the entire exam season and then cancel the trial afterwards if you wanted. No payment required, no catch. If you’re curious, now is the time to try it.

​Try Wispr Flow free for one month​

One last thing.

If you’re reading this and you haven’t touched AI yet, you’re not behind. Right now is genuinely a good time to start. I've only dived deeper into this in the last couple of weeks, and I'm already ahead of 99% of the population.

I’m putting together a class on how to use AI to organise your life and workflow. If that’s something you’d find useful, fill out the form below and I’ll be in touch.

​Register your interest here​

The leaders of the next decade won’t be the ones who worked the hardest.
They’ll be the ones who worked the smartest.
Right now, that's learning AI.

Medical School Update 🩺

I logged on today and opened up my usual template to write a newsletter and realised that the medical school update is still there, but since I've graduated, this no longer needs to be here.

This section of my newsletter was one of my favourites because it was just like reading a public journal. I often go back to my newsletters to revisit what life was like at certain parts of medical school.

I'm thinking of replacing this with something else. Since it is a public journal for now, I'm going to call it Public Journal, but if anyone has any cool name ideas for this, please hit reply and let me know. I would be happy to rename it with one of your ideas.

Cool Stuff 👇🏽