u/Weak-Neck-5126

I don’t know if you saw that one movie where the guy says most people only use like 20% of their brain…

And then that guy uses like 70% or 100% or whatever.

Well, recently, I’ve been wondering how I can get close to that.

And I’ve been kind of biohacking.

I’m not going to share everything today, but sleep is actually the most important thing.

I’ve been doing research on sleep, and if you just get good sleep, it’s better than literally everything else.

There’s nothing better than sleep for your brain, your body, and basically everything in the biohacking world.

So the way you can get extremely good sleep is by using AI.

You can get a Fitbit, Apple Watch, or something like that to monitor you while you sleep.

Then you can give all of that data to AI and ask it to tell you what you need to do.

It’ll give you suggestions based on your actual sleep data.

So if you already have a Fitbit or Apple Watch and you have some sleep data, I highly recommend plugging it into AI.

You can use this prompt:

“Act as a sleep optimization expert. I’m going to give you my sleep data from my Fitbit/Apple Watch, including things like sleep duration, sleep stages, resting heart rate, HRV, wake-ups, bedtime, wake time, and anything else available.

Analyze the data and tell me:

1. What patterns you notice

2. What might be hurting my sleep quality

3. What I should change first

4. What habits I should test for the next 7 days

5. How I can improve deep sleep, REM sleep, recovery, and energy the next day

Give me a simple, practical sleep improvement plan based on the data. Don’t be vague. Tell me exactly what to try and what to track.”

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people saying:

“Oh, Anthropic is so stupid.”

“They’re hiking up the usage limits.”

“They’re making it too expensive.”

“They’re killing their users.”

“They’re being ridiculous.”

But they’re not.

They’re actually kind of smarter than OpenAI in this specific way.

Here’s the thing.

A lot of people either weren’t paying attention, or they just didn’t hear Anthropic when they said this…

but Anthropic has said multiple times they’re trying to move more into the enterprise side of things.

So when Anthropic charges $200 for what doesn’t feel like a huge amount of tokens, everyone looks at those prices, then looks at ChatGPT, and goes:

“Why is Anthropic doing this?”

“Anthropic is stupid.”

No.

They’re charging according to their niche.

OpenAI, on the other hand, has a massive consumer user base.

They have way more mainstream usage.

They have more compute.

And it makes more sense for them to offer cheaper prices and more tokens because their audience needs that.

Well, whether they can actually afford that long-term is a different problem.

But the point is, OpenAI users are very different from Anthropic’s ideal users.

Most normal ChatGPT users are not going to pay $200 for a limited amount of tokens.

Obviously, I’m not saying OpenAI doesn’t have enterprise customers.

Of course they do.

They have developers.

They have businesses.

They have serious users.

But Anthropic is positioning itself differently.

Anthropic doesn’t have an image model.

It doesn’t have a video model.

And the reason they don’t have that is because most enterprise businesses don’t really need that as their main priority.

Sure, image and video can be useful for marketing.

But that’s not the most important thing for a lot of big enterprise companies.

The important stuff is:

Can it code?

Can it handle complex workflows?

Can it manage tasks across a small team?

Can it make decisions based on financial data?

Can it work through large amounts of business data?

Can it be trusted in serious environments?

That’s the kind of stuff big enterprise companies actually care about.

People were also surprised when Anthropic closed off Mythos to the public.

But that actually makes sense if you understand who they’re targeting.

They’re not building for little Timmy who wants to vibe code some random startup so he can finally escape his mum’s basement.

They’re building for big enterprise customers.

That’s their target.

So if you’re looking at what Anthropic is doing and thinking:

“Why would they do that?”

“That’s so stupid.”

You need to switch your frame.

Instead of looking at it like they’re trying to beat ChatGPT for normal consumers…

look at it like they’re trying to win enterprise.

Then a lot of their decisions make way more sense.

Some of you probably already knew this.

Good.

You’re smart.

But if you didn’t, look at Anthropic through that lens and then look at the OpenAI versus Anthropic rivalry again.

Because suddenly, the rivalry starts to make way more sense.

OpenAI is always laying little traps for Anthropic.

Anthropic rarely hits back.

They barely mention competitors.

They don’t really flex their customers publicly.

They come across as a much more professional, B2B company.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman is on X talking about goblin mode.

Now, to be fair…

it is funny.

And it’s good.

But it makes a lot more sense once you realise OpenAI and Anthropic are playing slightly different games.

So if you want to understand the Anthropic versus OpenAI rivalry properly, you need to watch what happens in the news.

Because there’s going to be a lot of AI news this week.

Especially on Thursday.

I’ve heard something is dropping from OpenAI.

And if you want more news on that, head to my newsletter below in the comments.

I talk about this stuff every week.

Last weekend, I dropped something about the AI safety sector that not many people are talking about, and it opened a lot of people’s eyes about the OpenAI and Anthropic situation.

So check it out.

Have a look.

Tell me what you think.

And wait till Monday.

We’ve got something great dropping.

Look out for that.

So I noticed that a lot of noobs don’t actually know this trick that I use all the time.

I thought it was common knowledge, but apparently it’s not.

Basically, a lot of people will just put a prompt in and ask for some type of writing.

Maybe if they’re a little bit more skilled, they’ll have a specific tone in mind and include it in the prompt.

But the best thing you can actually do is include snippets of someone else’s tone that you like.

And you don’t even have to do this for one person.

It could be multiple people.

The reason you want to do this is because AI is very good at picking up tones from short pieces, long pieces, copy, writing, whatever.

So if we can do that, all we have to do is find someone who you wish you sounded like, or maybe two people together that you wish you sounded like.

Then basically, all you have to do is ask it to write your stuff in that style.

So I’m gonna give you a prompt, and you can use this when you’re uploading your pieces of text.

You’re welcome.

Prompt:

I’m going to give you a few writing samples.

Your job is to analyze the tone, style, sentence structure, pacing, humor, word choice, and overall voice.

Do not copy the exact words or ideas.

Instead, learn the style.

After I give you the samples, I want you to write new content in a similar tone.

Here are the samples:

[PASTE WRITING SAMPLE 1]

[PASTE WRITING SAMPLE 2]

[PASTE WRITING SAMPLE 3]

Now write this in that style:

[INSERT WHAT YOU WANT WRITTEN]

Alright if you haven’t used/set up the beehiiv mcp, do these steps:

Beehiiv dashboard → Settings → MCP → choose your AI client → follow the connection steps. 

Now that we’ve got that out the way, today I want to show you the prompt I used to go from converting around 0% of my list to now almost 7-10%

Obviously I did other stuff as well, and I’m not saying this is some magic pill… but it will help you guys out a lot.

Here it is:

“You are my newsletter conversion strategist.

You have access to my Beehiiv account through the Beehiiv MCP.

Your job is to audit my newsletter and find the fastest ways to increase conversions from subscribers into customers, leads, bookings, paid subscribers, or whatever the main goal of the newsletter is.

First, analyze the following:

1. My subscriber growth over the last 30, 60, and 90 days

2. My highest open-rate emails

3. My highest click-rate emails

4. My lowest-performing emails

5. My most clicked links

6. My audience segments

7. My referral sources

8. My automations and welcome sequences

9. My landing pages and opt-in forms

10. Any paid products, offers, or calls to action connected to the newsletter

Then give me a clear conversion report.

I want you to identify:

- Where subscribers are dropping off

- Which emails are creating the most buying intent

- Which topics seem to attract the best subscribers

- Which CTAs are getting ignored

- Which CTAs should be repeated more often

- Which subject lines are pulling attention

- Which segments are most likely to convert

- What I should remove, rewrite, or test

Then create a 30-day conversion plan.

Break it down into:

Week 1: Quick fixes I can make immediately

Week 2: Email and CTA improvements

Week 3: Segmentation and automation improvements

Week 4: Testing plan to improve conversions further

For every recommendation, give me:

- The reason behind it

- The exact action to take

- The expected impact

- The Beehiiv feature I should use

- A rewritten example if copy needs improving

Be brutally honest. Do not give me generic newsletter advice. Base your answer only on what you find inside my Beehiiv account.

The goal is simple:

Help me turn more of my existing subscribers into people who actually click, buy, book, reply, or take action.“

If you liked this, I write about ai on my newsletter msa and every Monday.

If you want, have a look at landing page:

https://msa-mail.com/sign-up1/

I'm sure you've seen the red and the blue debate.

here it is if you haven't see it:

"Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST."

And so people are arguing. The people on the red side are saying that you press the red button, basically nothing happens, but if you press the blue button, you're gambling with your life and people who press the blue button are just stupid. They don't understand anything. And then the people who are on the blue side say, well, if you press the red button, then you are basically trying to kill everyone. There could be children or people who don't understand anything or suicidal people who press the blue button, and now you're pressing the red button so you want them to die, and that's basically like a mass genocide.

And it's become this whole big thing.

And everyone's arguing over, well, the red side's better and the blue side's better. But what they don't realize is that in the real situation, at the end of the day, the best choice is just to press both buttons.

Okay? What does that mean?

Like, what am I talking about? You're not even allowed to press both buttons. Well, guess what? It's just a stupid hypothetical. And it's not actually, there's actually no rules. You actually can press both buttons. You can press both buttons.

And it's the same thing with AI, right? I'm sure you heard that hypothetical a long time ago. It was like, you know, the supercomputer is being built and it's going to kill everyone on earth. You can either help build it and it will spare you maybe, or you can try and destroy it, but it will know. Once it's built, if you tried to destroy it, it will know.

So it's kind of like, well, do I help destroy it? But then it'll know that I tried to destroy it and then it'll definitely kill me, or do I try and help it? But then if I help it, then it might end up killing me. So it's this whole thing.

And the answer to all of these dumb little questions is to just do both.

Maybe you use the computer if it's available to you to get some type of leverage to then destroy it more. Maybe you destroy it some and then you use the computer later.

There's tons of different options and little things that you could do.

i don't know where I was going with this i just wanted to market my newsletter but now im too deep

I wonder if anyone will even get this far

my newsletter is msa-mail .com so type that into google

the mods will never know about this

I'm going to put 6 paragraphs of me talking about corn so that they don't figure it out

Corn should get the right to vote because it has been silently supporting civilization for thousands of years.

It feeds people, animals, and entire economies without ever being asked what it wants.

If corporations can influence politics, surely a field of corn deserves at least one tiny ballot.

Corn is affected by laws about farming, climate, trade, land use, and subsidies, so it has a clear stake in the system.

It also shows up everywhere, from cereal to tortillas to fuel, which basically makes it a national public servant.

Some people might say corn cannot think, but honestly, have you seen some voters?

Corn would probably vote for sunshine, rain, healthy soil, and fewer weird processed food crimes.

Giving corn the vote would force politicians to consider the needs of farms and the environment more seriously.

It would also make election season more interesting because every campaign would need a strong “kernel strategy.”

In conclusion, corn has earned its voice, its rights, and possibly a small patriotic hat.

Look you’re probably not going to like my answer but I guarantee that if you follow the steps i tell you….

You will get at least 10x better at AI (depending on where you’re starting)

Here are the steps:

1. Monitor the situation

This step is actually very dangerous. 

If you’re starting knowing nothing about ai, then a good place to start is by looking up the news, keeping up with what's going on etc.

For example today around 500 people at Google sent a letter to (congress… i think? Idk it was somewhere in government) and they were basically saying that if Google partnered with the government that could lead to mass surveillance and they didn’t want that to happen.

Then Google partnered with the Pentagon.

Now… does that really matter? Yeah, kinda. If you know AI can be used for mass surveillance, why can’t it be used to surveil yourself and track everything about you? Or your employees? And give you tips on how to get better?

Thats just one example.

Another good one is that GBT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 dropped last week. If you’re a normie you probably didn’t know that… which is fine but if you want to get good at using ai you have to atleast know whats going on.

So why is this dangerous?

Well, you’ll pretty easily get addicted. (this happens at every step lol)

Some people end up trying to monitor the situation and end up spending all day trying out new tools, worrying about what’s next, keeping up with everything.

I mean this space moves VERY fast and there’s a lot to go through.

One week Claude is the best, another it’s ChatGPT.

Hence my second tip

2 use a news aggregator 

If you try to keep up with twitter, redddit, news and all of that… you will be spending 40 a week looking at (mostly) alot of garbage you probably cant use.

Do you care about what open source models are coming out?

Probably not because you probably dont have a super expensive computer.

And that’s just one example of many different useless rabbit holes you can dive deep down but wont actually get any value from.

The solution is following people who talk about AI but not EVERYTHING.

I’ve put together a few newsletters, youtube channels, twitter accounts that you can follow and have a look at. (at the bottom)

You only really need to spend an hour a week on this.

3 actually try the tools

These tips I'm giving you are like a burger.

I’ve given you the cheese, and the buns… which are important (after all the burger wont work without them) but this is the meat.

The patty

The vegan blob 🤮 

What i’m trying to say is that none of this will actually work if you don’t try the tools.

And i get it, “if you want to get better at AI, just use AI” (doesn’t exactly sound like life changing advice)

I did give you those channels and they will tell you how to use the AI but…

At the end of the day…

How do you get better at riding a bike? Being an artist?

You can get all the tips and channels and whatever, but the only real way you’re going to have leverage in ai is by using it.

THink of something that takes up your day.

That you’re annoyed you even have to do, but you HAVE to do it.

Try to get ai to do it

You’d be surprised. It might not get everything right but it’ll differently make something easier.

Then try it for another thing

And another.

And by the time you’ve tried everything, you’ll probably be much better at using ai and you’ll have a much easier time working.

Hope this helps.

Happy to answer any questions if anyone actually got this far 😂

I’m pretty sure this isn’t against the rules but if it is then never mind.

right now I’m recommending 4 people and none of them have recommended me back, I’ve sent around 10 subs to them for no reason.

im wondering if anyone else wants to take those spots? I’m not some huge newsletter yet but I have gotten around 1 million views on X and probably 700k on reddit

not all related to my newsletter but I’m pushing extremely hard to get subs in a bunch of different ways

i I average getting around 1 sub per day so if I’m recommending you maybe you’ll get 3-6 subs a week.

honestly it depends on if your newsletter looks interesting to people who care about ai

my newsletter is called Main Street ai and I basically post about ai news/tips/etc

if youre interested let me know I’ll put you as a recommendation and you can put me as one

Some are using AI to move twice as fast.

The rest are still doing everything manually like it’s 2016 and Zapier hasn’t been invented yet.

And it’s not even because they’re stupid.

Most just don’t have time to dig through 900 AI tools, 40 Twitter threads, and some guy’s “ultimate workflow” that only works if you have 6 Chrome extensions and no will to live.

But that’s the problem.

AI is moving way too fast to ignore now.

You don’t need to use every new tool.

You just need to know what’s actually worth paying attention to before your competitors do.

This is the problem with the internet now.

There is no shortage of content.

There is a shortage of people who can tell you what is actually worth caring about.

Everyone is posting.

Everyone is summarizing.

Everyone is “curating.”

But most curation is just:

“Here are 10 links I found.”

That is not curation.

That is homework with branding.

A good filter should tell you:

this matters
this doesn’t
this sounds important but isn’t
this boring thing is actually useful
this is only useful if you’re technical
this is worth trying now
this can wait

AI is the worst version of this right now.

Because every tiny update gets treated like the moon landing.

A model got slightly better.

A tool added agents.

A founder tweeted a demo.

A wrapper changed its pricing.

Cool.

But what does that actually mean for a normal person?

What should I use?

What should I ignore?

What should I stop paying for?

What is actually different this week?

That’s the content I want.

Are there any AI newsletters/sites that actually do this well?

Not just “here’s what happened.”

More like “here’s what matters and what to ignore.”