This week I handed over the keys of my email to ChatGPT and it got me thinking about the challenges and opportunities of AI. I thought it might be useful for you to hear the perspective of an employer, podcaster, creator, and my observations on how it's changing the world of travel and outcomes for non-native English speakers.

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Chapters:

00:00 intro: i feel like AI continually solves one problem but then creates another

00:09 why I'm changing my mind on receiving AI-generated podcast invitations

03:41 my predictions on the future of email as AI monitored emails become the new norm

04:52 my experiences this week during a staff recruitment drive, and the effects that AI is having for both myself and applicants

08:35 non-native English speakers are learning from cheaply generated AI-slop TikTok content. Is this a good or bad?

10:35 if everything can be instantly translated, is there now zero incentive for non-natives to learn English?

13:07 the beginnings of a huge drop in the price of AI and the effect this will have on society

13:37 OpenAI vs Anthropic: why competition for these two behemoths is great for consumers and business owners

14:45 what do I mean when I say “insight over knowledge”?

15:22 closing thoughts

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Nine years ago I left Gili Trawangan with no money, a banging head, and a boat to Komodo I nearly missed.

This week I went back with Mica and Tomi, now alcohol-free, to see what's changed.

Turns out, mostly me.

We island-hop from Bali to Gili T and finish on Gili Air. Plenty of boats, chats with locals, my not-funny-funny toilet humour, Borat impressions, a masturbation joke or two, and the deep chats you'd expect:

Is life one big illusion? If everything you experience is your brain interpreting and projecting the signals it can decode, what are you actually looking at?

This one's emotional for me. It was the last weekend Mica, Tomi and I had together, and I'll treasure it.

Same island. Completely different chapter.

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE

Mica: https://www.instagram.com/micaturrin

Tomi: https://www.instagram.com/nomadtomi

More vlogs with Mica and Tomi:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMebuClQRf09N1EW4xaBRDZJQqPlDB_5B

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The Chapter System: https://bit.ly/4gw6m6x

Chapters:

00:00 No money, no signal, three boat tickets

02:05 Getting to the port

05:20 The crossing

14:00 Beach stop

17:28 Gili T, nine years later

19:30 What's changed on the island

25:55 Cafe chats: preloading philosophy

31:30 The joke that didn't land

42:50 Is life one big illusion?

47:30 My last night here, nine years ago

53:00 On to Gili Air

55:45 Our last weekend ends

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If you're trying to grow a social media page from nothing, thinking about betting on yourself and going all in on a side hustle, or you're a runner curious about what elite coaching actually looks like (your form, your footwear, your easy runs, all of it), this episode covers the lot.

Myles Rawson grew his Instagram from nothing to 300,000 followers in around 12 months. This is the full story of how, from the man himself.

When we first spoke, his channel had just started blowing up. In this one we go right back to the beginning: the 6am workouts before full electrician days with video editing until 11pm, the fuck-this moment where he nearly packed it in, the video format that finally took off, and the ten grand he paid a coach when that money was hard to find.

It's not just a growth story though. He also sorts my back out again: my anterior pelvic tilt, what sitting all day does to runners, why easy runs expose your form, what modern footwear does to the 250,000 nerve endings in your feet, and how to build strength for HYROX without bulk.

Plus: living with elite runners at a training camp in Kenya, and the DM from Bear Grylls that turned into coaching him.

Chapters:

00:00 Trailer

00:35 Catch-up: the year the channel blew up

01:15 Electrician by day, running coach by night

12:08 Hormozi’s ten grand bet on himself

22:45 Kenya: living with elite runners

32:25 My pelvic tilt, his verdict, and the sitting problem

56:16 Footwear, 250,000 nerve endings, and overstriding

1:01:47 Building running strength

1:15:28 Coaching Bear Grylls

1:17:32 Where to find Myles

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GUEST

Myles Rawson, running technique coach

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findyourstridecoach

Coaching: link in his bio, or DM him at @findyourstridecoach

Previous episode with Myles: #69, Shave Minutes Off Your HYROX Time, Running Form Masterclass

https://youtu.be/ei-CGsGKMYQ?si=0B6nvaQHLqbhZMrH

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I started this episode in a bad mood! Work had taken over, I was frustrated with being injured, my fitness had gone backwards, and I’d reached that point of thinking: what’s the fucking point? I stuck my runners on, grabbed a camera and went for a run around Phuket.

Along the way, I get into:

* Why maintaining your fitness can actually be progress

* How quickly I lost strength after injury, illness and stopping the boring basics

* Why tracking your numbers matters when things start going backwards

* The first sub-4:00/km pace I’ve seen in months

* Why I’d stopped running for the simple enjoyment of it

* The less glamorous reality of working remotely in “paradise”

* Losing fitness and realising how little I appreciated what I had

* Gratitude; and why sometimes you only understand something’s value after losing it

* Using running to change your mental state

* How changing your behaviour can change your environment, not just the other way around

* Why sometimes hitting a low point is exactly what forces you to do something different

By the end of the run, none of the problems had magically disappeared. But they did feel smaller and sometimes that’s enough :)

Chapters:

00:00 Trailer

00:34 I’m Not Having a Good Day

05:23 Why Maintenance Is Actually Progress

13:05 I Haven’t Seen Sub-4 in Months

23:20 Running, Injury & Losing My Fitness

25:00 What I Had — and Didn’t Appreciate

28:35 The Run Changed My Mood

32:35 Why Changing Your Environment Changes You

34:00 Sometimes You Need to Hit a Low Point

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Two travellers ask an old man at a crossroads what the people are like in the city ahead. He gives them both the same answer, and it's different for each of them. This episode starts with that old parable and then tests it on a real flight from Bali to Phuket.

What I get into: the choice I made boarding that plane to be kind to every single person with no conditions attached. The couple blocking the aisle and what happened when I didn't sigh. Deciding to welcome whoever sat in the middle seat, and the Turkish woman who wrote in my journal because we couldn't share a language. The George Michael impersonator I judged, then chose kindness for, and the chocolate bar that came back. And the question under all of it: is it really kindness if it comes with conditions?

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The moment I turned the camera on, my phone felt heavier. Same phone, same hand, nothing changed except being watched. This solo episode is me sitting in a cafe in Bali pulling on that thread until it unravels into something bigger: how observation distorts everything.

What I get into: why the camera activates presenter mode rather than creating a fake version of you. The manual labour paradox: AI promised leverage, but the way to look authentic now is to do everything yourself, glued to your phone. Presumptive fame, and why my brain rates a stranger's video above a friend's. Productive procrastination, and pouring energy into work that looks right but misses the point. And the thing it all lands on: most of what feels urgent is noise, and the skill is telling it apart from signal.

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The lads from school woke me up this morning ripping me for changing my accent, so let's get into it. Why do some of us smooth our accents out when we move through the world, and is it fake?

I get into linguistic accommodation, the concept Valerie Fridland taught me when she came on the show, and why softening the edges of my Southern Cumbrian accent is the opposite of inauthentic. I've been on both sides of this: on lads holidays I'd turn the accent up as a weapon, out in Bali I turn it down to connect. Same tool, different job.

Also in here: catching myself switching mid-sentence, a Sean Connery impression nobody asked for, football hooligans, why the biggest connections I've made out here would never have happened in my broad accent, and what happened to Chris Williamson's Geordie accent. Accent isn't personality, it's a set of options.

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Check out my conversation with Professor Valerie Fridland: https://youtu.be/3yOSIGNAhhk?si=UM4oXwHE6dJ-PmsJ

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Apologies for the low quality audio today. It does improve as the episode progresses. This one is a raw solo entry, recorded on my phone in a coffee shop in Canggu, no camera setup, no plan.

Today felt like a shift. First easy run in over a month after a back injury, food poisoning and a rough few weeks, and the start of moving on from a minor heartbreak. Along the way I get into something I keep noticing: the moment a song or a place stops being part of your present and crosses over into nostalgia, and why that threshold feels so much sharper when you are travelling.

In this episode:

The nostalgia threshold, when familiar songs start to sting

Moving through heartbreak without dressing it up

Why walking into a new coffee shop scared me more than recording in public

Booking HYROX Bangkok with four weeks to train

The three levels of sharing personal stories, from private journal to public insight

If this format lands for you, let me know. And if you have not already, hit follow so the next one turns up on its own.

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