Keeping up with AI is Nathaniel Whittemore’s full-time job—and I spent an hour with him to understand how he does it.
Nathaniel is the host of a top-ranked AI podcast on the technology charts, The AI Daily Brief, which breaks down the most important news in AI every day. He is also the founder and CEO of Superintelligent, a platform that teaches you how to use AI for work and fun through interactive video tutorials.
We talked about how he curates information with X bookmarks, Google News, news aggregator Feedly, and research tool Perplexity; the workflow that helps him record and produce two daily podcasts; and why he thinks optimizing your processes with AI remains one of its most underrated applications.
Here’s what you’ll learn if you listen to or watch this episode:
- How to curates AI news using X bookmarks, Google News, Perplexity, and other specialized tools
- Nathaniel’s insights from producing 300-plus episodes of a top-ranked podcast
- The granular details of the workflow that helps Nathaniel produce two daily podcasts
- Actionable advice on how to get the most out of AI right now
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Timestamps:
- Introduction: 00:00:51
- How you can get value of AI right now: 00:02:15
- Nathaniel goes through his X bookmarks: 00:14:07
- Why content should have a point of view: 00:20:25
- Tools that Nathaniel uses to curate news about AI: 00:23:47
- How to use LLMs to structure your thoughts: 00:31:27
- Why the history of Excel is a good way to understand AI’s progress: 00:38:40
- The AI features in Descript that Nathaniel uses: 00:45:46
- AI-powered tools to help you generate content:00:49:11
- Nathaniel’s tips on using Midjourney to generate YouTube thumbnails: 00:58:32
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