He’s Using AI to Optimize His Life - Ep. 53 with Jonny Miller

Jonny Miller uploaded his entire life to ChatGPT to use it as the ultimate AI coach. 

He created what he calls a Codex Vitae—with core personality traits, values, goals, burnout signals and more to load into ChatGPT. It hyper-customizes his responses, to help him access deep meditation states, create custom supplementation plans, and do deep research on areas of brain and body that he finds interesting.  

Jonny runs a course on nervous system mastery, hosts a podcast, coaches founders and CEOs, and is building a wellness app—all using AI. As a long-time friend and writer for @every, I was psyched to have Jonny on AI & I to talk about how LLMs are expanding the breadth and depth of what he can do. We get into: 

• Energy as your greatest asset: Jonny’s philosophy around pursuing a non-traditional path—like us at Every—by fiercely protecting his energy and optimizing for “aliveness” instead of higher revenue figures.

• ChatGPT projects for everything: His use of projects in @ChatGPTapp to organize different areas of his life; for example, he uploads his meditation journal to a Jhana project and asks it for advice when he’s struggling with the practice on a particular day.

• Deep research in action: How he uses @OpenAI’s deep research to tackle practical questions about moving his family to Costa Rica, hilariously esoteric ones about whether there’s a connection between Pokémon and shamanism, and everything that lies in between.

• The rise of “centaur” teams: Jonny’s belief that @kevin2kelly’s prediction around “centaurs”—human + AI teams outperforming either human or AI working alone—is becoming our reality.

  
  

This is a must watch for anyone interested in using AI for personal development, coaching, or to build systems that can understand you. 

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Timestamps:

1. Introduction: 00:01:31

2. Dan and Jonny’s approach to running non-traditional businesses: 00:02:18

3. How Jonny uses ChatGPT to deepen his meditation practice: 00:12:04

4. Jonny uses AI to research a theory of how trauma is stored in our bodies: 00:25:44

5. Dan’s theory around how AI is changing science: 00:31:28

6. Jonny’s method to build personalized AI coaches: 00:32:35

7. How Jonny used OpenAI’s deep research to plan a move to Costa Rica: 00:47:07

8. Dan is developing an app that can predict his OCD symptoms: 00:52:50

9. AI makes the idea of a “quantified self” useful: 00:55:42

10. The future of human-AI coaching teams: 00:58:28

    
    

Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

• Jonny Miller: @jonnym1ller

• The nervous system mastery bootcamp: https://www.nsmastery.com/ 

• His podcast: Curious Humans with Jonny Miller 

• The nervous system regulation mobile app: Stateshift 

• Jonny’s method to build your AI coach: http://BuildyourAIcoach.com 

• More about Jhana: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/20/meditative-states-as-mental-feedback-loops/ 

• Buster Benson’s Codex Vitate: https://2019.busterbenson.com/beliefs/

• The pieces Jonny has written for Every: “The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System,” “The Best Decision-Making Is Emotional,” “How to Pay Off Your Emotional Debt,” “The Art and Science of Interoception”