He’s Using AI to Optimize His Life - Ep. 53 with Jonny Miller
Mar 26, 2025
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In this engaging conversation, Jonny Miller, a founder and coach specializing in nervous system mastery, reveals how he’s transformed his life using AI. He designed a personalized framework called Codex Vitae, which allows ChatGPT to provide tailored advice across various aspects of his life. Jonny shares insights on energy management, unconventional pathways to personal fulfillment, and innovative meditation techniques. He also explores the potential of AI in coaching and customer support, emphasizing a future where human intuition and AI collaboration thrive.
Creating a Codex Vitae enables users to personalize AI responses by inputting their core traits, goals, and experiences for tailored coaching.
AI facilitates productivity by assisting with multiple projects, freeing up mental space for innovation while integrating seamlessly into business strategies.
The integration of AI in meditation practices allows for personalized insights, enhancing user experiences and fostering greater self-discovery and emotional regulation.
Deep dives
The Codex Vitae: Enhancing AI Coaching
Creating a Codex Vitae has revolutionized the way individuals can tap into AI for personalized coaching. This document serves as a comprehensive collection of personal insights, including decision-making principles, energetic triggers, and previous experiences, which the AI can utilize to provide tailored responses. By inputting extensive self-knowledge, users can enhance the AI's ability to offer relevant and actionable advice. This method transforms AI from a standard tool into a personalized assistant that reflects the user's unique needs and context.
Multimodal Business Ecosystem
The discussion highlights the emergence of companies as multimodal ecosystems that incorporate various forms of content, such as writing, podcasts, courses, and software, to engage audiences. This approach allows businesses to interact with their followers through multiple channels while seamlessly directing them towards relevant products and services. In this context, AI plays a pivotal role by streamlining operations and enhancing productivity across numerous projects. This model shifts the traditional business narrative, emphasizing creativity and diversified engagement over singular focus.
The Role of AI in Enhanced Productivity
AI significantly amplifies productivity by empowering individuals to handle multiple projects simultaneously, serving as both an organizational tool and a source of critical insights. By acting as an assistant in various tasks, from business administration to marketing strategy, users can free up their mental bandwidth to explore creativity and innovation. The combination of AI tools with human expertise promotes a generation of ideas and solutions that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. This synergy redefines the potential of individuals in increasingly complex work environments.
Jhana Practice and AI Integration
Integrating AI into jhana meditation practice demonstrates a new frontier in mindful exploration. Participants can utilize AI to analyze their meditation experiences, receiving personalized feedback that enhances their understanding and practice of jhana states. By keeping a structured log within AI frameworks, individuals can track their progress and refine their techniques based on AI-generated insights. This collaboration between human intention and AI assistance opens new pathways to self-discovery and emotional regulation.
AI as a Complement to Traditional Coaching
AI emerges as a valuable complement to traditional coaching by offering support and continuous engagement between sessions. This broadens the scope of understanding for both coaches and clients, facilitating a dynamic interaction that encourages ongoing personal development. Coupled with the capacity for quantifying personal data, AI can provide deeper insights into behaviors and triggers while remaining accessible at all times. This innovative blend not only democratizes coaching support but also fosters an environment of collaborative growth.
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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