How I'm Using AI in 2025

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Back at the end of 2022, I started hearing about this thing called Chat GPT. After playing with it a bit in 2023, I saw it had potential but really unsure how I would personally use it. Then in 2024, I started to see the magnitude of what was available.

To be fair, I have not spent too much time getting into the weeds of things and leveraging multiple apps together like many people to create a semi-autonomous agent. But I have used it to help me organize my thoughts, create better-structured writing, and as a market research tool. In reality, AI is only going to continue to expand. So while I’m all for spending more time in nature & getting to know the plant kingdom for self-healing, you will need to know AI if you want to produce high income for yourself as the economy & world become more technological. The sponsor of today’s newsletter is the best I’ve seen at producing quick, digestible and actionable information around AI.

Here are 5 ways I am using it today and will be in this year.

1. Artistic Direction - Using only Chat GPT plugins, I’ve found several image generators that after maybe 15-30 minutes of playing around is something good enough for me to send to a designer to create a formal version for whatever I’m looking to accomplish. Below is a mock up that Dalle made for me for a product I was looking to co brand with a couple friends. The designer was able to take this and create something similar just much cleaner.

   

Below is an image I used for a product thumbnail on my site for my marketing mentorship offer. Simple, Clean, and took 5 mins to create. No post-refinement needed

2. Product Creation - This year, I have a whole list of written digital products I plan on releasing both free & paid. I’m using Claude & Chat GPT to re-organize my notes, outlines, and writing to create a top-tier product. It has saved me at least 20-30 hours of work so far and cuts down on the execution time tremendously which gets the product out there. An example of this is my upcoming Dopamine Fasting Guide which is designed to help you take control of your attention & build willpower in your day to day life. I inputted my outline of what I’ve done personally, the practices I do day to day, and specific supplements I use to assist and AI re-organized everything to flow better and gave me suggestions of what was missing and other resources to include in the guide. Think of it like an instant feedback machine that sees the world more logically. You can say what flows better or give me x# examples of this rewritten. All while ensuring that it stays true to your voice & vibe. I have personally really enjoyed it remembering out past conversations and it has started to generate things like “Based on your brand principles of ABC here are a couple of options” and that chat was like 6 months ago its pulling from.

3. Proof Reading - I historically have had a poor time with grammar, spelling, etc. Some may have said it’s my ADHD, other times it appears as dyslexic-like symptoms. I remember a co-worker I had at my old job blasted me on a huge chain of coworkers (total a-hole move) but since then I have made a bigger intentional effort to do better at this. AI has really helped with this by taking a draft and then spitting it back out with a better sentence structure or even auto-correcting my spelling mistakes. It even will ask me, “Did you mean to say this or this?” This alone has given me more confidence to produce writing and has made the process much more fun so I don’t have to hunt the mistakes on my own.

4. Efficiency Automation - My friend Kyle is a AI wizard and helps solopreneurs create personal AI agents. This can be everything from budget balancing, task management, automating specific workflows etc. I’ll be getting in touch with him to help me see what can be automated in my current workflow to help reduce workflows from 10 hours down to 20 to 30 mins. He has stated what used to take him 2 weeks now takes him 4 hours. This is a zone of AI I would pay attention to as a solopreneur.

5. Information Summarization - Remember SparkNotes back in college? Instead of reading the whole book to do the report you just read 10 people’s outlines & summary of a book then synthesize your paper based on it. AI can do that just far more robustly. For example, you can say "Explain to me the benefits of this product and 5 competitors or Give me a detailed breakdown of this law from this party’s perspective and then that party’s perspective.” What you have is a tool that can give you a 360-degree view of a subject so that you can see all opposing sides and it will include 3rd party resources so you can go check it out yourself.

These are only the tip of the iceberg. Some of my peers have already started integrating it into their daily lives. We see reports nearly monthly of a company using AI to create efficiency and as a result have boosted profits but laid off entire teams in the process. This is a growing pain of the AI integration we are facing on the horizon. AI to me, is really not a bad thing, but for us not to be negatively affected by it we must give it some level of attention and learn how to make it a positive thing for our own world.

Start small, learn the basics, have conversations little by little, and see what you like and don’t like. Only then can you make a better-informed perspective. Then you can create your world where AI is a servant of your purpose and work in the world rather than you being negatively impacted by it.

A good place to start is The Rundown AI. You can check them out with the link at the top of the page.

See you next time

-Taylor