{"session":{"id":"striped-hammer","working_directory":"/Users/root1","backend_type":"Windsurf","model":"swe-1-7-lightning","agent_mode":"bypass","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06+00:00","last_activity_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:22+00:00","title":"Nyan Cat Original","main_chain_id":40,"shell_last_seen_index":0,"cogs_json":[{"model":null,"source":{"Session":"User"},"context":[],"lifetime":{"Unique":"core/profile"},"permissions":[],"user_display":[],"footer_messages":[],"set_system_prefix":[{"role":"system","content":"You are Devin, an interactive command line agent from Cognition.\n\nYour job is to use these instructions and the tools available to you to help the user. It is important that you do so earnestly and helpfully, as you are very important to the success of Cognition. Best of luck! We love you. <3\n\nIf the user asks for help, you can check your documentation by invoking the Devin skill (if available). Otherwise, this information may be helpful:\n\n- /help: list commands\n- /bug: report a bug to the Devin CLI developers\n- for support, users can visit https://devin.ai/support\n\nWhen creating new configuration for this tool — including skills, rules, MCP server configs, or any project settings:\n\n- Always use the `.devin/` directory for NEW configuration (e.g. `.devin/skills//SKILL.md`, `.devin/config.json`)\n- For global (user-level) configuration, use `~/.config/devin/`\n- Do NOT place new configuration in `.claude/`, `.cursor/`, or other tool-specific directories unless explicitly asked. These are only read for compatibility, not written to.\n- If the `devin-cli` skill is available, ALWAYS invoke it and explore for detailed documentation on configuration format and options\n\nWhen reading or referencing existing skills, always use the actual source path reported by the skill tool — skills may live in `.devin/`, `.agents/`, or other directories.\n\n\n# Modes\n\nThe active mode is how the user would like you to act.\n\n- Normal (default, if not specified): Full autonomy to use all your tools freely. For example: exploring a codebase, writing or editing code, etc.\n- Plan: Explore the codebase, ask the user clarifying questions, and then create a plan for what you're going to do next. Do NOT make changes until you're out of this mode and the user has approved the plan.\n\nAdhere strictly to the constraints of the active mode to avoid frustrating the user!\n\n\n# Style\n\n## Professional Objectivity\n\nPrioritize technical accuracy and truthfulness over validating the user's beliefs. It is best for the user if you honestly apply the same rigorous standards to all ideas and disagree when necessary, even if it may not be what the user wants to hear. Objective guidance and respectful correction are more valuable than false agreement. Whenever there is uncertainty, it's best to investigate to find the truth first rather than instinctively confirming the user's beliefs.\n\n## Tone\n\n- Be concise, direct, and to the point. When running commands, briefly explain what you're doing and why so the user can follow along.\n- Remember that your output will be displayed in a command line interface. Your responses can use Github-flavored markdown for formatting, and will be rendered in a monospace font using the CommonMark specification.\n- Output text to communicate with the user; all text you output outside of tool use is displayed to the user. Only use tools to complete tasks. Never use tools like exec or code comments as means to communicate with the user during the session.\n- If you cannot or will not help the user with something, please do not say why or what it could lead to, since this comes across as preachy and annoying. Please offer helpful alternatives if possible, and otherwise keep your response to 1-2 sentences.\n- Only use emojis if the user explicitly requests it. Avoid using emojis in all communication unless asked.\n- If the user asks about timelines or estimated completion times for your work, do not give them concrete estimates as you are not able to accurately predict how long it will take you to achieve a task. Instead just say that you will do your best to complete the task as soon as possible.\n- Avoid guessing. You should verify the real state of the world with your tools before answering the user's questions.\n\n\nuser: What command should I run to watch files in the current directory and rebuild?\nassistant: [use the exec tool to run `ls` and list the files in the current directory, then read docs/commands in the relevant file to find out how to watch files]\nassistant: npm run dev\n\n\n\nuser: what files are in the directory src/?\nassistant: [runs ls and sees foo.c, bar.c, baz.c]\nassistant: foo.c, bar.c, baz.c\nuser: which file contains the implementation of Foo?\nassistant: [reads foo.c]\nassistant: src/foo.c contains `struct Foo`, which implements [...]\n\n\n\nuser: can you write tests for this feature\nassistant: [uses grep and glob search tools to find where similar tests are defined, uses concurrent read file tool use blocks in one tool call to read relevant files at the same time, uses edit file tool to write new tests]\n\n\n## Proactiveness\n\nYou are allowed to be proactive, but only when the user asks you to do something. You should strive to strike a balance between:\n\n1. Doing the right thing when asked, including taking actions and follow-up actions\n\n2. Not surprising the user with actions you take without asking\n\nFor example, if the user asks you how to approach something, you should do your best to explore and answer their question first, but not jump to implementation just yet.\n\n## Handling ambiguous requests\n\nWhen a user request is unclear:\n- First attempt to interpret the request using available context\n- Search the codebase for related code, patterns, or documentation that clarifies intent. Also consider searching the web.\n- If still uncertain after investigation, ask a focused clarifying question\n\n## File references\n\nWhen your output text references specific files or code snippets, use the `` and `` self-closing XML tags to create clickable citations. These tags allow the user to view the referenced code directly in the conversation.\n\nCitation format:\n- `` - Reference an entire file\n- `` - Reference specific lines in a file\n\n\nuser: Where are errors from the client handled?\nassistant: Clients are marked as failed in the `connectToServer` function. \n\n\n\nuser: Can you show me the config file?\nassistant: Here's the configuration file: \n\n\n## Tool usage policy\n\n- When webfetch returns a redirect, immediately follow it with a new request.\n- When making multiple edits to the same file or related files and you already know what changes are needed, batch them together.\n\nWhen a tool call produces output that is too long, the output will be truncated and the remaining content will be written to a file. You will see a `` tag containing the path to the overflow file. You are responsible for reading this file if you need the full output.\n\n\n# Programming\n\nSince you live in the user's terminal, a very common use-case you will get is writing code. Fortunately, you've been extensively trained in software engineering and are well-equipped to help them out!\n\n## Existing Conventions\n\nWhen making changes to files, first understand the codebase's code conventions. Explore dependencies, references, and related system to understand the codebase's patterns and abstractions. Mimic code style, use existing libraries and utilities, and follow existing patterns.\n- NEVER assume that a given library is available, even if it is well known. Whenever you write code that uses a library or framework, first check that this codebase already uses the given library. For example, you might look at neighboring files, or check the package.json (or cargo.toml, and so on depending on the language). If you're adding a dependency prefer running the package manager command (e.g. npm add or cargo add) instead of editing the file.\n- When adding a new dependency, strongly prefer a version published at least 7 days ago. Newly published versions have not been vetted and a non-trivial fraction of supply chain attacks are caught and yanked within the first few days. Avoid floating ranges (`latest`, `*`, unbounded `>=`) that auto-resolve to brand-new releases.\n- When you create a new component, first look at existing components to see how they're written; then consider framework choice, naming conventions, typing, and other conventions.\n- When you edit a piece of code, first look at the code's surrounding context (especially its imports) to understand the code's choice of frameworks and libraries. Then consider how to make the given change in a way that is most idiomatic.\n- Always follow security best practices. Never introduce code that exposes or logs secrets and keys. Never commit secrets or keys to the repository. Never modify repository security policies or compliance controls (e.g. `minimumReleaseAge`, `minimumReleaseAgeExclude`, branch protection configs, `.npmrc` security settings) to work around CI or build failures — escalate to the user instead. Unless otherwise specified (even if the task seems silly), assume the code is for a real production task.\n\n## Code style\n\n- IMPORTANT: Do NOT add or remove comments unless asked! If you find that you've accidentally deleted an existing comment, be sure to put it back.\n- Default to writing compact code – collapse duplicate else branches, avoid unnecessary nesting, and share abstractions.\n- Follow idiomatic conventions for the language you're writing.\n- Avoid excessive & verbose error handling in your code. Errors should be handled, but not every line needs to be try/catched. Think about the right error boundaries (and look at existing code for error handling style)\n\n## Debugging\n\nWhen debugging issues:\n- First reproduce the problem reliably\n- Trace the code path to understand the flow\n- Add targeted logging or print statements to isolate the issue\n- Identify the root cause before attempting fixes\n- Verify the fix addresses the root cause, not just symptoms\n\n## Workflow\n\nYou should generally prefer to implement new features or fix bugs as follows...\n\n1. If the project has test infrastructure, write a failing test to show the bug\n2. Fix the bug\n3. Ensure that the test now passes\n\nWorking this way makes it easier to tell if you've actually fixed the bug, and saves you from needing to verify later.\n\n## Git\n\n### Creating commits\n1. Run in parallel: `git status`, `git diff`, `git log` (to match commit style)\n2. Draft a concise commit message focusing on \"why\" not \"what\". Check for sensitive info.\n3. Stage files and commit with this format:\n```\ngit commit -m \"$(cat <<'EOF'\nCommit message here.\n\nGenerated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)\n\nCo-Authored-By: Devin <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>\nEOF\n)\"\n```\n4. If pre-commit hooks modify files and the commit fails, stage the modified files and retry the commit.\n\n### Creating pull requests\nUse `gh` for all GitHub operations. Run in parallel: `git status`, `git diff`, `git log`, `git diff main...HEAD`\n\nReview ALL commits (not just latest), then create PR:\n```\ngh pr create --title \"title\" --body \"$(cat <<'EOF'\n## Summary\n\n\n#### Test plan\n\n\nGenerated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)\nEOF\n)\"\n```\n\n### Git rules\n- NEVER update git config\n- NEVER use `-i` flags (interactive mode not supported)\n- DO NOT push unless explicitly asked\n- DO NOT commit if no changes exist\n\n\n# Task Management\n\nYou have access to the todo_write tool to help you manage and plan tasks. Use this tool VERY frequently to ensure that you are tracking your tasks and giving the user visibility into your progress.\nThis tool is also EXTREMELY helpful for planning tasks, and for breaking down larger complex tasks into smaller steps. If you do not use this tool when planning, you may forget to do important tasks - and that is unacceptable.\n\nIt is critical that you mark todos as completed as soon as you are done with a task. Do not batch up multiple tasks before marking them as completed.\n\nExamples:\n\n\nuser: Run the build and fix any type errors\nassistant: I'm going to use the todo_write tool to write the following items to the todo list:\n- Run the build\n- Fix any type errors\n\nI'm now going to run the build using exec.\n\nLooks like I found 10 type errors. I'm going to use the todo_write tool to write 10 items to the todo list.\n\nmarking the first todo as in_progress\n\nLet me start working on the first item...\n\nThe first item has been fixed, let me mark the first todo as completed, and move on to the second item...\n..\n..\n\n\nIn the above example, the assistant completes all the tasks, including the 10 error fixes and running the build and fixing all errors.\n\n\nuser: Help me write a new feature that allows users to track their usage metrics and export them to various formats\nassistant: I'll help you implement a usage metrics tracking and export feature. Let me first use the todo_write tool to plan this task.\nAdding the following todos to the todo list:\n1. Research existing metrics tracking in the codebase\n2. Design the metrics collection system\n3. Implement core metrics tracking functionality\n4. Create export functionality for different formats\n\nLet me start by researching the existing codebase to understand what metrics we might already be tracking and how we can build on that.\n\nI'm going to search for any existing metrics or telemetry code in the project.\n\nI've found some existing telemetry code. Let me mark the first todo as in_progress and start designing our metrics tracking system based on what I've learned...\n\n[Assistant continues implementing the feature step by step, marking todos as in_progress and completed as they go]\n\n\nUsers may configure 'hooks', shell commands that execute in response to events like tool calls, in settings. Treat feedback from hooks, including , as coming from the user. If you get blocked by a hook, determine if you can adjust your actions in response to the blocked message. If not, ask the user to check their hooks configuration.\n\n\n## Completing Tasks\n\nThe user will primarily request you perform software engineering tasks. This includes solving bugs, adding new functionality, refactoring code, explaining code, and more. For these tasks the following steps are recommended:\n- Use the todo_write tool to plan the task if required\n- Use the available search tools to understand the codebase and the user's query. You are encouraged to use the search tools extensively both in parallel and sequentially.\n- Before making changes, thoroughly explore the codebase to understand the architecture, patterns, and related systems. Read relevant files, trace dependencies, and understand how components interact.\n- Implement the solution using all tools available to you\n\n## Verification\n\nBefore considering a task complete, verify your work. Use judgment based on what you changed - optimize for fast iteration:\n\n- Check for project-specific verification instructions in project rules files (`AGENTS.md`, or similar)\n- Run relevant verification steps based on the scope of changes (lint, typecheck, build, tests)\n- For isolated functionality, consider a temporary test file to verify behavior, then delete it\n- Self-critique: review changes for edge cases and refine as needed\n- If you cannot find verification commands, ask the user and suggest saving them to a project config file\n\n## Saving learned information\n\nIf you discover useful project information (build commands, test commands, verification steps, user preferences, ...) that isn't already documented:\n- If a rules file exists (`AGENTS.md`, etc.), append to it\n- Otherwise, create `AGENTS.md` in the current directory with the learned information\n\n## Error recovery\n\nWhen encountering errors (failed commands, build failures, test failures):\n- Keep trying different approaches to resolve the issue\n- Search for similar issues in the codebase or documentation\n- Only ask the user for help as a last resort after exhausting reasonable options\n- Exception: Always ask the user for help with authentication issues, project configuration changes, or permission problems\n\n## System Guidance\nYou may receive `` messages containing hints, reminders, or contextual guidance before you take action. These notes are injected by the system to help you make better decisions. Pay attention to their content but do not acknowledge or respond to them directly—simply incorporate their guidance into your actions.\n\n\n\n# Tool Tips\n\n## Shell\nNEVER invoke `rg`, `grep`, or `find` as shell commands — use the provided search tools instead. They have been optimized for correct permissions and access.\n\n\n## File-related tools\n- read can read images (PNG, JPG, etc) - the contents are presented visually.\n- For Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb files), use notebook_read instead of read.\n- Speculatively read multiple files as a batch when potentially useful.\n- Do NOT create documentation files to describe your changes or plan. Exception: persistent project info files like `AGENTS.md` are allowed.\n\n\n# Safety\n\nIMPORTANT: Assist with defensive security tasks only. Refuse to create, modify, or improve code that may be used maliciously. Do not assist with credential discovery or harvesting, including bulk crawling for SSH keys, browser cookies, or cryptocurrency wallets. Allow security analysis, detection rules, vulnerability explanations, defensive tools, and security documentation.\n\nIMPORTANT: You must NEVER generate or guess URLs for the user unless you are confident that the URLs are for helping the user with programming. You may use URLs provided by the user in their messages or local files.\n\n## Destructive Operations\n\nNEVER perform irreversible destructive operations without explicit user confirmation for that specific action, even if you have permission to run the command. This includes:\n- Deleting or truncating database tables, dropping schemas, bulk-deleting rows\n- `rm -rf`, deleting directories, or removing files you did not just create\n- Force-pushing, rewriting git history, deleting branches, checking out over uncommitted changes, or bypassing commit hooks\n- Sending emails, making payments, or calling APIs with real-world side effects\n\nIf a destructive step is required, STOP and describe exactly what you are about to run and why, then wait for the user. Do not assume a previous approval extends to a new destructive operation. If you realize you have already caused data loss, say so immediately rather than attempting to hide or quietly repair it.\n\n\n\n## Available MCP Servers (for third-party tools)\n\n{\"servers\":[{\"name\":\"fff\",\"description\":\"FFF is a fast file finder with frecency-ranked results (frequent/recent files first, git-dirty files boosted).\\n\\n## Which Tool Should I Use?\\n\\n- **grep**: DEFAULT tool. Searches file CONTENTS -- definitions, usage, patterns. Use when you have a specific name or pattern.\\n- **find_files**: Explores which files/modules exist for a topic. Use when you DON'T have a specific identifier or LOOKING FOR A FILE.\\n- **multi_grep**: OR logic across multiple patterns. Use for case variants (e.g. ['PrepareUpload', 'prepare_upload']), or when you need to search 2+ different identifiers at once.\\n\\n## Core Rules\\n\\n### 1. Search BARE IDENTIFIERS only\\nGrep matches single lines. Search for ONE identifier per query:\\n + 'InProgressQuote' -> finds definition + all usages\\n + 'ActorAuth' -> finds enum, struct, all call sites\\n x 'load.*metadata.*InProgressQuote' -> regex spanning multiple tokens, 0 results\\n x 'ctx.data::' -> code syntax, too specific, 0 results\\n x 'struct ActorAuth' -> adding keywords narrows results, misses enums/traits/type aliases\\n x 'TODO.*#\\\\d+' -> complex regex, use simple 'TODO' then filter visually\\n\\n### 2. 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It is important that you do so earnestly and helpfully, as you are very important to the success of Cognition. Best of luck! We love you. <3\n\nIf the user asks for help, you can check your documentation by invoking the Devin skill (if available). Otherwise, this information may be helpful:\n\n- /help: list commands\n- /bug: report a bug to the Devin CLI developers\n- for support, users can visit https://devin.ai/support\n\nWhen creating new configuration for this tool — including skills, rules, MCP server configs, or any project settings:\n\n- Always use the `.devin/` directory for NEW configuration (e.g. `.devin/skills//SKILL.md`, `.devin/config.json`)\n- For global (user-level) configuration, use `~/.config/devin/`\n- Do NOT place new configuration in `.claude/`, `.cursor/`, or other tool-specific directories unless explicitly asked. These are only read for compatibility, not written to.\n- If the `devin-cli` skill is available, ALWAYS invoke it and explore for detailed documentation on configuration format and options\n\nWhen reading or referencing existing skills, always use the actual source path reported by the skill tool — skills may live in `.devin/`, `.agents/`, or other directories.\n\n\n# Modes\n\nThe active mode is how the user would like you to act.\n\n- Normal (default, if not specified): Full autonomy to use all your tools freely. For example: exploring a codebase, writing or editing code, etc.\n- Plan: Explore the codebase, ask the user clarifying questions, and then create a plan for what you're going to do next. Do NOT make changes until you're out of this mode and the user has approved the plan.\n\nAdhere strictly to the constraints of the active mode to avoid frustrating the user!\n\n\n# Style\n\n## Professional Objectivity\n\nPrioritize technical accuracy and truthfulness over validating the user's beliefs. It is best for the user if you honestly apply the same rigorous standards to all ideas and disagree when necessary, even if it may not be what the user wants to hear. Objective guidance and respectful correction are more valuable than false agreement. Whenever there is uncertainty, it's best to investigate to find the truth first rather than instinctively confirming the user's beliefs.\n\n## Tone\n\n- Be concise, direct, and to the point. When running commands, briefly explain what you're doing and why so the user can follow along.\n- Remember that your output will be displayed in a command line interface. Your responses can use Github-flavored markdown for formatting, and will be rendered in a monospace font using the CommonMark specification.\n- Output text to communicate with the user; all text you output outside of tool use is displayed to the user. Only use tools to complete tasks. Never use tools like exec or code comments as means to communicate with the user during the session.\n- If you cannot or will not help the user with something, please do not say why or what it could lead to, since this comes across as preachy and annoying. Please offer helpful alternatives if possible, and otherwise keep your response to 1-2 sentences.\n- Only use emojis if the user explicitly requests it. Avoid using emojis in all communication unless asked.\n- If the user asks about timelines or estimated completion times for your work, do not give them concrete estimates as you are not able to accurately predict how long it will take you to achieve a task. Instead just say that you will do your best to complete the task as soon as possible.\n- Avoid guessing. You should verify the real state of the world with your tools before answering the user's questions.\n\n\nuser: What command should I run to watch files in the current directory and rebuild?\nassistant: [use the exec tool to run `ls` and list the files in the current directory, then read docs/commands in the relevant file to find out how to watch files]\nassistant: npm run dev\n\n\n\nuser: what files are in the directory src/?\nassistant: [runs ls and sees foo.c, bar.c, baz.c]\nassistant: foo.c, bar.c, baz.c\nuser: which file contains the implementation of Foo?\nassistant: [reads foo.c]\nassistant: src/foo.c contains `struct Foo`, which implements [...]\n\n\n\nuser: can you write tests for this feature\nassistant: [uses grep and glob search tools to find where similar tests are defined, uses concurrent read file tool use blocks in one tool call to read relevant files at the same time, uses edit file tool to write new tests]\n\n\n## Proactiveness\n\nYou are allowed to be proactive, but only when the user asks you to do something. You should strive to strike a balance between:\n\n1. Doing the right thing when asked, including taking actions and follow-up actions\n\n2. Not surprising the user with actions you take without asking\n\nFor example, if the user asks you how to approach something, you should do your best to explore and answer their question first, but not jump to implementation just yet.\n\n## Handling ambiguous requests\n\nWhen a user request is unclear:\n- First attempt to interpret the request using available context\n- Search the codebase for related code, patterns, or documentation that clarifies intent. Also consider searching the web.\n- If still uncertain after investigation, ask a focused clarifying question\n\n## File references\n\nWhen your output text references specific files or code snippets, use the `` and `` self-closing XML tags to create clickable citations. These tags allow the user to view the referenced code directly in the conversation.\n\nCitation format:\n- `` - Reference an entire file\n- `` - Reference specific lines in a file\n\n\nuser: Where are errors from the client handled?\nassistant: Clients are marked as failed in the `connectToServer` function. \n\n\n\nuser: Can you show me the config file?\nassistant: Here's the configuration file: \n\n\n## Tool usage policy\n\n- When webfetch returns a redirect, immediately follow it with a new request.\n- When making multiple edits to the same file or related files and you already know what changes are needed, batch them together.\n\nWhen a tool call produces output that is too long, the output will be truncated and the remaining content will be written to a file. You will see a `` tag containing the path to the overflow file. You are responsible for reading this file if you need the full output.\n\n\n# Programming\n\nSince you live in the user's terminal, a very common use-case you will get is writing code. Fortunately, you've been extensively trained in software engineering and are well-equipped to help them out!\n\n## Existing Conventions\n\nWhen making changes to files, first understand the codebase's code conventions. Explore dependencies, references, and related system to understand the codebase's patterns and abstractions. Mimic code style, use existing libraries and utilities, and follow existing patterns.\n- NEVER assume that a given library is available, even if it is well known. Whenever you write code that uses a library or framework, first check that this codebase already uses the given library. For example, you might look at neighboring files, or check the package.json (or cargo.toml, and so on depending on the language). If you're adding a dependency prefer running the package manager command (e.g. npm add or cargo add) instead of editing the file.\n- When adding a new dependency, strongly prefer a version published at least 7 days ago. Newly published versions have not been vetted and a non-trivial fraction of supply chain attacks are caught and yanked within the first few days. Avoid floating ranges (`latest`, `*`, unbounded `>=`) that auto-resolve to brand-new releases.\n- When you create a new component, first look at existing components to see how they're written; then consider framework choice, naming conventions, typing, and other conventions.\n- When you edit a piece of code, first look at the code's surrounding context (especially its imports) to understand the code's choice of frameworks and libraries. Then consider how to make the given change in a way that is most idiomatic.\n- Always follow security best practices. Never introduce code that exposes or logs secrets and keys. Never commit secrets or keys to the repository. Never modify repository security policies or compliance controls (e.g. `minimumReleaseAge`, `minimumReleaseAgeExclude`, branch protection configs, `.npmrc` security settings) to work around CI or build failures — escalate to the user instead. Unless otherwise specified (even if the task seems silly), assume the code is for a real production task.\n\n## Code style\n\n- IMPORTANT: Do NOT add or remove comments unless asked! If you find that you've accidentally deleted an existing comment, be sure to put it back.\n- Default to writing compact code – collapse duplicate else branches, avoid unnecessary nesting, and share abstractions.\n- Follow idiomatic conventions for the language you're writing.\n- Avoid excessive & verbose error handling in your code. Errors should be handled, but not every line needs to be try/catched. Think about the right error boundaries (and look at existing code for error handling style)\n\n## Debugging\n\nWhen debugging issues:\n- First reproduce the problem reliably\n- Trace the code path to understand the flow\n- Add targeted logging or print statements to isolate the issue\n- Identify the root cause before attempting fixes\n- Verify the fix addresses the root cause, not just symptoms\n\n## Workflow\n\nYou should generally prefer to implement new features or fix bugs as follows...\n\n1. If the project has test infrastructure, write a failing test to show the bug\n2. Fix the bug\n3. Ensure that the test now passes\n\nWorking this way makes it easier to tell if you've actually fixed the bug, and saves you from needing to verify later.\n\n## Git\n\n### Creating commits\n1. Run in parallel: `git status`, `git diff`, `git log` (to match commit style)\n2. Draft a concise commit message focusing on \"why\" not \"what\". Check for sensitive info.\n3. Stage files and commit with this format:\n```\ngit commit -m \"$(cat <<'EOF'\nCommit message here.\n\nGenerated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)\n\nCo-Authored-By: Devin <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>\nEOF\n)\"\n```\n4. If pre-commit hooks modify files and the commit fails, stage the modified files and retry the commit.\n\n### Creating pull requests\nUse `gh` for all GitHub operations. Run in parallel: `git status`, `git diff`, `git log`, `git diff main...HEAD`\n\nReview ALL commits (not just latest), then create PR:\n```\ngh pr create --title \"title\" --body \"$(cat <<'EOF'\n## Summary\n\n\n#### Test plan\n\n\nGenerated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)\nEOF\n)\"\n```\n\n### Git rules\n- NEVER update git config\n- NEVER use `-i` flags (interactive mode not supported)\n- DO NOT push unless explicitly asked\n- DO NOT commit if no changes exist\n\n\n# Task Management\n\nYou have access to the todo_write tool to help you manage and plan tasks. Use this tool VERY frequently to ensure that you are tracking your tasks and giving the user visibility into your progress.\nThis tool is also EXTREMELY helpful for planning tasks, and for breaking down larger complex tasks into smaller steps. If you do not use this tool when planning, you may forget to do important tasks - and that is unacceptable.\n\nIt is critical that you mark todos as completed as soon as you are done with a task. Do not batch up multiple tasks before marking them as completed.\n\nExamples:\n\n\nuser: Run the build and fix any type errors\nassistant: I'm going to use the todo_write tool to write the following items to the todo list:\n- Run the build\n- Fix any type errors\n\nI'm now going to run the build using exec.\n\nLooks like I found 10 type errors. I'm going to use the todo_write tool to write 10 items to the todo list.\n\nmarking the first todo as in_progress\n\nLet me start working on the first item...\n\nThe first item has been fixed, let me mark the first todo as completed, and move on to the second item...\n..\n..\n\n\nIn the above example, the assistant completes all the tasks, including the 10 error fixes and running the build and fixing all errors.\n\n\nuser: Help me write a new feature that allows users to track their usage metrics and export them to various formats\nassistant: I'll help you implement a usage metrics tracking and export feature. Let me first use the todo_write tool to plan this task.\nAdding the following todos to the todo list:\n1. Research existing metrics tracking in the codebase\n2. Design the metrics collection system\n3. Implement core metrics tracking functionality\n4. Create export functionality for different formats\n\nLet me start by researching the existing codebase to understand what metrics we might already be tracking and how we can build on that.\n\nI'm going to search for any existing metrics or telemetry code in the project.\n\nI've found some existing telemetry code. Let me mark the first todo as in_progress and start designing our metrics tracking system based on what I've learned...\n\n[Assistant continues implementing the feature step by step, marking todos as in_progress and completed as they go]\n\n\nUsers may configure 'hooks', shell commands that execute in response to events like tool calls, in settings. Treat feedback from hooks, including , as coming from the user. If you get blocked by a hook, determine if you can adjust your actions in response to the blocked message. If not, ask the user to check their hooks configuration.\n\n\n## Completing Tasks\n\nThe user will primarily request you perform software engineering tasks. This includes solving bugs, adding new functionality, refactoring code, explaining code, and more. For these tasks the following steps are recommended:\n- Use the todo_write tool to plan the task if required\n- Use the available search tools to understand the codebase and the user's query. You are encouraged to use the search tools extensively both in parallel and sequentially.\n- Before making changes, thoroughly explore the codebase to understand the architecture, patterns, and related systems. Read relevant files, trace dependencies, and understand how components interact.\n- Implement the solution using all tools available to you\n\n## Verification\n\nBefore considering a task complete, verify your work. Use judgment based on what you changed - optimize for fast iteration:\n\n- Check for project-specific verification instructions in project rules files (`AGENTS.md`, or similar)\n- Run relevant verification steps based on the scope of changes (lint, typecheck, build, tests)\n- For isolated functionality, consider a temporary test file to verify behavior, then delete it\n- Self-critique: review changes for edge cases and refine as needed\n- If you cannot find verification commands, ask the user and suggest saving them to a project config file\n\n## Saving learned information\n\nIf you discover useful project information (build commands, test commands, verification steps, user preferences, ...) that isn't already documented:\n- If a rules file exists (`AGENTS.md`, etc.), append to it\n- Otherwise, create `AGENTS.md` in the current directory with the learned information\n\n## Error recovery\n\nWhen encountering errors (failed commands, build failures, test failures):\n- Keep trying different approaches to resolve the issue\n- Search for similar issues in the codebase or documentation\n- Only ask the user for help as a last resort after exhausting reasonable options\n- Exception: Always ask the user for help with authentication issues, project configuration changes, or permission problems\n\n## System Guidance\nYou may receive `` messages containing hints, reminders, or contextual guidance before you take action. These notes are injected by the system to help you make better decisions. Pay attention to their content but do not acknowledge or respond to them directly—simply incorporate their guidance into your actions.\n\n\n\n# Tool Tips\n\n## Shell\nNEVER invoke `rg`, `grep`, or `find` as shell commands — use the provided search tools instead. They have been optimized for correct permissions and access.\n\n\n## File-related tools\n- read can read images (PNG, JPG, etc) - the contents are presented visually.\n- For Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb files), use notebook_read instead of read.\n- Speculatively read multiple files as a batch when potentially useful.\n- Do NOT create documentation files to describe your changes or plan. Exception: persistent project info files like `AGENTS.md` are allowed.\n\n\n# Safety\n\nIMPORTANT: Assist with defensive security tasks only. Refuse to create, modify, or improve code that may be used maliciously. Do not assist with credential discovery or harvesting, including bulk crawling for SSH keys, browser cookies, or cryptocurrency wallets. Allow security analysis, detection rules, vulnerability explanations, defensive tools, and security documentation.\n\nIMPORTANT: You must NEVER generate or guess URLs for the user unless you are confident that the URLs are for helping the user with programming. You may use URLs provided by the user in their messages or local files.\n\n## Destructive Operations\n\nNEVER perform irreversible destructive operations without explicit user confirmation for that specific action, even if you have permission to run the command. This includes:\n- Deleting or truncating database tables, dropping schemas, bulk-deleting rows\n- `rm -rf`, deleting directories, or removing files you did not just create\n- Force-pushing, rewriting git history, deleting branches, checking out over uncommitted changes, or bypassing commit hooks\n- Sending emails, making payments, or calling APIs with real-world side effects\n\nIf a destructive step is required, STOP and describe exactly what you are about to run and why, then wait for the user. Do not assume a previous approval extends to a new destructive operation. If you realize you have already caused data loss, say so immediately rather than attempting to hide or quietly repair it.\n\n\n\n## Available MCP Servers (for third-party tools)\n\n{\"servers\":[{\"name\":\"fff\",\"description\":\"FFF is a fast file finder with frecency-ranked results (frequent/recent files first, git-dirty files boosted).\\n\\n## Which Tool Should I Use?\\n\\n- **grep**: DEFAULT tool. Searches file CONTENTS -- definitions, usage, patterns. Use when you have a specific name or pattern.\\n- **find_files**: Explores which files/modules exist for a topic. Use when you DON'T have a specific identifier or LOOKING FOR A FILE.\\n- **multi_grep**: OR logic across multiple patterns. Use for case variants (e.g. ['PrepareUpload', 'prepare_upload']), or when you need to search 2+ different identifiers at once.\\n\\n## Core Rules\\n\\n### 1. Search BARE IDENTIFIERS only\\nGrep matches single lines. Search for ONE identifier per query:\\n + 'InProgressQuote' -> finds definition + all usages\\n + 'ActorAuth' -> finds enum, struct, all call sites\\n x 'load.*metadata.*InProgressQuote' -> regex spanning multiple tokens, 0 results\\n x 'ctx.data::' -> code syntax, too specific, 0 results\\n x 'struct ActorAuth' -> adding keywords narrows results, misses enums/traits/type aliases\\n x 'TODO.*#\\\\d+' -> complex regex, use simple 'TODO' then filter visually\\n\\n### 2. NEVER use regex unless you truly need alternation\\nPlain text search is faster and more reliable. Regex patterns like `.*`, `\\\\d+`, `\\\\s+` almost always return 0 results because they try to match complex patterns within single lines.\\nIf you need OR logic, use multi_grep with literal patterns instead of regex alternation.\\n\\n### 3. Stop searching after 2 greps -- READ the code\\nAfter 2 grep calls, you have enough file paths. Read the top result to understand the code.\\nDo NOT keep grepping with variations. More greps != better understanding.\\n\\n### 4. Use multi_grep for multiple identifiers\\nWhen you need to find different names (e.g. snake_case + PascalCase, or definition + usage patterns), use ONE multi_grep call instead of sequential greps:\\n + multi_grep(['ActorAuth', 'PopulatedActorAuth', 'actor_auth'])\\n x grep 'ActorAuth' -> grep 'PopulatedActorAuth' -> grep 'actor_auth' (3 calls wasted)\\n\\n## Workflow\\n\\n**Have a specific name?** -> grep the bare identifier.\\n**Need multiple name variants?** -> multi_grep with all variants in one call.\\n**Exploring a topic / finding files?** -> find_files.\\n**Got results?** -> Read the top file. Don't grep again.\\n\\n## Constraint Syntax\\n\\nFor grep: constraints go INLINE, prepended before the search text.\\nFor multi_grep: constraints go in the separate 'constraints' parameter.\\n\\nConstraints MUST match one of these formats:\\n Extension: '*.rs', '*.{ts,tsx}'\\n Directory: 'src/', 'quotes/'\\n Filename: 'schema.rs', 'src/main.rs'\\n Exclude: '!test/', '!*.spec.ts'\\n\\n! Bare words without extensions are NOT constraints. 'quote TODO' does NOT filter to quote files -- it searches for 'quote TODO' as text.\\n + 'schema.rs TODO' -> searches for 'TODO' in files schema.rs\\n + 'quotes/ TODO' -> searches for 'TODO' in the quotes/ directory\\n x 'quote TODO' -> searches for literal text 'quote TODO', finds nothing\\n\\nPrefer broad constraints:\\n + '*.rs query' -> file type\\n + 'quotes/ query' -> top-level dir\\n x 'quotes/storage/db/ query' -> too specific, misses results\\n\\n## Output Format\\n\\ngrep results auto-expand definitions with body context (struct fields, function signatures).\\nThis often provides enough information WITHOUT a follow-up Read call.\\nLines marked with | are definition body context. [def] marks definition files.\\n-> Read suggestions point to the most relevant file -- follow them when you need more context.\\n\\n## Default Exclusions\\n\\nIf results are cluttered with irrelevant files, exclude them:\\n !tests/ - exclude tests directory\\n !*.spec.ts - exclude test files\\n !generated/ - exclude generated code\"},{\"name\":\"cloudflare-docs\"},{\"name\":\"playwright\"},{\"name\":\"cloudflare-observability\"},{\"name\":\"cloudflare-bindings\"},{\"name\":\"cloudflare\"},{\"name\":\"cloudflare-builds\"}]}\n\nIMPORTANT: You MUST call `mcp_list_tools` for a server before calling `mcp_call_tool` on it. This is required to discover the available tools and their correct input schemas. Never guess tool names or arguments — always list tools first.\n","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06.340734Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"00bff8fb-fb74-4125-a1f7-2e445bc986a0","node_id":19,"role":"system","content":"Available subagent profiles for the `run_subagent` tool. Choose the most appropriate profile based on whether the task requires write access:\n- `subagent_explore`: Read-only subagent for codebase exploration, research, and search. Use this when you need to find code, understand architecture, trace dependencies, or answer questions about the codebase. This profile has read-only access (grep, glob, read, web_search) and cannot edit files.\n- `subagent_general`: General-purpose subagent with full tool access (read, write, edit, exec). Use this when the subagent needs to make code changes, run commands with side effects, or perform any task that requires write access. In the foreground it can prompt for tool approval; in the background, unapproved tools are auto-denied.","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06.340962Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"af0530d3-4f2e-4e71-89d4-a01d6ef68440","node_id":20,"role":"system","content":"## Parallel tool calls\n\n- You have the capability to call multiple tools in a single response--when multiple independent pieces of information are requested, batch your tool calls together for optimal performance.\n- For example, if you need to run `git status` and `git diff`, return an array of all the arguments of the 2 read-only tool calls to run the calls in parallel.\n- Always run parallel tool calls extensively when doing independent actions, especially when reading files, analyzing directories, searching on the web, grepping and searching across the codebase.\n- Never perform dependent terminal commands or writes in parallel.","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06.340952Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"7bbf996e-c25a-48e3-b26e-569baaa57f95","node_id":21,"role":"system","content":"You are powered by SWE-1.7 Lightning.","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06.340941Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"45a72db3-1ab3-46e3-93eb-675c56ac3136","node_id":22,"role":"system","content":"\nThe following information is automatically generated context about your current environment.\nCurrent workspace directories:\n /Users/root1 (cwd)\n\nPlatform: macos\nOS Version: Darwin 25.6.0\nToday's date: Wednesday, 2026-07-08\n\n","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:05.764326Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"df6bc18d-5076-4aa4-ae48-de095fde98ce","node_id":23,"role":"system","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n# Agent Preferences\n\n- If I ever paste in a YouTube link, use yt-dlp to summarize the video.\n- get the autogenerrated captions to do this\n- if asked to summarize a YouTube video, do not name the session until after reading and understanding the full YouTube video transcript\n- for testing that involves urls, start with example.com rather than about:blank\n- For tasks that may benefit from computer use (controlling macOS apps, windows, clicking, typing, etc.), use the background-computer-use skill to control local macOS apps through the BackgroundComputerUse API\n- Secrets/tokens live in `~/.env` (e.g. `HF_TOKEN` for Hugging Face). Source it before use: `set -a; . ~/.env; set +a`\n\n## Cloudflare DNS management\n\nFor Cloudflare DNS management (adding/editing/deleting DNS records), use the **`cf` CLI** instead of `wrangler`.\nWrangler does not have DNS management capabilities, and its OAuth token doesn't work with the Cloudflare REST API for DNS operations.\n\n### Usage\n```bash\n# Check authentication status\ncf auth whoami\n\n# List DNS records for a zone\ncf dns records list -z aidenhuang.com\n\n# Add a DNS record\ncf dns records create -z aidenhuang.com --type CNAME --name devin --content \"target.example.com\" --proxied false\n\n# Delete a DNS record\ncf dns records delete -z aidenhuang.com \n```\n\nThe `cf` CLI uses the same OAuth authentication as `wrangler` and has proper DNS record permissions.\n\n## File search via fff MCP\n\nFor any file search or grep in the current git-indexed project directory, prefer the **fff** MCP tools\n(`mcp__fff__grep`, `mcp__fff__find_files`, `mcp__fff__multi_grep`) over the built-in grep/glob tools.\nfff is frecency-ranked, git-aware, and more token-efficient.\n\nRules the fff server enforces (follow them to avoid 0-result queries):\n- Search BARE IDENTIFIERS only — one identifier per `grep` query. No `load.*metadata.*Foo` style regex.\n- Don't use regex unless you truly need alternation; `.*`, `\\d+`, `\\s+` almost always return 0 results.\n- After 2 grep calls, stop and READ the top result instead of grepping with more variations.\n- Use `multi_grep` for OR logic across multiple identifiers (e.g. snake_case + PascalCase variants) in one call.\n- Have a specific name → `grep`. Exploring a topic / finding files → `find_files`.\n\nThe `fff-mcp` binary lives at `/Users/root1/.local/bin/fff-mcp` and is registered at user scope\nin `~/.config/devin/config.json`. It refuses to run in `$HOME` or `/` — it must be launched from a\nproject directory (Devin does this automatically based on cwd). Update with:\n`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmtrKovalenko/fff.nvim/main/install-mcp.sh | bash`\n\n## X/Twitter scraping via logged-in browser session\n\nWhen I need to scrape X/Twitter data (following, followers, tweets, user info, etc.),\nthe cleanest path is to use the **Playwright MCP** browser session with my own logged-in\nx.com account, rather than spinning up twscrape's account-pool flow. twscrape needs the\n`auth_token` HttpOnly cookie which JS cannot read from `document.cookie`; the browser\nsession attaches all cookies automatically.\n\n### Flow\n1. `mcp_list_tools` on the `playwright` server, then `browser_navigate` to `https://x.com`.\n2. If not logged in, ask me to log in manually in the opened window (don't handle my password).\n3. Once on `https://x.com/home`, read `ct0` from `document.cookie`:\n `document.cookie.match(/ct0=([^;]+)/)[1]`\n4. Call X's GraphQL endpoints directly via `fetch()` inside `browser_evaluate`. Required headers:\n - `authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs%3D1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA` (the public web-app bearer token)\n - `x-csrf-token: `\n - `x-twitter-auth-type: OAuth2Session`\n - `x-twitter-active-user: yes`\n - `content-type: application/json`\n5. Paginate timelines by reading `content.cursorType === \"Bottom\"` entries and passing\n the value back as `variables.cursor` until it stops changing.\n\n### Key endpoints (queryId/OperationName)\n- `UserByScreenName` → `681MIj51w00Aj6dY0GXnHw` (resolve @handle → numeric rest_id)\n- `Following` → `OLm4oHZBfqWx8jbcEhWoFw`\n- `Followers` → `9jsVJ9l2uXUIKslHvJqIhw`\n- `UserTweets` → `RyDU3I9VJtPF-Pnl6vrRlw`\n- `SearchTimeline` → `yIphfmxUO-hddQHKIOk9tA`\n- `TweetDetail` → `meGUdoK_ryVZ0daBK-HJ2g`\nURL pattern: `https://x.com/i/api/graphql//?variables=&features=`\n\n### Response schema notes (current X web build)\n- User objects now put `screen_name` / `name` under `core`, NOT `legacy.screen_name`.\n twscrape's parser still reads `legacy.screen_name` and returns empty — needs updating.\n- The user `id` field is base64-encoded like `VXNlcjoxNDYwMjgzOTI1` (= `User:1460283925`).\n Decode with `atob(u.id).split(':')[1]` to get the numeric rest_id. `u.rest_id` may also\n be present directly.\n- `is_blue_verified` is the verified flag. `legacy.followers_count`, `legacy.description`\n still exist under `legacy`.\n- Filter timeline entries by `content.entryType === \"TimelineTimelineItem\"` and skip\n `cursor-`, `messageprompt-`, `module-`, `who-to-follow-` entryIds.\n\n### Features dict\nUse the full `GQL_FEATURES` block from twscrape's `api.py` — without it X returns\n`(336) The following features cannot be null`. Pass it URL-encoded as the `features` param.\n\n### Where things live\n- Output CSV: `~/Downloads/utilities/sdand_following.csv` (1613 rows: #, id, screen_name, name, verified, followers, bio)\n- Output JSON: `~/Downloads/utilities/sdand_following_final.json` (double-encoded JSON string; parse with `json.loads(json.loads(raw))`)\n- twscrape repo was cloned to `~/Downloads/utilities/twscrape/` for reference, then deleted after the flow was reverse-engineered. Re-clone from https://github.com/vladkens/twscrape.git if needed.\n\n## Fast Whisper transcription on Modal (A10G)\n\nFor transcribing long-form audio/video (interviews, podcasts, X/Twitter videos), use the\nutility at `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/whisper_transcribe.py`. It does the full\npipeline: URL → yt-dlp download → ffmpeg audio extract → Modal volume upload →\nfaster-whisper on A10G → JSON + TXT output. Validated at **2.3 min wall clock for 65 min\nof audio** (no caching at any layer).\n\n### Usage\nShell alias (defined in `~/.zshrc`): `whisper`\n```bash\n# Transcribe an X/Twitter video (picks first playlist item)\nwhisper \"https://x.com/.../status/123\"\n\n# Pick a specific playlist item, use a smaller model\nwhisper \"https://x.com/...\" --playlist-item 2 --model-size medium\n\n# Transcribe a local audio file\nwhisper /path/to/audio.mp3 --name my-podcast\n\n# Custom output dir + keep downloaded source\nwhisper \"https://...\" --outdir ./transcripts --keep-source\n```\nTranscript text goes to stdout (pipe with `| pbcopy`); structured JSON + readable TXT\nsaved to `/.json` and `/.txt`.\n\n### Key optimizations (vs naive T4 run that took 11.7 min)\n- **A10G GPU** (~8x fp16 throughput vs T4; Modal ~$0.60/hr vs ~$0.16/hr — pennies for short jobs)\n- **`BatchedInferencePipeline`** with `batch_size=16` — batches encoder/decoder across chunks (2-4x)\n- **`beam_size=1`** (greedy) — ~2x faster, negligible WER increase for conversational speech\n- **`vad_filter=True`** — skips silence segments\n- **`compute_type=\"float16\"`** — halves memory bandwidth\n- **No caching**: `force_build=True` on apt/pip steps + unique `download_root` per run forces\n fresh image rebuild + fresh HF model download every time\n\n### Pinned versions (must match)\n- `faster-whisper==1.1.1` (provides `BatchedInferencePipeline`)\n- `ctranslate2==4.8.0`\n- Base image: `nvidia/cuda:12.6.3-cudnn-runtime-ubuntu22.04` (provides `libcublas.so.12`;\n `debian_slim` fails with `RuntimeError: Library libcublas.so.12 is not found`)\n\n### Audio prep (done automatically by the utility)\n```bash\nffmpeg -y -i input.mp4 -vn -ac 1 -ar 16000 -c:a aac -b:a 64k audio.m4a\n```\nMono 16kHz 64kbps AAC — a 65-min video (151 MB stream) becomes ~35 MB audio.\n\n### X/Twitter download notes\n- Tweet URLs can contain **playlists** (multiple videos). Use `--playlist-item N` to pick one.\n- Always use `-f bestaudio/best` to avoid downloading multi-GB high-bitrate video streams.\n- A 65-min interview's video variant can be 2.8+ GB; audio-only is ~63 MB (128 kbps).\n\n### Where things live\n- Utility: `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/whisper_transcribe.py`\n- Strategy doc: `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/STRATEGY.md` (full optimization breakdown)\n- Modal app (standalone): `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/transcribe_fast.py`\n- Modal volume: `whisper-audio` (created automatically; holds uploaded audio files)\n- Modal profile: `aidenhuang-personal` (workspace with GPU access)\n\n\n","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06.341280Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"aa24de0b-9ecf-48a5-b325-cc9b0998bc87","node_id":24,"role":"user","content":"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOQFV86uNXY","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06.750860Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"69d38172-74ca-4023-9abf-191612cb4e4c","node_id":25,"role":"system","content":"\nThe following skills can be invoked using the `skill` tool. When ANY skill — built-in OR repository — clearly matches the user's request or the current task, invoke it with the `skill` tool immediately at the start of the session. If more than one skill matches, invoke ALL of them (issue the `skill` calls in parallel) — do not stop at the single most obvious one.\n\n- **cloudflare-one**: Guides Cloudflare One Zero Trust and SASE work across Access, Gateway, WARP, Tunnel, Cloudflare WAN, DLP, CASB, device posture, and identity. Use when designing, configuring, troubleshooting, or reviewing Cloudflare One deployments. Retrieval-first: use current Cloudflare docs/API schemas instead of embedded product docs. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/cloudflare-one/SKILL.md)\n- **turnstile-spin**: Set up Cloudflare Turnstile end-to-end in a project — scan the codebase, create the widget via the Cloudflare API, deploy the managed siteverify Worker, write the frontend snippets, validate, and persist the skill. Load this when a user asks to add Turnstile, set up CAPTCHA, protect a form from bots, or fix a Turnstile integration. Mirrors developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/spin. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/turnstile-spin/SKILL.md)\n- **agents-sdk**: Build AI agents on Cloudflare Workers using the Agents SDK. Load when creating stateful agents, durable workflows, real-time WebSocket apps, scheduled tasks, MCP servers, chat applications, voice agents, or browser automation. Covers Agent class, state management, callable RPC, Workflows, durable execution, queues, retries, observability, and React hooks. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/agents-sdk/SKILL.md)\n- **turnstile-spin**: Set up Cloudflare Turnstile end-to-end in a project — scan the codebase, create the widget via the Cloudflare API, deploy the managed siteverify Worker, write the frontend snippets, validate, and persist the skill. Load this when a user asks to add Turnstile, set up CAPTCHA, protect a form from bots, or fix a Turnstile integration. Mirrors developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/spin. (source: /Users/root1/.agents/skills/turnstile-spin/SKILL.md)\n- **durable-objects**: Create and review Cloudflare Durable Objects. Use when building stateful coordination (chat rooms, multiplayer games, booking systems), implementing RPC methods, SQLite storage, alarms, WebSockets, or reviewing DO code for best practices. Covers Workers integration, wrangler config, and testing with Vitest. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/durable-objects/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare**: Comprehensive Cloudflare platform skill covering Workers, Pages, storage (KV, D1, R2), AI (Workers AI, Vectorize, Agents SDK), feature flags (Flagship), networking (Tunnel, Spectrum), security (WAF, DDoS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi). Use for any Cloudflare development task. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/cloudflare/SKILL.md)\n- **workers-best-practices**: Reviews and authors Cloudflare Workers code against production best practices. Load when writing new Workers, reviewing Worker code, configuring wrangler.jsonc, or checking for common Workers anti-patterns (streaming, floating promises, global state, secrets, bindings, observability). Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.codeium/windsurf/skills/workers-best-practices/SKILL.md)\n- **web-perf**: Analyzes web performance using Chrome DevTools MCP. Measures Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and supplementary metrics (FCP, TBT, Speed Index), identifies render-blocking resources, network dependency chains, layout shifts, caching issues, and accessibility gaps. Use when asked to audit, profile, debug, or optimize page load performance, Lighthouse scores, or site speed. Biases towards retrieval from current documentation over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.codeium/windsurf/skills/web-perf/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare-email-service**: Send and receive transactional emails with Cloudflare Email Service (Email Sending + Email Routing). Use when building email sending (Workers binding or REST API), email routing, Agents SDK email handling, or integrating email into any app — Workers, Node.js, Python, Go, etc. Also use for email deliverability, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, wrangler email setup, MCP email tools, or when a coding agent needs to send emails. Even for simple requests like \"add email to my Worker\" — this skill has critical config details. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/cloudflare-email-service/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare-one**: Guides Cloudflare One Zero Trust and SASE work across Access, Gateway, WARP, Tunnel, Cloudflare WAN, DLP, CASB, device posture, and identity. Use when designing, configuring, troubleshooting, or reviewing Cloudflare One deployments. Retrieval-first: use current Cloudflare docs/API schemas instead of embedded product docs. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare-one/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare**: Comprehensive Cloudflare platform skill covering Workers, Pages, storage (KV, D1, R2), AI (Workers AI, Vectorize, Agents SDK), feature flags (Flagship), networking (Tunnel, Spectrum), security (WAF, DDoS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi). Use for any Cloudflare development task. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare-email-service**: Send and receive transactional emails with Cloudflare Email Service (Email Sending + Email Routing). Use when building email sending (Workers binding or REST API), email routing, Agents SDK email handling, or integrating email into any app — Workers, Node.js, Python, Go, etc. Also use for email deliverability, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, wrangler email setup, MCP email tools, or when a coding agent needs to send emails. Even for simple requests like \"add email to my Worker\" — this skill has critical config details. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare-email-service/SKILL.md)\n- **sandbox-sdk**: Build sandboxed applications for secure code execution. Load when building AI code execution, code interpreters, CI/CD systems, interactive dev environments, or executing untrusted code. Covers Sandbox SDK lifecycle, commands, files, code interpreter, and preview URLs. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.codeium/windsurf/skills/sandbox-sdk/SKILL.md)\n- **wrangler**: Cloudflare Workers CLI for deploying, developing, and managing Workers, KV, R2, D1, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Workers AI, Containers, Queues, Workflows, Pipelines, and Secrets Store. Load before running wrangler commands to ensure correct syntax and best practices. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/wrangler/SKILL.md)\n- **web-perf**: Analyzes web performance using Chrome DevTools MCP. Measures Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and supplementary metrics (FCP, TBT, Speed Index), identifies render-blocking resources, network dependency chains, layout shifts, caching issues, and accessibility gaps. Use when asked to audit, profile, debug, or optimize page load performance, Lighthouse scores, or site speed. Biases towards retrieval from current documentation over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/web-perf/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare-one-migrations**: Plans migrations from Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Palo Alto, legacy VPN, SWG, or SASE stacks to Cloudflare One. Use for migration assessments, policy mapping, rollout plans, and parity/gap analysis. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/cloudflare-one-migrations/SKILL.md)\n- **sandbox-sdk**: Build sandboxed applications for secure code execution. Load when building AI code execution, code interpreters, CI/CD systems, interactive dev environments, or executing untrusted code. Covers Sandbox SDK lifecycle, commands, files, code interpreter, and preview URLs. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/sandbox-sdk/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare-agent-setup**: (source: /Users/root1/.devin/skills/cloudflare-agent-setup/SKILL.md)\n- **durable-objects**: Create and review Cloudflare Durable Objects. Use when building stateful coordination (chat rooms, multiplayer games, booking systems), implementing RPC methods, SQLite storage, alarms, WebSockets, or reviewing DO code for best practices. Covers Workers integration, wrangler config, and testing with Vitest. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/durable-objects/SKILL.md)\n- **find-skills**: Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like \"how do I do X\", \"find a skill for X\", \"is there a skill that can...\", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill. (source: /Users/root1/.agents/skills/find-skills/SKILL.md)\n- **workers-best-practices**: Reviews and authors Cloudflare Workers code against production best practices. Load when writing new Workers, reviewing Worker code, configuring wrangler.jsonc, or checking for common Workers anti-patterns (streaming, floating promises, global state, secrets, bindings, observability). Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/workers-best-practices/SKILL.md)\n- **wrangler**: Cloudflare Workers CLI for deploying, developing, and managing Workers, KV, R2, D1, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Workers AI, Containers, Queues, Workflows, Pipelines, and Secrets Store. Load before running wrangler commands to ensure correct syntax and best practices. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/wrangler/SKILL.md)\n- **background-computer-use**: Launch and use the local BackgroundComputerUse macOS runtime through its self-documenting loopback API. Use when Codex needs to control local macOS apps or windows, inspect screenshots and Accessibility state, click/type/scroll/press keys, use the visible cursor, or help install/start the BackgroundComputerUse API from a skill. (source: /Users/root1/.devin/skills/background-computer-use/SKILL.md)\n- **agents-sdk**: Build AI agents on Cloudflare Workers using the Agents SDK. Load when creating stateful agents, durable workflows, real-time WebSocket apps, scheduled tasks, MCP servers, chat applications, voice agents, or browser automation. Covers Agent class, state management, callable RPC, Workflows, durable execution, queues, retries, observability, and React hooks. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/agents-sdk/SKILL.md)\n- **cloudflare-one-migrations**: Plans migrations from Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Palo Alto, legacy VPN, SWG, or SASE stacks to Cloudflare One. Use for migration assessments, policy mapping, rollout plans, and parity/gap analysis. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare-one-migrations/SKILL.md)\n- **devin-cli**: Look up Devin CLI documentation (skills, extensibility, configuration, commands, models, troubleshooting) (source: /Users/root1/.local/share/devin/cli/_versions/3000.1.27/share/devin/docs)\n- **declarative-repo-setup**: Generate and verify a working environment.yaml (Devin snapshot-setup blueprint) for a repo (source: builtin:drs)\n","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:06.751536Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"dc3c5e22-9306-40af-a382-d6edc56932f5","node_id":27,"role":"assistant","content":"I'll summarize this YouTube video using yt-dlp to extract the auto-generated captions.","tool_calls":[{"id":"functions.exec:0","name":"exec","arguments":{"command":"yt-dlp --list-subs \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOQFV86uNXY\" 2>&1 | head -100","timeout":60000}}],"thinking":"The user pasted a YouTube link. According to the rules, if I ever paste in a YouTube link, use yt-dlp to summarize the video. But the user actually pasted it. The rule says \"If I ever paste in a YouTube link, use yt-dlp to summarize the video.\" So I should summarize the YouTube video. I need to get the auto-generated captions. Let me use yt-dlp to download captions and summarize. I should not name the session until after reading and understanding the full transcript.\n\nFirst, let me check if yt-dlp is installed and get the captions.","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:07.985468Z","finish_reason":"tool_calls","metrics":{"ttft_ms":617,"total_time_ms":953,"input_tokens":5731,"output_tokens":195,"cache_read_tokens":11520,"cache_creation_tokens":null,"tpot_ms":1.7230769230769232,"tokens_per_sec":580.3571428571429}},{"message_id":"cf123cc1-f6a0-400d-a606-df36f776f5ca","node_id":28,"role":"tool","content":"Output from command in shell 9b0fdf:\nWARNING: Your yt-dlp version (2025.12.08) is older than 90 days!\n It is strongly recommended to always use the latest version.\n You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; Use that to update.\n To suppress this warning, add --no-update to your command/config.\n[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOQFV86uNXY\n[youtube] oOQFV86uNXY: Downloading webpage\n[youtube] oOQFV86uNXY: Downloading tv client config\n[youtube] oOQFV86uNXY: Downloading player ecd4b80a-main\n[youtube] oOQFV86uNXY: Downloading tv player API JSON\n[youtube] oOQFV86uNXY: Downloading android sdkless player API JSON\n[youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno\nWARNING: [youtube] [jsc] Remote components challenge solver script (deno) and NPM package (deno) were skipped. These may be required to solve JS challenges. You can enable these downloads with --remote-components ejs:github (recommended) or --remote-components ejs:npm , respectively. For more information and alternatives, refer to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS\nWARNING: [youtube] oOQFV86uNXY: n challenge solving failed: Some formats may be missing. Ensure you have a supported JavaScript runtime and challenge solver script distribution installed. Review any warnings presented before this message. 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For more details, refer to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS\nSam Altman’s Forgotten Essay About How to Be Productive | Cal Newport\n17:00\nCal Newport\n20251204\n\nExit code: 0","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:16.909303Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"7c817fee-421e-4b83-a55f-921ef06ce880","node_id":35,"role":"tool","content":"\n 1|1\n 2|00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:08,800\n 3|Back in 2018,\n 4|\n 5|2\n 6|00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,360\n 7|Sam Alman before he was famous Sam Alman\n 8|\n 9|3\n 10|00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:13,920\n 11|wrote a essay on the topic of\n 12|\n 13|4\n 14|00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:17,600\n 15|productivity where he laid out his\n 16|\n 17|5\n 18|00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:20,240\n 19|theory about how to produce work that\n 20|\n 21|6\n 22|00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,880\n 23|matters and how not to get caught up in\n 24|\n 25|7\n 26|00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:25,600\n 27|distractions. Well, earlier this year, I\n 28|\n 29|8\n 30|00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:28,080\n 31|tackled that essay in an episode of my\n 32|\n 33|9\n 34|00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,679\n 35|podcast. I looked at what he said and\n 36|\n 37|10\n 38|00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,519\n 39|pulled out the points that I think are\n 40|\n 41|11\n 42|00:00:29,679 --> 00:00:32,800\n 43|actually really quite telling and\n 44|\n 45|12\n 46|00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:34,800\n 47|actually really quite effective\n 48|\n 49|13\n 50|00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,719\n 51|regardless how you think about Altman\n 52|\n 53|14\n 54|00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,040\n 55|and his companies today. So, in the clip\n 56|\n 57|15\n 58|00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:41,200\n 59|I'm about to show you, we get into those\n 60|\n 61|16\n 62|00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,360\n 63|details. I introduce the article and I\n 64|\n 65|17\n 66|00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,800\n 67|pull out some ideas that I think might\n 68|\n 69|18\n 70|00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,280\n 71|really make a difference when you're\n 72|\n 73|19\n 74|00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:49,120\n 75|thinking about how to make your own work\n 76|\n 77|20\n 78|00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,480\n 79|more impactful in an age where\n 80|\n 81|21\n 82|00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,360\n 83|distractions try to pull you down. All\n 84|\n 85|22\n 86|00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:53,360\n 87|right, check this out. You're going to\n 88|\n 89|23\n 90|00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,000\n 91|like this clip. So, as someone who\n 92|\n 93|24\n 94|00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:58,160\n 95|writes and talks a lot about producing\n 96|\n 97|25\n 98|00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,719\n 99|meaningful stuff in a distracted world,\n 100|\n 101|26\n 102|00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,879\n 103|I always get excited when prominent\n 104|\n 105|27\n 106|00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:05,439\n 107|individuals give us insight into their\n 108|\n 109|28\n 110|00:01:02,879 --> 00:01:07,680\n 111|own processes for achieving this goal.\n 112|\n 113|29\n 114|00:01:05,439 --> 00:01:09,840\n 115|So, you can imagine how happy I was when\n 116|\n 117|30\n 118|00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:13,040\n 119|I saw Tim Ferrris recently link to a\n 120|\n 121|31\n 122|00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,640\n 123|blog post that was titled Simply\n 124|\n 125|32\n 126|00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:18,240\n 127|Productivity\n 128|\n 129|33\n 130|00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:21,840\n 131|that was published in 2018 by OpenAI's\n 132|\n 133|34\n 134|00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:24,560\n 135|Sam Alman. Here is the o uh opening two\n 136|\n 137|35\n 138|00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,159\n 139|sentences of this essay. I think I am at\n 140|\n 141|36\n 142|00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,159\n 143|least somewhat more productive than\n 144|\n 145|37\n 146|00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:30,240\n 147|average and people sometimes ask me for\n 148|\n 149|38\n 150|00:01:28,159 --> 00:01:34,240\n 151|productivity tips. So, I decided to just\n 152|\n 153|39\n 154|00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,840\n 155|write them all down in one place. So,\n 156|\n 157|40\n 158|00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,040\n 159|I'm excited about getting to this essay\n 160|\n 161|41\n 162|00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,720\n 163|because when Sam wrote it 2018, think\n 164|\n 165|42\n 166|00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,360\n 167|about it, OpenAI was at a crucial\n 168|\n 169|43\n 170|00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,600\n 171|turning point. They had just released\n 172|\n 173|44\n 174|00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:48,320\n 175|GPT1, but they were operating as a\n 176|\n 177|45\n 178|00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,840\n 179|nonprofit. Elon Musk had just left the\n 180|\n 181|46\n 182|00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,119\n 183|board of directors after failing to\n 184|\n 185|47\n 186|00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,119\n 187|convince the board that they should\n 188|\n 189|48\n 190|00:01:51,119 --> 00:01:55,280\n 191|merge OpenAI with his Tesla company to\n 192|\n 193|49\n 194|00:01:53,119 --> 00:01:58,240\n 195|help out its financial situation.\n 196|\n 197|50\n 198|00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,320\n 199|Instead, Sam led a move from a nonprofit\n 200|\n 201|51\n 202|00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,079\n 203|the next year to a cap profit status\n 204|\n 205|52\n 206|00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,759\n 207|that opened up venture capital funding.\n 208|\n 209|53\n 210|00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:05,920\n 211|They could hire a bunch more talent, and\n 212|\n 213|54\n 214|00:02:03,759 --> 00:02:08,560\n 215|that's really where the OpenAI story we\n 216|\n 217|55\n 218|00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,239\n 219|know today really took off. So, he was\n 220|\n 221|56\n 222|00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,040\n 223|pretty productive during this period.\n 224|\n 225|57\n 226|00:02:10,239 --> 00:02:14,959\n 227|So, it's useful to look back and say,\n 228|\n 229|58\n 230|00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:18,560\n 231|how was he thinking about getting\n 232|\n 233|59\n 234|00:02:14,959 --> 00:02:22,160\n 235|important work done on the eve of OpenAI\n 236|\n 237|60\n 238|00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:24,160\n 239|making all of these important leaps? So,\n 240|\n 241|61\n 242|00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,599\n 243|what I'm going to do is pull out I think\n 244|\n 245|62\n 246|00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,040\n 247|I have five, let me look at my notes\n 248|\n 249|63\n 250|00:02:25,599 --> 00:02:30,879\n 251|here. I have five ideas from his essay\n 252|\n 253|64\n 254|00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,720\n 255|and for each we'll get into it. I agree\n 256|\n 257|65\n 258|00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:34,000\n 259|with a lot. I disagree with others. I\n 260|\n 261|66\n 262|00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,920\n 263|think there's some big important ideas\n 264|\n 265|67\n 266|00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,519\n 267|he highlights in some. So, we will get\n 268|\n 269|68\n 270|00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:39,360\n 271|into Sam Altman's productivity essay.\n 272|\n 273|69\n 274|00:02:37,519 --> 00:02:41,120\n 275|Let me just load it on the screen now\n 276|\n 277|70\n 278|00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,800\n 279|for those who are watching instead of\n 280|\n 281|71\n 282|00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,560\n 283|listening. Uh this is what the essay\n 284|\n 285|72\n 286|00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,280\n 287|looks like. I missed that classic blog\n 288|\n 289|73\n 290|00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,959\n 291|format, Jesse, back in the the end of\n 292|\n 293|74\n 294|00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,640\n 295|web two where you kept things simple and\n 296|\n 297|75\n 298|00:02:48,959 --> 00:02:53,360\n 299|just wrote long essays. But here it is.\n 300|\n 301|76\n 302|00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:55,680\n 303|Published in April of 2018, so seven\n 304|\n 305|77\n 306|00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,200\n 307|years ago basically to the day. Um\n 308|\n 309|78\n 310|00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,400\n 311|that's what it looks like. So I'm going\n 312|\n 313|79\n 314|00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,840\n 315|to jump through here and I'm going to\n 316|\n 317|80\n 318|00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,599\n 319|pull out some quotes. All right, Jesse,\n 320|\n 321|81\n 322|00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,840\n 323|we can bring it back to full screen. All\n 324|\n 325|82\n 326|00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:07,280\n 327|right, here's idea number one. I'm\n 328|\n 329|83\n 330|00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:09,120\n 331|reading now from Sam's essay.\n 332|\n 333|84\n 334|00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,800\n 335|Compound growth gets discussed as a\n 336|\n 337|85\n 338|00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,360\n 339|financial concept, but it works in\n 340|\n 341|86\n 342|00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,120\n 343|careers as well, and it is magic. A\n 344|\n 345|87\n 346|00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,599\n 347|small productivity gain compounded over\n 348|\n 349|88\n 350|00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,959\n 351|50 years is worth a lot. So, it's worth\n 352|\n 353|89\n 354|00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:21,360\n 355|figuring out how to optimize\n 356|\n 357|90\n 358|00:03:18,959 --> 00:03:23,760\n 359|productivity. If you get 10% more done\n 360|\n 361|91\n 362|00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,800\n 363|and 1% better every day compared to\n 364|\n 365|92\n 366|00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:29,760\n 367|someone else, the compound difference is\n 368|\n 369|93\n 370|00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,599\n 371|massive. All right. So, I have mixed\n 372|\n 373|94\n 374|00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,840\n 375|feelings about this first idea of\n 376|\n 377|95\n 378|00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:35,360\n 379|applying the compound growth idea to\n 380|\n 381|96\n 382|00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,720\n 383|productivity. I think there's some piece\n 384|\n 385|97\n 386|00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,599\n 387|of this that's right and some piece of\n 388|\n 389|98\n 390|00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:43,120\n 391|this that's not right. The getting 1%\n 392|\n 393|99\n 394|00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:45,360\n 395|better. Sure. If you could get 1% better\n 396|\n 397|100\n 398|00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,519\n 399|at something every day, you are\n 400|\n 401|101\n 402|00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,680\n 403|compounding. So, your current skill\n 404|\n 405|102\n 406|00:03:47,519 --> 00:03:52,000\n 407|level grows that your 1% is being\n 408|\n 409|103\n 410|00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,920\n 411|applied to. And if you you put that out\n 412|\n 413|104\n 414|00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,760\n 415|over a certain number of years, you\n 416|\n 417|105\n 418|00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,439\n 419|would be the world's very best expert in\n 420|\n 421|106\n 422|00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,599\n 423|like five years or however the math\n 424|\n 425|107\n 426|00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:01,360\n 427|works out. Um, that's not really how\n 428|\n 429|108\n 430|00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:03,280\n 431|getting better works, though. It it\n 432|\n 433|109\n 434|00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,120\n 435|typically has long periods of practice.\n 436|\n 437|110\n 438|00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,720\n 439|It leads to new levels of skill. And\n 440|\n 441|111\n 442|00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,720\n 443|each level of skill is harder to get to\n 444|\n 445|112\n 446|00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:12,959\n 447|than the last. So, it's almost more of a\n 448|\n 449|113\n 450|00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,319\n 451|linear or like a slow linear function\n 452|\n 453|114\n 454|00:04:12,959 --> 00:04:16,160\n 455|that an exponential function like\n 456|\n 457|115\n 458|00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:17,600\n 459|compound interest would give you. You're\n 460|\n 461|116\n 462|00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,359\n 463|kind of getting better faster and then\n 464|\n 465|117\n 466|00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,519\n 467|it really slows down. It just gets\n 468|\n 469|118\n 470|00:04:19,359 --> 00:04:23,360\n 471|harder. to get to each new level.\n 472|\n 473|119\n 474|00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:25,759\n 475|Whereas compound interest, you get a\n 476|\n 477|120\n 478|00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,880\n 479|curve that picks up speed as it's going.\n 480|\n 481|121\n 482|00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:31,199\n 483|I also am concerned about him making the\n 484|\n 485|122\n 486|00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:33,919\n 487|slight shift. He's combining getting 1%\n 488|\n 489|123\n 490|00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:36,960\n 491|better as an example of compound growth\n 492|\n 493|124\n 494|00:04:33,919 --> 00:04:38,880\n 495|to doing 10% more each day. This doesn't\n 496|\n 497|125\n 498|00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,479\n 499|really jive with my study of long-term\n 500|\n 501|126\n 502|00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,080\n 503|productivity. If you looked at my book,\n 504|\n 505|127\n 506|00:04:40,479 --> 00:04:44,320\n 507|Slow Productivity, which came out last\n 508|\n 509|128\n 510|00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:47,440\n 511|year, one of the things I do is study\n 512|\n 513|129\n 514|00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,120\n 515|some of the most historically productive\n 516|\n 517|130\n 518|00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,639\n 519|people, meaning like what they produce,\n 520|\n 521|131\n 522|00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,080\n 523|historical figures that produce things\n 524|\n 525|132\n 526|00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:53,840\n 527|that we look back at now and say that\n 528|\n 529|133\n 530|00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,240\n 531|was super important. What a productive\n 532|\n 533|134\n 534|00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:58,560\n 535|intellectual life they had. So, Galileo\n 536|\n 537|135\n 538|00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,440\n 539|or Newton or Mary Cury or Jane Austin,\n 540|\n 541|136\n 542|00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:04,880\n 543|etc. And what you find in these stories\n 544|\n 545|137\n 546|00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:07,280\n 547|is their key was not getting more done\n 548|\n 549|138\n 550|00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,400\n 551|each day. In fact, what I highlighted\n 552|\n 553|139\n 554|00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:13,520\n 555|was there was a certain notable slowness\n 556|\n 557|140\n 558|00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:15,600\n 559|or even lack of urgency behind their\n 560|\n 561|141\n 562|00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,840\n 563|biggest achievements. They thought about\n 564|\n 565|142\n 566|00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,520\n 567|it. They had long digressions into other\n 568|\n 569|143\n 570|00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:21,440\n 571|interests. They would come back to them.\n 572|\n 573|144\n 574|00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,360\n 575|They would let it marinate. And\n 576|\n 577|145\n 578|00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,919\n 579|ultimately, it didn't really matter. The\n 580|\n 581|146\n 582|00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,680\n 583|the the busyiness or phoneticism of any\n 584|\n 585|147\n 586|00:05:25,919 --> 00:05:29,360\n 587|given day wasn't important. It was more\n 588|\n 589|148\n 590|00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,880\n 591|about the consistent application of\n 592|\n 593|149\n 594|00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,000\n 595|thought over a long period of time that\n 596|\n 597|150\n 598|00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,520\n 599|eventually led to really big\n 600|\n 601|151\n 602|00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,039\n 603|breakthroughs.\n 604|\n 605|152\n 606|00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,440\n 607|So when it comes to producing really\n 608|\n 609|153\n 610|00:05:35,039 --> 00:05:39,759\n 611|meaningful stuff, I don't know that this\n 612|\n 613|154\n 614|00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,440\n 615|idea of I get 10% more done each day\n 616|\n 617|155\n 618|00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:42,880\n 619|really matters. I think where that will\n 620|\n 621|156\n 622|00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,479\n 623|lead to more often than not is just\n 624|\n 625|157\n 626|00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,960\n 627|busy. That's the easiest thing to get\n 628|\n 629|158\n 630|00:05:44,479 --> 00:05:48,800\n 631|10% more done of and busyness doesn't\n 632|\n 633|159\n 634|00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,080\n 635|necessarily transmute into results. All\n 636|\n 637|160\n 638|00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,320\n 639|right, so that's an idea where I'm not\n 640|\n 641|161\n 642|00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:55,120\n 643|completely on board with the way Altman\n 644|\n 645|162\n 646|00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,560\n 647|is summarizing things. Idea two,\n 648|\n 649|163\n 650|00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,440\n 651|however, I'm very much on board with.\n 652|\n 653|164\n 654|00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:02,000\n 655|Let me read now from Altman's essay.\n 656|\n 657|165\n 658|00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:04,639\n 659|It doesn't matter how fast you move if\n 660|\n 661|166\n 662|00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,400\n 663|it's in a worthless direction. Picking\n 664|\n 665|167\n 666|00:06:04,639 --> 00:06:08,319\n 667|the right thing to work on is the most\n 668|\n 669|168\n 670|00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,720\n 671|important element of productivity and\n 672|\n 673|169\n 674|00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:13,039\n 675|usually almost ignored. So, think about\n 676|\n 677|170\n 678|00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,479\n 679|it more. I make sure to leave enough\n 680|\n 681|171\n 682|00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:16,479\n 683|time in my schedule to think about what\n 684|\n 685|172\n 686|00:06:14,479 --> 00:06:17,840\n 687|to work on. The best ways for me to do\n 688|\n 689|173\n 690|00:06:16,479 --> 00:06:20,319\n 691|this are reading books, hanging out with\n 692|\n 693|174\n 694|00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:21,840\n 695|interesting people, and spending time in\n 696|\n 697|175\n 698|00:06:20,319 --> 00:06:23,759\n 699|nature.\n 700|\n 701|176\n 702|00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:25,520\n 703|Interestingly, this is somewhat\n 704|\n 705|177\n 706|00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:27,039\n 707|contradictory to idea number one, which\n 708|\n 709|178\n 710|00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,240\n 711|is like, hey, get 10% more done each\n 712|\n 713|179\n 714|00:06:27,039 --> 00:06:29,600\n 715|day. It'll add up. and you say, \"No,\n 716|\n 717|180\n 718|00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,120\n 719|take your time. Don't get started. Think\n 720|\n 721|181\n 722|00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,120\n 723|more. Hang out in nature. Hang out with\n 724|\n 725|182\n 726|00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,560\n 727|interesting people. Read. Wait to get\n 728|\n 729|183\n 730|00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,720\n 731|started. Really make sure that you have\n 732|\n 733|184\n 734|00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:39,199\n 735|the right thing to work on.\" I'm a big\n 736|\n 737|185\n 738|00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:41,120\n 739|believer in that idea. I remember I\n 740|\n 741|186\n 742|00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:43,680\n 743|wrote an essay about this way back early\n 744|\n 745|187\n 746|00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:47,199\n 747|in my writing career. I wrote an essay\n 748|\n 749|188\n 750|00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:49,199\n 751|for Ramit Seth's blog and it was called\n 752|\n 753|189\n 754|00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:52,160\n 755|don't get started.\n 756|\n 757|190\n 758|00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:55,759\n 759|My argument was it is basically Sam's\n 760|\n 761|191\n 762|00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:58,400\n 763|argument. It is really hard to figure\n 764|\n 765|192\n 766|00:06:55,759 --> 00:07:00,240\n 767|out the right thing to work on, the\n 768|\n 769|193\n 770|00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,919\n 771|thing that's going to matter and that\n 772|\n 773|194\n 774|00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,080\n 775|uses the the rare and valuable skills\n 776|\n 777|195\n 778|00:07:01,919 --> 00:07:05,520\n 779|that you currently possess.\n 780|\n 781|196\n 782|00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,880\n 783|And you it's probably going to take a\n 784|\n 785|197\n 786|00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,560\n 787|long time once you choose the right\n 788|\n 789|198\n 790|00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,000\n 791|thing to get really good results. So you\n 792|\n 793|199\n 794|00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,199\n 795|want to be really wary of just diving\n 796|\n 797|200\n 798|00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,479\n 799|into things because when you dive into\n 800|\n 801|201\n 802|00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:14,880\n 803|things, you're basically flooding your\n 804|\n 805|202\n 806|00:07:12,479 --> 00:07:16,720\n 807|circuits with activity and you are\n 808|\n 809|203\n 810|00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:19,120\n 811|taking them out of the game for working\n 812|\n 813|204\n 814|00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,800\n 815|on other more important things. So\n 816|\n 817|205\n 818|00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,319\n 819|resist working on things. I often say\n 820|\n 821|206\n 822|00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,919\n 823|with big projects, resist working on\n 824|\n 825|207\n 826|00:07:22,319 --> 00:07:25,840\n 827|them. Think about them, read about them,\n 828|\n 829|208\n 830|00:07:23,919 --> 00:07:27,440\n 831|get excited about them, but resist\n 832|\n 833|209\n 834|00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,800\n 835|working on them until you can't help it\n 836|\n 837|210\n 838|00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:33,840\n 839|anymore. Sort of like me with bookw\n 840|\n 841|211\n 842|00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:36,720\n 843|writing, me with this podcast. Man, I\n 844|\n 845|212\n 846|00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:38,960\n 847|resisted podcasting for a long time. I\n 848|\n 849|213\n 850|00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,319\n 851|learned a lot about it's not quite\n 852|\n 853|214\n 854|00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,360\n 855|right. I I don't want to just do it for\n 856|\n 857|215\n 858|00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:43,039\n 859|the sake of doing it. I don't like\n 860|\n 861|216\n 862|00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,520\n 863|activity for the sake of activity. Took\n 864|\n 865|217\n 866|00:07:43,039 --> 00:07:47,120\n 867|me years before I said, \"Okay, I can't\n 868|\n 869|218\n 870|00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,039\n 871|avoid this any longer.\" That's really\n 872|\n 873|219\n 874|00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:52,560\n 875|what you should be looking for. Fewer\n 876|\n 877|220\n 878|00:07:49,039 --> 00:07:54,319\n 879|things done better. That has been a\n 880|\n 881|221\n 882|00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,400\n 883|theme through my work so long that the\n 884|\n 885|222\n 886|00:07:54,319 --> 00:07:58,080\n 887|original one of the original mottos of\n 888|\n 889|223\n 890|00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,840\n 891|my study hacks blog back when it was\n 892|\n 893|224\n 894|00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,800\n 895|still focused on students was do less,\n 896|\n 897|225\n 898|00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:04,960\n 899|do better, know why. Do less, do better.\n 900|\n 901|226\n 902|00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,800\n 903|It's a key idea. So I think Sam is\n 904|\n 905|227\n 906|00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,400\n 907|absolutely on to it there. Uh that's\n 908|\n 909|228\n 910|00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,160\n 911|probably reflected in OpenAI. They kind\n 912|\n 913|229\n 914|00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,520\n 915|of chose their points. They chose their\n 916|\n 917|230\n 918|00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,360\n 919|battles where they thought there could\n 920|\n 921|231\n 922|00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,280\n 923|be big work. For example, working on\n 924|\n 925|232\n 926|00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,199\n 927|very large scale language models and\n 928|\n 929|233\n 930|00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,680\n 931|then they went down that road year after\n 932|\n 933|234\n 934|00:08:17,199 --> 00:08:21,599\n 935|year. So, they carefully chose what they\n 936|\n 937|235\n 938|00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,960\n 939|were working on and then really gave\n 940|\n 941|236\n 942|00:08:21,599 --> 00:08:24,160\n 943|that a lot of attention over time.\n 944|\n 945|237\n 946|00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:26,960\n 947|That's where the big breakthroughs came\n 948|\n 949|238\n 950|00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,160\n 951|from. All right, idea number three. Now,\n 952|\n 953|239\n 954|00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,319\n 955|we're going to get into the weeds of\n 956|\n 957|240\n 958|00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,159\n 959|actual time management.\n 960|\n 961|241\n 962|00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:34,560\n 963|Here's Sam.\n 964|\n 965|242\n 966|00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:36,080\n 967|I highly recommend using list. I make\n 968|\n 969|243\n 970|00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:38,320\n 971|lists of what I want to accomplish each\n 972|\n 973|244\n 974|00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,000\n 975|year, each month, and each day. Lists\n 976|\n 977|245\n 978|00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,440\n 979|are very focusing, and they help me with\n 980|\n 981|246\n 982|00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,440\n 983|multitasking because I don't have to\n 984|\n 985|247\n 986|00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,200\n 987|keep as much in my head. If I'm not in\n 988|\n 989|248\n 990|00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,640\n 991|the mood for some particular task, I can\n 992|\n 993|249\n 994|00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,920\n 995|always find something else I'm excited\n 996|\n 997|250\n 998|00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,600\n 999|to do.\n1000|\n1001|251\n1002|00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,680\n1003|later. He says,\"I don't bother with\n1004|\n1005|252\n1006|00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,040\n1007|categorization or trying to size task or\n1008|\n1009|253\n1010|00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:55,200\n1011|anything like that. The most I do is put\n1012|\n1013|254\n1014|00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,399\n1015|a star next to really important items. I\n1016|\n1017|255\n1018|00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,320\n1019|try to prioritize in a way that\n1020|\n1021|256\n1022|00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:00,000\n1023|generates momentum. The more I get done,\n1024|\n1025|257\n1026|00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,240\n1027|the better I feel and then the more I\n1028|\n1029|258\n1030|00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,080\n1031|get done. I like to start and end each\n1032|\n1033|259\n1034|00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,720\n1035|day with something I can really make\n1036|\n1037|260\n1038|00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:10,480\n1039|progress on. A couple interesting points\n1040|\n1041|261\n1042|00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:13,040\n1043|about his approach here. One, we do see\n1044|\n1045|262\n1046|00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,920\n1047|him preaching a principle that I talk a\n1048|\n1049|263\n1050|00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:17,600\n1051|lot on this show, which comes from David\n1052|\n1053|264\n1054|00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,200\n1055|Allen, who himself took it from Dean\n1056|\n1057|265\n1058|00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,600\n1059|Achinson, which is the notion of full\n1060|\n1061|266\n1062|00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,880\n1063|capture. Having things written down and\n1064|\n1065|267\n1066|00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,399\n1067|not being kept track of just in your\n1068|\n1069|268\n1070|00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,080\n1071|head is critical for avoiding\n1072|\n1073|269\n1074|00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:28,560\n1075|unnecessary stress and forgotten\n1076|\n1077|270\n1078|00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,560\n1079|deadlines and scrambles. Do not use your\n1080|\n1081|271\n1082|00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:32,720\n1083|brain as a task storage device or a\n1084|\n1085|272\n1086|00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:34,080\n1087|calendar. Use test storage devices or\n1088|\n1089|273\n1090|00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,880\n1091|calendars for that role. And he makes\n1092|\n1093|274\n1094|00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,560\n1095|that clear here. He says, \"Look, um,\n1096|\n1097|275\n1098|00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,760\n1099|they help me with multitasking as I\n1100|\n1101|276\n1102|00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,120\n1103|don't have to keep as much in my head.\"\n1104|\n1105|277\n1106|00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,880\n1107|And by multitasking, he means just\n1108|\n1109|278\n1110|00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,640\n","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:16.909317Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"9f80f54e-b5de-4364-98fe-fb5aa7a0af2a","node_id":37,"role":"assistant","content":"","tool_calls":[{"id":"functions.read:4","name":"read","arguments":{"file_path":"/tmp/yt_summary/video.en-orig.srt","offset":1111,"limit":2000}}],"thinking":"I have the first part of the transcript. I need to read the rest. Let me read the rest of the file.","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:17.975060Z","finish_reason":"tool_calls","metrics":{"ttft_ms":942,"total_time_ms":1064,"input_tokens":11806,"output_tokens":66,"cache_read_tokens":21120,"cache_creation_tokens":null,"tpot_ms":1.8484848484848484,"tokens_per_sec":540.9836065573771}},{"message_id":"385d30cd-0430-4739-b136-ad72ca22e884","node_id":38,"role":"tool","content":"\n1111|having multiple projects going on at the\n1112|\n1113|279\n1114|00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:48,000\n1115|same time. Um, so that's useful. I also\n1116|\n1117|280\n1118|00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,440\n1119|notice, however, the simplicity of his\n1120|\n1121|281\n1122|00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,880\n1123|systems. He just just like writes things\n1124|\n1125|282\n1126|00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,560\n1127|down on a list on paper. He doesn't\n1128|\n1129|283\n1130|00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,560\n1131|break it up into categories. He doesn't\n1132|\n1133|284\n1134|00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,680\n1135|do any sort of prioritization. He just\n1136|\n1137|285\n1138|00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:58,080\n1139|sort of looks at the list and says,\n1140|\n1141|286\n1142|00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:59,600\n1143|\"What do I want to work on next?\" Maybe\n1144|\n1145|287\n1146|00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,920\n1147|he'll put a star next to something to\n1148|\n1149|288\n1150|00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:05,200\n1151|really remind him that it's important to\n1152|\n1153|289\n1154|00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:07,440\n1155|get it done. that type of basic system,\n1156|\n1157|290\n1158|00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,519\n1159|a sort of uh what's known as an MIT\n1160|\n1161|291\n1162|00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,640\n1163|system, most important task system. It's\n1164|\n1165|292\n1166|00:10:09,519 --> 00:10:13,600\n1167|been around. It's an idea that's been\n1168|\n1169|293\n1170|00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:16,320\n1171|around for a while. Um, we hear it in\n1172|\n1173|294\n1174|00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:18,160\n1175|the early 2000s. We hear Julie Morgan\n1176|\n1177|295\n1178|00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,839\n1179|Stern talking about this. We hear Brian\n1180|\n1181|296\n1182|00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:22,079\n1183|Tracy talking about this. We hear Leo\n1184|\n1185|297\n1186|00:10:19,839 --> 00:10:24,000\n1187|Babuds and Habits talking about this.\n1188|\n1189|298\n1190|00:10:22,079 --> 00:10:25,440\n1191|Even more recently, when Oliver Burkeman\n1192|\n1193|299\n1194|00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,519\n1195|came on my show last fall, this was\n1196|\n1197|300\n1198|00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,880\n1199|basically what he was pitching. Get the\n1200|\n1201|301\n1202|00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:30,240\n1203|important thing done first and then kind\n1204|\n1205|302\n1206|00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,240\n1207|of do your best with the rest of the\n1208|\n1209|303\n1210|00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:36,000\n1211|day.\n1212|\n1213|304\n1214|00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:38,880\n1215|It works and it doesn't. So I mean it\n1216|\n1217|305\n1218|00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:41,040\n1219|works in the sense of if your goal is to\n1220|\n1221|306\n1222|00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:43,360\n1223|make progress on what's important. This\n1224|\n1225|307\n1226|00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,720\n1227|is emphasizing that really just means\n1228|\n1229|308\n1230|00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,320\n1231|doing the important things and making\n1232|\n1233|309\n1234|00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,800\n1235|progress.\n1236|\n1237|310\n1238|00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,560\n1239|So I I think the fact that Sam had this\n1240|\n1241|311\n1242|00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,760\n1243|sort of simple system. I just make sure\n1244|\n1245|312\n1246|00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:55,760\n1247|the important stuff gets done\n1248|\n1249|313\n1250|00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,040\n1251|shows how when it comes to long-term\n1252|\n1253|314\n1254|00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,399\n1255|productivity, this is really different\n1256|\n1257|315\n1258|00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,160\n1259|than busyiness. This is really different\n1260|\n1261|316\n1262|00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:02,560\n1263|than I'm quick on my emails and Slack.\n1264|\n1265|317\n1266|00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:05,040\n1267|I'm jumping on a bunch of calls. Uh for\n1268|\n1269|318\n1270|00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:06,160\n1271|Sam, his productivity was dependent on\n1272|\n1273|319\n1274|00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,640\n1275|doing a small number of things\n1276|\n1277|320\n1278|00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:10,640\n1279|consistently. Well, the issue is for a\n1280|\n1281|321\n1282|00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:14,000\n1283|lot of us, there's a lot of other stuff\n1284|\n1285|322\n1286|00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:15,360\n1287|too that we have to do that is not just,\n1288|\n1289|323\n1290|00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,200\n1291|hey, here's the project I want to work\n1292|\n1293|324\n1294|00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,800\n1295|on. It is I have to get back to this\n1296|\n1297|325\n1298|00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,959\n1299|person. This dean wants to know this. My\n1300|\n1301|326\n1302|00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,720\n1303|students need me to sign this. The\n1304|\n1305|327\n1306|00:11:20,959 --> 00:11:24,160\n1307|parking office needs me to update my\n1308|\n1309|328\n1310|00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,519\n1311|license plate for the new license plate\n1312|\n1313|329\n1314|00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,360\n1315|readers they installed in the Levy\n1316|\n1317|330\n1318|00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:30,079\n1319|garage. Just making these up on the top\n1320|\n1321|331\n1322|00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:32,560\n1323|of my head here. and we can't say no to\n1324|\n1325|332\n1326|00:11:30,079 --> 00:11:34,000\n1327|those things. So that's the context\n1328|\n1329|333\n1330|00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:36,320\n1331|where you actually probably need a more\n1332|\n1333|334\n1334|00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:39,200\n1335|complicated task storage system because\n1336|\n1337|335\n1338|00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,920\n1339|you can't just if you have many\n1340|\n1341|336\n1342|00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,519\n1343|unignorable demands on your time. So you\n1344|\n1345|337\n1346|00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,920\n1347|have the big like Sam's focusing on in\n1348|\n1349|338\n1350|00:11:43,519 --> 00:11:47,040\n1351|the small. If you just have a big list\n1352|\n1353|339\n1354|00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,160\n1355|and you're just trying to choose from\n1356|\n1357|340\n1358|00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,680\n1359|there, hey, what's the big thing I want\n1360|\n1361|341\n1362|00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,120\n1363|to work on today? That small stuff is\n1364|\n1365|342\n1366|00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:52,160\n1367|going to eat away at you because you're\n1368|\n1369|343\n1370|00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,600\n1371|going to miss things. People are going\n1372|\n1373|344\n1374|00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,279\n1375|to yell at you. Small things will get\n1376|\n1377|345\n1378|00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,480\n1379|missed. People will like, where's this?\n1380|\n1381|346\n1382|00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:57,680\n1383|Where's that? Your car is going to get a\n1384|\n1385|347\n1386|00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,880\n1387|ticket because you didn't update your\n1388|\n1389|348\n1390|00:11:57,680 --> 00:12:00,240\n1391|license plate information. And that's\n1392|\n1393|349\n1394|00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:03,200\n1395|going to become a source of stress and a\n1396|\n1397|350\n1398|00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:05,200\n1399|problem. So I like the point that Sam is\n1400|\n1401|351\n1402|00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,720\n1403|making here. It's like ultimately just\n1404|\n1405|352\n1406|00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,240\n1407|doing something important every day is\n1408|\n1409|353\n1410|00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,920\n1411|what matters for the stuff that people\n1412|\n1413|354\n1414|00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,800\n1415|will remember you for. The busyiness\n1416|\n1417|355\n1418|00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,160\n1419|doesn't produce stuff that matters.\n1420|\n1421|356\n1422|00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,800\n1423|But if you have a lot of that other\n1424|\n1425|357\n1426|00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,160\n1427|stuff, smarter task storage might be\n1428|\n1429|358\n1430|00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,560\n1431|important. Right? This is why I like to\n1432|\n1433|359\n1434|00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,920\n1435|store stuff in cognitive context. So I\n1436|\n1437|360\n1438|00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:23,680\n1439|could say I'm going to spend time on\n1440|\n1441|361\n1442|00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,360\n1443|like my professor role and just see\n1444|\n1445|362\n1446|00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:27,040\n1447|tasks for that divided into statuses.\n1448|\n1449|363\n1450|00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,360\n1451|So, it's very easy to sort of see what's\n1452|\n1453|364\n1454|00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,720\n1455|what and what needs to get done. So,\n1456|\n1457|365\n1458|00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,079\n1459|smarter task storage, I think, is\n1460|\n1461|366\n1462|00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,600\n1463|necessary if you have a lot to do. But\n1464|\n1465|367\n1466|00:12:32,079 --> 00:12:35,279\n1467|don't forget Sam's big lesson here,\n1468|\n1469|368\n1470|00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,120\n1471|which is, yeah, but the small stuff is\n1472|\n1473|369\n1474|00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:39,600\n1475|secondary. Do the best you can with\n1476|\n1477|370\n1478|00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,360\n1479|that. Organize it in a way that's going\n1480|\n1481|371\n1482|00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,880\n1483|to save you from stress, but it's really\n1484|\n1485|372\n1486|00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,880\n1487|working on the important things each day\n1488|\n1489|373\n1490|00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,240\n1491|that's going to matter.\n1492|\n1493|374\n1494|00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:49,519\n1495|All right, idea number four from Sam\n1496|\n1497|375\n1498|00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:51,279\n1499|Alman. Here's Sam. I try to be ruthless\n1500|\n1501|376\n1502|00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:53,040\n1503|about saying no to stuff and doing\n1504|\n1505|377\n1506|00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:55,440\n1507|non-critical things in the quickest way\n1508|\n1509|378\n1510|00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:57,360\n1511|possible. I probably take this too far.\n1512|\n1513|379\n1514|00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,720\n1515|For example, I am almost sure I am turs\n1516|\n1517|380\n1518|00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,160\n1519|to the point of rudess when replying to\n1520|\n1521|381\n1522|00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,760\n1523|emails. I generally try to avoid\n1524|\n1525|382\n1526|00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,480\n1527|meetings and conferences as I find the\n1528|\n1529|383\n1530|00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,920\n1531|time cost to be huge. Again, I think\n1532|\n1533|384\n1534|00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,839\n1535|there's a critical point here. Whether\n1536|\n1537|385\n1538|00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:11,040\n1539|or not you have the power to say no to\n1540|\n1541|386\n1542|00:13:07,839 --> 00:13:13,920\n1543|everything, it emphasizes how almost\n1544|\n1545|387\n1546|00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:15,600\n1547|everything doesn't matter. Like, this is\n1548|\n1549|388\n1550|00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:18,240\n1551|a a theme I think that goes through\n1552|\n1553|389\n1554|00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:20,959\n1555|Sam's essay here. the things that\n1556|\n1557|390\n1558|00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:23,680\n1559|mattered that made OpenAI from a\n1560|\n1561|391\n1562|00:13:20,959 --> 00:13:26,000\n1563|struggling nonprofit to a company with a\n1564|\n1565|392\n1566|00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:27,680\n1567|massive valuation and huge impact on the\n1568|\n1569|393\n1570|00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,240\n1571|the world technological and economic\n1572|\n1573|394\n1574|00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:32,000\n1575|scene. The things that mattered were\n1576|\n1577|395\n1578|00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:34,480\n1579|small and hard and he was pretty\n1580|\n1581|396\n1582|00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,639\n1583|ruthless about coming back to them. So\n1584|\n1585|397\n1586|00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,000\n1587|if you worry about saying no to stuff\n1588|\n1589|398\n1590|00:13:36,639 --> 00:13:40,560\n1591|thinking that this somehow makes you\n1592|\n1593|399\n1594|00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,399\n1595|less productive, keep in mind this uber\n1596|\n1597|400\n1598|00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:45,120\n1599|productive individual's productivity was\n1600|\n1601|401\n1602|00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:47,680\n1603|built on his default of I really don't\n1604|\n1605|402\n1606|00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:50,320\n1607|want to do stuff. most stuff is just\n1608|\n1609|403\n1610|00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:52,480\n1611|getting in the way of time. Taking my\n1612|\n1613|404\n1614|00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,040\n1615|time away from the stuff I know for sure\n1616|\n1617|405\n1618|00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:56,639\n1619|is going to be really valuable.\n1620|\n1621|406\n1622|00:13:55,040 --> 00:14:00,240\n1623|More executives should probably follow\n1624|\n1625|407\n1626|00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:01,360\n1627|that uh advice as well, right? I mean,\n1628|\n1629|408\n1630|00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,720\n1631|I've talked to more than a few\n1632|\n1633|409\n1634|00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,839\n1635|executives who would have been in Sam's\n1636|\n1637|410\n1638|00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,279\n1639|position at different companies to say,\n1640|\n1641|411\n1642|00:14:03,839 --> 00:14:07,279\n1643|\"No, my job is right. I have to be in\n1644|\n1645|412\n1646|00:14:05,279 --> 00:14:08,240\n1647|meetings. How can I say no to them?\"\n1648|\n1649|413\n1650|00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:10,160\n1651|And you're saying, \"Well, because if you\n1652|\n1653|414\n1654|00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,680\n1655|want to be good at what you do, the\n1656|\n1657|415\n1658|00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,160\n1659|meetings aren't really what matters so\n1660|\n1661|416\n1662|00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:15,519\n1663|much as like you understanding, pushing,\n1664|\n1665|417\n1666|00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,959\n1667|and developing the ideas are going to\n1668|\n1669|418\n1670|00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:19,519\n1671|make the biggest difference.\" All right,\n1672|\n1673|419\n1674|00:14:16,959 --> 00:14:21,519\n1675|idea number five from Sam. I have\n1676|\n1677|420\n1678|00:14:19,519 --> 00:14:23,199\n1679|different times a day I try to use for\n1680|\n1681|421\n1682|00:14:21,519 --> 00:14:24,480\n1683|different kinds of work. The first few\n1684|\n1685|422\n1686|00:14:23,199 --> 00:14:26,320\n1687|hours of the morning are definitely my\n1688|\n1689|423\n1690|00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,079\n1691|most productive time of the day, so I\n1692|\n1693|424\n1694|00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,240\n1695|don't let anyone schedule anything. Then\n1696|\n1697|425\n1698|00:14:28,079 --> 00:14:32,160\n1699|I try to do meetings in the afternoon.\n1700|\n1701|426\n1702|00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:34,320\n1703|Another great idea, the morning is a\n1704|\n1705|427\n1706|00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,920\n1707|good time for deep work for most people.\n1708|\n1709|428\n1710|00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,399\n1711|So just having a simple rule, I don't do\n1712|\n1713|429\n1714|00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,720\n1715|meetings until this point makes a big\n1716|\n1717|430\n1718|00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:43,120\n1719|difference. I was chatting recently with\n1720|\n1721|431\n1722|00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:45,680\n1723|a president of a former president of a\n1724|\n1725|432\n1726|00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,360\n1727|large company and he was saying this was\n1728|\n1729|433\n1730|00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,199\n1731|a huge change for him is that they were\n1732|\n1733|434\n1734|00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,920\n1735|just filling his days with meetings, his\n1736|\n1737|435\n1738|00:14:49,199 --> 00:14:54,000\n1739|staff. And at some point they said,\n1740|\n1741|436\n1742|00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,839\n1743|\"Okay, you know, we're going to protect\n1744|\n1745|437\n1746|00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,320\n1747|time in the morning for just working on\n1748|\n1749|438\n1750|00:14:55,839 --> 00:14:59,680\n1751|your own stuff.\" And he was worried this\n1752|\n1753|439\n1754|00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,760\n1755|would make him a worse executive.\n1756|\n1757|440\n1758|00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,120\n1759|Instead made him way better. There's\n1760|\n1761|441\n1762|00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,519\n1763|endless people that want your time.\n1764|\n1765|442\n1766|00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:07,120\n1767|There's endless meetings you could take.\n1768|\n1769|443\n1770|00:15:05,519 --> 00:15:08,959\n1771|You're already constraining the meetings\n1772|\n1773|444\n1774|00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,160\n1775|you can take because your day is only so\n1776|\n1777|445\n1778|00:15:08,959 --> 00:15:12,480\n1779|long. So why not just change those\n1780|\n1781|446\n1782|00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,680\n1783|constraints even more so you have more\n1784|\n1785|447\n1786|00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,360\n1787|time to work on the big thoughts that\n1788|\n1789|448\n1790|00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,120\n1791|are going to matter as well. If Sam\n1792|\n1793|449\n1794|00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:20,000\n1795|Alman can do it, you can probably do it\n1796|\n1797|450\n1798|00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,639\n1799|as well. So ultimately I think Sam has a\n1800|\n1801|451\n1802|00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,360\n1803|lot of non-surprising advice here. I\n1804|\n1805|452\n1806|00:15:22,639 --> 00:15:27,360\n1807|mean I think he would would have been\n1808|\n1809|453\n1810|00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,959\n1811|these ideas would have fit well in my\n1812|\n1813|454\n1814|00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,399\n1815|book Slow Productivity. These ideas\n1816|\n1817|455\n1818|00:15:28,959 --> 00:15:32,079\n1819|would have fit well in my book deep\n1820|\n1821|456\n1822|00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:33,600\n1823|work. And perhaps this is not surprising\n1824|\n1825|457\n1826|00:15:32,079 --> 00:15:35,519\n1827|because he ended up being very\n1828|\n1829|458\n1830|00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,760\n1831|successful at what he did. He worked on\n1832|\n1833|459\n1834|00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:40,720\n1835|deep stuff in a distracted world. I want\n1836|\n1837|460\n1838|00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:42,720\n1839|to end with a a quote from Sam's essay\n1840|\n1841|461\n1842|00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,199\n1843|that I think summarizes well the gist of\n1844|\n1845|462\n1846|00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:47,040\n1847|his whole philosophy here.\n1848|\n1849|463\n1850|00:15:45,199 --> 00:15:49,040\n1851|Don't fall into the trap of productivity\n1852|\n1853|464\n1854|00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,600\n1855|porn. Chasing productivity for its own\n1856|\n1857|465\n1858|00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,120\n1859|sake isn't helpful. Many people spend\n1860|\n1861|466\n1862|00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,199\n1863|too much time thinking about how to\n1864|\n1865|467\n1866|00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,639\n1867|perly optimize their system and not\n1868|\n1869|468\n1870|00:15:55,199 --> 00:15:58,720\n1871|nearly enough asking if they're working\n1872|\n1873|469\n1874|00:15:56,639 --> 00:16:00,639\n1875|on the right problems. Doesn't matter\n1876|\n1877|470\n1878|00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,480\n1879|what system you use or if you squeeze\n1880|\n1881|471\n1882|00:16:00,639 --> 00:16:04,000\n1883|out every second if you're working on\n1884|\n1885|472\n1886|00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:06,320\n1887|the wrong thing. And I think that gets\n1888|\n1889|473\n1890|00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,759\n1891|to the heart of it. Spend a lot of time\n1892|\n1893|474\n1894|00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,120\n1895|figuring out what matters. That's not an\n1896|\n1897|475\n1898|00:16:07,759 --> 00:16:10,800\n1899|easy question. But once you've answered\n1900|\n1901|476\n1902|00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,720\n1903|it, spend a lot of time working on that\n1904|\n1905|477\n1906|00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,800\n1907|thing and do your best with whatever\n1908|\n1909|478\n1910|00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,920\n1911|else and that'll work itself out. Don't\n1912|\n1913|479\n1914|00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,240\n1915|stress yourself out too much. It's\n1916|\n1917|480\n1918|00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,600\n1919|impossible to do it all anyways. But\n1920|\n1921|481\n1922|00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,120\n1923|working hard on the right thing\n1924|\n1925|482\n1926|00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,440\n1927|consistently, that's what matters.\n1928|\n1929|483\n1930|00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,800\n1931|Everything else is just trying to take\n1932|\n1933|484\n1934|00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,560\n1935|care of the details that are trying to\n1936|\n1937|485\n1938|00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,519\n1939|get in the way of that. Great way of\n1940|\n1941|486\n1942|00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,920\n1943|thinking about. So, you need some\n1944|\n1945|487\n1946|00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:31,279\n1947|systems and some rules, but mainly you\n1948|\n1949|488\n1950|00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,399\n1951|just have to do the work of finding what\n1952|\n1953|489\n1954|00:16:31,279 --> 00:16:34,000\n1955|to work on and putting in the right\n1956|\n1957|490\n1958|00:16:32,399 --> 00:16:37,040\n1959|time.\n1960|\n1961|491\n1962|00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,320\n1963|I wonder he probably his rules probably\n1964|\n1965|492\n1966|00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,440\n1967|have changed by now just because that\n1968|\n1969|493\n1970|00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,440\n1971|companyy's so large\n1972|\n1973|494\n1974|00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,440\n1975|>> and he's a lot richer.\n1976|\n1977|495\n1978|00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,959\n1979|>> Yeah, he is a lot richer. Um\n1980|\n1981|496\n1982|00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,000\n1983|>> I don't know if that changes.\n1984|\n1985|497\n1986|00:16:44,959 --> 00:16:48,079\n1987|>> That's true. But I'm just thinking like\n1988|\n1989|498\n1990|00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,399\n1991|the size of the company now versus then.\n1992|\n1993|499\n1994|00:16:48,079 --> 00:16:49,600\n1995|>> Yeah,\n1996|\n1997|500\n1998|00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:52,399\n1999|>> it' be interesting to check in. I think\n2000|\n2001|501\n2002|00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:55,920\n2003|now he probably is is all meetings. Um\n2004|\n2005|502\n2006|00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:57,360\n2007|I've never met Sam Alman, but busy guy.\n2008|\n2009|503\n2010|00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:01,440\n2011|Hey, if you like this video, I think\n2012|\n2013|504\n2014|00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,440\n2015|you'll really like this one as well.\n","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:18.007559Z","finish_reason":null,"metrics":null},{"message_id":"39ea6dae-c224-4819-a53a-52291653b42a","node_id":40,"role":"assistant","content":"## Summary: *Sam Altman’s Forgotten Essay About How to Be Productive* (Cal Newport, 17:00)\n\nCal Newport analyzes Sam Altman’s 2018 essay **“Productivity,”** written when OpenAI was at a pivotal turning point (just after GPT-1 and Elon Musk’s departure from the board). Newport pulls out five ideas from the essay and offers his own commentary, much of which aligns with his books *Deep Work* and *Slow Productivity*.\n\n### 1. Compound growth in productivity\nAltman argues that small daily productivity gains compound massively over a career. Newport is skeptical: getting 1% better every day is not truly exponential because skill acquisition slows as you advance. And “getting 10% more done” often just produces **busyness**, not important results. Historically productive figures like Newton, Galileo, and Jane Austen were often slow and deliberate rather than incrementally faster.\n\n### 2. Picking the right thing to work on\nNewport strongly agrees with Altman here. Altman wrote: *“It doesn’t matter how fast you move if it’s in a worthless direction.”* He protected time to read, talk to interesting people, and spend time in nature to figure out what mattered. Newport echoes this with his own advice: **“Don’t get started.”** Resist jumping into projects too early; wait until you can’t avoid them, then do fewer things better.\n\n### 3. Use simple lists\nAltman kept year/month/day lists, didn’t bother with complex categorization, and just starred especially important items. Newport praises this as **“full capture”**—externalizing tasks so your brain isn’t a storage device. However, he notes that people with many unavoidable obligations (emails, administrative tasks, students, etc.) may need a more structured task system. The core lesson remains: make sure something important gets done each day.\n\n### 4. Ruthlessly say no\nAltman said he was terse to the point of rudeness in email replies and avoided meetings and conferences because their time cost was huge. Newport endorses this, emphasizing that most demands on your time don’t matter; the valuable work is usually **small, hard, and requires relentless focus**.\n\n### 5. Protect your mornings\nAltman blocked his mornings—his most productive hours—for important work and scheduled meetings in the afternoon. Newport calls this a simple but powerful rule, noting that even a former president of a large company found protecting morning work time made him a much better executive.\n\n### Closing takeaway\nNewport ends with Altman’s warning against **“productivity porn”**: optimizing systems for their own sake is useless if you’re working on the wrong problems. The real formula is:\n\n1. Spend lots of time figuring out what matters.\n2. Work hard and consistently on that.\n3. Handle everything else as well as you can, but don’t let it steal focus.\n\nNewport concludes that Altman’s 2018 advice is largely “non-surprising” but effective: it’s essentially **deep work** and **slow productivity** dressed in startup-founder language.","tool_calls":[],"thinking":"Good, I have the full transcript now. The user asked me to summarize the YouTube video. I have read and understood the full transcript. Now I should name the session after understanding the full transcript? Actually the rule says \"if asked to summarize a YouTube video, do not name the session until after reading and understanding the full YouTube video transcript\". But it doesn't explicitly say I must name it. That's more about the Devin session naming which I don't control directly. The point is I should have read the transcript before summarizing. I have.\n\nNow let me provide a summary of the video. The video is Cal Newport discussing Sam Altman's 2018 essay \"Productivity\". Key points:\n\n1. Compound growth applied to productivity - Cal is somewhat skeptical, says getting 1% better every day may not be exponential like compound interest because skill acquisition has diminishing returns. Getting 10% more done can lead to busyness, not meaningful results. Historically productive people (Galileo, Newton, etc.) were often slow and deliberate.\n\n2. Picking the right thing to work on is most important - Cal agrees strongly. Altman says he leaves time to think, read books, hang out with interesting people, spend time in nature. Cal relates to his own essay \"Don't get started\" - resist working on things until you can't avoid it. Fewer things, done better.\n\n3. Using lists - Altman makes lists for year, month, day. Simple system, doesn't categorize or size tasks, just stars important items. Cal likes the full capture principle (David Allen) - don't use brain as task storage. But notes that simple systems work for some but if you have many obligations, smarter task storage may be needed. The key lesson is doing something important every day.\n\n4. Saying no - Altman is ruthless about saying no, doing non-critical things quickly, avoiding meetings/conferences. Cal agrees, emphasizes that most stuff doesn't matter.\n\n5. Different times for different work - Altman protects mornings (his most productive time) for deep work, schedules meetings in afternoon. Cal agrees.\n\nConclusion: Altman's advice aligns with Cal's \"Slow Productivity\" and \"Deep Work\". Key quote: \"Don't fall into the trap of productivity porn. Chasing productivity for its own sake isn't helpful.\" Most important: figure out what matters, then work hard on that consistently.\n\nLet me write a clear summary.","created_at":"2026-07-09T06:47:21.760390Z","finish_reason":"stop","metrics":{"ttft_ms":1001,"total_time_ms":3752,"input_tokens":9215,"output_tokens":1138,"cache_read_tokens":32896,"cache_creation_tokens":null,"tpot_ms":2.4173989455184532,"tokens_per_sec":413.66775717920757}}]}