Asian Efficiency

Ask any AI tool to add a personal story to a piece of marketing content.

It will write one. It will sound plausible. It will follow the narrative arc of a good story. And it will be completely fabricated.

This is one of the

Clients started asking me the same question after calls: “How are you so fast with the follow-up?”

I was sending emails within 10 minutes of our meetings ending. Resources mentioned, next steps outlined, sometimes an introduction offered on the call already drafted and ready to send. They'd be wrapping up their own notes and my follow-up had already arrived.

The...

A commercial real estate team in Austin — 52 people, established firm, serious operation — told me last week that their quarterly investor reporting process takes hours every cycle.

Pull data from Yardi. Reformat it in Excel. Write the narrative sections in PowerPoint. Add property maps in Canva. Merge everything together.

A film producer I work with has a process for developing ideas. He runs every concept through four AI models.

ChatGPT first, for initial ideation. Then Claude, for a technical perspective. Then Gemini, for creative angles. Then Grok, for unfiltered feedback. Every model gives him different insights that the others miss.

When he first described this to me, I aske...

How much of your to-do list actually requires you? Most people grind through endless tasks without pausing to ask that question — and it's costing them their focus, energy, and joy in their work. In this encore episode, we introduce the concept of “life leverage”: a simple but powerful filter for identifying the tasks that only you can do, and letting go of everything else. O...