10x Professionals, Cartwheeling Robots, and Uncovering Customer Pain Points
Leverage—March 24, 2025
Good afternoon everyone! Today is Monday, March 204, 2025 and this is your weekly dose of AI and tech updates to keep you a step ahead of the curve in these fast-changing times.
Let’s dive in!
Tool I’m Using
I’ve been rapidly increasing my usage of “deep research” tools in the various AI chatbot apps. I first wrote about this last week, when I described using Open AI’s Deep Research to help identify potential clients.
I’ve found a new use case: conducting autonomous research studies to identify pain points felt by customers.
Here’s an exact prompt I used with Grok 3’s DeepSearch this week:
What are the biggest pain points that attorneys experience when dealing with experts in their litigation matters? Scour X postings on this topic as well as any published articles etc in trade publications. I want to know what drives attorneys nuts when it comes to dealing with their experts.
Grok was particularly helpful here because of its direct access to posts on X. The AI research agent surfaced a ton of enlightening content that can inform my marketing efforts and my work, all in a matter of minutes.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok all have useful “deep research” functionality built into their apps.
Content I’m Reading
I love this post by Andrew Ng about the power of AI to make human knowledge workers an order of magnitude more capable.
I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.
This was the post that motivated me to vibe code my focused task app. It’s a reminder that we should think about AI not as a way to automate jobs—but rather a way to automate tasks and thereby augment jobs.
Video I’m Watching
Boston Dynamics released a new video of their robot, Atlas, doing cartwheels and other complex movements with a high degree of human-like smoothness.
For reference, compare the video above to one released about a year ago. Pretty amazing progress.
News I’m Following
Anthropic’s Claude can now search the web. I love this because I find Claude to be the most useful model for “work” tasks like data analysis, parsing and interpreting long documents, and content creation. Adding the ability to get real time info from online is a nice bonus.
I still default to Perplexity for quick web searches and answers to questions, mostly using its Cmd-Shift-P keyboard shortcut.
Feeling scattered? Too many conflicting priorities pulling at your attention?
To-do lists and task managers make the problem worse. I know because I’ve tried nearly all of them. The only thing they did well was to create a laundry list of everything I once thought was important (and now just stresses me out).
Instead, let’s break things down. Serial, not parallel.
Try identifying just ONE thing that you want to accomplish today. Take the time to choose the ONE thing that will be most impactful and focus on only that until it is done. Then move on to the next.
I created a simple web app to help. Check out OneFocus here. It’s free and open source!
