Podcast Summary: My First Million (Feb 13, 2026)

Episode: "This AI agent completes your To-Do list (plus 4 AI tools that’ll blow you away)"

Hosts: Sam Parr & Shaan Puri

Overview & Main Theme

In this episode, Sam and Shaan spotlight the bleeding edge of AI by showcasing and critiquing innovative AI tools that can change how we work, create, and solve daily problems. Through a lively "Show and Tell," the hosts explore how AI agents are evolving from simple assistants to proactive workers, brainstorm about the future of AI-powered business, and share homegrown hacks for maximizing personal and professional productivity. The central question: What can AI do for you today—and what will it mean for the way we work and learn tomorrow?

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. AI Agents: Taking Action, Not Just Chatting

• The ‘Do Anything’ Agent:

  • Shaan highlights Garrett’s tool, “doanything.com”, an AI agent that completes tasks, not just gives suggestions.
  • Example: Analyzed the My First Million YouTube channel, identified performance lags, provided actionable strategy, and could generate month-long content calendars complete with video ideas and thumbnails.
  • Key Quote:

    "It's a to do list that does itself." – Shaan [02:00]

  • Sparks discussion around the power of having “background workers” that automatically grow smarter and more independent.

• Other AI Agents and Autonomous Tools:

  • ChatGPT’s Pulse feature (proactively searching and writing on topics you care about) and Nebula (auto-prepping, summarizing, and suggesting actions based on your workflow by reading Slack, Gmail, calendar, GitHub, etc.).
  • Quote:

    "You don't need to ask me what to do. I should be able to figure out what to do, based on what's going on." – Shaan [05:40]

• Practical Application:

  • These agents can do pre-meeting research, summarize code changes, track team messages, and more—making them invaluable for teams of any size, but especially for those with 10–30+ members.

2. Voice and Text AI: Whisper Flow & Productivity Boosts

• Whisper Flow App:

  • Enables near-perfect, multi-app voice-to-text; learns user-specific formatting (e.g., prefers line breaks, bullets, or informal structure).
  • Quote:

    "Typing is a pretty slow thing to do... you don't really realize it until you're able to just stop doing it." – Shaan [08:39]

• Creativity & Output:

  • Shaan uses walks to dictate rambly thoughts, then connects to ChatGPT to clean and structure the content—notes, emails, even book chapters.
  • Core Insight: The ability to work and create by simply speaking could 10–100x one's productivity.

• Winners vs. Losers Mindset:

  • Quote:

    "I think that's the difference between the winners and the losers. The people who are going to use it and ten or a hundred x their output, and the losers who are like, this is too new, this is too fast, we should keep it old school." – Sam [11:37]

3. AI for Learning and Knowledge Work: NotebookLM & Slide Deck Generation

• Google’s NotebookLM:

  • Drop in podcast links: auto-generates slide decks summarizing entire episodes, complete with key takeaways and quotes.
  • Example: Summarized a complex AI podcast, then auto-created presentation slides and images from transcript alone.
  • Quote:

    "I just dropped in the link ... make me a slide deck about it. It took like 10 minutes." – Shaan [15:22]

  • Discusses the tools' legibility, visual coherence, and how Google’s tech often outpaces their ability to market it.

• Glyph App & Next-Level Presentation Design:

  • AI not only creates presentations but introduces animated, “Prezi”-style transitions between slides—making decks more dynamic and visually compelling.
  • Quote:

    "With AI, you just show it the start and the end, and it just automatically will animate it to make it look like A transformed into B." – Shaan [17:32]

4. Personal AI Hacks: Bio-to-Notion for Business Biographies

• Sam’s Bio-to-Notion Project:

  • Upload multiple biographies as PDFs/ePubs → AI creates a Notion knowledge base with:
    • Timeline & Financial History: Age-by-age net worth, major business moves (converted to current dollars).
    • Lessons & Playbook: Derives actionable insights tailored to Sam’s own business (after uploading personal context data).
    • Visual Timeline: Integrates relevant period photos.
  • Key Quote:

    "I've been able to basically make a business Wikipedia." – Sam [21:07]

• Learning from History vs. Therapy:

  • Quote:

    "We don't need therapy, we need history. If you were a student of history, you would need less therapy." – Shaan [28:21]

• Automating the Whole Stack:

  • Envisions agents that not only select reading lists but summarize, tailor, and even deliver personal audiobook/podcast versions.

5. Mass Personalization & Vibe Coding: The Next Wave

• Mass Personalization:

  • Software is moving from “one-size-fits-all” to hyper-personalized tools for individuals, powered by AI that adapts to the user’s needs and context.
  • Quote:

    "Today, all software gets built just like the newspaper industry... but now... you can make highly personalized software.” – Shaan [31:55]

• Vibe Coding for Anything:

  • “Vibe coding” allows people to simply describe what they want, and AI builds it—applies to code, music, presentations, etc.

• AI Music Creation:

  • No skill needed, only taste. Hosts demo making a high school basketball hype song by typing “hype basketball intro music for a high school team” and tweaking by giving plain-English adjustments.
  • Quote:

    "Now with AI, those got decoupled... you don’t need the skill, you just need the taste." – Shaan [38:07]

6. AI in Everyday & Business Life: Real-World Use Cases

• Tailored Clothing Sizing App:

  • Sam describes building a tool that takes body measurements and cross-references them with e-retailers’ size guides and even vintage/foreign clothing sizes to automatically recommend the right fit—saving time and money for those who shop online.

• AI-Powered Command Center for Business:

  • Shaan details an internal tool that connects to HubSpot, call transcripts, Slack, and accounting; auto-generates status updates, renewal likelihood, expansion opportunities, and to-do lists.
  • Quote:

    "There's an agent in here... you could just talk to the deal... and it'll look at public info, call transcripts, internal database... and create a to-do action." – Shaan [50:30]

  • Increases transparency, efficiency, and proactivity across teams of any size.

7. Reflections on the Speed & Democratization of AI

• Competing With vs. Benefiting From AI:

  • It’s not about being a top 1% AI expert.
  • Quote:

    "All you need to do is get to like 50 percentile in AI... it multiplies against all your other skills." – Shaan [54:09]

  • Combo of domain knowledge and functional AI skills will unlock massive new opportunities.

• Market Expansion:

  • AI has massively increased both the number of competitors and the number of “chairs” (opportunities).
  • Quote:

    "AI is like every product in every single category, plus a whole slew of new categories just came up for grabs." – Shaan [52:58]

Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• "[AI agents]...a to do list that does itself." – Shaan [02:00]
• "You don't need to ask me what to do. I should be able to figure out what to do, based on what's going on." – Shaan [05:40]
• "Typing is a pretty slow thing to do... you don't really realize it until you're able to just stop doing it." – Shaan [08:39]
• "I think that's the difference between the winners and the losers. The people who are going to use it and ten or a hundred x their output, and the losers who are like, this is too new, this is too fast, we should keep it old school." – Sam [11:37]
• "I've been able to basically make a business Wikipedia." – Sam [21:07]
• "We don't need therapy, we need history. If you were a student of history, you would need less therapy." – Shaan [28:21]
• "Now with AI, those [skill and taste] got decoupled... you don’t need the skill, you just need the taste." – Shaan [38:07]
• "There's an agent in here... you could just talk to the deal... and it'll look at public info, call transcripts, internal database... and create a to-do action." – Shaan [50:30]
• "All you need to do is get to like 50 percentile in AI... it multiplies against all your other skills." – Shaan [54:09]
• "AI is like every product in every single category, plus a whole slew of new categories just came up for grabs." – Shaan [52:58]

Important Segments & Timestamps

• AI agents and “Do Anything” demos: [01:15]–[06:51]
• Voice-to-text and Whisper Flow: [08:32]–[11:37]
• AI for learning (NotebookLM, Glyph App): [13:10]–[17:50]
• Personal AI hack (Bio-to-Notion): [19:28]–[28:21]
• Mass personalization & vibe coding: [31:55]–[38:07]
• AI in business (Command Center): [48:36]–[53:11]
• Final reflections and takeaways: [53:11]–[56:38]

Tone and Style

The episode is fast-paced, energetic, and casual. The hosts are transparent about their own hacks, speak plainly (avoiding jargon), and riff with humility and self-deprecating humor about being “dummies” figuring AI out together. They focus on real-world impact, sharing both successes and the tools’ current limitations.

For Those Who Haven’t Listened

This episode is a goldmine of practical, innovative AI hacks that you can experiment with today—whether it’s for content, productivity, business management, or just making your life a bit easier (even finding clothes that fit!). The hosts demystify the increasingly rapid world of AI, showing that you don’t have to be technical to start benefiting from AI tools—and that, in fact, the biggest wins might come from those who pair human judgment with just a bit of cutting-edge automation.