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Happy Monday, {{first_name | friend}}. While most of us are scribbling resolutions we’ll abandon by Valentine’s Day, the world’s top tech founders and billionaires skip the vision boards entirely. They use mental models to think clearer and move faster.

💡 Jeff Bezos had one when he bet everything on Amazon. No pros and cons. No motivational posters. Just one brutally simple framework that’s still quoted today. Is it the? A) 80/20 Regret Rule, B) Lifelong Minimization Framework, C) Legacy Loop or D) Reverse Bucket List. Take a guess, it might change how you make big decisions. Answer at the end, as always.

🤫 Start the year with silence: I used to get swamped with spam calls and texts. Now? Zero, zilch, nada. That’s because I use Incogni to scrub my personal details from the creepy databases scammers use to find you. Make 2026 the year you take back your privacy. I negotiated a massive 60% discount just for you. You’re going to love the peace and quiet.

— Kim

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Welcome back. The holidays are over, your inbox is a war zone, and that fresh-start energy already feels like a distant memory. Here are some ways I use AI that I thought you’d find helpful, too. 

Quick note: When I say AI below, I mean ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or whichever chatbot you prefer. They all work for these tricks.

Stop staring at a blank screen. Open your phone’s voice memo app and ramble for 60 seconds about what’s on your mind.

How to get the transcript: On iPhone, open the Voice Memos app, tap your recording, then tap the transcript icon. Copy the text. On Android, use Google Recorder (it auto-transcribes). Upload the transcript or your audio file directly to AI.

Prompt: “I brain dumped my thoughts below. Turn this into a clear, professional [email/report/memo]. Keep my tone, but make it coherent.” Boom. Polished draft in seconds.

Drowning in a 47-message thread about a contract or meeting? Let AI do the reading. You’ve got work to do.

How to get it into AI: In Gmail or Outlook, open the email thread, click the three dots (more options) and select Print. Instead of actually printing, copy the text from the print preview. Paste it into AI.

Prompt: “Summarize this email thread in 3 bullet points. Then draft a response that addresses the key questions and moves things forward.” Copy, paste, send. You saved 20 minutes.

Got a meeting in 10 minutes? Upload the doc or paste the details.

Prompt: “I have a meeting about [topic] in 10 minutes. Give me 5 key talking points and 3 smart questions to ask.” You’ll walk in looking like a rock star who actually read the materials but you didn’t. I won’t tell.

Stop opening 15 tabs and forgetting what you were looking for. We’ve all been there. You started researching quarterly reports and somehow ended up watching videos of baby goats in pajamas.

Prompt: “Research [topic] and give me a summary with the 5 most important points. Include sources, so I can dig deeper if needed.” Let the bot do the heavy lifting.

That overwhelming project sitting on your to-do list? It’s paralyzing because it’s too big. Break it down.

Prompt: “I need to [complete project]. Break this into small, actionable steps I can tackle one at a time. Number them in order.” Suddenly, the mountain becomes a checklist. And checking boxes? That’s the dopamine hit we all live for.

Now go forth and be productive. Or at least look productive enough that no one asks questions or puts more things on your to-do list.

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One guy earns a full salary renting his unused space on the Neighbor app. I break down the strategy, so you can copy it. I also cover the first foldable iPhone and if Google is dying. Plus, the smiley face text that saves relationships.

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🤑 Show me the money: Want to know where AI’s top talent is going? Follow the paychecks. OpenAI is handing out an average of $1.5 million per employee (paywall link) in stock comp, over 7x what Google offered pre-IPO. That’s not just generous. That’s historic. Why the spending spree? Because Zuck is dropping billion-dollar offers to poach their engineers, and OpenAI can’t afford to lose. The catch? Sky-high losses and brutal equity dilution. But when you’re racing to build the future, you pay like the house is on fire. And hope you’re still standing when the smoke clears.

Insider trading, crypto edition: A brand-new Polymarket account bet $30,000 that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro would be captured by January 31st. Four days later, he was. The account cashed out $436,759. Either someone had the world's luckiest hunch, or they knew something before the rest of us did. Polymarket froze the payout pending investigation.

Dirty data: Eyeing a robot vacuum this year? Most are Chinese brands (Roborock, Ecovacs, Eufy, Dreame), and iRobot’s Roomba might join them after filing for bankruptcy. Why does that matter? These smart cleaners map (paywall link) your home’s floor plan, track cleaning patterns and use cameras to identify furniture, pets and obstacles. That floor map plus Wi-Fi equals a hacker’s shopping list. So yeah, your vacuum knows more about your living room than your mother-in-law does.

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Clocked out: NYC students are so phone-free, they forgot how to tell time. Literally. “Miss, what time is it?” is the new classroom anthem where a statewide school phone ban has led to a major realization that kids don’t know how to read analog clocks anymore. The upside? Social skills are bouncing back because lunchroom conversations are happening again. Telling time? Pending update. Writing cursive? Don’t even ask.

🐸 Feeling froggy: A Utah police department had to explain why its AI-generated report said an officer transformed into a frog. Yes, the ribbit-ribbit kind. The AI tool Draft One picked up background audio from The Princess and the Frog playing nearby and hallucinated a fairy-tale ending into official police records. As for this Utah officer, he took a DNA test. Turned out he was part British, part French, part Czech, part Hungarian and a tad Pole.

2025: You worked with AI. 2026: AI works for you. Here’s the scoop in this short podcast.

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⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Reverse image search on your phone. Long-press any image in Chrome (works on iPhone and Android), tap “Search image with Google.” Instantly find where it’s from, higher-res versions or if someone’s catfishing you.

Forgot to paste? I’ve lost text and images more times than I can count. That’s why I keep Windows Clipboard History turned on, so I can recover recent copies. To enable it, go to Settings > System > Clipboard, and toggle on Clipboard history. If something disappears, hit Windows key + V, and it’ll still be there.

📺 Silence Fire TV’s home page: You don’t have to suffer through loud trailers and auto-playing ads anymore. Open Settings > Preferences > Featured Content, and turn off Allow Video Autoplay and Allow Audio Autoplay. You’ll get static images instead. Hey, fewer background processes mean your Fire TV Stick may feel snappier, too. Win-win.

Organize your Chromebook: “Virtual Desks” let you create separate workspaces on one screen. To make one, press the Show Windows key, then click the + icon at the top. Now drag apps into each desk and rename them, like “Work” and “Entertainment.” FYI, to switch between desks, swipe left or right with four fingers on the touchpad.

📺 For the love of open source software, control your media library: VLC plays literally any video file ever created (seriously, try to break it). HandBrake converts videos for free. MusicBee organizes your tunes library like Apple Music wishes it could. All free, all forever, all better than the bloated paid alternatives.

Food delivery apps were already a trust exercise. Now AI is taking it to another level.

Scammers are using generative AI and Photoshop to doctor photos of burgers, cakes and chicken, so they look raw, melted or bug-infested, convincing enough to trigger instant refunds from Uber Eats and DoorDash. The platforms refund first, ask questions never.

Check out the pic above. This genius even watermarked his fake raw chicken photo. Buddy, you’re not protecting intellectual property, you’re documenting fraud.

The food was fine. The lie was well-done. The only thing undercooked here is the moral compass.

🕵🏼‍♀️ Coming tomorrow: Sophisticated spyware hit Jeff Bezos, journalists, lawyers, hedge fund managers and more. I'll show you the warning signs that spyware might be on your phone, why Apple and Google's lockdown are overkill and the practical stuff that works to keep you safe.

The answer: B) The Regret Minimization Framework. Jeff Bezos fast-forwarded to age 80 and asked himself, “Will I regret not joining this whole internet fad?” Spoiler: He would’ve. So Amazon happened. Studies suggest we’re better at long-term decision-making when we think about our future selves as totally different people. So yeah, channel your inner 80-year-old. And if you’re already that age, imagine you at 100!

Other billionaires have equally weird personal challenges. Mark Zuckerberg spent a year only eating meat he personally killed to be more connected to the food chain. Bill Gates takes a Think Week every year, disappearing to a secret cabin with no tech to decide what he’ll focus on for the next 12 months. 

I thought this was funny. A strip club that I pass by the airport has gone out of business. The sign outside says, “Sorry, we’re clothed.” 😂

👉 Wait, one more thing: Don’t let data brokers drag your info into the new year. Incogni has requested my info be removed from over 4,000 different people-search sites. I tried doing this myself once and gave up after an hour. Let their automated bots do the heavy lifting for you. It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose. Use my link for 60% off.

🔋 Look at you. Full bars. Bright mind. You’re ready to go. — Kim

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