When Minds Become Media


August Bradley

Life Design Letter


Hello Life Designers,

I'm feeling more energized than I have for as long as I can remember. Lots to share, let's dive in!


IN THIS ISSUE

Announcements

NLD/PPV Closing Date


Essay

When Minds Become Media


Notion News

Two Updates with AI Meeting Notes


TECH TOOL ROUNDUP

My Voice-to-Text Dictation Tools


NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO

Notion PPV Pro Overview & Demo

Announcements

NLD/PPV Pro Purchase Window Closing Date

Notion Life Design, our signature training program and membership, is now open to join the next cohort. This will implement the PPV Pro life operating system system over November and December, to be ready to roll for a big start in 2026.

The purchase window closes this week, on November 9th.

Details Here →

Posted My Most In-Demand YouTube Video

I just shared the first walk-through tour of PPV in four years. A tremendous amount has changed over the past four years, and this new PPV Pro system is truly next level.

YouTube Video →

Essay

The Future of Learning

In the previous issue's essay, I wrote about how I've been training AI coaches on my notes and content, and that it's producing good results in our membership program. In this essay, I'm extrapolating the potential of that into a viable sci-fi future.


When Minds Become Media

Today we follow educational creators for their media content.

Someday, we’ll follow them for their personally crafted algorithmic systems — a signature AI thought-engine that reflects their lens on the world.

Their knowledge, experience, logic, style, vibe. All encoded.

A dynamic, always-on extension of their mind.

This isn’t generative AI as we know it today.

It’s an AI-driven representation of the person you already trust, by the person you trust.

This creator is continually crafting a personal reasoning model, a shareable pattern library of how they think.

Their personal coded framework perpetually learns and grows as they do, shaping it becomes their primary creative focus — replacing content creation with neural processor design.

It's a humane algorithm, a mind in the machine.

It’s not a broadcast for the crowd.

It’s your applied version of what they think.

It's molded to your situation, your personal questions, your own life.

When you're unsure, it offers knowledge wrapped in perspective.

When you’re stuck, it offers their guidance.

When you drift, it anchors you.

Personal authenticity is the soul of this system.

A creator’s personal algorithm must reflect their humanity.

Done well, it will be surprising, idiosyncratic, alive — in its own way.

The best of them will implement echo-chamber countermeasures.

Novelty and discomfort to prevent complacency.

Crafted resistance to stretch you and push for growth.

It’s not there to flatter, but to challenge in the creator’s distinct way.

It has compassion, but expects more of you.

Creators will no longer grind out content for the masses.

They will build attuned thinking engines.

They won’t publish posts, they’ll release human-centered thoughtware.

They won’t chase reach, they’ll craft resonance.

This is where creativity and code meet.

Not automation — amplification.

Not replacement — refinement.

Not consumption — guided collaboration.


Creators won’t ship content, they’ll ship cognition.

Notion News

Notion Updates & New Features

AI Meetiong Notes now have clickable link to source

AI Meeting Notes now have numerical markers in their summaries — click them to go directly to the relevant portion of the transcript. See it in action here →

Aggregated Meeting Notes Tab in Sidebar

As you place AI meeting note blocks anywhere throughout your workspace, that meetings tab in the left sidebar will give you an organized, sequential list of all of your meeting notes — regardless of where the various blocks are placed across your system. See it in action here →

TECH TOOL ROUNDUP

My Voice-to-Text Dictation Tools

I've been a power user of voice-to-text dictation for a few years now. I've replaced 80% of my typing with speaking to the computer and having AI convert it into grammatically correct written text. It's so much faster. It's so much easier. I'll never go back.

I started out using Super Whisper, then moved to Wispr Flow, then jumped over to Monologue, and then back to Wispr Flow. Here's my breakout of the various tools.

Super Whisper gives you the most control over model usage, prompt modification, and the broadest range of custom settings. However, you really need to do a lot of tweaking and customization to get it to work right — so it's difficult to use out-of-the-box and continually took a lot of time to modify it.

Wispr Flow works great out of the box. Much simpler, much less control, but you don't really need the control because it just works. At least if you want a minimal direct one-to-one translation of your voice to text, which is exactly what I'm looking for.

Then I moved to Monologue because I'm intrigued by the tech stack that this company is building. Monologue turned out to be really fun, it feels light and easy. I love the interface and the quirkiness of the design. But in the end, it didn't apply grammar in the written text as cleanly as Wispr Flow, and it was less contextually aware — ultimately requiring a lot more correction and cleanup.

So in the end, I moved back to Wispr Flow, where I am now. I'm keeping an eye on Monologue, and if it gets to be as good as Wispr Flow at laying down contextually aware words, then I would be very tempted to move back.

What's your favorite? Hit reply, I'd love to know.

If you haven't tried any yet, I would recommend starting with Wispr Flow and giving it a go. It really changes how fast you can work on a computer.

New Video

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Notion PPV Pro: the original Notion Life OS, reimagined for 2026

Introducing the PPV Pro Notion Life OS. Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults (PPV) was the original Notion Life OS that started the Life OS movement on modern digital platforms.

Now it has been rebuilt and re-imagined, taking full advantage of the extensive enhancements to Notion's capabilities. It's the ultimate Life OS for 2026.

Thanks for reading! Let me know if you have any thoughts on any of these topics. Or let me know what you would like to see explored in future issues.

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