Should I stop making AI videos and focus on consistency and discipline instead?
Thank you. I had a great rest last night and I'm on fire today. If you want to talk about consistency and discipline, the best way is to get 8 to 9 hours of sleep each night—it makes everything easier. You asked about making a video on how to create an AI appointment setter; that would help a lot. Are you referring to an AI voice agent? If so, check out my AI voice agent—search for it, as Googling my content helps boost my rankings. One of my daily updates videos appears there, and there's also Nick's AI net worth search, which is funny. Another option is the AI agent, probably the website agent I built, which does some setting for you—give it a try and let me know your thoughts.
On the AI agents video: I was just on a podcast with my buddy Matt talking about this — I think the market is ripe for a counter-signal video right now. A counter-signal is when a market is moving hard in one direction, everyone's hyping something up ('this agent has 8,000 components and automates your whole life'), and you make a video pushing back on that narrative. I think we're getting close to that point with AI agent hype. On the day-in-the-life vlog: honestly, a day in my life is just me sitting here working, exactly like what I'm doing right now. I've always been against POV-style 'entrepreneur in Bali' videos — sure, you can be an entrepreneur in Bali, but that's not really the entrepreneurial part. The actual entrepreneurial work is strategy, reporting, monitoring growth, making decisions that improve projected ROI — and that's basically what I do all day, which doesn't make for a very visually exciting vlog.
I didn’t say AI agents are ineffective overall—I said the AI agents built on the NADN platform aren’t ready for prime time. The agents themselves are great and will fundamentally change the economy, but the current NADN‑based versions don’t add enough value beyond a simple linear automation. Since you’re building an AI voice agent, you’re probably not using NADN, so that specific limitation doesn’t apply to you. Keep doing what you’re doing, but avoid using AI agents in the wrong contexts. A human will still outperform an AI voice agent for many tasks, but the main benefit of an AI voice agent right now is 24/7 availability. For example, a dentist’s front‑desk staff can’t be on call all night, but an AI voice agent can handle calls for just a few dollars a night. Even if the audio quality isn’t perfect, you have constant uptime and can politely tell callers that no one is available, offer to schedule a callback, or direct them to the next steps. In short, continue using the voice agent for low‑touch, always‑on interactions, and look for revenue opportunities that leverage that 24/7 availability rather than trying to replace high‑touch human work.
Loops have been interesting to play with. The simplest way to get started: before you go to bed, give your AI agent a goal, and have it loop every X minutes as part of achieving that goal — this solves the problem of a model finishing a goal too early, and lets you trade tokens/time for quality since it doesn't matter if it takes 8 hours while you're asleep. Example: I wanted to scaffold out possible structures for a free community, so I set a goal and had it loop every 15 minutes overnight — over about 8 hours that's roughly 32 independent passes, each consulting the master list of ideas so far and adding a few new ones, ending with a massive list of options. A second major use is loops for software optimization: set up a loop where every X minutes an agent spawns and tries to improve some metric you care about (like page load speed) on a live property — it's essentially 'auto-research in a box,' logging what it's tried before and improving a test metric over time. The downside nobody talks about much: loops burn a ton of tokens — creators pushing loops are often fine spending $2-3K/month on AI tokens, so if you don't have that kind of budget, it can be a rough way to work.
I’d start with the 80 % of AI automation basics in under 30 minutes—watch the ‘AI Automation Basics’ video. Then move on to my full Naden course or the Make.com Nick’s Archive playlist. Those will teach you the automation skills you need. The 80/20 approach gives you the basics quickly, and remember that automation is just a business like any other; once you learn how to build an AI automation business you’ll do most of the work with a few simple tools.
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