The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

ASMR! To Melbourne! Let’s try this! I have a whole slew of videos I could make!! Workouts in! Squats, bench, run, slam ball! 7km done in 47min 58sec. Good workout and good energy. Though… long. We must be out of the dog days of summer. Still hot but much cooler than before. They’re preparing for Victory! Forgot to mention they’re shutting down some streets over the weekend to prep for the Sept 3rd...

We got rain and it’s cooled down! More spectacle than act. Thinking… can you really start your own business? What if the reality was that you were only going to close 1 out of every 4 deals? That is, the vast majority of people will reject you. To put this into perspective, if I’m teaching 100 students in a university class, that means, if it was on my own, I would’ve had to contact 400 students b...

Beginning of a new week! NO TARIFFS on GOLD! It was a mistake. More to come! (GOLD down.) SLV Episode 52 recorded and edited! Will AI editing take away jobs? Or just mean you have to do more on your own? And more people will be able to do it? Workouts in! Mace bells and kettle bells… getting a bit bored with these… or am I just concerned I’ll break something around the apartment? 7 km run in 50.57...

Lucky day! Friday the 8th! Workouts in! Rows, shoulders, light deadlifts, then 7.20km run done in 1 hr 23 min 55 sec… got all 100 pull ups in outside with the vest on! While raining! Tech stocks a stompin! AAPL, GOOGL, TSLA, not MSFT, OKLO (uranium company) - do you really care about how much energy LLMs take? SWISS GOLD TARIFFED! How did the Chinese stocks turn out? I need a better way to track a...

Revisiting that info on China A-Shares: Typical Speculative Run Patterns in China A Shares https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CzIZdAXpzVypzrQjoEmPH97Iiv7q8xncNzAy7WUT7vs/edit?usp=sharing China A Share False Breakout Timeline Patterns https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LbzyiRSMyFG2tr9wyUK6ZY-vr2lFcrHK3akqJOMryzE/edit?usp=sharing How was the pilates class yesterday? Live stream done! Out and about...

Rain and humidity! I thought this was over! Is Beijing it? Would I miss it? https://www.cathoven.com/ Changes a foot! More cameras, less toll booths! They ripped out two of those. Workouts in! Pilates! Squats n bench (kinda)! And a 6.44km run in 45.07! Slow going but got it done! And take a look at this info on China A-Shares: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CzIZdAXpzVypzrQjoEmPH97Iiv7q8xncNzA...

Gold pops! Oooof! oil drops! SLV podcast recorded! Idioms recorded! Busy day, could I do this full time? Pilates done! Gotta go again tomorrow to use up my package! Google out with a new app: Opal. Does this ever stop? More tools! New tools! How many are useful? How many do we need? Or are the big companies just trying to keep up and the smaller companies are just trying to get bought? Got a Claud...

Back is feeling a lot better! Workouts in! 7 km in 53.27. Did it first thing in the morning and WOW did my back hurt! Second part of the workout was done in the afternoon, but no real structure, just moving around with weights. Civic Day holiday in Canada. Markets closed. Bank stonks a roarin! Gold stocks a jiggling. Energy stocks a-correcting. New tariffs in play. Lead Gen a go go! How many peopl...

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End of the month! Here we go! To where? 731 video clips hitting XHS. What is this and why is it important? Can’t copy the bloody PDFs! Have to re-do! Live stream done! Language learning and AI. Views sure have dried up on the language vlog. They don’t like Australia. Or they don’t like me? Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show notes n tra...

Up early and getting at it! Wrote a book! Or at least the first draft. 31 days to better IELTS. Initially written for Threads, then plopped into Claude for expansion, now, time to revise. Goal is to have this out soon. Will go through some of the pages tomorrow and start videoing them. Workouts in! Squats! Bench! Accessories! Then a run! 7km in 44.18! Fast today for some reason. Off to a show! A f...

Rain is gone, but 30 people died. Where did all of these other crypto currencies come from? What’s backstopping them? And what are they worth? Are they literally just inventing and printing money? Workout in! And then a nap! 3 km in 20 minutes, then off to the gym to do some accessory work, or just gentle lifting. Canadian ENERGY finally seeing light, GOLD stocks turning over? Is this because of t...

It’s supposed to RAIN! Workout in, but only the run (7km in 51.56) and circuits, slow going, and no platform class. Tomorrow? Mace bells? LOTS of mosquitoes! Remember I talked about getting cited by AI? Well, there’ve already been articles written about it. https://writesonic.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-ai https://writesonic.com/blog/llm-txt-guide Got the Zapier workflow to work with Claude. Fina...

Rained just about all day! Workouts in! A slog of a run: 6.03km in 1hr 14 min 16 sec. 66 pull ups, 132 push ups and 198 squats. Rows, shoulders and deadlifts. Tried 150 kg again and couldn’t move it. 140 went up once, then 130. Got a couple videos done from Australia. Want to get these done as soon as possible so I can release some of the Chinese videos I have ready to go. Hulk Hogan has died, gue...

Rain rain go away come again … tomorrow? Steve, why do you need all of these agents for language learning? Don’t you live in China and have lots of tools and exposure to the language? Yes. But… SLV live stream all about the IELTS band descriptors. Spoke with that guy who runs an agency here and we got talking about the need to understand how the band descriptors work. So, this is an introduction t...

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away, aged 76. Life of sex, drugs and rock n roll… still dies. Manus agents worked! Both Chinese and Russian. Zapier? Only Russian worked. Chinese didn’t. Spent the morning looking at Deep Learning - what did I learn? It’s all very technical. Not sure I want to be digging into code at the moment. https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/ SLV podcast out! Episode 49! Thinking wh...

Almost the end of July and the Dog Days are almost upon us! Hot, but not as hot as a few years’ back. SLV podcast edited, will post tomorrow. Now looking to cut back on some of the software I’m paying for (repurpose.io is one that comes to mind). Manus automation: we’ll see if it works AND can be done FREE with limited credits. Aaaaand is now not available in China. Don’t forget your language stud...

New week begins! Productive weekend! Saw a movie! The Lychee Road! Pretty good. Saw the new Huawei Matebook Fold SLV podcast recorded, should be up soon. Workouts in! 7.5km in 52.49, then maces and bells, then skips and circuits, then… Blue Frog! And damn… found cinnamon buns imported from Guangzhou! Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show...

Bought an API key! They got my money and my credit card deets! But can’t the Zapier+Claude connection to work because of OAuth… and the firewall. Need to tweak those AI Agents, still not doing what they’re supposed to. SSAB Newsletter in Chinese?! Why not?! STOP MAKING STUFF! USE WHAT YOU’VE GOT! Says the AI Man Behind the Curtain. Guess I should start building some courses. Workouts in! Shoulders...

More troubles with the AI Agents… are they worth it? Might be another way to get this done. Did some of the languages today, going back to the age-old argument: is it better to spend time learning the language or exploring the country and its culture? Shot some videos today, we’ll see how that goes. Live streams in! Characters and resources! Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypa...

The burger is gone… because I had another pilates class or whatever it is! Went to PanemorFit. Smaller classes, a touch more difficult, but mainly because of holding the poses for so long. Run in! 7.02km in 43.36. Went fast today. Also managed to get the squats and bench in today too! Returned one of the cell phone sticks I bought, easy as pie! Apply for refund and they send a guy to pick it up! N...

Monday and back at it! But slow going. Got my Zapier AI Agents working again. Chinese done, thinking… should I do the HSK 5 test this year? Build it up on YouTube? SLV podcast recorded, will edit tomorrow. Didn’t know I could view my iPad screen from QuickTime! Workout in! 6.5 km in 43 min 56 sec. Tried to do the skips, push ups, tuck jumps and pistol squats but only got through three rounds. Knee...

SSAB - July 14, 2025 Monday and back at it! But slow going. Got my Zapier AI Agents working again. Chinese done, thinking… should I do the HSK 5 test this year? Build it up on YouTube? SLV podcast recorded, will edit tomorrow. Didn’t know I could view my iPad screen from QuickTime! Workout in! 6.5 km in 43 min 56 sec. Tried to do the skips, push ups, tuck jumps and pistol squats but only got throu...

Hot and humid but getting things done! Early morning Chinese character review. Workouts in, the gym was no cooler! Up early for a run (5.82km in 46.41), midday gym visit for 55 pull ups, push ups and squats + Turkish get ups, farmers carries, dips. Then out for another run (it was cooler outside) to finish up the pull ups by the tree and to run another 1.33 km. Stuff gone! Weights are moved and it...

Feeling stuffy for some reason, not sure if it’s allergies or sickness. Stuff’s a moving! Got rid of one box (Chinese flash cards!) with another bundle of stuff promised to move tomorrow and more next week! Made an APP! Micro APPs a go go! Claude to Replit to PUBLISHED! Looks spiffy. Now, how to make this language-independent? Gearing up for live streams and content creation. DID buy two stands fo...