The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

The friend requests begin! Actually… only one. Two groups said hi, the other hasn’t said anything. Rent paid… have a home or place to stay for another three months! Workout in! Shoulders, rows, deadlifts then did 100 pull ups in 15 minutes. 7 km run in 53.34, not extras, except a few rounds of more pull ups, push ups n squats. Let’s change it up. Signed up for an AI sprint class, two hours $130CAD...

Run done and some ball slams! 7km in 52.23, but they’re spraying inside the compound. 8am starts Monday! Not sure I like this and already looking forward to December! The leaders are coming! But I’ll be in class. What’s even going on for Sept 3rd? TikTok outreach continues, building a list, podcast listens spiked, no conversions. Sales is different from marketing is different from content creation...

Finally cooled down! Steven, you’re not an English teacher, you’re a corporate consultant with a large company that has a lot of employees, many of whom look like students. How was the work meeting? Can’t say I’m convinced. Raining quite a bit! Workout in! But no run. Lunch time workout, then work meeting, then off to the gym for some squats and bench work + Jacob’s Ladder. What is Italian Brain R...

Well, I guess it’s back to the university and, yep, I’m looking forward to the breakfasts. Was informed there’s another guy I know who works with half the number of students and gets paid more. Ouch. Creating a “Garrison of Content”, it’s taking a lot longer than I thought it would. YouTube, Podcast, Newsletter, and doing all sorts of cold outreach. My back to school gift to myself? Looking at DaV...

The week starts and how will it end? Another busy day, shot Episode 54 of the Language Vlog Podcast, what use is it for? DICTATIONS?! TikTok cold outreach continues, how is it going? ChatGPT, what say thee about my current predicament? Workouts in, 7km in 47.08 + gym workout beforehand, but no skips, jumps, push ups or pistol squats. Should I have gone to the GuoAn game? Donate to the show! PayPal...

It’s the weekend! And what does that even mean? Tiktok for live streaming? Would it work? Workouts in! Shoulders, rows, deadlifts and then the run! 6.02 km in 1 hr 12 min 15 seconds and… got ALL the pull ups with weight vest done! Maybe time to change this up? Internet getting buggy, something must be up! Bob Lazar Youtube interview from 1997:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmclCzGFotM-Interesting...

Are we being prepped for UFOs? What happens when a stronger force meets a weaker force? Got rid of more stuff! Computer monitor gone! Broke my sports watch… it was already cracking. Run done in 48 minutes and 18 seconds + slam ball. SLV live stream continues! And using TikTok for lead generation, who would’ve thought?! Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?local...

Workout in! Bench, Squats, but no run… wanted to get my video editing done. Hearing lots of screaming on the compound lately. China’s job market? Is it even worth it to graduate? WSJ article about why people aren’t moving around as much.https://www.wsj.com/economy/american-job-housing-economic-dynamism-d56ef8fc? “Young graduates who don’t land good jobs soon after college often never really recove...

SLV Podcast up and out! Episode 53. Working on LNKD material based off of all this IELTS stuff I’m making. How is the housing market in China? better to rent or buy? My apartment is about 54m2Another apartment nearby is 50m2 and is going for 320万 = 3,200,00 RMB ~ $616,196.48 CAD. Downpayment is 480,000 RMB = $92,429.47 CAD An apartment sized around 96m2 is going for 650万 = 6,500,000 RMB ~$1,251,...

Saw Dead to Rights (南京照相馆). Heartbreaking. Lots of people die. About the Japanese invasion of Nanjing and how the atrocities were documented. During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, postman A Chang posed as a photo developer, helping Japanese forces while secretly sheltering Chinese refugees. He later risked his life evacuating them and revealing evidence of the atrocities.-Use of propaganda to pro...

AI to ads it goes! The router will choose free or not! Story advertising but you’ll never know what’s an ad and what isn’t. Scary, and do I want to do this? It’s going to happen anyway. Workouts in! New workout was alright, but maybe I didn’t lift enough. Deadlifts in 100 kg x 5 reps x 2 sets. 6.44 in 1 hr 24 min 14 sec. Only got 75 weighted pull ups in, but had already done 20-25 unweighted in th...

Can’t stream on Instagram any more! (Good thing I bought this ipad stand?) Talking to a student about her English, currently an IELTS band 4, wants a 5.5 by October. I’m thinking: not impossible, but difficult. Just memorize better! And use this cathoven website. Live streaming and out for noodles, a first in a very long time! Am I enjoying where I am? That is, am I taking advantage of the opportu...

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 Shareshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1CzIZdAXpzVypzrQjoEmPH97Iiv7q8xncNzAy7WUT7vs/edit?usp=sharing China A Share False Breakout Timeline Patternshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LbzyiRSMyFG2tr9wyUK6ZY-vr2lFcrHK3akqJOMryzE/edit?usp=sharing How was the pilates class yesterday? Live stream done! Out and about wa...

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/1CzIZdAXpzVypzrQjoEmPH97Iiv7q8xncNzAy7...

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 trac...

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-aihttps://writesonic.com/blog/llm-txt-guide Got the Zapier workflow to work with Claude. Final...