The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

I admit! McDonald’s yesterday AND I bought Coco Pebbles! I’m terrible! Who is Bryan Johnson and why does he matter? Here’s the list with each supplement on its own line (from https://fastlifehacks.com/bryan-johnsons-supplement-list):1. Acarbose2. Ashwagandha3. Astaxanthin4. B Complex5. BroccoMax6. Vitamin C7. Calcium Alpha-Ketoglutarate (Ca-AKG)8. Cocoa Flavanols9. CoQ1010. Vitamin D311. DHEA12. V...

STOP SWALLOWING! YOU LOOK LIKE A MUPPET!DI.fm going all paid??? No more free tier?!?!Language vlog podcast out! Need to do another language check soon! Big Podcast, gotta figure something out. I don’t think I’m done but it’s not easy to manage all of these projects. GOLD dropping, COT is way overbought but… is this the end? Not likely. INDL sure taking its time. Canadian energy also looking pretty...

Beginning of the week! Last week at old job! What will happen next?!Newsletters out! Language vlog and Substack! Written by me, but the idea to publish more is in the works. How do I get AI to help out? Saw NeZha2 (哪吒)! Not bad, but didn’t understand very much and couldn’t read the subtitles cause of the guy in front of me. NEED TO BOLSTER MY CHINESE LISTENING SKILLS!Workouts in! 6.45km in 46.16...

情人节快乐！Happy Valentine’s Day! Roses are red, violets are blue, I didn’t buy flowers, how about you? Just give money instead? Ukraine peace deal in the works, will need to cede some land to Russia? Should Ukraine just build its own military up better than it is now? Haven’t done much language studying, and few videos posted to the language vlog because… working on automations and shortcuts, th...

Gentlemen, get your engines, be them ignition-based or footwear, and be sure to make time to get some flowers or send a red packet to the lady in your life. Even if they say it doesn’t matter, it does coz… bragging rights. The women will brag. Rising costs, are they worth it? Descript bumps prices by $10! But the things I use it for. Listening to the language vlog podcast, not bad. Sounds pro, rig...

Happy Lantern Festival! I think this officially ends Spring Festival. Workouts in, but slow going. Is it the winter, the weather, the weight or am I just getting old? 6.45 km in 42.31, then 10 minutes of slam ball but… since it was slow running decided to finish up the workout after work. Buying a company in China? Would it even work? Or would I get screwed? Codie Sanchez and Gary Vee talked about...

Self heating 火锅？！Hot pot that makes itself?! SLV podcast out, how many of these can I do in a day? Gotta get my stamina up! Stalled on the subscriber count, which seems odd. BUT… did you know you can create a website using Google Sites? Should I just go all in with Google? Starting a business in China - good idea or bad idea? Tech or education? What about a GPT that uses DeepSeek to teach and...

MORE automations done, how does a Chinese tech company sound? Will GPTs replace teachers or enhance the learning experience? And Steve, why haven’t you built one just yet?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-wave-of-ai-is-here-some-jobs-will-go-but-others-will-be-created-0dbf9f63?mod=itp_wsj,djemITP_hOut Saturday night, and a long march home. I want to say that’ll be the last time I do that but, re...

Cold and windy! Is that natural or is that a wind machine cranking up? Still went for a run, 7km in 1 hr 4 min 47 sec, plus pull ups, push ups squats, lunges and duck walks. More automations, thinking I might just release the transcripts to this podcast. Will you even look at them? Thinking of spinning off a new show, China Market Report - but not sure I really like talking about this stuff. And S...

“The door to the American Millionaire’s Club is not locked. Contrary to popular modern belief, it is still quite possible for the successful individual to make his million - and more. There will always be room for the man [or woman] with energy and imagination, the man who can successfully implement new ideas into new products and services.” - JP Getty, pg 24 Pros and Cons of China? Let me tell yo...

Back to work! Is this is it? GOLD STOCKS moving, Chinese stocks?? Top five songs to demonstrate that Neil Peart is among the elite drummers of the world? 1. Tom Sawyer (their big hit) 2. La Villa Strangiato (prog af but good drums) 3. Spirit of the Radio (rock) 4. One Little Victory 5. 2112 Overture 6. Fly by Night Worked on a few more automations and shortcuts. Might cut my Repurpose.io subscript...

More automations made! But having some trouble with “big data” - SSAB transcripts are too big! Slow to figure out, but see the potential and what else can be done. SLV podcast is out! Yes, I’m a week behind. Eleven Labs can clone your voice… and PAY YOU! Remember what I said about the future of companies requesting or requiring access to your voice? … But you have to be on the “Creator” plan which...

February already! Let’s say that at the beginning of every month! BUSY DAY! Slept TWELVE HOURS, from 7 or 8 pm last night to about 7 am this morning. Why? Not sure. Double workouts on Sunday. I think I worked out on Saturday, too. Workout in late today (6.52km in 47.41) then some rope work, etc. Why late? Longtanhu Park Temple Fair ALSO, spent the morning editing several videos for the language vl...

End of the month! And sluggish running! 6.45km run in 1 hr 2 min 56 sec, weighted vest, but no pull ups or anything. Literally just wanted to run. Is the end of the winter six-week cycle? More shortcuts! Categorized into Russian and Chinese - able to copy a word, run a shortcut, and it will feed that through ChatGPT to give me the grammatical break down and a couple of examples, read them out loud...

SUCCESS! MULTIPLE! :O :D Zapier automation to pull SLV YT descriptions and put them into a spreadsheet which is then emailed to me every weekend! SUCCESS! Zapier automation to pull SSAB transcriptions from a spreadsheet and put them into a different spreadsheet and then email me every weekend! AND… Was able to generate a newsletter from this spreadsheet for SLV, but NOT for SSAB - too much data! I...

So close, yet so far. These Shortcuts get about 90% of the way there and then stop. Currently trying to get Apple Notes and ChatGPT to talk to each other. Following a guy named Stephen Robles to find some better shortcuts. Was thinking I could automate podcast summaries for this and send that out through Substack. Jioazi from the gf, got the coin… can’t help but think that was planted there. Lol N...

新年快乐！过年快乐 or is it 过年好? 蛇年快乐！ And so on and so on! 除夕 evening in China, 春节 tomorrow, the Year of the Snake is upon us. New YT Short out: Happy New Year! So… is it appropriate to say Happy Lunar New Year? Or, do as the Chinese do and call it Chinese new Year? I guess the Ukrainians call their New Year “Malanka”. Realized something: these Apple Shortcuts - can I add multiple APP...

Beijing is sure quiet these days, hard to believe that it’s ever much more noisy. Looking at automations using Apple Shortcuts and Text Replacements. Text Replacement: System Settings > Keyboard > Text Replacements Had an idea: year in the life of an English teacher - on XiaoHongShu. Figuring I could then turn than into a book after while documenting my teaching journey once again. Workout in! Mor...

New podcast idea? China Business podcast? Reading audiobooks? Would you listen? What would you like to hear? Big day, changes on the way… possibly. My apologies for not getting the podcasts out earlier, my browser doesn’t keep the Podcasters for Spotify link open and alive so I have to reset my password every day. Work out in! 7.01km in 1 hr 20 min 41 sec. Slow on the pull ups, push ups and squats...

Last day in Harbin, well worth the trip but… winter should just be a vacation, not a lifestyle! Lol jkjk Morning meeting done n done, Starbucks first, and baozi. Not as cold as yesterday. Off to Snow sculpture festival. This is the one with massive snow carvings that LOOK as if they’ve been manufactured BUT in actual fact, I think they’re done by people. They had teams that each contributed a piec...

Another day, another journey. What was that noise so early in the morning? It snowed… so a guy was outside cleaning the sidewalk with a leaf blower. Off to a… polar exhibit today. I think we actually spent a little bit too much time there, but we took our time and saw allll of the performances… many of which consisted of Russian dancers. Harbin Polarland is dedicated to wintery animals, dolphins,...

Tried to find HongZhuan Breakfast Street, failed. We left too late but did find a semi-open snack street. A few of the stewards were smoking while cooking. Snow and Ice Festival: 哈尔滨冰雪大世界 Nice during the day, but then got really cold when the sun went down. Good thing there are several indoor mall/pavilions to go into. MUCH different than when I was there ten years ago! Posting vids to the...

Coldest day of the year! So they say for the lunar calendar. Off to Harbin! Smog city! Haven’t been here in ages. Just under five hours on the high speed train Goose meat for dinner… hardly anything of substance! Except one big leg. Craft German beer bar is still here, Zhongyang street a popping, it’s cold but not bad. LOTS of pictures with people I don’t know… add me to XiaoHongShu? Tomorrow, sno...

“Decades have passed since the last high-ranking Bangladeshi general visited Pakistan, and no Pakistani spymaster had ever met with a president of Tajikistan. Given the depth of their historical disagreements, the visits underscore the magnitude of the changes underway.” -Do you think what you do is important? But it’s important to you right now. https://geopoliticalfutures.com/china-and-strategic...

You know, for a $5000 system, I expected it to get around any AirDrop issues I could have. FKG thing doesn’t pass through some connections. New video up on the language vlog: Testing your Chinese shorthand comprehension. Took all day! Here’s a test: XSWL, nbcs, DDDD. People a moving! One off to Vietnam, another off to Shanghai! Same job though. Thinking, this business idea, what would be my exit s...