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A day in my life | Lex Fridman
- The speaker intends to produce one video daily, with a specific near-term goal of achieving a set of objectives by the end of 2020 contingent on hard work and luck, potentially requiring all-nighters and irregular schedules.
- A daily routine includes four-hour deep work sessions totaling eight hours, focusing on debugging undocumented TensorFlow Lite code on a Samsung Galaxy S20, with interruptions logged in a Google Doc for later.
- Social media engagement is strictly capped at 5 to 10 minutes per session, immediately followed by a daily musical practice session lasting approximately 20 minutes, with no exceptions planned.
- Physical activities involve a 6–7 mile run estimated to take an hour, followed by a 15 to 20-minute "nickel and dime" workout performed in a fasted state, though the speaker anticipates fatigue setting in after 10 to 15 minutes.
- The third deep work session is projected to last four hours and will be more relaxed, allocating one hour to TensorFlow tasks, two hours to podcast editing, and one hour to email, alongside the possibility of watching Netflix, socializing, or consuming alcohol.
- Daily intellectual pursuits include reading at least one academic paper, specifically skimming machine learning neuroscience papers and deeply reviewing the GPT-3 paper, with plans to create GPT-3 video content to verify details.
- The speaker plans to consume only one meal after the second four-hour deep work session while fasting, and anticipates ending the day with literature reading (Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov), a gratitude mantra, and falling asleep while continuing to read.
- Long-term plans include a desire to run an ultra-marathon on a whim, translating books in Paris within a month to a few months, and maintaining podcasting as a side gig while investing time into a "main dream" project.