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Transcript: ‘How to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine’

Transcript: ‘How to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine’

‘AI & I' with Shopify’s former director of production engineering Simon Eskildsen

Sep 11, 2024 · 57 min readUpdated Aug 1, 2026

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The transcript of AI & I with Simon Eskildsen is below.

Timestamps

  1. Introduction: 00:01:06
  2. How entrepreneurship and parenthood changed Simon’s learning rituals: 00:02:51
  3. How Simon accelerates his learning by using LLMs to find associations: 00:12:59
  4. Simon’s Anki setup and the flashcard template he swears by: 00:18:24
  5. The custom AI commands that Simon uses most often: 00:26:02
  6. How Simon uses LLMs for DIY home projects: 00:37:45
  7. Leveraging LLMs as intuitive translators: 00:40:48
  8. Simon’s take on how AI is reshaping the future of learning: 00:51:38
  9. How to use Notion AI to write: 00:59:10
  10. The AI tools that Simon uses to write, read, and code: 01:08:53

Transcript

Dan Shipper (00:01:07)

Simon, welcome to the show.

Simon Eskildsen (00:01:08)

Thank you so much, Dan. It's good to be here.

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