Ashton Hall reveals how waking up at 3:50 AM completely changed his business
"I realized I was spending countless hours at night just scrolling. Anything between 9 PM and midnight wasn't productive. So I said I'm going to cut these hours out and wake up early. I started at 5, then 4, then I went to 3:50 because I wanted to feel crazy. When you know you're doing something that the rest of the world isn't, you just have more confidence."
"It completely changed my business. I had 3 or 4 hours to plan my entire day before anyone's calling my phone. All the videos were in sync, all my business decisions were getting better, I had time to read 20 pages without having to answer a text or get back to anyone."
Most businesses don't have a technology problem.
They have a visibility problem.
Double handling.
Missed follow-ups.
Slow reporting.
You can't improve what you can't see.
@NMowbray23 Agreed. Unfortunately a great product marketed poorly will never do as well as an average product marketed well. You’d know that being in your game
Sam Altman said something this week that most AI CEOs would never say publicly.
He called out the other executives in the room.
"I know some AI CEOs are saying things like 50% of the jobs are going to go away. To say nothing of how tone deaf it is for someone to be saying my company is going to eliminate 50% of the jobs AND my company is going to be the most valuable company in human history."
The criticism isn't that job change isn't coming, it is and Altman said that clearly.
His point is that framing mass displacement as an inevitable feature while simultaneously positioning your company as the biggest winner in history is a special kind of detached from reality.
And the data actually backs him up on the nuance here.
In 2024, AI directly created over 119,900 jobs mostly in data centers, infrastructure, and AI development itself.
Jobs lost to AI in the same period roughly 12,700 and that's less than 0.1% of all layoffs that year.
The World Economic Forum projects 92 million roles displaced by 2030, but 170 million new ones created, a net gain of 78 million jobs globally.
History says this pattern holds every time.
When the PC went mainstream, entire categories of jobs vanished, entire industries we now take for granted didn't exist, 60% of U.S. workers today are in occupations that didn't exist in 1940.
What Altman is actually saying is something more sophisticated than don't worry.
He's saying that productivity gains from AI don't reduce work, they raise expectations.
Faster output leads to bigger goals, tighter timelines, and more ambitious projects. The work expands to fill the capacity.
The fear isn't irrational but the framing is just wrong.