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The research is real. The application is honest. The results are mixed.
Podcast about psychology, behavioral science, emotional intelligence, and ADHD research, applied to the bullshit you encounter daily. By a professional fumbler with a questionable attention span who insists on finding out what the science actually does when you try to use it.
[I Tried] AI safety net for social media exploration
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[00:00:00] If you think you're an idiot, I have two things to say to you. First, I believe you. Why would you lie? Second, welcome to the club. Welcome to Cognidiots, where being a curious idiot is the job's requirement, not an insult. Whether you're starting at zero, negative 10, or positive 10, the only direction that matters is forward.
I am not an expert. This is not Cogni-smarts. I'm a professional fumbler with a questionable attention span and relentless curiosity, and this is Cognidiots.
I could not get my act together this weekend. I had actually put together a decent episode, well-researched, thought about, and I wanted to make a Figured Out episode. But on the last day when I had to put it together, I could not get my head together to actually close the episode that I researched. I was [00:01:00] almost about to give up, almost having another missed week, when I realized this is exactly why I created the Brain Dump category.
And then my next realization was even more important. I never told anyone I created any categories. I just started putting random prefixes on episode without any context and assumed that people would know what I mean. I know fictional listeners are very understanding, but I can't take you for granted just because you are a figment of my imagination.
So here goes my plan. I am currently preparing these podcasts in three categories of episodes. Figured Out, this is where I actually do some research to figure out something that offers me clarity or value. I Tried, this is where I experiment with something, a new tool, a new idea, a new concept, a new routine.
You get the point. I try something and give my [00:02:00] honest feedback. And brain dump, the master of all. The category for which I created all the other categories. This is where I tell you I have not even tried to research for what I am about to talk about. I am just being an idiot. So take it with a pinch of salt.
In fact, now that I think about it, an idiot blabbering without thought does not require a pinch of salt. One researching topics to come to intelligent findings might. So maybe take the Figured Out episode with your salt. Anyhow, now you understand what the categories are. This episode, which I started writing a few minutes before I eventually recorded it, started as a brain dump.
I was just going to ramble about how I spent the entire week trying to explore social media, which is still very unfamiliar territory to me. But in the middle of writing the episode, I realized this is an I [00:03:00] Tried episode, and that, my dear fictional friends, is the beauty of curiosity. That being said, this is still going to be somewhere between Brain Dump and I Tried.
So let's start. Let's set the starting point of my accidental experiment. I have never been active on social media. I intentionally avoided it. I got hooked to YouTube Shorts once, and honestly, that took serious solution to get out of. If you want my solution, I disabled the histories from YouTube, so I cannot be fed the YouTube Shorts.
Just by disabling the history, I was no longer being fed addictive Shorts. So that itself is a simple solution to a simple problem. Anyhow, but now that I'm trying to create this podcast, which I can't get to non-fictional people because of the algorithm, I need to be able to both understand and create [00:04:00] value of the social media.
And spoiler, I absolutely suck at it. To get better, I need to do more of it, and to do more of it, I need to be more active on it. And if anyone has heard my episode on MMORPGs, you know my dopamine can get triggered easily and can get triggered hard. And there was my problem. How do I explore this uncharted territory of social media where, A, I am horrible and absolutely a nincompoop to begin with, and B, in just trying to do more of it, I am extremely likely to get carried away as a content consumer and get sucked into this vortex of disappointment instead of being an intelligent content creator.
And this is where I found myself when I started this new endeavor. [00:05:00] And that's where the experiment starts. I looked to AI for solutions. And what all did I solve? One, I started feeding my podcast scripts to Gemini first, and then later I shifted to Claude. I know what you're thinking. Sure, use AI to make your social media post.
Be like every other John Doe who posts crap from AI in a pile of irrelevant posts. Well, shut up. You're not real. You don't even have any friends. Nobody likes non-existent people, okay? You should be happy I'm even talking to you. Anyway, I asked my AI tools to learn SEO or search engine optimization and help me create posts that may work.
So far on that front, it has not been able to help much, but it does sound smart, and that sounding smart does give me some confidence that maybe it will figure it out. [00:06:00] Currently, I end up writing most of my posts anyways, but I'm still navigating that part. Hopefully, at some point in the future, I will have something useful to talk about there.
But today's "I Tried" experiment is not on that part because I've not reached that point yet. But I did try something else, which, to be honest, has been serving the purpose remarkably. I learned that now there exist tools that connect your social media accounts to your AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
The tool that I use for this purpose is called Windsor AI, which provided all the analytics data to my Claude. I know there are other tools in the market. This is just the one I tried. I also understand what you're thinking, "Ah, this is a covert product placement attempt to present this sponsored content through an episode."[00:07:00]
Again, shut up, dude. Nobody wants to sell stuff to non-existent listeners. Why the hell would I have sponsored content? Anyway, these tools like Windsor are used to get data to AI to grow social media presence, I suppose. I see the potential. I'm still new to these platforms generally, and I'm still trying to navigate the base algorithm, so it's still early for me to speak about how feeding those analytics to your choice of AI platform can be of exceptional use.
But I'm sure at some point I will speak about that. But once again, my problem was slightly deeper-rooted. Right now, I am not even on success. I am just on managing myself and managing my own systems. And once I learned about Windsor and other connectors and connected my social media [00:08:00] to Claude, I came up with an excellent idea, which ultimately is how I might have managed to create something that I might just survive.
Look, platforms like Instagram, X, Threads, they themselves, much like video games, are designed to be incredibly addictive, and if you're not conscious about how you use them, it's too easy to get carried away being the hooked consumer instead of an intelligent creator. How many views I am getting or am I getting any engagement, any traction?
The first day I got on the platform, I was checking apps every 20 minutes to see if I got anything. Did the view count increase from 10 to 15 people? Yeah, that's how low you have to start when you start afresh. Ultimately, within one day, I realized if I am not [00:09:00] able to keep my emotions at bay, I will lose sight of what I came here to do.
I will be just another ideal addicted consumer, which I am very gullible to be in the first place, instead of the content creator who is trying to create content to get reach for the podcast. And that need for creating the reach which is my starting justification, will just become another meaningless excuse to stay on the platforms.
And so I deleted all the platforms from my phone, and to check whether I got any traction or not, I just started using Windsor and Claude, and it worked. By the way, I don't have any traction in case you're curious. But that being said, the disappointment of not getting a grip of the unfamiliar game might still be there, [00:10:00] but I am not in a disappointment vortex.
My stat checking has become somewhat of a data evaluation for the next post or for general strategy or understanding the algorithm of the social media platforms. It's not the ego-attached version of validation anymore. And honestly, if you want to remove your dopamine spikes from anything, make it fucking data and analytics.
I might even be ignoring the traction data when I'm talking to Claude these days. And that itself sounds like a small thing, but trust me, it's not. The key takeaway here is not that I found a tool that is great. The key takeaway here is navigating social media or anything of that sorts, which [00:11:00] has the possibility of triggering your emotions, and you know that, ultimately comes down to how well you are able to manage your emotions.
Now, willpower is one way to manage emotions, and yes, if you have great willpower, sure. But the systems are designed to break it, and to break the system, you need a better system. And that's what I did. By turning the numbers into data instead of validation, I think I might have accidentally created a system that helps me stay stable through navigating something which I'm very gullible to otherwise. And at the very least, it gives me a navigation system in a massive sea I'm trying to explore, which by the way, I'm very behind [00:12:00] on. But then again The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, and the second best time is now.
I leave you with that for your own exploration of infinity.
That is the episode. Thank you so much for your time, and I hope that the discussion was valuable for you. Cognidiots is a community. If you have something you are curious about or something you feel Cognidiots should cover, please send them to community@cognidiots.com. Chances are if you're curious about it, so am I.
Feedback is also welcome. Stay curious. See you soon