LX and Havok welcome back repeat guest Russell Van Brocklen the dyslexia professor chilling in Albany, NY (definitely not the crazy downstate chaos).

It kicks off with epic hotel horror stories: $113 steal one year, $429 nightmare the next, plus a Times Square shoebox room where the bed touches the wardrobe doors. Then Russell drops his no BS playbook for turning AI into a tireless teammate using ChatGPT 5.4 extended thinking + Claude Opus Coworker. Learn the exact 10 moves the top 1% use to double or triple their output while still swimming at the YMCA and living life.

Meet 10-year-old Grayson (99th percentile math/science) who’s already gunning for a NASA Mars-terraforming PhD, plus why Russell won’t let kids touch AI until 9th/10th grade (hello, Craft of Research). He breaks down custom memory workflows, reusable prompts, beating hallucinations, and why humans still own empathy, creativity, and final calls.

We also geek out on the wild future of jobs, robotics, and why the right AI skills could mean three offers for every qualified human. Russell shouts out his life changing professor and teases his upcoming book If You Can Write, You Can Read.

Funny, practical, and zero robot apocalypse doom just real talk on using AI to work smarter, not harder.

If you’re into productivity, dyslexia wins, or just love watching smart people geek out, smash that like button, subscribe for more Space Tomatoes chaos, and drop a comment: What’s the wildest AI win (or epic fail) you’ve had?

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Chapters:

0:43 - Welcoming repeat guest Russell Van Brocklen

2:15 - Albany lake life vs. NYC stimulus overload

4:30 - Wild NYC hotel stories ($113 steal → $429 nightmare + shoebox rooms)

7:00 - Meet 10yo Grayson: future NASA Mars terraformer

11:20 - Russell’s AI evolution (ChatGPT Pro → Claude Opus Coworker)

16:00 - Top 10 AI practices of the 1% (treat it like a team member!)

28:00 - Building custom memory, reusable prompts & workflows

37:15 - Handling hallucinations, human review & shipping 85-90% perfect

44:30 - Why kids shouldn’t touch AI yet — enter the Craft of Research

52:00 - Jobs, robots, autonomous cars & the AI future (optimistic edition)

1:02:00 - Life-changing professor shoutout & Russell’s story

1:06:30 - New book “If You Can Write, You Can Read” + dyslexiaclasses.com

1:10:00 - Outro, thanks & where to find us