Michael Jelly On the Meaning of Life and Creating a Data Utopia With Magicflow | #30

What if we created a world where we use our own data to augment our thinking, extend our memory, to automate our chores, and to track and improve important things in our lives?

This is the vision of what a utopian future of responsible data usage looks like from the perspective of Michael Jelly, today’s guest.

This vision is in stark contrast to the way the world works today, where data about us is predominantly used to manipulate our behavior for the benefit of third-parties.

This utopia is the premise on which Michael’s company, Magicflow, is centered on. Magicflow is a productivity tracker that helps you focus, get into deep flow work sessions, and identify the things that are obstructing your flow. Today, Magicflow is a productivity app but Michael has a much broader vision of how data can be used to enable us to live healthier, more productive, and fulfilling lives.

Apart from being a brilliant founder, Michael is an incredibly curious and deep thinker, which is why this conversation naturally ran on to be close to 2 hours long. It’s a big time commitment but once you experience a bit of Michael’s mind, you’ll find yourself hooked in the flow of the conversation.

💬 Discussed in this episode...
0:00 Intro
3:38 Why did you choose the founder path out of all the different paths you could have taken?
6:33 Michael’s thoughts on the meaning of life
10:23 How Michael found what was meaningful for him
16:17 Michael’s vision for a utopia of the world
19:06 What is the meaning of life when we don’t need to work?
26:28 We are the gods of AI
28:10 the impact of Tim Urban’s Wait But Why Blog
29:55 The great filters of human civilization
35:41 Applying the great filters concept to startups
39:28 The Utopia that Magicflow is predicated on
48:21 How Magicflow works
55:10 Improving your productivity
56:19 Magicflow’s current state and top challenges
59:56 Finding a reliable marketing channel for growth
1:05:03 How to decide WHO to build for
1:15:27 How to think about Product-Market Fit
1:19:44 Michael’s biggest productivity hacks
1:26;29 Divergent vs Convergent thinking
1:34:11 The advice Michael would give himself on his first day as a founder
1:46:23 Michael’s vision for who he wants to become and what he wants to achieve, create, and give

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Connect with Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-jelly

📚 People & Resources Mentioned
- Tim Urban’s Blog Post on Superintelligence: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
- Tim Urban’s Blog Post on the Great Filter: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
- The Great Filter of Startups by Liron Shapira: https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/the-great-filter-of-startups-efcef25dc051
- Paul Graham on 18 mistakes that kill startups: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
- Lenny Rachitsky on how many apps got their first 1000 users: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got

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