睡眠与长寿：摆脱闹钟、周末补觉与固定作息的实操建议

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7 anti-slop skills

21 Grok Bot hacks

Sleep and longevity

An AI project directory

Finding life-changing wisdom in books

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Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members

Grok Bot Hacks shared by Elia Zane

Practical Grok Bot patterns for handling real-world tasks

7 Anti-Slop Skills shared by Gabriel

A list of skills for producing cleaner code

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A directory of AI projects

TRENDS PRO MEMBER WINS

Dru Riley published The Math of Inevitable Success, on why a 5% hit rate is enough

Elie Steinbock launched hi.new

Alper Tunga launched Creagency V2

Yuyu launched AgentLookup.sg

PREDICTION OF THE WEEK

AI sales vendors will stop selling headcount replacement.

Early startups pitched autonomous sales bots as full replacements for junior sales reps, but the promise is failing in practice.

Fewer than 4 in 10 sales leaders see any real revenue lift from automated reps. As companies cancel expensive digital-worker contracts, software vendors will stop pitching AI employees and reprice around focused tasks like cleaning contact lists and verifying email addresses.

From Trends PRO #0178, AI Sales Agents. See what teams pay for sales automation.

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How Can a Billionaire’s Regret Change Your Next Move?

Your biggest life pivots might come from one buried book sentence:

• Read to the end of every book, hunting for one sentence that might change your path.
• Follow obscure workbook details when they solve a real bottleneck. A NACA guide turned $100 gigs into 300 college shows.
• Stop at cautionary tales that match your crossroads. Regret about chasing past $30M can change what you do next.

TOOLS OF THE WEEK

Multi — Grow on YouTube on autopilot

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StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast

OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK

Sell real estate firms a video for every listing, built from the data they already file.

A real estate listing arrives as structured data: address, price, rooms, photos, updated on a schedule. Describe the video once, then apply that description to every listing. Software returns a finished file for each one.

Rendering one listing into a video fell to cents each, against the thousands of dollars a video production crew bills for one. A video team on staff ships 300 videos a year at best, far short of a brokerage with hundreds of listings.

Charge each brokerage office a flat monthly fee rather than a fee per listing, so a slow month never triggers a cancellation. Reach agents through the newsletters their state realtor association already sends.

From Trends PRO #0179, Programmatic Video. See the opportunities in turning a data feed into video.

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Why Is Sleeping Less Than 7 Hours a 12% Mortality Risk?

If you need an alarm to wake up, you’re already in sleep debt. The stakes get measured in years.

• Ditch the alarm as your wake strategy. Needing one means you’re not sleeping enough.
• Repay sleep debt in full on weekends. Lose an hour each weekday and you owe five back.
• Lock your sleep-wake timing before chasing more hours. Irregular cycles raised mortality up to 40% in one study.

REPORT FLASHBACK

Digital nomads, called when the visas were still a novelty.

In May 2023 we said countries would compete for remote workers using nomad visas and tax breaks. Spain’s new visa and its reduced rate were our example.

The competition arrived. More than 50 countries now run a digital nomad visa, with New Zealand, Malta and Malaysia near the top of the Passportivity nomad-visa index.

The tax half aged worse. Portugal killed its Non-Habitual Resident regime in the 2024 budget and replaced it in March 2025 with a far narrower scheme.

Countries did compete. They competed on entry and then took the tax break back.

That was Report #0110, from May 2023. See which visas existed in 2023.

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