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**June 2025: The Month I Started Building**Quick Stats 📊⏱️ Total focused work: \~300 hours🗓️ That’s 9 hours and 49 minutes every day (including weekends)💾 Full work log published at [https://github.com/EliasSchlie/Working\_Hours](https://github.com/EliasSchlie/Working_Hours)What I spent my time on ⚡* Finished exams for 9 university courses in Cognitive Science & AI (across three different semesters)* Deep work on AI agents, automation, and building new tools* Built foundational scripts for automating my note-taking (Obsidian) with LLMs and tools* Explored and prototyped AI agents for science (especially agents to automate news & paper summarization)* Researched and learned more about AI agent architectures and how to use tools/APIs for automation* Started serious learning in JavaScript/TypeScript and web development (CS50 Web, JavaScript fundamentals course)* Continued refining systems for both learning and buildingMain Achievements 🏆✅ Completed 9 courses in about a month, with top or near-top grades in multiple cohorts✅ Built the first versions of AI agents to automate my note-taking and science workflows✅ Prototyped a system to automatically create and publish longevity science podcast episodes from new research papers✅ Developed and used structured note-taking, now over 10,000 notes (“second brain”)✅ Shifted from pure learning mode to building mode, exploring new personal systems for productivity✅ Stayed consistent with high work hours, while keeping balance with gym, sauna, and friends✅ Maintained strong intrinsic motivation—doing exactly what I’d do even if given €1 millionYouTube version
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