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The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Steven Sirski

The daily musings of an expat in Beijing.

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SSAB - October 16, 2025

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2025/10/16

Getting cold!Gangster rap or hotel TV music?SLV Episode 60 done and edited, should be up tomorrow. Shot and edited all today. Debatable whether I prefer this method or the multi-day method.Building up landing pages and email campaigns… how will this all work together?Did not stream today, but is content really king? Thinking, is it a good idea to split off the English teaching from the language vlog?Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes

46:33

SSAB - October 15, 2025

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2025/10/15

Wednesday hump day! Only ONE class and a welcome break!How are those supplements doing? So far, so good, no noticeable problems. Investing advice? Guidance? What would you recommend? I don’t give advice except to educate yourself. That being said, educate yourself on the following:-Buy and hold, don’t trade to trade and time the markets-Ignore options until you have the ability to lose that money (ie, buy insurance)-Dividend stocks only (banks, utilities, broad market ETFs, look for something called

47:50

SSAB - October 14, 2025

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2025/10/14

GOLD... to the MOON!AI agent a go go - deploying to the world!Up for breakfast and stayed to eat!Starting Maca, what is it and WTF would I bother? New supplement stack!-Fish oil-Maca-Milk Thistle-Ashwaganda-Bacopa-Vitamin C-Magnesium-(Zinc)-MCT coconutWorkout in! But didn’t get editing done, nor a new podcast. Hey, it was Thanksgiving Day in Canada!Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd on Notion:

35:39

SSAB - October 13, 2025

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2025/10/13

Forgot my cell phone cable! If only I had the USB-C version!I’m the only teacher that walks around! All the others just stand at the front and talk.I’ve been told: sit and eat at breakfast! Maybe time to change my schedule?AI agent due today, gotta get it in!Workouts in! 3.53km in 22.36, an hour in the weight room (legs, shoulders, arms), then another 4.63km in 28.53. I’m a bit stiff right now.And my Chinese class extended once more… for three months. Get it done!Donate to the show! PayPal link

38:29

SSAB - October 9, 2025

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2025/10/09

Rain rain rain all day, should’ve brought extra socks with me!Cotti Coffee Drops their prices even more!Wondering… how often do they replace the tiles in Tiananmen? And what if a foreign dignitary wants to walk around the square? Can they?What’s up for the next AI agent? Steven, if you’re just doing your job to be “in compliance”, does that mean you’re just dialling it in as a teacher? Good question. Makes me consider all of the outreach that I’m doing.Donate to the show! PayPal link

34:58

SSAB - October 8, 2025

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2025/10/08

Back to Changping for a couple of days, rainy all the way.Workouts in! Didn’t go outside until I took out the garbage so worked out at home, including using the treadmill for the first time in a long time! Almost 4.91 km done in about 45 minutes.GOLD a moving! Over $4000 USD an ounce now!Starbucks closing stores! Including Seattle Sodo roastery! … They just unionized last year! Time to short? Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n

32:37

SSAB - October 7, 2025

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2025/10/07

It might not be the neighbour! It might be the OTHER neighbour! The stock market lady’s father!New vlog edited and posted, all about a bus ride back to Shuangjing. Simple, yet informative.Off to Tiananmen, how was it? Took longer than we planned, which is something we should have planned for. Accidentally went into the area towards Forbidden City so that extended our visit by a couple hours. Lots of people, lots of security. Security girls were impressed by the beard, gf still isn’t.And a new AI

34:45

SSAB - October 6, 2025

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2025/10/06

It got cold.Happy Mooncake Festival 中秋节快乐！The neighbour is smoking more.Workouts in! 7.02km in 53.09. Afternoon light weights. Also hit the gym yesterday morning for a glute workout cause I find it hard to strengthen them any other way.SLV 59 is out! I’m scaling back.Off to the circus… play circus that is.And off to Tiananmen tomorrow, what will we see and how will we get there?Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on

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SSAB - October 2, 2025

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2025/10/02

Wow is it quiet around here. Some fireworks yesterday at 8 am, but not much… not that I’m looking.Is that AI agent course worth it? Another WSJ article says… it’s just another course capitalizing on the trend. (But finished my latest homework assignment already.)1. “Maybe you’re learning how to work more efficiently with the aid of ChatGPT and its robotic brethren. Perhaps you’re taking one of those innumerable AI certificate courses.” 2. “I always thought my years of experience at a high-profile

36:27

SSAB - October 1, 2025

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2025/10/01

New month! Happy China Day!? 5,000 years of history but today is China Day.Liked today’s hotel breakfast! Will it last? They had ham at breakfast this morning, and goodie bags for kids! (They gave me one). Gotta be careful how much I eat because then I’m just lethargic after!Workouts in! First kilometer was in 8.39, restarted the watch ,next 6.15km was in 33.34. Kilometer 5 was run in 5 minutes, so had a good pace going. Afternoon was into the weight room for legs, chest, and some

35:16

SSAB - September 30, 2025

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2025/09/30

End of the month! My how time flies!Work done for the next eight days! Lots to get done.New vlog recorded, editing soon! Maybe I should just re-do the other ones?Workout in, a token effort. Accessory work + 4.01 km run in 36.19.ESL podcasts - they’re talking about things that have been done that I’m just discovering! Or have we all known for a while? AI chatbots, teachers and technology, pros and cons, and what’s helpful, what’s harmful.And what’s next for the AI bootcamp? Agents that are more

34:42

SSAB - September 29, 2025

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2025/09/29

A walk around Changping at night, what did I find? Xi’an Small Snacks BiangBiang Mian (𰻞𰻞面)… apparently the character wasn’t able to be printed on screen until 2020.A happy discovery: how to connect my laptop to the school computer AND to my iPad! (Why wasn’t I doing this before?)National Day coming up, when do I leave the breakfasts?GOLD to pull back? Zeal says so.https://zealllc.com/2025/gdxspovb.htmAnd workouts in! 3.52 km in 23.09, then weights for 46.39 (full body), then another 4.5km run in

34:33

SSAB - September 25, 2025

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2025/09/25

Learning all about APIs… remember what I said about Granola being a “wrapper” for ChatGPT? Well, using an API key would be how you would build such a program.LOL, coming across “On this day last year” memes on TikTok! Back when I was posting regularly. (And yes, still doing outreach.)Edited SLV Episode 58. It might be that I just get these podcasts out later cause I’m having trouble finding the time.Meeting tonight, we’ll see if I stay up, but so far I’m learning as people are posting the projects

33:55

SSAB - September 24, 2025

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2025/09/24

Mosquitoes in the room!How did it go with your hotel neighbours the other day? Quite fine. I think they moved apartments. Called the front desk, told them the situation, front desk asked if I wanted to move and I said no cause I’ve been living here. Knocked on the wall (gently, not aggressively). I don’t think they heard me the first time but the second time they did. And then it went quiet and I haven’t heard them since.Found a bike?! Yet to buy.GOLD rocketing! But is this

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SSAB - September 23, 2025

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2025/09/23

New SLV Episode recorded, thinking, should I continue?How is the AI course? Is it really going to change anything? Learning N8n and need to get an OpenAI API key.No workout today, find myself slowing down.Only one week until National Day, anything planned?How was Granola… the APP?Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.comAnd on Notion:

38:06

SSAB - September 22, 2025

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2025/09/22

Yup, don’t like the neighbour! But now I have new neighbours at the hotel!FKD UP the return journey to the hotel! Tried to catch the 45, but it only runs every 30 minutes, so ended up finding a sharebike in the ditch which had puke in its basket.Into the AI bootcamp I go! What do I need to do?-Four agents-Need to complete THREE out of FOUR assignments to get a certificate of completion. (What’s this good for?)-They’re using a lot of different AI tools-N8n, Fathom Video, Read AI-Also trying out

37:20

SSAB - September 17, 2025

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2025/09/17

Hey, Steve! Are you forgetting things?! (yes)What about that gym? (It closed, but it has two other locations, one nearby in Dawanglu.)And your neighbour? (Smoking outside my apartment door on Saturday night, WTF? Is he/she/it trying to get at me? Or did they simply not know? And how to deal with this?)And the podcast?! (Forgot to clean up the storage before recording so it cut out several times.)Workouts in! 7.52km run in 45.57 in the morning, weights in the afternoon (legs and chest focus), then

39:29

SSAB - September 16, 2025

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2025/09/16

SLV podcast recorded! But made some mistakes.Every time I sit down to read Chinese, I fall asleep.Workout in, no run.Waiting for the sign up for this AI course, but… a word of warning if you’re thinking of building your own APP. SaaStr Episode 820 https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-official-saastr-podcast-saas-founders-investors/id1089973241?i=1000726456214The reality of AI-built APPs: they don’t work. Listening to Episode 820 of the Saastr podcast and Jason Lemkin, the guy who runs it, did a

38:48

SSAB - September 15, 2025

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2025/09/15

Enjoy your boredom! It only lasts for so long!Episode Number 1115? I don’t even know.Did I get my charger? Yes. It was in the classroom.How was the bus ride? Not bad… took it both ways! Will make a video about this.Workouts in! From uni to the hotel 3.52km in 20.47, then into the gym for weights, then back out for another 5.00km in 31.55 JUST IN time before it poured.And my gym closed in Shuangjing! Donate to the show! PayPal link below!https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA***Show notes

35:52

SSAB - September 12, 2025

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2025/09/12

Another week done, 13 more to go! But who’s counting?!1501 subscribers on YouTube! Told some students about my channel.Looking into Perplexity, looks like a good AI agent builder. I like the idea of scheduling tasks and doing things automatically… maybe editing articles for clarity?Workouts in! In between classes!-3.51km in 25.49-100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats w 5kg + rows, shoulders, deadlifts-4.69km in 29.30And a Chinese sea vessel sails through Russian waters in the Arctic, implications

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