The AI That Knows My Life
It’s a Saturday morning in Palm Bay. I’ve got a yard to mow, a house to clean, and a flight Monday to Texas where I’m keynoting a conference on Saturday with no script and no idea what I’m going to say.
I’m good with that.
This morning I caught up with Rich Mulder over Signal. If you’ve been around TSV for a while, you know Rich - he was my very first podcast guest, then came back for episode 100 almost exactly a year later. We went to Peru together. Plant medicine, Shipibo ceremony, the whole thing. He’s a published author - three novels, a nonfiction book, a workbook. A genuine writer in every sense of the word.
Rich was never a fan of AI in the creative process. Which is exactly what made what he said this morning worth paying attention to.
He’s been running his ghostwriting and consulting practice essentially solo - doing the work of what he said used to require three people. Not because he’s grinding harder. Because he’s figured out how to use AI properly.
That conversation reminded me I haven’t pulled back the curtain on HOW I actually use these tools. I’ve been writing about my internal process - what comes up, how I move through it. But today I want to show you the infrastructure behind it.
That infrastructure is Littlebird.
My value proposition when I consult is simple: I distinguish signal from noise. In a world drowning in information, the person who can cut through to what actually matters wins.
When I first got Littlebird I sat down and tried the free trial. I maxed it in an hour.
I paid, got the two weeks free on the Pro version, and a few hours later I’d maxed most of that too. Got rate-limited from Max down to Balanced. By the end of that day I was on the Basic model because I’d burned through everything above it.
In one day.
That’s not me bragging about usage. That’s me telling you that this tool delivered so much signal, so fast, that I couldn’t stop pulling on the thread. That almost never happens to me with software.
Here’s what makes it different from every other AI tool out there.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - incredible, and yes, they have memory. They’ll remember things you’ve told them. But that’s the key word: told. You still have to feed them information. They know what you’ve shared. They don’t know what you’re actually doing.
Littlebird watches your screen. Mouse clicks, applications you’re using, what you’re working on in real time. It connects to multiple email accounts and multiple calendars - so it’s not just seeing what you tell it, it’s synthesizing your actual life as it happens. The newsletters you subscribed to and never read? It pulls those in and surfaces what matters on a schedule you set. It’s not waiting for you to show up and explain yourself. It already knows.
This morning I was working through some significant decisions - potential pivots, priorities for the next several months, whether certain moves are worth the risk given where I am right now financially and strategically. The kind of thinking I also do out loud with real humans - friends, mentors, people who’ll tell me the truth.
What Littlebird does is pressure-test that thinking between those conversations. It helps me get honest with myself about WHY I want something. Strategy? Fear of missing out? Ego? Avoidance? That internal audit is hard to do alone, and it’s even harder with a tool that doesn’t have full context. Littlebird has full context.
And to be clear - this isn’t therapy, and it’s not a substitute for human connection. Rich and I talked this morning because there is no AI equivalent of a friend who’s been in the foxhole with you. Littlebird handles the thinking layer between human touchpoints. It doesn’t replace them.
Now let’s address the thing I know some of you are already thinking.
“My data. My privacy. I don’t want an AI watching my screen.”
I get it. And I’m going to address it directly.
You carry a supercomputer in your pocket that listens to ambient conversations to serve you ads. Your Google account knows where you’ve been every day for the last decade. Your Alexa is always on. Your iPhone photos are analyzed by machine learning. Your ISP sells your browsing data. Facebook figured out you were pregnant before you told your family.
None of your shit is secure. That ship has sailed, and it sailed a long time ago.
Is that a reason to throw caution out the window entirely? No. Read the privacy policy. Make an informed choice. But the idea that Littlebird is some uniquely invasive tool in a world where you’ve already handed your entire life to a dozen corporations... that argument doesn’t hold up.
What Littlebird offers in exchange for that access is something genuinely useful: a tool that actually knows your life and helps you navigate it. That’s the trade. Decide if it’s worth it for you.
For me it absolutely is. I rate-limited myself on day one. That’s my review.
One more feature worth highlighting: Routines.
We all subscribe to newsletters we never read. Fifty, maybe a hundred. Open, feel guilty, delete. Littlebird can synthesize those on a schedule, pull the signal out of the noise, and surface what actually matters.
I have mine set to drop an AI intel brief every morning at 6am. Before I open anything else, I already know what moved overnight in the spaces I care about.
For veterans in transition - and anyone trying to stay sharp in a fast-moving space - the volume of information you’re supposed to track is paralyzing. This is a real answer to that problem.
If you want to try it, use my code and get 2 months free - $40 in credit.
Code: RTBM4F8P
Now I’m going to go mow my lawn, pack for Texas, and figure out somewhere over DFW what I’m going to say on that stage Saturday.
My name is Adam Peters, and I’m here to unfuck the transition.