**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 building

Main 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 million

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