This episode dives into how social media algorithms, driven by the “interest graph,” influence our content consumption. Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander argues that we can reclaim control by focusing on creating content centered around health, fitness, and longevity. He outlines a practical approach, including a social media detox and leveraging AI tools, to cultivate a personal content universe that reinforces positive habits and prioritizes well-being as the truest form of wealth.

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Summary and Analysis of Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander’s Message by DeepSeek:

1. Interest Graph and Algorithm Influence: Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander discusses the interest graph—algorithms tracking user engagement (time spent, content type) to curate feeds. By intentionally creating and consuming content focused on health, wellness, and longevity, users can “hack” the algorithm to reinforce positive habits. This shifts the feed from distracting or negative content to empowering material aligned with personal goals.

2. Social Media Experiment: – Detox Phase: Delete most social media (except professional platforms like LinkedIn) to eliminate toxic comparisons and distractions.

• Creation Phase: Focus on producing content around health, fitness, and wellness. This could include podcasts, blogs, eBooks, or videos.
• Reintroduction: After a week or more, returning to platforms may reveal feeds dominated by health-centric content, demonstrating algorithmic reprogramming.

3. Building Discipline Through Incremental Change: Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander’s gym analogy emphasizes starting small (e.g., a 1-week detox) and scaling up. This gradual approach builds resilience against social media’s addictive design, fostering long-term habit change.

4. Personal Content Universe: – Self-Made Ecosystem: Create a tailored media environment (e.g., blogs, podcasts, eBooks) using tools like AI transcription (e.g., Galaxy AI, Gemini) to streamline production.

• Ownership and Control: By prioritizing self-generated content, individuals avoid external negativity and cultivate a mindset aligned with their values (e.g., “great health is the truest wealth”).

5. Critique of Social Media: Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander critiques platforms as “junk food” designed to exploit insecurities (e.g., comparison, FOMO). By reframing social media as a tool for intentional creation rather than passive consumption, users reclaim agency.

Key Takeaways: – Proactive Algorithm Management: Use creation (not just consumption) to train algorithms in your favor.

• Mindful Digital Environment: Replace external noise with self-generated, goal-oriented content.
• Health as Foundational Wealth: Prioritizing wellness through content creation reinforces physical/mental health as a non-negotiable asset.

Practical Steps:

1. Conduct a social media detox, retaining only essential platforms.

2. Create content (written, audio, video) around personal health/wellness goals.

3. Leverage AI tools to streamline content production and analysis.

4. Gradually reintroduce social media, observing algorithmic shifts toward positive content.

Conclusion: Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander advocates for a paradigm shift: transforming from a passive consumer to an active creator. By leveraging technology and intentionality, individuals can reshape their digital and real-world environments to support holistic well-being.

UnEdited Galaxy AI TranScript Summary From S24 Ultra

Interest Graph and Content Consumption

• Social media algorithms utilize an interest graph to deliver content based on user engagement.
• Tracking metrics include screen time and audio playback duration to gauge interest.
• The system analyzes how long content remains visible on a user’s screen.

Body as a Wealth Indicator

• Optimal health is considered the truest form of wealth.
• Body’s functionality, strength, endurance, sleep quality, movement, and nutrition are key health indicators.
• The interest graph responds to and provides information based on one’s own published content and actions.

Content Creation for Healthy Living

• Online curation of content is possible, but creating original content is more effective.
• Prioritize creating and sharing content focused on healthy aging, fitness, and wellness.
• This approach leverages the abundance of available information to produce focused content.

Wealth Attraction Through Health Focus

• Research on wealth attraction should prioritize health and wellness.
• Consistent creation and sharing of health-related content leads to desired results.
• An experiment is proposed: deleting social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Content Creation Experiment: A Week-Long Digital Detox

• Successful entrepreneurs and executives utilize LinkedIn for networking and finding opportunities.
• A one-week experiment is suggested to minimize distractions from social media.
• The experiment involves creating content focused on healthy aging, fitness, wellness, and longevity.

Cultivating Health: A Gradual Approach

• Researching health and wealth attraction online yields relevant content.
• Building healthy habits is compared to a gradual fitness plan, starting small and increasing intensity over time.
• The process involves extending periods of healthy behavior to make it a routine.

Social Media: Junk Food of the Internet

• Social media platforms are designed to evoke negative emotions like anger and inadequacy.
• This design encourages continuous consumption to alleviate these feelings.
• The platforms are structured to create a sense of lacking, prompting users to constantly seek more.

Social Media’s Comparison Trap

• Social media is compared to junk food due to its largely negative content.
• Much of its content is designed to foster comparison and feelings of inadequacy.
• Inspirational content is often overshadowed by this comparison-driven design.

Creating a Personal Content Universe

• The focus is on empowering content creation, building a personal media universe.
• The example of Oprah Winfrey’s network is used to illustrate creating one’s own content ecosystem.
• The potential of using software to generate supporting eBooks for personal goals is highlighted.

eBook Content Creation and Multi-Platform Publishing

• Creating eBooks as a foundation for personal development and content creation.
• Utilizing existing eBooks to generate content for various platforms.
• Distributing content across multiple platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Tumblr, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and other podcasting platforms.

Prioritizing Health: A Personal Wellness Journey

• Maintaining fitness and mobility through self-programming and consistent self-motivation is emphasized.
• The importance of prioritizing health as a key to athletic longevity is highlighted.
• Creating a personal multimedia universe of wellness resources, including videos, podcasts, and blog posts, is suggested.

One-Person Enterprise Content Creation Workflow

• A simple website showcases various online activities.
• The workflow involves creating content via dictation, transcription using Galaxy AI, and summarization with DeepSeek AI and Google Gemini.
• The resulting summaries, audio podcasts, and videos are published on blogs and YouTube.

UnEdited Galaxy AI TranScript From S24 Ultra

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (00:00)

One of the best things to come from the understanding of the interest graph, which is that, on social media and somewhat in general on various parts of the internet at large, you will be served with content that is based upon what you are most frequently most often and uh, spending the most time on. Either watching and/or listening to a reading. So what are your eyeballs and ears are really, because although some of the software does track what your eyeballs are doing, I’m not sure if it’s tracking the shape of ears.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (00:50)

And you know how it’s pointed towards the speakers or whatnot, but what it’s really tracking. What we can be certain of is how long certain information is on your screen, and while that screams it is visible, meaning the phone is not locked and the screen is not blacked out. So why you’re screaming is displaying information or playing information if it’s audio, how long how much time is being?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (01:22)

Spent on that. And what types it is, you’re going to get fed that information. But another.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (01:30)

And the most important part of the interest graph that we need to be paying attention to and that men, when you want to optimize your health to be as fit and as healthy and well-rounded as you possibly can be I say wealth attraction research You should go into the fact that great health is the truest of all wealth. I know this from being a living example of this, because of how my body is able to function and move my strength, my endurance, how I sleep well, how I move well, how I eat, just my flexibility, my mobility in general, it.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (02:18)

Feels good to be alive in my body. My body does not feel like a prism. My body feels like a celebration Of life, so the other part of the interest graph was really fascinating what we need to take note of is that it also responds and feeds you information that you are posting yourself that you are publishing and that it goes to what I’m doing what I’m creating.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (02:51)

So, yes, you could go online and you could. Curate, a list of different things by making sure that you’re intentional and deliberate about what you’re watching and listening to and reading and all that and then interescraft will feed you all that stuff. However, the cleanest, most pure hack to all of this is to simply eat focus on that, which you need Strive to be do research on those things compile your own content create compose your own content based on those things.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (03:32)

Specifically, as I said, great health, great health is the truest of all wealth and focus on creating and publishing and posting content that supports healthy aging. Healthy living longevity, athletic longevity, fitness wellness. All that stuff that people talk about those catchwords fit over 40 fit over 50 as a person on this Earth right now that is surrounded with all of these different types of information when you make the decision and choose.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (04:25)

To focus on creating the types of information that is, in support of the great health, which is the truest of all wealth and you focus on that, as your wealth attraction research, when you use that as the focal point to exercise your mind when you make that your hypno, Athletics, and you consistently Research compose publish the post share information that it helps you to consistently achieve the results you desire in health, fitness and wellness and that it is what you will get back and so and also of course, what you’ll get back as far as your experience in life.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (05:32)

But let’s just say for part of the experiment, if you will, let’s make this an experiment okay. So let’s go to a second phase. Now if you make this an experiment, whereas let’s say you delete your Facebook, you delete your Instagram if you delete x, whatever other social media platforms are out there?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (05:55)

Maybe you keep one like if you’re, for example. A lot of the entrepreneurs freelancers and executives who are successful, you may stay on LinkedIn, so that you can see find different gigs or hire people and whatnot networking. That way, maybe that’s one you stick with, you know, if you need to, but you minimize you how much of that stuff is influencing.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (06:22)

You? Right? You shut it all out and then you just get to create it.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (06:27)

You go for a certain amount of time, maybe you do a quick experiment and you start with 1 week if you’re just delete everything, don’t you don’t disclose them or promise that you’re not going to do take them all off, you can always sign back in. Go for a week and just go creating the content based on healthy aging, fitness wellness. Longevity, those types of things.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (06:56)

Great health is the truest of our wealth wealth attraction research on those terms and then go back and see what happens Some of the first things that will start to pop-up On your feeds, it will be based on those things you’ve been putting out there. Then you can extend it. It’s like going to the gym, right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (07:14)

You start off. You start small at first, then maybe you go in 2 weeks, and then you double that you go a month without him, and then it can become a challenge where you Continue to see how much more you can you can elongate and eat and stretch out those different stretches of time. How would you go away and just create and what you may find as that becomes you’re normal?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (07:50)

That you no longer have any, it’s desire or any type of habituation or dependence or addiction or anything any indoctrination, you’re no longer programmed, influenced trained conditioned, or hypnotized a lot of the junk that really is on social media, you see the truth about most of what is on social media these days, because it’s it. Built to keep you angry to keep you feeling inadequate to keep you feeling like you need more and the only way that you’ll get it is by sticking glue to there and comparing yourselves to others because it’s constantly set up to make you feel less than so that you’ll constantly be consuming things.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (08:46)

That Supposedly will help you feel better and feed those hungry ghosts within you. That’s the purpose of that, but you can turn this all around and you can become a superhuman in the face of all the c*** that’s out there. You see what I was getting at is that social media now is the junk food of the internet.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (09:17)

Social media is the junk food of the online world. Social media is really a bunch of c***, most of it. Yeah, there are people who make attempts to put out inspiring information and to share things that are going to be uplifting, and you know, there’s Quotes of the Day and You know, fitness motivation and all this, but if you really look at how a lot of it it’s created, it’s actually designed to still keep you in this comparison mode.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (10:02)

Where you’re looking at, they have AA better job than I do they earn more money than I do they have a better. Body than I do they you can go on and on and on even what I’m saying right now. He is making a comparison.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (10:16)

And some people, the people you might be listening to this and thinking, oh man, I’m not good enough, because I consume too much social media, that’s not the point. The point is to empower you to create your own social media, your own universe, which remind me somebody who I’m not even sure if she did this, but it just reminds me of it. And I saw some parodies about it once and I said, yeah, well that you know might as well be own own.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander: Speaker 1 (10:49)

Oprah Winfrey network is like her own universe, right? But why not do that? Why not create your own universe of