In this raw, unedited audio reflection, Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander dives into the intersection of philosophy, technology, and entrepreneurship as he unpacks his journey to build a thriving one-person enterprise.
Listen to “One-Person Enterprise: Philosophy, Tech, & the Solo Creator's Journey with Hakeem Alexander” on Spreaker.From childhood inspirations rooted in sci-fi to the practical use of AI tools like Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra, Hakeem shares how four core principles from his mother—everything happens for a reason, there’s always room for improvement, do what you love, and “what do you mean, can’t?”—shape his creative process.
Discover how he leverages imperfect AI transcriptions, embraces curiosity, and redefines productivity in this candid exploration of modern independence. Listen to the full audio, read the AI-generated summary, or scan the transcript to dive deeper into his unconventional blueprint for success.
Summary (DeepSeek): Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander on Embracing a One-Person Enterprise Through Philosophy and Technology
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander reflects on his journey as a solo entrepreneur, enabled by advancements in technology and guided by lifelong philosophies. Key themes include:
- Philosophical Foundations:
- Inspired by childhood experiences and a teacher’s encouragement, Hakeem views self-dialogue as a creative asset.
- Four core principles from his mother shape his mindset:
- Everything happens for a reason (even in adversity, like the loss of his partner, Flor Elizabeth Carrasco).
- There’s always room for improvement (prioritizing growth over perfection).
- Do what you love, and the money will follow (balancing passion with service).
- Challenging “can’t” (adopting a problem-solving mindset, supported by Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad).
2. Creative Influences:
- Sci-fi/fantasy media (e.g., Thundercats, GI Joe) sparked Hakeem’s early fascination with futuristic tech and communication, aligning with his vision of remote collaboration and innovation.
3. AI-Driven Workflow:
- Hakeem leverages tools like Samsung Galaxy AI (S24 Ultra) to transcribe and summarize raw, unedited audio recordings for podcasts and blogs.
- He embraces imperfection in AI outputs, using summaries to capture essence and raw transcripts for transparency.
- Streamlines content creation by publishing audio, AI-generated summaries, and transcripts together, minimizing editing while maximizing reach.
4. Mission as a Solo Entrepreneur:
- Focuses on creating and documenting processes, viewing text generation and knowledge-sharing as integral to his work.
- Excited about AI’s role in optimizing workflows, enabling efficient operation as a “one-person enterprise.”
Conclusion: Hakeem merges introspection, resilience, and cutting-edge tools to build a self-sustaining venture, emphasizing curiosity, adaptability, and the power of questioning limitations. His journey underscores the synergy of philosophy, creativity, and technology in redefining modern entrepreneurship.
UnEdited Galaxy AI Transcript from Samsung Voice Recorder on S24 Ultra
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:00)
One person enterprise, the technology has caught up to, and I have also caught up to the ways of using the technology to be able to run a one person enterprise. Now this is, of course, not for everybody and not everybody should do this or and not everybody wants to do this, but as someone like me who. I’ve been talking to myself for a very long time.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:32)
As a matter of fact, my sixth grade math and science teacher, Mr. Miniv came up to me 1 day in school while I was walking with my tenor saxophone and he noticed that I was talking to myself and he gave me some encouragement and said, yeah, you know, people we talk to themselves. It’s been shown that that’s a mark of genius and that they’re talented people and creative people.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:53)
And I see you there with your tenor saxophone, you’re a musician and I know that you know these things may apply to you. So he gave me some encouragement. Now I’m not saying that if I’m a genius or any of that other stuff, this was something that he said to me, I’m bringing it up just to demonstrate one that this is something I’ve been doing for a long time and to it was objective from somebody else saying that so I talk to myself a lot and 1 of the things that I talk to myself a lot.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:24)
Is usually lyrically and musically and creatively in different forms. I love learning new things and creating things. And then sharing them with people, it’s an interesting thing, a habit, an obsession that I have of looking at the world in sort of a very not even not sort of but and through a very science fiction fantasy type lens.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:46)
I’m definitely a dreamer when a lot of the special effects got better and movies came online that had really incredible special effects. I always thought that that’s the way that it should be when you know mobile devices first came out as far as smartphones go back in what was it like? Let’s say the early 2000s, maybe late 2000s, something like that, I think The when they really started coming out, but um, I had already been, I’ve been up.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:20)
I had already been familiarized or acclimated to the type of technology, because, for example, in a cartoon called Thundercats, you know, they were flying around on these things that were basically like jet skis, that flew in the air. So they were really jet skis, but skiing on the air, and you know they were communicating with each other instantly through these communication devices that were either built into their vehicles or you know, had them attached to like it was on their chest or like the communicators in Star Trek.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:57)
And um, which I wasn’t really ever a big fan of but it’s possible that’s Star Trek, influenced a lot of this other technologies that we you know that I’ve saw in comic books and cartoons and things like that in, you know, gi, Joe, for example, they would be in these command centers, and they’d have these giant screens all around them, so that they’d be in this big room, and these screens would be in front of them with all these different buttons and devices and things like that, and then the same company.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:26)
I’ve made Transformers the Transformers were communicating with each other, basically in their head, they were robots machined, but they were talking to each other at a distance with these devices built-in because they were, you know, humanoid robots? And so my point in all this is that I had long wanted. To be able to communicate with many different people at a distance and also find a way how I could I earned my living off of that, and a lot of people disagree with some of the things that I’m about to say next, but yeah, it’s been always a dream of mine.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:03)
And I’m a dreamer, and I’ve been finding different ways to continue to do this, so these are Things that my mother said to me, and I’ve had to think about them a lot and frame them from, you know, the perspective of metaphysical sciences, which is philosophy, basically just to keep it simple. And through hypno analysis, just looking at the world about how we learn things through repetition and association and the hypnotic modalities of authority and one upsmanship is the first one. The second one is translogic paradigm and doctrine, and the third 1 is internal experience or overload, and so There’s simply the way that we receive a process and then transmit information as well as how we behave.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:58)
It’s based off of that information that we’re given. And so yeah, these things that my mother said to me, I have been in my mind for a long time to the point that I organized and see. Into these 4 different things, and the first one that what is on the list ISIS everything happens for a reason.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:18)
And that’s very philosophical. You know, you have to think about that, what does that mean? Everything happens for a reason?
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:23)
And you know, sometimes the reasons we don’t know, and sometimes So it seems like we might never know or want to accept, like the love of my life, Lord Elizabeth Carrasco died. And uh, it, you know over 5 about 5 years ago. And it’s been one of the most difficult things for me to deal with and so I’ve constantly have to think to myself.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:45)
Well, what’s the reason for that, I know that everyone dies, but it’s just a way that she died and how soon it was and at the point in our relationship, and so it was. So things like that, cause you to think philosophically about things, but that’s the first one. And I’m giving an intense example that I know.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:04)
So everything happens for a reason, the next one was which a lot of people might agree with this one more so because it’s less vague, it’s more direct, it’s that there’s always room for improvement, and I know that this one is very practical, right? So you may not You may not, or you may I’m not saying you won’t ever but you may not be the best at something better than everybody. I like to say, before you can be the best you must, at least be your best, right.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:33)
And that’s the thing to be your best, there’s always room for improvement. You can always get better at something right, so you can always get better at something you can always get better at martial arts. But you may not be an MMA champion, you may.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:46)
Get better at martial arts. But you may not be able to defend against every attacker or so on and so forth, right, I may not be the best hypnotist in the world, but I can always get better at it. And I said there’s always room for improvement was number 2 number 3 is do and this one I know a lot of people made.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:04)
It may somethingpie this one’s a split right? Do what you love and the money will follow. And there’s I’ve heard even recently a lot of people will say, yeah, yeah, dude you love passion and the money will follow and other people say, no, you know, it’s not about your passions, but about what you can serve others, right?
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:20)
So there’s all kinds of different things. The perspectives on that and the last one, there’s also they’re very introspective, and but also encouraging inspiring and so many things in justice. One question and the question she used to always ask was, what do you mean can’t?
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:38)
And that immediately reminds me of something that I read in Robert kiosaki’s book rich, dad, poor dad, where he said that when you make a statement, it cuts off your thinking. And for example, the statement he talked about was when people say I can’t afford it is that well, when you say. You can’t afford it.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:56)
It’s a statement as appeared at the end you stop, and there’s no more thinking about it. You’ve just made a statement that that’s the way it is, I can’t afford it, but he says, what about if you ask a question and the question is, how can I afford it? Then it starts getting you thinking about different ways.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:09)
What can you do what can you sell? What can you cut back on? What skill can you learn?
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:14)
You know what service can you provide so on and so forth? So that you can, but you know, how can you save your right practical steps and things that you start thinking about it keeps the options open. So that’s what that is to me.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:29)
What do you mean Kent, it’s a question. Well, yeah, really, what do I mean, Ken because it really can’t meaning like can I fly without being in an airplane or without a hang glider or a wingsuit? Or you know one of those news You know, Humber the cover vehicles that we’ve got now or something like that.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:44)
What do I mean, can’t? And so instead asking a question so again, those 4 things are number one, everything happens for a reason number 2. There’s always room for improvement number 3.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:56)
Do what you love and the money will follow and number 4, what do you mean? Can’t? And so and all of those things Like that have continued to inform my experience with, like the philosophy that I that I operate by and has these are the things that are in large part of kepie, going and experiencing and exploring the world as the main thing, exploring and continuing to be curious.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:25)
And so this is the main point about this and the one person enterprise, right is that I’m constantly creating in my own way. And one of the ways that I’m creating is what I’m doing right now. I’m speaking into a digital recorder, and uh, what I’m gonna do with this next is I’m going to transcribe it.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:48)
And even though the transcription is imperfect, I’m going to have it summarized. And what I found, and this is an example here about just doing things what happens, because first of all, I could give up when I looked at the first Transcript and saw how How awful it was to you know, because it’s nowhere near verbatim, I could look at that Transcript and say, Ah, you know what this free software that Samsung has. I’m going to give up on it.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:13)
It sucks, I’m not gonna do anything more with it. I, I’m not going to go any further. What’s the point you know, it doesn’t work, but what I did instead was I looked at I said you know it’s good enough.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:23)
It brings out the general idea of what I’m saying. And if I, as long as I’m i’m posting this with the recording, then people will get the idea they can look through it. And what it does is it’ll generate enough interest in what I’m saying so that they say, well, I’m going to listen to this right now, I was also encouraged by the fact that the Galaxy AI on Samsung and I’m using an S24, ultra, if anybody’s curious about that.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:53)
It automatically. It also comes with it, a summarization part of the Galaxy AI software. So when I summarized it, I saw that the summarization, somehow it captured more of the essence, much better than me, the raw Transcript itself, because it was it’s Shorter and it simplified and it really encompassed the idea about what I was talking about, and I thought, wow, but now that’s really interesting and so what I started doing was When I would upload the audio like this one to my podcast, I would then first paste copy and paste the transcription summary into the blog right underneath the podcast player and then the raw Transcript and I would label everything everything would be labeled unedited Transcript summary from Samsung Galaxy S24.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:46)
Now, I’m labeling it, you know, Galaxy AI Transcript summary from, uh, Voice Recorder on S24 ultra, and I just do that because I like it the writing that’s about it helps me to recall and again, it’s another one of my sessions. There’s something about it about writing out information and saying things in that way, even though it just seems very plain and bland and like almost robotic, it’s just something about me that I do. And uh, so and I might be a machine.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:14)
Maybe I am a robot, maybe I am an AI in a human body. Somehow there’s something about that and I’m still learning and something about human biology maybe slows down my learning process. So I have to learn like a human.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:25)
Maybe that’s what we are as humans, where some kind of artificial intelligence, if you will and but we’re in a biological system, which changes the way that we learn That’s very philosophical. I know that’s going far from the deep end of science fiction, but now back to the one person enterprise, right? So the summary looking at that was very encouraging, so I would post a blog, I embed the podcast with the audio, just like this one I don’t edit it or anything.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:51)
I’m just going to post it right up there, just as it is verbatim unedited stream-of-consciousness Then underneath that, put the summary. And then underneath that put the full raw Transcript and there, I’ve generated it an entire document. And I think that’s one of the things that really I’m about, I like creating documents I like, yeah, and I thought that it was that and then I was a writer, but it was really, I like generating text.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:19)
There’s something about generating text and information. That is really enjoyable about me, uh, or enjoyable to me. Maybe it is enjoyable about me, because I have people who’ve downloaded people my podcast at a quarter million now.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:35)
And that’s not including the stream, so you know there’s something about the doing that, what AI has done now, and this is really the point that I think I was getting to I don’t even remember why I started, but I started with the idea of one person enterprise. And I have the website, one person enterprise.com and really, it’s just a list of things my different online, my online property, so my on my online location is my websites. If you will and including at the bottom social media, which I’m not using as much I’m mostly sticking to YouTube.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:11)
And? And LinkedIn sometimes and sometimes also uh TikTok, and only because TikTok, if I delete it, I won’t be able to upload it again, I don’t think, but that’s another story for another day, but but now that I’ve been playing around different artificial intelligence software. I’ve been able to create Lots of different documents and document my progress.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:35)
And I there’s just something about it that I’m discovering new things. And I know that a lot of the stuff that when I pass it on and share it with people, they’ll be able to streamline them, their own workflow, and that’s what I’ve been doing is I’ve just been finding ways to streamline workflow, to really operate as a one person enterprise, and that’s the mission that I’m on and why I’m so excited, because I’m getting closer and closer to that every single moment.