In this blog post, Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence in his one-person multimedia enterprise. From producing podcasts and writing blogs to creating AI-enhanced haiku, Hakeem shares how AI tools like Samsung Galaxy AI’s Voice Recorder streamline his workflow and enhance creativity. Learn how he combines his passion for learning, storytelling, and information marketing to build authority and connect with a dedicated audience. Dive into the full transcript of his podcast episode, along with a detailed summary, and discover how you can leverage AI to elevate your own creative and professional endeavors.
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1. AI-Powered Efficiency in Multimedia Production
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander leverages AI to manage a one-person enterprise focused on multimedia creation, including audio recordings (e.g., podcasts), written content, and AI-generated images. Tools like Samsung Galaxy AI’s Voice Recorder streamline transcription and summarization, enabling efficient publishing across blogs and podcasts. AI-generated visuals (e.g., background images for haiku) avoid copyright issues and reduce reliance on collaborators, enhancing creative independence.
2. Personal Background & Learning Preferences
Hakeem emphasizes a lifelong passion for learning across diverse fields (psychology, neuroscience, cryptography) and genres (scientific documents, science fiction). He notes a preference for auditory learning, as listening often aids comprehension compared to reading—a skill developed through persistent effort. This autodidactic approach aligns with his identity as a polymath, embracing the “jack-of-all-trades” ethos to share interdisciplinary insights.
3. Authenticity and Audience Connection
Content creation prioritizes transparency and authenticity: recordings are unedited, stream-of-consciousness narratives, often made during activities like driving. This approach builds trust with a “minimal viable audience” (25% of listeners, influenced by hypnosis training principles). Hakeem aims to inspire this niche through relatable, expert-driven content, avoiding scripted or overly polished material.
4. Creative Output and Impact
Beyond practical guides (e.g., AI/web development tutorials on hakeym.com), Hakeem produces creative works like haiku and poetry (e.g., Serena Wears Black), shared via LinkedIn and blogs. These works reflect themes of nonconformity and resilience, resonating deeply with followers who cite long-term inspiration from his messages.
5. Mission-Driven Information Marketing
Positioned as an information marketer, Hakeem monetizes authority built through consistent, value-driven content. Drawing inspiration from figures like Dan Kennedy, he views his work as a media/marketing hybrid, blending education, storytelling, and practical advice to empower audiences.
Conclusion
AI enables Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander to operate as a solo entrepreneur, merging technical efficiency with authentic, multidisciplinary expertise. His mission centers on sharing knowledge and creativity to positively impact a dedicated audience, leveraging AI tools to overcome logistical challenges while maintaining personal and professional integrity.
UnEdited Galaxy AI TranScript from Samsung Voice Recorder on S24 Ultra
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:00)
What artificial intelligence has done is enable individuals to operate as if they had a team of associates, employees, or assistance to deal with the everyday tasks and mediocre work that is otherwise very time-consuming.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:31)
So for me, as an example, my one-person enterprise mainly consists of multimedia production and publishing. Even narrower than that is audio and text, which would be the first types of media produced—so written material and audio like spoken word, just as this recording.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:10)
And next coming after that would be still images because still images work for all of those mediums. Even when you had magazines, newspapers, offline stuff, images are very useful. But those three things right there—and sometimes a combination of them—one quick example is that I often create haiku on a tile, like a square.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:36)
And they have some image in the background that doesn’t take away from the haiku itself. And it really isn’t anything in particular. It might just be an image of a field of flowers that I saw, and I wanted to have that image in the background. One of the main reasons why that was done was simply because I didn’t want to have to ask somebody for permission to use their images. And that’s been one of the biggest and most freeing parts of having artificial intelligence agents to handle a lot of things for me. I’m sure you’ve heard people say this jokingly, that getting people to work together is like herding cats.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:28)
And especially when you’re in a different category, like I am, it’s very difficult to get people to work with me because we just have different ideas of what is entertaining and fun. So, for example, for me, studying scientific documents and documentaries, looking at computer science, reading nonfiction, learning about psychology, cryptocurrency, human excellence, and different things like that, and then looking at science fiction and fantasy and the lessons that are in those things that pertain to it.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:11)
And a lot of that came from looking at cartoons like GI Joe, which always had a lesson at the end, or the He-Man cartoons. You know, they would see things, and “knowing is half the battle” at the end of GI Joe, and sometimes He-Man would have a little lesson they were teaching at the end. I’ve always found learning lessons in life and becoming better to be very entertaining and exciting for me.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:39)
And I’ve also found that one of the main ways I have learned is from listening, mostly because I’ve always had a difficult time reading, even though I read a lot. Because I’ve powered my way through it, I basically forced my mental muscles for reading by just doing it all the time. And now I read—there’s no document in English that I don’t understand eventually. Some take longer than others; some I instantly understand exactly what I’m reading. Other times, I have to go back and read it again. And there’s lots of evidence on that from my neuroscience news reading, which most of it is now either on World Reading Club or HAKEYM News on hakeym.com.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:43)
But that’s also one of the things—because reading was such a challenge for me, but I also thought it was interesting that when I would hear the same information spoken to me, I would understand it much more quickly than if I was reading it. And I always thought that was very interesting—why are the same exact words, when I’m listening to them, easier to understand than when I’m reading them? But then I started reading a lot more, and I realized that I understand a lot of what I read. And that started early on, around elementary school. So, I guess I have been a pretty good reader for a long time, but I still read a lot of things that are challenging. And I also welcome the challenge.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:31)
So again, there’s something about getting people to work together—sometimes it’s very difficult. And if you’re putting together a magazine, for example, like let’s just say that’s what I’m doing right now because it’s the closest thing. I do a lot of blogging and websites, but it’s really a lot of compiling information that I find interesting and useful—not only useful to me but useful to other people if they were to actually learn from it.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:53)
You would have to do the writing and the research, then organize it into chapters or sections or modules, gather the images together, and then find out if the images are legal or allowed to use without somebody claiming copyright. And all this other stuff like that. So, for what I’m doing right now, I’m recording my voice, and then I’ll have it transcribed.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:21)
And then the transcription will be made into a summary, and the audio will be added to a podcast, which will then be plugged into a blog. The podcast will be embedded into a blog, and underneath that will be the summary so people can see what they’re in for—if they want to listen to the rest of it or not, if they just get the idea from looking at the summary. And then, for transparency, so people can see exactly what tools I’m using, they can look at the whole thing that goes along with the recording that is not edited as well. It’s all stream-of-consciousness—no editing, just straight out. They can see the full transcript, and even though the transcripts are not perfect from the AI that I’m using, which are free right now.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:06)
I’m recording on a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, and it’s the Galaxy AI and the Voice Recorder—the Samsung Voice Recorder that’s free on this device. It’s not perfect, but it’s usable. It’s serviceable. And because the transcripts are also much clearer as to what’s being spoken about, thankfully, it generates both the full transcript as well as a detailed summary, which captures the essence of everything that I speak about. And that is what is really amazing.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:43)
That is what the one-person enterprise is all about—that artificial intelligence allows for this to happen, especially for someone like me, who is basically in the book publishing business, right? But I’m in the publishing information business. And really, actually, when I first started thinking about this, I was thinking about Dan Kennedy and information marketing. It could be said that I’m really an information marketer. So, I’m running a media and marketing business that monetizes not only from the media and the publications but also possibly from some different services and products.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:29)
Like right now, I have a website, blogdealer.com, that teaches about AI, web development, internet marketing, and so on. But it’s really a media company—a media and marketing company. Information marketing monetizes in various different ways.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:52)
And one of those ways is by building authority. Because one thing that happens is that speaking stream-of-consciousness, it’s very transparent. People can hear, like right now, I’m driving, and I don’t know how much that comes out in the recording. But right now, I’m driving, and obviously, while you’re driving, you can’t be reading something and looking at your notes without compromising safety. And I’m not willing to compromise my safety. So, in one way, that shows that this person is saying what they mean because my name is Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander—spelled H-A-K-E-E-M as my first name, middle name is Ali-Bocas, spelled A-L-I B-O-C-A-S, and my last name is Alexander, spelled A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:43)
And so, I’m saying that partially to do an experiment for the benefit of the artificial intelligence of Galaxy AI that’s reporting this to see what happens with that. But I’m a publisher and an information marketer. I publish information; I share information.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:06)
And one of the things that I was thinking about originally is about, like I said, Dan Kennedy as an information marketer. He’s been one of the people that I followed for a long time. But one of the things about recording my voice, especially while driving—and like I said, I don’t know if you can hear it—is that it shows that this is transparent. The person who’s speaking to you, me, Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander, at least what I’m saying, whether you think I’m stupid or a genius, or if you think I’m a terrible speaker or a great speaker, at least you know that it’s me doing it. I’m not reading from a script, and I’m not being prompted by something else. I’m driving while I’m doing this. It’s a stream-of-consciousness, and it’s authentically who I am.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:15)
And when I say authentically, I mean authentically in the way that Golden talks about, where I’m consistently showing up as a professional and mostly as an expert, sharing what I know in my fields of study, which are various. You know, there’s a saying that says, “Jack of all trades, master of none,” but people forget that the rest of that saying, which goes, “But oftentimes better than a master of one.” Right? Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. And that’s how I operate as a polymath and as my one-person enterprise, which is a one-person publishing enterprise.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:37)
And one of the main motivations for that is because I’ve always liked to share my experiences with other people. Simply from one of the things I learned going to school at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute as a clinical hypnotherapist is that at least 25% of the people you encounter and communicate with will automatically be suggestible to you, which could be another way of saying that they automatically are part of your tribe without you having to do anything else. Just who you are—25% of the people you encounter and communicate with, without even trying, they’re going to like you, and they’re going to absorb your messages, and they’re going to be suggestible. So, that’s my drive. That goes with the people that’s my MVA—another thing I borrow from Seth Godin—that’s my Minimum Viable Audience, right? And those are the people I’m speaking to.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:38)
And I’ve always just wanted to share my experiences. A lot of things I find exciting—again, like I said, a lot of people may not share with me what’s fun and exciting because a lot of people want to go out to a bar, they want to go out to a sports bar and watch a game, they like drinking, they like being in loud places with lots of music where you can’t hear each other.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:52)
You know, those kinds of things. Whereas I like playing capoeira and playing a game with other people with my body—like being physical, doing cartwheels, kicks, spins, or hitting a heavy bag, or gathering with other musicians and playing music and performing for each other or playing together as a band, or sharing haiku poetry, which is something I’ve been doing for a long time.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:15)
My first haiku poetry book, which I published back in 2005, was called Serena Wears Black, and the second one was called Hypnotic Wax, which was a memorial to Florence Elizabeth Carsgow. And I still publish haiku right now to this very day. Mostly, I’ve been doing them on LinkedIn as little business jabs to people about nonconformity and my thoughts on crypto and things I like to share. And I realize that a lot of it, a lot of people have picked up on. A lot of people have told me how my perspective has changed the way they think, has helped them get things done more efficiently and more quickly, has stuck with them for a long time, and has inspired them for years.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:58)
You know, when I was living in China, for example, I put out a call to people on social media to say, “Hey, I’m going to republish my book Serena Wears Black, but I don’t have copies of it. Can anybody send me one? Does anybody have it?” And people sent me back messages saying, “Yeah, it’s on my coffee table. It’s one of my most prized possessions.” And three different people sent me really neatly photographed copies of the book that they meticulously took apart and sent me images of it.
Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:36)
But I really do know that a lot of the things I share are going to have a positive influence on at least 25% of the people that I reach. And those are the people that I’m talking to. And that’s what this one-person enterprise is all about—for me to share who I am authentically, expertly, professionally, all the things that I know in my experiences because I know that they have a beneficial effect on the world around me.