AI in Focus with Stephen Robles

In this episode, Ryan Coyne, Chief Experience Officer at Serhant, reveals how his team uses AI personality profiling and agentic workflows to predict hires, simulate the next 36 months of business outcomes, and increase agent commission by 144%. We dig into why 70% of AI workflows fail, where AI breaks down in luxury real estate, the supply chain story nobody's watching, and the careers AI won't replace anytime soon.

In this episode, bestselling author Nir Eyal (Hooked, Indistractable, Beyond Belief) joins Stephen Robles to break down why focus is the most valuable skill of the AI era and exactly how to reclaim it. If you feel hijacked by your phone, drowning in email, or anxious that AI is melting your brain, this episode is the playbook.Nir wrote Indistractable in 2019 before ChatGPT, before TikTok dominance, before Sora (RIP). Six years later, the psychology hasn't changed, but the stakes have. In this conversation, he explains why distraction has plagued humans for 2,500 years (Plato called it akrasia), why blaming Big Tech is a losing strategy, and the 4-step framework that helped over 500,000 readers take back their time.

In this episode, our host Stephen Robles sits down with Hiten Shah to break down how AI is reshaping productivity, focus, and the way we work. From AI burnout and constant context switching to the illusion of efficiency, they explore where these tools are helping and where they’re quietly making things worse.They also get into Hiten’s hands-on approach to building with AI, why most productivity tools create more noise than value, and how founders and operators can create real leverage without losing control of their time, attention, and what actually matters.Connect with Hiten Shah: Website: https://www.hiten.com Newsletter: https://www.producthabits.comThis episode is brought to you by SaneBox: the AI-powered email tool that has been ending inbox overload since 2010. Works with Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and more. Save 3–4 hours a week and get a $25 credit with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required: https://www.sanebox.com/focusSubscribe to AI in Focus for weekly conversations with the thinkers, founders, and authors shaping how we live and work with AI. New episodes every week.If this episode helped you, hit Like, Subscribe, and drop a comment with the ONE AI tool you're going to try this week.