What separates casual AI users from the top 1%? Drawing on lessons from building a personal agentic AI system over six months and insights from Calvin French-Owen (co-founder of Segment, former OpenAI Codex team), this episode covers ten practical strategies: building persistent memory systems, mastering context management, test-driven AI workflows, moving from chatbots to agents, automating intelligence pipelines, clearing context aggressively, thinking like an engineering manager, keeping your workspace clean, shipping citable artifacts weekly, and building for sovereignty over your own AI.