For all of my talk about how terrible LLMs (AI, colloquially) usually are, it might seem surprising to you that I shelled out $100 for a month of Claude MAX*, and will likely do it again. But my beef with LLMs isn’t that they…
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AI brain is when you’ve come to rely on AI for even the most basic things — and after a week deep in Claude Max, I felt it creep back in. I’m sharing the three warning signs I’ve identified so you can catch it…
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr talks about how he moves his arms as little as possible when playing the drums. He said, “It’s all in the wrist.” This can seem counter to what many drummers do — which is to gesture with their arms wildly….
Over the last week or so, I’ve introduced several new tools that I’m either trying or evaluating. One is a tool of my own creation, based on my task journaling process, called Daily Three. The second is Claude MAX, to see what the latest…
I understand the temptation of using AI to write your own apps. I’m sick of the endless subscriptions, feature bloat, and raising the subscription price to accommodate the feature bloat. But it may not be all it’s cracked up to be. It can definitely…
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I’m trying a new format this week called the Friday Wrap-up, where I tell you what’s on my mind, and recommend some articles and videos. The hope here is to curate some more timely resources to help you think about your solopreneur systems, and…
I can’t imagine something more overwhelming than sitting down on Monday and having no idea what to work on, despite knowing you have a bunch of work to do. But that’s how many solopreneurs start their week. Even worse, when you don’t know what…
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Most task managers only tell you half the story. They show you what you checked off, but they have no idea that you moved that one task four days in a row, or that you cleared three things on Tuesday because you felt guilty,…
We’re coming out of a long, cold winter, and I’ve gotta say, I’m pretty excited about it. There was one point where we were all just feeling super sluggish — and more than just that kind of “it gets dark at 5pm” sluggish. Like…
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