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Your expertise isn't the moat
The Bitter Lesson says know-how loses to compute. What's left to own is the results.
Read essay →Don't Build It Yourself. Especially Now.
Read essay →The Classifieds Problem
Two agency owners say AI hasn't hurt them. Newspapers felt fine for a while too.
Read essay →If AI Makes Your Work Cheaper, What Will You Sell More Of?
Saving hours isn't the real metric
Read essay →Why Wait for Private Equity to Fix Your Business?
Build the company a buyer would want, while you still own the upside.
Read essay →Build a Business That Doesn’t Depend on You
An AI-guided exercise to find owner dependence, strengthen your team and choose your next 90 days of work.
Read essay →Why I’m Building Rex Again
An experiment in AI that already knows what it’s supposed to help you do.
Read essay →My AI Built a Plan. I Hated It.
Read essay →AI Will Take Longer Than I Thought
That's the opportunity
Read essay →I built a project manager nobody has to update
The status was never missing. It was scattered across meetings, Slack, calendar, and email.
Read essay →Am I Working for My AI Agents?
The five jobs you do for your agent without noticing — and the first system to build before you stop watching
Read essay →Building Your AI Chief of Staff
Start simple
Read essay →How to Start Building Your AI Workforce
Why you need to start with an AI Chief of Staff
Read essay →10% of SMBs Take 2/3rds of all the Profits
My AI Manifesto
Read essay →From $2M to $10M
The Power of Killing Your Industry’s Bottleneck
Read essay →Your Company Has Brain
This is the key to AI compounding
Read essay →OpenAI and Anthropic have the enterprise wrong
And that's why AI adoption is lagging
Read essay →Noble Physicists Shouldn't Work on TikTok Videos
The moat is adoption velocity
Read essay →I thought I was building a CRM
I was actually building a proprietary data machine for a niche market
Read essay →Your Company's New Operating System
What I'm seeing across the cutting edge AI builders
Read essay →The YC kids are coming for SMB services
Garry Tan is launching a jihad against B2B Services Companies
Read essay →Your next hire may be half person, half AI
The job description is becoming an AI operating plan
Read essay →There's No One to Call
So I'm building an army
Read essay →The Harness Wars Have Begun
OpenAI is back in the game
Read essay →75% of your work can probably be done by an agent
That's good news
Read essay →Your next software vendor needs to answer one question
Dude, where's my MCP connector?
Read essay →Last email. Here's what 6 weeks actually does.
One participant explains what changed.
Read essay →Only 3 days to build your own AI system
Deadline: Monday at noon. Here's everything.
Read essay →AI Can Diagnose but It Can't Testify
AI has no scars but humans do
Read essay →The cohort is filling up. Price changes at 11 AM ET
17 People Enrolled. Price Goes Up Today at 11 AM
Read essay →The $11,000-Per-Employee Opportunity Your Competitors Don't See Yet
Eat or be eaten
Read essay →101 people signed up. Here's why.
We go live today at noon ET.
Read essay →AI isn't a helper; It's a worker
The quiet shift from tracking work to doing work
Read essay →The webinar your marketing agency doesn't want you to attend
12 minutes to a lead magnet. 30 minutes to a full pipeline.
Read essay →Once AI Clicks Teams Get Excited
Lessons from our first embed projects
Read essay →I built a lead generation system in 30 minutes. You're going to watch me do it again
No code. No developer. No agency. Just 30 minutes.
Read essay →I Showed My COO Friend One Thing That Will Transform His Business...
He Hasn't Stopped Thinking About It
Read essay →Software Development Deflation Is Real
It's showing us how AI will change most knowledge work
Read essay →I Spite-Coded My Own Scheduling Assistant
SaaS pricing tactics are going to have to change
Read essay →90% of companies see zero results from AI
I think I know why
Read essay →The Small Businesses That Will Win the AI Race
It's Not Who You Thin
Read essay →The App That Wiped $300b Off Software Stocks
Claude Cowork is the future
Read essay →I Rebuilt Monday.com In An Hour
Then I built something really useful
Read essay →"You Just Wrote Python!"
My take aways so far from my second AI for business owners cohort
Read essay →Compound vs Stagnate: The real AI build/buy decision
I change my AI agents every week. Here's what that taught me.
Read essay →Last spot: AI Cohort starts Thursday
Thursday 12PM ET. Final spot.
Read essay →The Comfortable Fiction You're Telling Yourself
Read essay →I made a checklist (5 AI Mistakes)
I just finished documenting the 5 costly AI mistakes I see 90% of business owners making right now...
Read essay →Your AI Strategy is Only Operating at 10% Potential
Stop Buying AI Projects. Start Building Capabilities.
Read essay →"The hottest new programming language is English"
The Rise of the Knowledge Programmer
Read essay →I Had Two AI Agents Debate the Future of Work
The Sematic Layer (buzzword alert) is Your Future Competitive Moat
Read essay →I Rebuilt My Company's CRM in 48 Hours
We just moved into the agentic future
Read essay →Teaching Owners the Six Levels of AI
Where are you?
Read essay →Why Salesforce gets 72% of growth from squeezing YOU, not serving you
Are you planning your exit from traditional SaaS?
Read essay →I watched a client ignore $200K sitting in their email list
All companies have gold lying on the ground right in front of them
Read essay →Big Companies are Winning with AI
And how to catchup
Read essay →The Only Investment Thesis You Need: Find the Operator
Once you strike gold, just keep digging
Read essay →Your Processes Should Get Smarter Every Week (Yours Don't)
Status: Draft - Ready for Review Target Length: ~1,100 words Target Audience: Business owners ($500K-$20M revenue), operations leaders Publication Timing: Tuesday 7 AM Lead Magnet: Agent Learning...
Read essay →The Software Pricing Model Just Died (And You're About to Feel It)
We'll Be Measuring Token Efficiency Soon
Read essay →Your payroll bill is about to become your compute bill
Agents will overtake your employee costs
Read essay →Marketing is Shifting
AI is forcing us to rethink what "works"
Read essay →Your Competitors Are Building a Memory—You’re Trusting Yours
Why smart owners are turning conversations into data before their brains delete the evidence.
Read essay →The AI Disruption Wave Will Start Next Year
It's Not Fair But It's Happening
Read essay →He made $750K and went home broke
Why gross margin is king
Read essay →Is Your Team Push You?
Or Are You Pushing Your Team
Read essay →This is the biggest change in search since Google
Are you ready for GEO?
Read essay →Why Your $3M Success is Hiding a Profit Problem
Stop flying blind
Read essay →Make AI Your Competitive Advantage
5 key use cases
Read essay →Stop Being the Human Duct Tape in Your Business
Are You Playing Whack-a-Mole?
Read essay →Your Competitors Just Hired 10 Employees You Can’t See
While You Debate They Automate
Read essay →Your Business Doesn’t Care What Book You Just Read
It has it’s own problems
Read essay →When Focus Becomes Blindness
Business rules were made to be broken
Read essay →The Tech Giants Are The Canaries in the Coal Mine
There'll be fewer humans who get paid more
Read essay →Why AI Will Make Doers Unstoppable
And leave everyone else behind
Read essay →Corrected Link
Wish I had an agent for this
Read essay →Why I Make My Agents Fight
Unlocking the AI Secret Almost No One Knows About
Read essay →No One Is Coming To Save You
Why business owners need to learn AI themselves
Read essay →Are you too cheap?
Stop Choking Your Business to Death
Read essay →How to make ChatGPT useful
Prompting is still an art
Read essay →The Human Bottleneck Killing Your Growth
It’s all about people
Read essay →While You're On Version 3, Your Competition Is On Version 3,000
AI isn't just for automation; the real power is in simulation
Read essay →Can AI Make You A Better Salesperson?
It Sure As Hell Did For Me. (15-Min Tool Inside)
Read essay →Meet Rx: Your Real-Time Strategy Coach
He's just going to get better and better
Read essay →I Just Saw the Future of Business Education
Owners are tired of getting generic advice for their very specific problems
Read essay →From Overwhelmed Owner to Architect
The 90-Day Zone of Genius Transformation
Read essay →The $10,000 Hour
Why You’re Trading Diamonds for Pennies
Read essay →Why I Don’t Do Org Charts
How to Design a Business That Lets You Stay in Your Zone of Genius
Read essay →Sometimes You Have to Take One Step Back to Take Two Steps Forward
Read essay →How to Build a Company That Feeds You, Not Drains You
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose
Read essay →Focus Drives Results
The One-Page Strategy That Actually Works
Read essay →From Gatekeeper to Creator: Why I'm Building My Own Software
(And You Should Too)
Read essay →The Content Revolution: Why Your Lead Magnets Just Got 100x Better
Read essay →All Businesses Taste Like Chicken
It’s about getting the basics right
Read essay →The Future Belongs to Business Owners Who Make Their Own Solutions
Why every business owner should experiment with AI development tools before their competitors do
Read essay →The Future isn't coming. It's here.
Time to start building
Read essay →The $5-10K Retainer is Dead
And Most Agencies Don't Know It Yet
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