Pick Two: Voice Memo Apps
This week I'm doing a Pick Two for Voice Note apps (plus the one I’m not using, and a bonus transcription app) #1 is Whisper Memos, which I...
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I'm Getting iPhone Duo [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about the iPhone Duo — my first real foldable — and why I'll trade away the telephoto lens, action button, and fast chargin...
Telling AI to Write It Doesn't Mean You Wrote It
When I was 17, my high school organized a two-week trip to Italy and Ireland for $900. My dad offered to pay for it. I said, "Why do I need...
Should You Stop Teaching to Get Clients? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about a Steve Thompson video that's had me rethinking my whole approach — the idea that teaching tactics on YouTube actuall...
Conscientious AI Usage: How I Built a Quiz in Two Hours
There was a time when building a quiz as a lead magnet seemed insurmountable to me. The setup, the configuration, the routing — not to menti...
Writing With AI Isn't Like Using a Calculator [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about why writing with AI isn't the same as using a calculator for math — financier Stanley Druckenmiller defended his AI-w...
When to Use Automation vs. When to Use AI
AI and Automation are not the same thing. But people seem to use the terms interchangeably. Tools like Zapier and Make are deterministic aut...
Are You Practicing Conscientious AI Usage? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about Conscientious AI Usage (a term my mastermind group gave me). Then a Six Colors article on Anthropic's lexical waterma...
How to Start Thinking in Systems
A few years ago, I was helping my friend Jeff rebuild an automation — getting his intake form to talk to his CRM and his project management...
Am I wrong about AI-generated YouTube thumbnails? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about whether I'm wrong about AI-generated YouTube thumbnails — I've told my designer to never use AI on them, but if a thu...
The Lie That AI Is a Magic Shortcut
I was talking to an acquaintance recently who told me how he has AI agents write his articles for him. He sends a voice note of an idea, and...
Resetting Claude Every 3 Months? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about a piece of advice from Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code — that you should reset your prompts, projects, and skills e...
You Don't Have to Fix Everything — Just Start With One Thing
Back in 2016, I ran…well, *completed…*a Disney half marathon. And the thing about Disney is they make it impossible not to find the starting...
"No One Can Do It Like Me" Is a Lie (And It's Costing You)
For most of my life, I believed that if I wanted something done right, I had to do it myself. I held it all the way until I had a panic atta...
The Simplicity of Yellow Legal Pads [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about rediscovering the humble yellow legal pad after years (and hundreds of dollars) sunk into fancy notebooks and fountai...
Welcome to The Streamlined Solopreneur
Imagine you finally logged off. It's the first real vacation you've taken in years. The coffee's hot (or iced), the phone's in the other roo...
How I Produce a Week of Content in 90 Minutes
I was at a retreat with my mastermind group. We were going over our big takeaways, and my friend Cat reminded me of something: I output more...
When is implementation the problem? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about when implementation itself becomes the blocker — how working on a new welcome sequence in Kyle Adams' Newsletter Powe...
Why Your Solopreneur Business Feels So Complicated
One of my favorite shows is Scrubs, and there's one episode that's stuck with me for nearly 2 decades, and I think about it nearly every day...
Is Claude Winning? [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about whether Claude is quietly winning the AI war — at least among business owners and tech nerds — after every speaker at...