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...
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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...
How Solopreneurs Stop Being the Content Bottleneck
Imagine making yourself a bowl of cereal. But instead of grabbing a bowl from the cupboard, you head to your backyard, throw a brand-new bow...
I almost did something horrible: get back in Instagram [Friday Wrap-Up] [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about almost re-joining a platform I know I'd hate. Then a look at Disney's next-gen audio-animatronic transforming from a...
The 4 Systems Every Solopreneur Needs to Take More Time Off
A few months ago I was doing a series of research calls, and the same piece of feedback kept coming up: "I read all your stuff, this sounds...
I bought a tiny game controller for automation [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about my latest Mac automation tool: the 8BitDo Micro, a $15 tiny game controller I picked up during Prime Week and mapped...
Automate Without Losing Critical Thinking (My AI Philosophy)
Lately, I've been hearing horror stories about how people use AI. Not "AI wrote me a program" stories — I mean people who can't decide what...
Is speaking worth my time, Zuck doesn't get people, HotD [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about why this is my heaviest speaking year since before the pandemic — and how I'm deciding whether all that travel and pr...
You Can't Automate What You Can't Explain
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Here's the problem: most solopreneurs don't know exactly what they do. They...
Siri's big update, and a CRAZY LEGO scandal [Friday Wrap-Up]
This week I talk about WWDC and the big Siri update Apple just announced and why Apple's measured, context-aware approach feels like the rig...
AI for Solopreneur Systems: Two Projects That Actually Worked
I talk a lot about the wrong ways to use AI. But a rainy weekend gave me a few free hours and two pet projects that I used Claude Cowork for...