Quadrupling Down on the Squishy Stuff
Damien and I are all in on AI. We teach it. We build courses on it. We know it is the future.
We also know what it lacks.
Give AI a Destination—and a Few Waypoints
Have you ever gotten into your car, typed nothing into the GPS, but still expected it to show you the way to somewhere useful? That’s how most people use AI chatbot tools like Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT.
Book Brew 191: The Automation That Was Supposed to Save Me Time (And Absolutely Did Not)
I recently spent an embarrassing amount of time setting up an automation I was convinced would save me hours.
Book Brew 190: AI Took the Notes. The Action Items Were Murdered
The meeting ended with:
- a transcript,
- a summary,
- six action items,
- and the organizational clarity of the final scene of Clue.
3 Ways to Use AI for Smarter Editing
Editing is often harder than writing. We get attached to the sentences we wrote. We feel bad about cutting them. But sometimes we gotta do the hard thing to improve the final output.
A Dry Brush Just Scratches the Wood
We glorify the grind. We love the image of the exhausted founder squeezing the last drop of effort out of a 16-hour day.
Use “Show, Don’t Tell” Prompts to Fix Flat Writing
One common complaint: “AI chatbots makes everything sound generic.” → aka AI slop.
Book Brew 188:Your Default Settings Are Writing Your AI Policy
Your written AI policy says, “Use caution.” (I mean, that is if you even have one....)
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