The obvious tells are gone. Two habits still catch it. A few weeks ago I almost got scammed. HARD. It came in through the booking form on my site. Budget field: $50,000. Real company, one I could look up, with a real website. The email was polite, well written,
Why I stopped selling people on staying, and what I built instead. When a good person walks out the door, all your time training them walks out with them. That was the hardest punch in the gut from 20 years as a business owner. Not sales. Not cash flow. Tenure.
Most AI demos start at the keyboard. Mine started with a run. I'm obsessed with practical application. Not what a new tool can do in a demo. Whether it changes how I actually live and work. So when I tested the latest of what Grok has to offer,
Everyone is building AI agents. Almost nobody is building the thing they run on. Five days spent building a small business's operating model by hand, breaking it on purpose, and finding what actually has to come first.
Every blog needs one post that explains itself. This is mine. The rules I write by, and what to expect from every post that follows. That's the rule here, and what you can expect from all of it. So what does that mean for you? Every post comes
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