What to do when every day feels like a year
I’ve been building on the web since the 90’s. Flash games, affiliate sites, marketplaces, ecommerce, blogs, SaaS companies…nearly 100 different ventures. I’ve played a part in all the webs. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. (What version are we at with AI? I presume at least 19.0.) Lots of tech waves. Some were real. Some were noise. Over 30 years of having your hand in things you develop a feel for the difference.
AI isn’t noise.
What’s been happening over the past couple of years is something very different. Not because the tech is impressive (it is), but because of the pace. A new model drops quite literally every day. Big tech companies are constantly trying to one-up each other. AI labs are running super bowl ads. In less than a year we went from easily being able to tell if something was AI-generated to legitimately not being able to tell the difference.
I’ve always been a prolific builder, but it’s no exaggeration to say I’ve been able to 10x my output thanks to AI. And not just increase my speed but increase/enable entirely new skillsets. Three years ago when GPT-4 was released, I put out the first GPT-generated game for iOS. I’d never built an iOS app before in my life.
Thanks to ADHD I have a superpower to hyperfixate on things, and I genuinely feel like I’ve been on a single hyperfixation bender for years now.
Every day genuinely feels like a year.
So what do you do with that? What do you do when the new models, new tools, new apps, new capabilities, new technology all become a firehose that’s impossible for any single person to stay on top of?
You start a newsletter. 🙃
So that’s what I’m doing. Not because the world needs another AI roundup (it doesn’t). But because I need a way to process all that’s changing and writing is a way I sort out what’s in my head. I figured I might as well share it.
Each week I’ll share four things:
Signal — The 2-3 most important bits that happened. Why they matter and what to do about them.
Roundup — 6-8 tools, systems, tweets…whatever bits I come across that seem interesting.
From the Shop Floor —Things I built. Systems I automated. Stuff that worked. What failed.
Try This — One actionable thing. A prompt, workflow, setting. Something you can actually try out or do.
The goal is help you make sense of the noise so you’re not just getting blasted in the face.
Hope you’ll subscribe! If you’ve got something you think I should know about, @-me!