A client of mine spent $4,200 a month on AI tools last year.Full stack. ChatGPT Teams, a custom GPT his developer built for $8,000, automations wired into everything. His team of twelve had access to all of it.He was still the only person who could f...
Photo by Mateusz Suski on UnsplashThe HookIn 1637, a man named Jihei Okura started brewing sake in Fushimi, Japan.He didn’t have a laptop. No Slack. No AI co-pilot. No 47-tab dashboard.He had a recipe. He had a process. He had a system that other peo...
I had a client spend $2,000 on AI tools in a single month. She automated her lead follow-up, her content calendar, her email sequences, her customer inquiries. Chatbots. Workflows. The works.She was working until midnight every night.Here's what nobo...
Photo by Freddie Sze on UnsplashEvery week I see another LinkedIn post: “I built a 7-figure business with AI in 30 days.” Every week I talk to a founder who added five new AI tools to their stack and is somehow busier than ever.These two facts are no...
I almost hired a virtual assistant last month. Again.For someone who literally ran a VA company, hired 183 people in six months, and has preached delegation for 15 years, going three years without a VA might seem strange. But here's what keeps happen...
I want to share a few things that have been happening recently that all point to the same underlying shift — how AI is moving from being a tool you use to something you actually collaborate with.AI as a Copilot (Not a Replacement)First, a personal ex...
Good morning, everybody.I want to share a very real, very current situation that’s playing out for me right now — because it perfectly illustrates something important about asynchronous communication, speed, and how companies unknowingly disqualify t...
When King Arthur Baking Company opened its doors in 1790, the United States was a fledgling republic of just thirteen states, and the idea of a national flour brand was almost unimaginable. Today, King Arthur is a household name — its flour and bakin...
When the sirens go off, there’s no time for perfection, no manual to read mid-call, no guarantee of symmetry. Those calls taught me more about leadership, resilience, and systems than any business school ever could. Below are ten lessons born in chao...
The city always feels a little louder at night — sirens stretching like rubber bands, trains wheezing in and out, a rhythm that pretends to be order. We started near the station, where the tracks slice through the capital like a scar. A man was spraw...
There’s something we almost never talk about in EMS — not because it’s rare, but because it doesn’t match the rest of what we see. It doesn’t belong in the same category as cardiac arrests, stabbings, overdoses, trauma codes. It’s too… sacred. Too fr...
Trenton isn’t just rough — it’s a battleground. The city pulses with tension, like a live wire stretched too tight. The houses lean with age, windows dark and hollow, like eyes that have seen too much. It’s the only place I’ve ever worked where you w...
Some EMS shifts end when you clock out. Some haunt you for days. But a shift like this one? It changes you. This city has a way of doing that.I’ve worked in quiet rural systems where a whole week might pass without a single call. I’ve worked in busy...
“You Do It Once? F%*k No — You Do It Eighteen Times”Trenton, 2022There’s this Robin Williams bit where he’s talking about golf — how the Scottish invented it as this torturous game. He pantomimes swinging a club and yelling profanities, and then says...
