The Intelligence Briefing
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.
Don't bet on the winning AI
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 Own the Context, Not the Tool The morning of my last big workshop, I walked into the green room to teach over 600 coaches how to build their businesses with Claude. Everything in the session pointed to one platform. And that same morning, OpenAI shipped a...
You're still measuring AI in horsepower
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 We're Still Measuring AI in Horsepower I gave Claude Code a goal the other week, not a question. Build the site, push it live. I did not sit there trading messages with it. I set the outcome, stepped back, broke the job into pieces, did each one, and...
Your AI feed is a mirror, not a map
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 The Algorithm Is a Mirror A founder I was helping with his prospecting opened LinkedIn Sales Navigator and asked it for recommended leads. The tool did what it is built to do and handed back a hundred names, the people it was confident he should be selling...
The best AI agent is the one you don't create
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 The Best Agent Is the One You Don't Build A coach in one of our cohorts set out to build her first AI agent. She wanted it to take her session notes from her Drive and tidy them up on its own after every call. She opened ChatGPT, started building a custom...
Your AI keeps giving you "fine"
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 Never Settle for "Fine" Last week I asked Claude to build the waitlist page for my book. I used Claude Code with a design skill called frontend-design, gave it a deliberately bold brief, and waited. What came back was clean. Professional. Tasteful. Every...
The one folder that frees your AI
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 The Fence is The Freedom A member of one of our cohorts asked me a setup question last week. Where should his second-brain vault live, iCloud or a folder on his Mac? And where should the separate "AI working folder" go? His own AI had answered already....
What would you actually wish for?
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 Pick Up the Magic Lamp Friday morning. International cohort on Zoom. We had participants from Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi, Canada, the UK, and the USA, amongst others. Four-hour AI Build Sprint. We had just spent two hours setting up the human. Identity files....
The old way to get clients is dead
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 How AI Helps You Get More Clients Most business owners I work with come to me with the same pain. They need more clients. For years, the answer was hustle harder. Build bigger lists. Send more outreach. Run more ads. Network more. Hire an SDR. That model...
Lao Tzu wrote the prompt I needed this week
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 The Plan Got Heavier Than the Work Twenty seconds. Twelve hundred words. And I was the wrong kind of prepared. Full prose introductions. Fallback contingencies for moments that almost certainly would not happen. I read it once and felt overwhelmed. Reset....
One word changed everything
Hello Reader, Each week, I share one insight, one prompt, and a short grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm. This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts. AI Insight That Matters 💡 The Verb Is the Philosophy Sam Altman published five principles for OpenAI last week. Five short paragraphs, the sort of corporate values document most people scroll past. I read it twice. The second principle says AI should "empower everyone." Read that...
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.