The Intelligence Briefing
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.
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...
The five minutes that fix every generic AI output
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 Voice Was Already There A few days ago I was rebuilding the Module 8 Framework Guide for the Coaching.com programme. The session teaches a content repurposing workflow: one video in, six pieces out (blog post, email, LinkedIn, short clips, podcast...
What are you actually selling?
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 Brochure Was Wrong Friday afternoon, after the attendees had left, I opened the Build Sprint transcript in Claude. Eight hundred and twenty-five lines. Word for word. I was looking for something specific. The sales page had promised "two working AI...
Your AI is brilliant at the wrong thing
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 💡 Your AI Is Brilliant at the Wrong Thing Earlier this week, I was deep in a research session with Claude. I was following a thread about first principles thinking: the practice of stripping away every assumption until you reach the handful of things you...
Anyone can copy your prompt. No one can copy this.
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 💡 Context Is the New Prompt Monday morning, coffee in hand, I spent an hour inside Claude Code mining the official Anthropic documentation for their new Claude Certified Architect exam. I was not looking for an insight. I was looking for a reading list. What...
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.