The Intelligence Briefing
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.
Writing is the boring part of 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 💡 Show Don't Tell Last week I taught a live session for a large group of coaches. Three hours before it started, I was still changing one slide. The slide was about what AI can do with your own material. When I teach, I use an example coach called Sarah. She...
Three things broke in five minutes
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 💡 It Worked on My Machine A coach in one of my programs asked whether anyone had a ready-made setup for Obsidian, the notes app I run my whole business from. Mine has worked every day for months, so I packaged it as a free download (link further down if...
The score said easy
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 Score Said Easy Last week I built a way to check whether the guides I write for coaches are easy to understand. I built it in Claude Code, and the first check is a standard readability score, the kind that turns your writing into a school grade. One of...
Show people how you got here
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 💡 Show the Working Last week I finished a slide deck for a masterclass I'm teaching for coaches later this month. Sixty-one slides, built in a few hours with Claude Code at my side. It did everything the session promised, and when I read it back, it left me...
Does it get better when the AI does?
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 💡 What Was Worth Keeping In April, someone using a marketing plugin I'd built emailed to say it had started looping. I opened it up in Claude Code to fix the bug, and found that Anthropic had shipped a marketing plugin of their own while I wasn't looking. It...
A gift that sells is a brochure
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 Gift Carries No Pitch On Tuesday evening, I delivered a session for a small group inside a community I had been invited into. I made one promise: I was not there to sell them anything, and the one follow-up they would get from me was a useful thing,...
They shouldn't have to learn your words
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 💡 Change the Clothes, Not the Bones Last week I built a talk for a leadership conference in September. Eleven slides, script in the speaker notes, the whole spec drafted in Claude Code against my own files before anything went into Canva. The centerpiece was...
One file. Two tools. Two answers.
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 💡 It Just Answers Anyway When an AI is missing your context, it does not stop and it does not warn you. It just answers anyway. I learned this months ago when I created the Human Stack approach to context engineering. I keep my rules for AI in one file...
Can you put your whole method on one page?
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 One Page Test I took an entire teaching module, an hour of material built for a live audience, and fed it into a small tool I made in Claude. What came back was a single page. Not a summary, not a teaser. The whole method on one sheet: the core idea,...
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...
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.