The Intelligence Briefing
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.
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...
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...
Weekly field notes on scaling intelligence without losing your humanity. Get the strategic frameworks, unfiltered insights, and human-first AI methodologies.