AI & Automation
AI tools, Claude Code, automation, and AI-assisted workflows
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Starting Daily Founder Fuel
This past week, I had an idea for an app. This idea came from an impulse to jot down some thoughts about my business challenges and how they needed to be written out, journaled, thought through, and developed further. I wanted to incorporate this into a daily practice, recognizing the value of writing. Everyone knows…
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Mini AI Automations
I’ve been reading the book “Buy Back Your Time” by Dan Martell. It is a new perspective to me for how to think about hiring people. Well worth the read if this is something in your wheelhouse. One of the core ideas in the book is to find the time sucking tasks and focus on…
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The AI CEO
It was just one year ago that a user on Twitter (@jacksonfall – now deactivated) went viral. This was shortly after the launch of GPT-4, a model that was a massive leap better than the previous generation. He proposed a challenge for the AI to act as the CEO of a startup, it would direct…
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My Early AI Business Failure
The year was 2011, I was deep into affiliate marketing and AdSense with content websites. On the side I had created and launched a dozen different WordPress blogs. Things were getting unwieldy. The backups, updates, monitoring, designing, and writing content for all these websites was a lot of work, and it easy to miss things…
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Copy My AI Assisted Content Strategy
Getting and growing attention is the core of any marketing strategy. But standing out is harder than ever when everyone is equipped with high quality cameras, microphones and great software. Today I’m going to tell you about how I’m leveraging AI to accelerate the production of short form video content that I’m cross posting to…
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AI Video Personalization
Let’s explore how AI continues to transform personalization and what that means for your business. This week, we’re focusing on personalized video. AI Tool of the Week: Maverick This week’s featured AI tool is Maverick, an interesting video personalization solution that enables sending a unique video to each person. Ideal for e-commerce DTC businesses (but…
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Launch with AI: The Agile Path to Success
Maybe the algorithm is trying to tell me something, but I’ve heard a concept from multiple different people, in different ways over the last few weeks: “Now Not How” – Noah Kagan “Press Publish” – Colin and Samir “Do It Now” – Brian Tracy “Done is better than Perfect” – Sheryl Sandberg “Start Before You’re…
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The Time I used AI to Personalize 458 Marketing Emails
When the hype of GPT-3 landed and everyone was proclaiming that AGI was around the corner and Minority Report style targeted advertising was almost possible, I wanted to see what was actually doable. So I did, I grabbed data about a small subset of customers, and wrote a script that would use OpenAI’s APIs to…
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Training Your Mind
The human mind is fascinating in so many ways. I often like to invision the brain as an input/output machine with some internal loops to self-reflect and generate its own internal inputs. Inputs to the brain come from our senses – what we see, hear, smell, touch. Those inputs will physically modify your brain as…
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Applying AI to Human Learning
Last night I was attempting to learn a little bit of Chinese after being inspired from a series of documentaries and travel vlogs (ChopStick Travel) that I’ve been taking in over the last 3-4 weeks. Anyway, I opened up DuoLingo and was quickly disappointed. Then I tried Memrise, which was slightly better, but it suffered…
