I got the idea for this daily blog from Philip Morgan’s The Positioning Manual for Indie Consultants.

“…write and publish (to an email list) short daily articles about the intersection between what is interesting to you and what is important to your audience.”

“Doing this for at least 90 days is a transformative journey.”

Well, I found what’s interesting to ME, that’s for sure. But the audience is mostly inside my head and whoever will listen to me ranting and jabbering under the overpass.

Still, forcing the daily action has been fun, and it’s grown me in unexpected ways.

I’ve written every post by hand (no AI here), but I’ve devised a complicated automatic publishing system with Airtable, make.com, and OpenAI to completely automate every other part of the process (which I’ll create a video about if anyone’s interested).

I’ve had to clarify my thoughts and get things down.

I’ve learned that text posts on LinkedIn without an image that shows your face go nowhere.

And I’ve come to realize for the 10000th time that what is interesting to me is at the very least interesting to me. (My mom left the chat 85 posts ago).

I’m a weird dude who can’t stop thinking about the future while making jokes and listening to deep house music. And I’m simply going to have to make peace with the inescapable fact that I am indeed, a weirdo.

If you want to clarify your own thoughts, I recommend the journey, and to read his book.

I remember reading Calvin & Hobbes voraciously as a child, and now, I have the great pleasure of watching my daughter experience it all for the first time.

Calvin was always impetuous and had trouble focusing—probably he’d be diagnosed with ADHD today.

In one panel, Calvin gets mad at his arch-nemesis Susie Derkins for not doing his homework for him. After all, why should he have to do it?

Silly? Ridiculous? Inappropriate?

Or the perfect person for the now-now-now, AI-powered future where no kid understands why they have to do homework at all, when a machine can do it all for them.

1. “You meet your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.” - Kung Fu Panda, obviously.
2. “All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.” - Charlie Munger (See also the short story, “The Appointment in Samarra”.)

If you had every tool at your disposal, if you had intimate knowledge of every tool you possessed...

If anything you could dream up were possible…

What would you create?

What is your superhuman art?

In the next 10 years, this may be the only question that matters.

Recently I worked with a start-up attempting to build an electric truck that can also ride on rails like a train. Awesome.

They’re doing incredible work, with just four people. Four!? How!?

This is the hallmark of the new era.

Teams will shrink. Small enterprises will go from 10 employees down to 1-4. The quality of these people will be vitally important.

But what a small team will be able to achieve over the next five years will be truly mind-blowing.