A labor of love is what curating community material has felt like. By and large, condensing and putting as much useful material in one place has a few dimensions to it. I've been spending a lot of time contemplating, orchestrating, and crafting these dimensions so that the experience is comprehensive from the ground up. I have a working job scout prototype, that searches and finds jobs on your behalf. The personal OS lacks a consistent backend, and needs more tightening around its bolts. Posted a quick December update video, lots in the works for this, wanted to keep everybody in the loop. Expect to hear more soon!

Wishing all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day filled with good food, good company, and moments that remind us what truly matters. I’m grateful for this community — for the conversations we build together, the ideas we exchange, and the support we give one another. Whether you're spending today with family, friends, or enjoying some well-deserved quiet time, I hope your day is full of warmth and gratitude. Here’s to growth, connection, and all the opportunities ahead. Happy Thanksgiving! 🙏

Most of us were taught to trade time for money. In the AI era, that deal is changing. You can keep your judgment and your standards, and let a small system do the busy work. Think of it as a careful, well-trained helper you supervise. It gathers the information, makes a draft, shows you the plan, and waits for your approval. You stay the boss; the system does the routine steps. That’s the identity shift: not “I know AI,” but “my systems help me finish real work.” It’s practical, it’s safe, and it’s learnable—even if you don’t code. What this looks like in real life: Picture a normal week. You open your laptop and there’s a short note from your “digital co-worker”: For marketing: links to posts worth repurposing, a clean draft for tomorrow’s email, and a short summary of how last week’s post performed. For operations: yesterday’s tasks rolled forward, a few follow-ups drafted, and a friendly reminder about one stuck handoff. For education: a lesson outline from your curriculum doc, a first pass at slides, and a five-question check-for-understanding. For hiring: a shortlist from yesterday’s applicants, a brief summary for each, and two interview questions suggested for the role. None of it gets sent without you. Every change is logged. If something feels off, you adjust the rule and it learns. That’s a safe, useful system. Start where you already have skill: Pick one area you understand. If you’ve written social posts, start in marketing. If you’ve managed to-dos and handoffs, start in ops. If you’ve planned lessons, start in education. If you’ve screened resumes, start in hiring. You’ll move faster when you already know what “good” looks like. Now write a simple offer you can say out loud. One sentence is enough: “I help [who] who struggle with [pain] by setting up a small system that does [task] so they get [result].” Examples: “I help solo founders drowning in follow-ups by setting up a small system that drafts and schedules replies, so they get back to leads the same day.”

(Journal entry around industry standards, “100 hours of certs in 10 minutes”) Let’s talk about the unsexy part of digital co-workers: Governance. Documentation. Logs. Policies. The stuff nobody puts on the sales page, but everybody worries about in the back of their mind: “What if this thing sends the wrong email?” “What if we break a policy and I’m the one who gets blamed?” “What if my boss / principal / client asks, ‘How do you know this is safe?’” Here’s the truth I keep coming back to: You don’t need to turn yourself into a compliance officer. You do need to look like someone who treats AI like real infrastructure, not a toy. That’s what “wrap it in governance and documentation” actually means. Not 500 pages of legalese. Just enough proof, structure, and receipts that a skeptical grown-up (leader, parent, client, IT, legal) can look at your setup and think: “Okay. They’re taking this seriously.” And you can build that in about 10 minutes if you know what to capture. I did it here as part of my own Personal OS Free Templates Why Governance Matters More Than “One More Tool” Most “AI for work” advice stops at: here’s a prompt pack here’s a list of tools here’s how to “10x your productivity” Almost nobody talks about: what happens when the agent is wrong who is allowed to touch which data how you prove this thing is actually worth the risk But that’s exactly the language senior people speak. Teachers hear it from admins and parents. Consultants hear it from clients. Employees hear it from IT, HR, or Legal. They don’t care how clever your prompt is. They care about three questions: Is it safe? (Are we breaking rules or leaking data?) Is it controlled? (Can it run wild or do we have brakes?) Is it worth it? (Does the benefit beat the risk and the cost?)

Expressing original thought is an exercise of freedom. To do so in whatever medium makes sense to you requires you to let go of whatever egoic pretense you might have. Whatever you think of yourself, has to stay at the door. You think another checklist or downloadable template will sculpt a personal OS that works for (and with) you? That vision of JARVIS, or like the movie Her, is not a far thought. It's not a technical limitation that's holding citizens from accessing AI in the capacity it was created for, it's faulty design. Fault of a movement, backed by consistent vision and effort. This doesn't happen with walls of texts. It happens in moments. Fear, pain, need for a solution. Capturing that is the art of sales, it's storytelling, not another CRM or SaaS. The average citizen only (financially and mentally) has access to a certain bandwidth of learning and expansion. The experience of hitting that bandwidth is one of pain, met with fear and frustrations. To become more capable of compressing time and doing more with what you have. Principles drive the behavior because if you contemplate that for more than a moment, you can see it's worth figuring out how, and by any means. This is what I think about as a solo founder, I started this mission with the readiness to dedicate my working hours to creating better AI-use in the world. This isn't novel, I'm not alone in that mission, you're here for a reason too. To want to learn. To want to make things easier.