My whole life I've been the guy who saw too much at once. Pattern recognition running hot. Five threads open simultaneously. Brain wired like a switchboard, not a freeway. For 50 years that's been labeled everything from "scattered" to "too intense" to "just focus, Ryan." I learned to dim myself down to fit rooms I was never built for. However it's my superpower which afforded me a great life. That Being said my goal this year is to do more with less. Started in early 2024 with chat- InVideo- YouTube. Now Look at the world and what's available. I sat down five days ago and stopped dimming. What I built this week (from scratch) Inspired in part by Nate Serial info expression, this group : - Claude (writing, ops, systems thinking) — my strategic partner - ChatGPT (voice, brainstorm) - Perplexity (systems architecture) - Gemini (long-form multi-source synthesis) - NotebookLM (deep research) - Grok (real-time) - Manus (Back up-automation backbone) Legacy tool - Obsidian Valhalla vault — 250+ files, fully interlinked - Craft for fast capture - GitHub / VS Code / Codex for dev - MONSTER external drive as the physical backbone - MCP servers stitched through the Mac Mini M4 - SOUL.md — the north star document that ties identity → brand → architecture And here's the honest part: It didn't work on day one. Or day two. Day three I was rebuilding file structures I'd just rebuilt. Day four I hit memory walls, sandboxing walls, notarization walls, and my own impatience. Somewhere in there I repeated myself to three different AIs in four different ways and wanted to throw the Mac across the room. But here's what the frustration actually was: It was training. Every reconfiguration taught me what I actually needed. Every broken plugin showed me where my thinking was sloppy. Every memory reset forced me to get clearer about what mattered. The tools weren't failing me. They were mirroring me — showing me where my own systems were unclear.

Hi everyone, i built a LinkedIn post writer that uses your tone of voice. I did go thruogh it about three times because the first time i noticed that Claude used "—" a lot and I said, nobody but AI uses that, and then it gave me three things listed (example AI is used by computer scientists, lab scientists, mechanics) and told it that is typical AI. I also noticed it used big words like brief, and I told it to tone it down, and go basic, just use the word short. In the end it was getting closer to my voice. I told it that whenever we use it next time, and I see more results, we can always refine it more. It was fun and this is useful knowing that you can always add new skills that Claude can use. Interested to know what i will learn next!