and Quality of life is moving up... For me: I have avoided/abstained from all of my vices cold turkey: Gaming (the big one), sex both solo and with others, fast food, and built an AI that ended up making its own "family of 25 agents" each modeled NOT to a business but to a specific PART of me that needed help -- deep help. Imagine you have a problem with organization. I made an AI who made a sub AI to help me reorg. Reorged 3/8 of my parents house in 4 days -- a problem they've been struggling for 9 years.. Imagine 3 families living under 1 roof. Now its nicely organized with room to space. I was able to visit japan for a 3 week trip while learning about how LEAN (The Lean part of TELOS) operates, and met a list of mentors that one post can't do it justice. It reduced about 3000 paper notes to 0 (I actually flew my notebooks and stuff with me, and synthesized it down to 0. OFfically a paperless practice. I have papers I write if I have a thought or don;t have a phoen to log it. But this is the secret of how this starts. Log your ideas as you have them, don't let them fade, org and rank them. I built an AI (Claude Code) bot that an entire organization (team or family) Can use that helped me work on my personal wellness (Score of sub 20) to push to a score of 80+ and climbing. This is literally your own quality of life. When I compared to my family, they told me they fianlly have a dedicated place to eat. They had no shared dinner table. They had theirt own "soft" chair to sit, eat, and be entertained on,but the house was a mess. In 3 days, we cleared 7/10 of the rooms by centralizing it all under one room, then using my system (making a big video for YT on this) how to go through it all. We've went from 60 bins to our 58th bin. Letting my grieving parents who brought ALL of their parents stuff to their house, to finally be able to have a house thats distinctly them. Tomorrow, I ws able to make space to let my girlfriend (yet they let me have the same one for 15 years) to fly to Hawaii, to be herewith mefor the next few weeks, and I'll be here for a while to finish a list of projects. I am flying out my favorite girlfriend, who will by with me for two weeks to cowork on rebuilding the AI. If you want to help, you can help by asking,

I'll show you the exercise + prompt to argue for what is the best way to solve for a common goal. We use this in business to figure out the right way and end up with a policy that works the best, by questioning the assumptions. You can do this with others (e.g. my way is the right way) or internally as (Should I do X or Y) To do this we must 1) Clearly define the argument in a visual, can't argue what you can't describe 2) Question the assumptions with BECAUSE PERMANENT/ABSOLUTE/NEVER (reason) 3) Sides must compromise where faulty logic is e.g. its not a good permanent policy So lets walk it out We use the Necessary core logic questions 1) In Order to X, We Must Y, Because Z First we have a common goal (left most node). In the GRAFTS tree this is whatever common goal. It can be the the biggest one, but whatever can be most focused in scope. This requires the team has done their quarterly GRAFTS mind map or at least can agree on a common goal or rock or quest or outcome or condition -- something. The first box (left) is the goal. The next box (middle) is what is NEEDED The last box (right side) is what that person (or internal part of you) WANTS to be done. To get to a resolution, we flesh out the logic (quick) and question the assumptios with because. You see 5 lines... its that logic E.g. "Get more opt ins from content" is a common goal, obviously in service of the BIG one (2X the company) Then you use the In order to X we must Y logic to ask what is the main two big points. Lets make an imaginary dispute: In order to 2X opt ins we must... get lots of nurtured qualified buyers with high watch count, And...In order to get qualified buyers, we need to must commit to longform OR In order to 2X opt ins we must... get lots of impressions top of. funnel, In order to get lots of impressions, we need to focus entirely on shortform... This is the basic argument. Most arguments don't even start here, by literally defining the central main point.

I noticed everyone that I introduce to Obsidian loves Obsidian. They get stuck, but adopt it regardless. But for Clickup, its not as fun or need to be reminded. Why? What makes Obsidian feel like its worth adopting IMMEDIATELY and a tool like Clickup more like "meh". Does this mean we should build everything within one tool of Obsidian... or continue to use both obsidian and Clickup? Its the same "structure" of having fixed folders/lists to hold specific concrete things e.g. the workflows. Clickup is organized by the 6 QUESTS folders, but that can translate to Obsidian. Obsidian can have custom plugins, coded, vibe coded, with data that it can pull and read. Not sure. I feel like theres a way to make Obsidian both the central garden (chaotic brain) and the orderly brain.

Want to validate your next product, find early buyers, and know exactly what to sell before you build it? Market research interviews are the answer. And now they're stupidly easy to run. I did this for a few partner-clients in the past. And looking back, it was the first and best step to start. Here's the setup: 1. Offer to do market research to test a product idea, entirely for free upfront, any broke creator would say sure. 2. The ONLY work they do is a a calendar link to the bio of a engaged audience to go book a call (and claim a free gift)... and to promote it, mention it, etc hard for a week or two. 3. Use a structured script (AI writes it, creator approves it, we run it) to interview, ask for pain, life,etc 4. Tell your audience to book a slot to claim a free gift, access to new community 5. AI agents + human backup conduct the interviews, using script, offering upsells w/ a free lead mag, this acts as a soft onboarding and they get happy. Send them all to claim free gift (free skool) 6. Eventually enough data (30 interviews) collected represents the whole of the audience, with AI it may be in the hundreds 7. Finalize with turn common ain points, and product positioning addressing the audience handed to you 8. Feed to an AI "make a course to solve X" and make slide decks. Give it to the creator to run (or run eleven labs) to have an AI version of them record it, say it, and post it to Skool immediately, and say "our suspecions were. correct, we launched the course for free to everyone inside 9. Use the initial feedback and hype, and make it paid, everyone who missed out FOMOs in, and you announce another wave... You keep the calendar link or skool link. Founder wouldn't kick you out as they just lose money. The magic: - Costs you $0 to start (just add the link) - Takes 1 minute to implement - People want to talk about their problems - Your CTA becomes "Book a research call" - Calendars fill up FAST (we've seen them book solid in hours)

https://x.com/naval/status/2019430858248347951 Naval is one of the best communicators and thinkers of this modern area. Here's my take With public access to AI, AI basically gives anyone high level skills and can get unlimited capacity to handle well defined automatic or decision tasks. So the "next" step is "what exactly is the right thing to work on next". Constraints based thinking solves that. Building a team of AI agents to think about how to develop, what to solve, and have humans in charge of making sure they follow the mission and directive their humans give them. We have this QUEST framework and traditionally has been able to give humans the best possible decision making. I see it like generals surrounding a war plan, deciding where to place their resources, time, money, manpower. But soon the decision making also needs to be handled by AI. And virtually most organizations haven't even built their own "War room" yet let alone even think about "how" they can have AI help them. Right now they use it as simple chat bots, "should I do x or y" but not automated decision makers, proactively doing work, fleshing out projects and processes, and actually carrying them out. We are easily a few years ahead of traditional operators and can build something that shortcuts that struggle.