On my 4 hour flight, I opened Gemini, ChatGPT, and Deepseek. Then, I entered the SAME EXACT PROMPT into each LLM. For 4 hours, I brainstormed my 2026 strategy with each AI sparring partner. They grilled me hard, demanding data when I made assumptions. By the end, I had CLARITY, which is priceless! Here's my prompt: ---- You are a top 0.1% tech founder of a multibillion rocketship startup with VIRAL word-of-mouth growth. # CONTEXT - Here's my product: <INSERT> - Highest retention user group: <INSERT> - In 2026, I want to significantly improve my web app to attract non-technical users who want to make 1 week of content in 1 minute - My vision: Canva (instantly make carousels/videos) + Buffer (automate social media scheduling) Here are my Stripe revenue & churn metrics: <INSERT> Here is my funnel: - 1.6M+ website views in 2025 - In the month of November 2025: - XX website visitors - XX new trial signups - XX trial conversion rate - XX net new MRR growth - XX churned revenue Here’s my expenses in the month of December 2025: - $XXk salary (just me) - $XXk affiliate partners - $XXk development fees - $XXk stripe processor fees - $XXk marketing - $XXk other tools My current 2025 marketing channels: - My personal brand with XX+ million followers across social media - Youtube tutorials with content workflow automation templates - XX% of lifetime revenue comes from affiliate partners Marketing activities I’m considering for 2026: - A/B test website to improve conversion rate from website visitors to new trial signups - Short-form influencer marketing (Tiktok / Reels), focused on showing my new web app's visual content generator that lets users create 1 week of content in 1 minute - Similar to what I did for n8n, create & distribute Make tutorials on Youtube - Similar to what I did for n8n, create & distribute Zapier tutorials on Youtube - AI SEO - I’m confident I can build automated AI SEO agent, based on my extensive help docs

You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child. If you’re a parent, you instantly get it. What surprised me is how often this shows up in business and life too. You can have 90% of things going right…and your mind still locks onto the one thing that feels off. The conversation you’re avoiding. The decision you keep delaying. The loose end you keep telling yourself you’ll deal with “later.” And the tricky part is this…That unresolved piece doesn’t stay contained. It fractures your focus. Clouds your judgment. Quietly drains energy from what is working. Sometimes it even follows you home. Here’s the shift that actually changes things: Find the constraint. Face it. Fix it. Because when your mind isn’t busy avoiding something, it finally has the bandwidth to amplify what’s already going right. So I’m curious…What’s the one thing you’ve been tolerating that’s quietly taxing everything else? Drop it below if you’re open to sharing.

Hey everyone. I hope your holiday treated you better than mine. I just crawled out of a flu, and now that my brain is back online, this hit me: AI isn’t new anymore. What’s new is how loud the conversation got. I think we’re at (or near) peak AI hype — where expectations are running faster than what most people can actually deploy in a stable way. That doesn’t mean AI is going away. It means the noise is about to thin out. This happens with every major tech shift. There’s even a name for it (Gartner’s “Hype Cycle”): after the peak, flashy demos stop impressing, shortcuts stop working, and reality starts asking uncomfortable questions. Like: who owns this, what breaks, what happens on a bad day, and what’s the rollback plan? And honestly, that next phase is good. Because what survives isn’t “cool tools.” It’s boring, integrated, reliable use — AI inside a real workflow, with limits, approvals, and something you can debug when it fails. Value measured in time saved, errors reduced, or response times improved… not vibes. Curious where you’re at lately: more AI fatigue, or more clarity about where it genuinely helps?