I’m really glad you’re here on SKOOL, and I wanted to take a moment to explain why I chose this platform over YouTube for ultimately connecting with the YouTube audience. The difference comes down to connection. On YouTube, the comment section was never designed for real conversation. When someone replied to your comment, you wouldn’t even get notified—which meant questions went unanswered, discussions fizzled out, and genuine connection was nearly impossible. It just wasn’t built for what we’re trying to create here. SKOOL works differently. You get notified when someone responds to you. Conversations actually happen. People connect with each other, not just with content. That’s the foundation of a real community. Someone recently shared their experience in other SKOOL communities and how there seems to be a real focus on pushing services, courses, and workshops. While those are cool features of the platform, that’s not what my main focus is on. This isn’t a sales funnel. It’s simply a gathering place. I’ll be happy to share more about my own experiences exploring other communities here another time. Some I’ve found really great, and some ... well, let’s just say I have opinions that aren’t positive. But that’s for another post. I’m hoping more folks from our YouTube audience will find their way here and join us. As for what this community ultimately becomes? I’m leaving that open for now. Thanks for being here and for being part of something that’s just getting started. Have you found any other Skool communities that are 6/7 ???? 😆 good and/or bad?

Remember the 'click' sound of the TV dial? What was the one show your family never missed when you were growing up? I actually tried to find the sound of this online but failed. It made me think about the world that is being lost, the world of sounds that only we ever heard. Now that's a library I'd like to visit.

It's interesting to see how people interact with AI. Hand someone access to an "infinite intelligence bot" and ... see where they go with it. I was talking with a guy today who said he has been playing with AI for about a month, and recently asked it, "So what can you do? What kinds of things can you help me with?" It replied, "Well just ask me a question." He said, "I don't really know what to ask." But he DID ask a couple of questions, and the reply was basically, "Ask more!" He sounded like a kid who just met a Grand Wizard and wasn't sure what to say. I mostly use it (Claude) for brainstorming. Maybe because I've been using it a lot (far more than ChatGPT), it has adapted to interacting with me. ChatGPT now feels really strange in its responses. Interacting with Claude is more like having a conversation with a friend or colleague, while ChatGPT is more like a kid who gets a little too excited and wound-up at times. I'm mainly a Mac user, and find that the Apple Notes app is great for collecting bits and pieces of chat sessions and organizing them in ways that allow me to find them later. Chat sessions in both Claude and ChatGPT are totally lacking in any way of helping organize things for easy search and retrieval. I have several dozen now, and while I try to keep them limited to a specific topic, I invariably go on tangents, and then later I have a lot of trouble finding those tangents. So I split stuff out into different topics in Notes. On Windows, OneNote might be a great tool to use for that. Who else is dealing with this? What are you doing?

A week ago, I started experimenting with ChatGPT after seeing what was possible beyond basic prompts. Since then, it’s become a place where I think out loud and work through real problems. In one week, I’ve started building my first iOS game, planned several YouTube videos, navigated an unexpected project without freaking out, and even picked up my mandolin again with a clear plan to keep learning. What surprised me most wasn’t the answers, but how much more in control I felt creatively. At some point this week, the light came on. And for the first time in a while, my creative direction felt intentional.