Pumped to try these @varosticks ! @cpgjosh

10k views on my 5th YouTube video. Buy my $997 course to learn how.

Easiest way to get into a flow in your daily life is walking. You can talk on the phone, read, some people even have standing treadmills so they're literally walking while doing deep cognitive work. Your prefontal cortex is heavily engaged while your subconscious is firing electrical signals to your legs on complete autopilot. Actions without thought, just pure flow. That's why you have your best thoughts on a walk. The simple act is starting the process and lets you ride the wave to wherever you want.

Over 100 subs. Celebrate the (very) small wins. Onward.

I just spent $230 on an oil change for our Suburban. God help us all.

Buddy of mine hasn’t looked at any screen for almost 2 years! He came over today and handed me this invite to his birthday party. IRL is back.

Did a live demo of Instinct and things got a little awkward. I still love it and believe that this is where AI and agents are headed, but it definitely didn't look great here.

Health is wealth

Am I the only one NOT impressed with Grot bot? Maybe it's a personal problem... What video do you guys recommend to get it set up properly and ripping?

It amazes me how quickly you can turn a bad mood around by making progress on the work you’ve been avoiding. It’s like magic and works every time, without question.

The hype on Instinct is real. Here are a few things it’s done for me in the past 48 hours: booked me a better seat for my flight that got rescheduled. Found $130 we were owed from a previous property. Purchased a domain, setup 3 inboxes and started warming them. Proactively found 4 people I had dropped the ball on with follow-ups and threw the recommended draft in my email. Made a dinner reservation for me. Most of these things can be done with other agents but being able to text at lunch and at the airport without lapsing codex or Claude is sleek and feels like a true “assistant experience.”

By far the best thing you can do with young kids is get a job or start a company where you work from home. Is it lonely sometimes? for sure. do i miss the organic hang outs with the boys? all the time. but nothing, and i do mean NOTHING beats being able to pick up my kid at 1pm on a Wednesday or go to the gym whenever I want.

We closed 50k in 36 hours last week for our AI consulting business. That’s more than I made in the past 10 side hustles combined lol. So many companies need agents and AI and are willing to pay for it when the offer is right. Never been more excited or optimistic about the future!

I built a Slack-native AI Coworker that is now saving a nine-figure company roughly 100 hours every month. It didn’t automate an entire department. It solved one workflow: creative review. The team submits creative in Slack. The coworker reviews it against the company’s current creative rubric and brand guidelines, flags inconsistencies, explains the issue, and recommends a correction. No new platform for the team to learn. The most important feature is the automatic feedback loop. When a person corrects the coworker or the company changes its guidelines, the system captures that feedback as a proposed update to its living rubric. But “feedback loop” does not mean “the AI rewrites its own rules.” Every proposed change comes to me through a human-in-the-loop approval gate. I verify that nothing was missed, misunderstood, or accidentally added. Only approved changes enter the system. The first Slack channel worked so well that the company expanded the coworker into another channel. It now saves roughly 100 hours per month and gets discussed at company-wide retreats with hundreds of employees. The lesson: Don’t start by forcing the entire company to learn another AI tool. Find one painful workflow. Put the coworker where the work already happens. Give it context, a living rubric, a feedback loop, and human approval. Then let it earn more scope.

Buddy of mine paid me 1k to build out an agent for him. Simple API call and financial data parsing. Took me an hour on Manus to get it dialed in. But before we started I literally told him, "Dude, I could just show you how to do this on your own in 20 minutes." He looked me dead in the eye and said "Alex, I have ZERO interest in learning this stuff. I'd much rather pay you to just get it done." That's one of the two buckets I'm hearing right now. People either don't have the time or don't have the interest. And since you love AI, that means that your bubble and your world are reflecting that back to you on a daily basis on your Twitter, on your LinkedIn, on your YouTube, probably with your friends. It's twisting your mind to think that everybody thinks that way when they don't. MOST people are like my buddy who either do not care or don't have the time.

I was never in the trades. But I was a wildland firefighter for four years. Thank God I did that. Because when I sat down at a bar with a bunch of HVAC guys on Friday, I could talk about getting off work with dirt under my fingernails and grabbing a six pack and a can of Copenhagen. Then I switched tabs and talked to my AI friends about MCP servers. The ability to speak both languages might be the most underrated skill in this space.

Two types of business owners when it comes to AI: 1. "I don't care if it's just a couple buttons. I don't want to do it. I will pay someone." 2. "Yeah, I've learned the tools. I just need someone to tell me WHAT to apply it to." Both will pay. Neither is wrong. But the first group is way bigger than anyone admits.

It's wild how in 2026 you can decide how much money you make based on what you click on. Do you spend time clicking on endless YouTube videos or do you click on sending a cold email. That's the whole game.

The AI adoption gap is actually bigger than anyone on X wants to admit. Yesterday I helped dozens of contractors build their AI Operating System. These guys were BLOWN away with Claude projects and that it could connect to their Microsoft 365. Legit shocked. These are 30 and 40-something business owners. In Austin. A literal tech hub. Imagine what a 52 year old in Wisconsin knows. Unevenly distributed adoption = unevenly distributed outcomes. Act accordingly.