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19 numbered issues plus the odd dispatch, going back to April 2026. Every one of them opens on Substack — free, no paywall, no account needed.

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Issue #19 Aug 30, 2026

The one where I go shopping for the future, find out my oven is a rental, and learn that the machine saves me twelve minutes a week and I have been telling people it saves twenty-six a day.

Part 2 of 3. Your kitchen, your car, your office, your spare bedroom, your workout, your trip — and what actually shipped into each one.

IndustrySteal ThisBeginner
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Issue #18 Aug 23, 2026

The one where I go looking for the year it all happens, ask a machine who I am, and find out three people left — and then thirty-eight showed up.

Part 1 of 3. Your car, your job, your house, your doctor, your trip, and your money — with actual dates on all six.

IndustryBeginner
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Issue #17 Aug 16, 2026

The one where I check the numbers, discover most of my audience is robots, and find a button I never pressed.

Week two of owning a website: 373 visitors, more than half of them robots, one waitlist signup — mine — and a button I never pressed.

BuildingWorkflowBeginner
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Issue #16 Aug 9, 2026

The one where I build an entire website and then spend ten minutes trapped inside a zip file.

I can't write a line of code. The trick wasn't the prompt — it was the four months before the prompt.

BuildingWorkflowBeginner
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Issue #15 Aug 2, 2026

The one where the robots stopped answering questions and started doing the work.

Business Edition III — the year AI stopped being a chatbot and started being a coworker.

Business EditionAgentsTop 10
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Class Invite Jul 28, 2026

I'm teaching a free AI class this Saturday — want in?

Quick one, and it's a personal invite.

BTAI LiveTeaching
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Issue #14 Jul 26, 2026

The one where I made a robot survive the first week of school before the first week of school could survive me.

Back-to-School Edition — the fridge plan, the tax-free weekend map, and one prompt that does the whole thing.

FamilyPromptsBack-to-School
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Dispatch Jul 20, 2026

I said I built this myself. That's only half true.

FamilyPilot is live in all 50 states, and we signed our first paying family this week.

BuildingFamilyPilot
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Issue #13 Jul 19, 2026

The one where the robots all got smarter and I made a grocery list.

Everybody shipped a frontier model. I planned five dinners. Somebody had to.

PromptsFamilySteal This
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Issue #12 Jul 12, 2026

The one where the guy who fails at AI in private books a room and schedules the failure in public.

Eleven issues of faceplanting in the spare bedroom at 4 a.m. This month I booked a room and put it on a stage.

BTAI LiveTeaching
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Start Here Jul 9, 2026

Start Here

New here? This is the map.

Start HereBeginner
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Issue #11 Jul 5, 2026

The one where everybody figured out how to get rich off AI except the guy who accidentally started an AI company.

The two biggest AI companies on earth filed to go public. I spent the same month trying to get one human being to pay for a calendar.

MoneyIndustry
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Issue #10 Jun 28, 2026

The one where I learned the name of the thing I'd already been doing for nine months.

The whole internet discovered “loop engineering.” I discovered I'd accidentally built twenty of them in my spare bedroom.

WorkflowBuzzwords
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Issue #9 Jun 23, 2026

The one where I accidentally started a software company.

I tried to fix my own family calendar. It got out of hand.

BuildingFamilyPilot
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Issue #8 Jun 16, 2026

Claude Has Seven Floors. You're Using One.

A plain-English tour of all seven, including the floor I'm too scared to enter. Clip it to the fridge.

ClaudeBeginnerEvergreen
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Issue #7 Jun 7, 2026

Halftime

Six months into the pivotal year, six issues in, ninety-two subscribers strong. Let's see what we have figured out and what we have not.

Milestones
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Issue #6 Jun 1, 2026

The Banana

The one where I successfully made three AI videos and could not figure out how to show you any of them.

VideoGemini
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Issue #5 May 26, 2026

Google Built an AI That Simulates Reality. I Still Can't Get My Printer to Simulate Printing.

The one where I dream I've mastered AI video, build entire worlds, and wake up to a cold coffee in Connecticut.

VideoGemini
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Issue #4 May 17, 2026

Business Edition II — Live From The Road. The 10 AI Tools People Are Actually Talking About This Week.

Live from the National Restaurant Association Show. Plus the AI app I dictated this whole newsletter with.

Business EditionToolsTop 10
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Issue #3 May 11, 2026

The Top 10 AI Tools You Can Use Before Your First Coffee Monday Morning

Business Edition. For the people in sales, marketing, and the business of AI who keep visiting and not subscribing. Fair. Here's the issue I'd actually open.

Business EditionToolsTop 10Evergreen
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Issue #2 May 3, 2026

I Became The Man Who Hands That Decision To A Robot

Last week I said AI design tools scared me. Reader, I am that man.

DesignClaude
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Issue #1 Apr 26, 2026

AI Stops Sounding Like AI

I tried the Humanize Writing prompt. The score is now Brian: 1, AI: 4 trillion.

PromptsWritingEvergreen
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