Every issue, in one place
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.
22 posts
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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackI'm teaching a free AI class this Saturday — want in?
Quick one, and it's a personal invite.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackI 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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackStart Here
New here? This is the map.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackThe one where I accidentally started a software company.
I tried to fix my own family calendar. It got out of hand.
Read on SubstackClaude 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.
Read on SubstackHalftime
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.
Read on SubstackThe Banana
The one where I successfully made three AI videos and could not figure out how to show you any of them.
Read on SubstackGoogle 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.
Read on SubstackBusiness 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.
Read on SubstackThe 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.
Read on SubstackI Became The Man Who Hands That Decision To A Robot
Last week I said AI design tools scared me. Reader, I am that man.
Read on SubstackAI Stops Sounding Like AI
I tried the Humanize Writing prompt. The score is now Brian: 1, AI: 4 trillion.
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