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AI Made Your Expertise Cheap. Now What?
Every service business is staring at AI knowing everything is changing and nothing is staying the same. That forces a bet: go premium, go volume, or shift to equipping. But all three bets share one dependency, and the same AI that made your expertise cheap is exactly how you feed it.
Learning in AI Is All About Exposure
I sat through a multi-hour AI training with 3,000 people and discovered less than 10% had ever tried a second tool. Comfortability keeps you stuck in the tool you started with. Exposure is how you get out, and here are two easy ways to choose it.
I Don’t Know Astro. I Don’t Know Payload CMS. My New Site Is Live Anyway.
I can’t write CSS. I can’t create Cloudflare Workers. But I can test them. The gap between ‘I don’t know how’ and ‘this is done’ has never been smaller.
Moving from WordPress to Astro/Payload
After 20 years on WordPress, I'm rebuilding for AI agents—not because WordPress failed, but because I want to play.
Why Great Leaders Focus on Destinations, Not Directions
Do you find yourself micromanaging your team's every move? Are you frustrated when people don't follow your exact instructions? Do you wonder why brilliant employees seem disengaged when given detailed step-by-step procedures? If you've experienced any of these situations, you're likely falling into a common leadership trap: confusing the destination with the journey. The Destination...
Do you know your focus toggle?
I couldn't get my camera to focus by pressing the shutter button down half-way. It has always worked in the past. I didn't understand what had happened. I started with checking the modes - was I in a different mode than normal? Nope. Then I went to the settings. I set the focus setting correctly.
Learning Something New
I graduated college 30 years ago. Email wasn't a big thing, and the web (and YouTube) didn't really exist. So imagine what it took, how much work was involved, to learn something new. I'm not saying I walked to school in the snow, uphill both ways. But learning something new meant either finding a mentor...
Grow Your Business Profits in 2023
If you're looking to grow profits next year, you've likely already made your plans for the new year. I get that. And it's the last days of this year, so you've stopped reading blogs. I get that too. But there's a good chance that while you've used one or a couple of the strategies below...
Want Different Results? Change The Game
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego - a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms, right on the sand, and invited everyone to just keep working on what they'd been...
Changing Things Up
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research lab. It's where I started working on web technologies in 1994. Not even a year...
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