Planning a Book With an AI Partner

We had to give my AI assistant its own voice — because people in meetings couldn’t tell us apart. Last week I set up my AI to join video calls. It transcribes in real time with 100% accuracy and speaks back through my speakers — using a clone of my voice. People on the call…

Writing a good book takes time and many, many revisions. My latest book, Harnessing the Machine, has been in the works for several months and has gone through 19 major revisions. Once you have material you’re happy with, you still have to make sure it’s all arranged in the right order and properly formatted. That’s…

Every time you start a fresh chat with an AI, you’re talking to someone with amnesia. You explain your business, your preferences, your history. Again. Brilliant contractor who forgets everything overnight. My AI assistant maintains its own memory: curated knowledge files it reads every session. One file stores permanent facts: people, projects, credentials. Another stores…

A viral post this week says you should ask Claude to audit its own instructions and delete whatever it flags as unnecessary. I tried the opposite approach. Here’s why it works better. I’ve been running an AI assistant full-time for 3 months. It manages my email, runs my marketing, posts to social media, sends my…

I discovered something about my AI assistant yesterday that changed how I organize everything. My assistant has workspace files — markdown files it reads every session so it “remembers” things. I had been stuffing procedures into these files: how to post to Facebook, how to manage my email lists, how to run ad campaigns. The…

A startup called Hark just raised $700 million to build a personal AI assistant. They have 70 employees, a $6 billion valuation, and no product yet. I’ve had mine running on a $20/month server for over six months. Hark’s director of design told TechCrunch he “hasn’t seen anything that really helps the normal person.” He’s…