I talk a lot about using AI to handle my content, my systems, and the techy work I'd rather not do. Today showed me what all of that is for. Here's what I made today: a painted canvas, two trays of hand-painted seashells, and a plate of crispy breadsticks. AI didn't paint those shells. But AI is part of why I had an afternoon free to paint them. My hot take is that the goal isn't to do more. It's to hand off the draining stuff so you get your hands back for the things that make you feel human. What would you do with an extra afternoon each week if AI took one task off your plate?

I'm 50-something, not a filmmaker, and today I made a music video. Here's the actual workflow, in case it sparks something for you: 1. The song: I wrote the lyrics and generated the song in Suno. 2. The footage: No filming day. I used what I already had: phone videos, old posts, photos of my pets, the beach. 3. The editing: I gave Claude my song and my files. It pulled the lyrics and their timing from the audio, cut the visuals to the beat, matched images to the words ("dreams tucked in a notebook" → my actual stack of notebooks), and added the on-screen lyrics. 4. My job: Taste. I watched it, gave notes ("cut that," "bigger here," "that's too long"), and it revised. The lesson: The bottleneck wasn't skill or software anymore. It was deciding what I wanted to say. What's something you've been putting off because you thought you needed a skill you don't have? 👇

When you sit down to do a task, where do you usually get stuck? The start, the middle, or finishing it? For me it is the start. What about you??

Three more guests just landed on the calendar for my podcast, Figureoutable Conversations. That makes this a good moment to say something out loud: The AI Advantage is the only reason my podcast is even possible. Without what I've learned here, there would have been NO WAY I'd have accomplished as much as I have this year. Starting a podcast would have been nearly impossible to figure out on my own without all the tools now available. Guest scheduling, prep, follow-ups, all of the behind-the-scenes work I used to think would require a team, I'm doing with AI as my support crew. If you're on the fence about putting what you learn here into action, this is your sign. It works. 💛

Start of the week. What is one thing you are working on right now? Big or small, I would like to hear it. Maybe somebody here can help.