I’ll share this becasue if it saves someone a few months of going round in circles, it’s worth it. I don’t have a massive Skool community. Especially not for the amount of work I’ve put in over the last couple of years. But I do have around 15,000 email subscribers. (Not huge by Nate's standards, but my niche at the time was a pet rabbit owner looking to extend their rabbit's life and make it better lol) I didn't get those subscribers from posting endlessly, chasing algorithms or trying to be everywhere at once. It came from one thing: interacting in other people’s communities. Not just Skool. Anywhere my people already are. No funnels at the start. No clever tactics. No “growth hacks”. Just showing up and being useful. What that actually looks like: Not lurking. Not dropping links. Not trying to stand out for the sake of it. Just: - answering real questions properly - giving advice you’d normally charge for - sharing what’s worked (and what hasn’t) - offering something helpful when it makes sense No pitch. No “DM me”. No awkward plug. People get curious. They check you out. They join your list. That’s where the real connection happens. And if you’re not building a list… you’re leaving money on the table. Where people go wrong: (Not you guys, of course!) They avoid this because it feels slow - (I've done this, it hurts...) So instead they: - post endlessly on social media - try to grow YouTube - spend weeks perfecting their classroom - build content no one’s even consuming It feels productive. It isn’t. If you don’t have a solid core offer, none of that really moves things forward. Everything in my classroom is free - the few people that have done the 4 steps to get them on the right track say it completely changed their business - but it's only about 1% of my members! Most people don’t want a full classroom - they never have time to sit through every lesson. They want help now. What to focus on instead... Keep it simple:

Anthropic just launched Managed Agents, and it's basically a way to build and deploy AI agents directly in their cloud without any infrastructure setup. In this video I walk through how they work, what they cost, and what I actually built with them. I also break down why I'm a little disappointed and when you should (or shouldn't) use them compared to tools like Claude Code, trigger.dev, or OpenClaw.

If you celebrate, I hope you have an amazing one. Take some time today to be with family and the people you care about. Enjoy it, the work will be here tomorrow.

Claude Code just added a virtual pet to your terminal. Type /buddy and it hatches a companion that watches you code, reacts to your mistakes, and has its own personality based on your coding history. There are 18 species, rarity tiers, shiny variants, and stats like DEBUGGING and CHAOS. It costs nothing and does nothing useful. It's just fun. Here's how it works and what I hatched.

In this video I walk through Paperclip, a free open-source tool that lets you build and run an entire company with AI agents. I set up a brand new company from scratch, show how the CEO agent hires engineers and delegates tasks, and break down how heartbeats, skills, routines, and budgets all work together. Whether you want to start a fully AI-run company or just automate a piece of your existing business, this covers everything you need to get going.