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Aug '25 •
Why I built this community, and what you can expect here
Look. I’m not a developer, and I’ve never written a line of code in my entire life. I didn’t go to college. I started my first company at 48 with zero experience owning a business, and I’ve started three since then. I’m telling you that up front because I know exactly what it feels like to open up an AI tool and have no idea what you’re looking at. There seem to be all these different versions out there, and everybody’s throwing around words like agents and models and prompts like you’re supposed to already know what those mean. I didn’t know either. It took me a while to kind of figure it out. And you know how I figured it out? Research. YouTube. Books. Asking a LOT of questions when I didn’t have the answers. YouTube is hands down the best place to learn, and it’s free. So I built this community to be the place I wish I’d had when I started. Here’s what you can expect: Plain English. If I use a term, I’ll tell you what it means. Real tools you can actually open up and use, not theory about what AI might do someday. Practical stuff you can put to work this week. Not a semester. This week. Questions welcome, all of them. If you’re wondering what a prompt is, ask. Nobody here is going to make you feel behind for starting at the beginning. AI is not going to do the work for you. Nothing built amazing has ever been done without hard work, and that hasn’t changed. But you do not need a degree, a dev background, or permission from anybody to start. You just need to jump in. Start here: drop a comment and introduce yourself. Tell us what you do, and one thing you’d love AI to take off your plate. That’s it. That’s your first step.
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Sep 13 •
No question is too basic in here. Go.
This category is open and I mean it. What's a prompt. What's the difference between Claude and ChatGPT. Why does it make stuff up. Is the free version good enough. Which one should I even start with. How do I stop it sounding like a robot. What's an API and do I need to care. Ask it. Nobody in here is going to make you feel behind for starting at the beginning, and that includes me, because I started at the beginning too and there was nobody to ask. I'll answer every single one. And listen, if you've been sitting on a question for weeks because it felt too dumb to type out loud, that is exactly the one I want. Somebody else is wondering the same thing and is too nervous to go first. Go first.
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Sep 13 •
A decent thumbnail in about five minutes, free
You do not need a design degree and you do not need to pay anybody. What I actually do: Open Canva, free account is fine. Search the template for whatever you're making, YouTube thumbnail, Instagram post, whatever. Pick a plain one, not a busy one. Then swap three things and only three things. The words. The photo. The colors, to yours. Rules that took me too long to learn. Six words maximum, and they should be readable on a phone from across the room. One bright color, not five. A real face beats a stock graphic almost every time. And if you want the words to be better, ask AI first: Give me 10 options for text on a thumbnail. The video is about (topic). Max 6 words each. Make them make somebody curious, not clickbait. I'm talking to (who). Pick the one that makes you a little uncomfortable. That's usually the one. Make one this week and post it here. Rough is fine. Rough and posted beats perfect and sitting in a folder.
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Sep 13 •
Steal this: turn a brain dump into something you can actually send
You know the thing where you know what you want to say, you say it out loud fine, and then you sit down to write it and nothing comes out right? Stop writing. Start dumping. Open a voice-to-text note or just type badly on purpose. Get every thought out in whatever order it falls. Spelling doesn't matter. Then paste the mess in with this: Below is a messy brain dump. I know what I want to say, I just can't organize it. Turn this into a clean (email / post / proposal section / SOP). Keep my actual words and phrasing wherever you can, because it should still sound like me. Do not add anything I didn't say. If something's missing or unclear, ask me instead of filling it in yourself. Here it is: (paste your mess) That last instruction is the important one. Without it you get back something polished and confident that includes things you never said, and you won't catch it because it reads well. This is the prompt I use most. Try it on the thing sitting in your drafts folder right now.
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Sep 13 •
What an agent actually is, in plain English
Everybody throws the word agent around like you're supposed to already know what it means. I didn't know either. Here's the way I finally got it. Regular AI is like texting a really smart friend. You ask, they answer, and then they go back to their life. Nothing happens until you text again. An agent is like hiring somebody. You tell them the job once, you tell them what they're allowed to touch, and then they go do it whether or not you're standing there. That's the whole difference. One waits for you. The other one works. A real example from my week. Every morning at 6:30 there's a document sitting there telling me what's on my calendar, what came in overnight that matters, and the one thing I should do first. I didn't write it. I don't ask for it. It just shows up, because I hired something to do it once. You don't need one of these on day one. But when the same task shows up every week and you're sick of it, that's the one to hand over. What's the task that shows up every single week for you? Name it in the comments. That's your first agent.
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