Microwins have a Domino Effect.

I spent two years on ChatGPT thinking I was the smartest person in the room.

I was not the smartest person in the room.

A few weeks ago I fell down a rabbit hole - Interpretable Context Methodology. People building things I didn't have words for yet: doctrine documents, persistence layers. So naturally, I did what any sensible person does when they encounter something they don't understand.

I started building it immediately.

I had cement. No foundation. No walls. No idea what I was constructing or why. Just a bag of cement and a lot of confidence.

Two to three days. Four to five hours a day. I built a system I couldn't explain to anyone, including myself.

Same energy went into my first brand voice doc. Wrote it, handed it straight to Claude, thought the output was genuinely brilliant at 12 at night.

Came back the next morning to start recording - Sounded nothing like me.

Turns out you're supposed to test a brand document before you generate from it. Nobody tells you that. They assume you already know. I did not already know. Which is crazy to think about but we will side table this for now 👀 😂.

Here's what two weeks of learning the hard way actually taught me:

The tool isn't the problem. The thinking is the problem. And fixing the thinking - slowing down long enough to understand what you're building before you build it - changes everything about what comes out the other side.

I'm just another business owner in South Africa. Not a crazy developer. Not super technical. I can occasionally English - and, well apparently, that's enough.

There have been a few people in this community that have really changed the way I approach my day-to-day and I just want to again say thank you for helping me level up, and always being willing to lend a helping hand.

@Bas Rosario

@Curtis Hays

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