Your AI forgets everything overnight. Here’s the fix.
Skills are the reason I can go back and forth between Claude and ChatGPT without either one noticing they’re in timeout. Last week I told you I’d walked out on Claude and taken my second brain with me. Several of you asked what’s in there, so let’s start a little deep dive. The short answer […]
I switched AI tools and took my brain with me
Photo by Growtika on Unsplash Every AI tech bro on the internet is currently building a second brain and would love to tell you about it at length on their podcast or YouTube channel. Annoyingly, they have a point. There are several good reasons to build one, and my current favorite is being able to […]
You Already Said Yes to the Index
Every author group I hang out in runs the same ritual every week. Someone drops a screenshot of their copyright page into the chat that’s some variation of: “No part of this book may be used to train artificial intelligence.” Forty people pile in with “Stealing this!” Everyone exhales and goes back to writing, feeling […]
Claude for Authors, Part 3: Connectors, Skills, and the Plumbing That Makes Cowork Actually Useful
Last week I walked you through getting the desktop app set up, why Cowork lives there instead of the web, and what a terminal is for those of you who remember installing Oregon Trail from a floppy disk. (The number of you who DM’d me about dying of dysentery was deeply validating.) This week we’re […]
Claude for Authors, Part 2: Getting Set Up (And Why I Changed My Mind About the Desktop App)
Photo by Robynne O on Unsplash Last week, over 700 of you showed up for the AI for Author Business Summit. I had planned to pre-record some sessions to save my voice, but Anthropic kept shipping updates faster than I could finish a slide deck, so we did the whole thing live. My voice survived. […]
Claude for Authors: The Three Tools You’re Probably Only Using One Of
I’ve been getting the same question from about forty different directions since Ireland: “What is Claude Code and why won’t you shut up about it.” (Fair.) So I made two things. I’ve been getting the same question from about forty different directions since Ireland: “What is Claude Code and why won’t you shut up about […]
I Built the Thing That Replaced My Own Workflow
I’m writing this from Canterbury, which is where I usually post up after a string of conferences on this side of the Atlantic. (After Author Nation it’s my mom’s place in Lake Tahoe. After Europe it’s Canterbury. I have decompression spots the way some people have lucky socks.) This is where I process what I’ve […]
The Two-Word Conversation Happening in Every Indie Author Conference Hallways
Exactly six years ago, I was sitting in a B&B in Northern Ireland trying to figure out how to get back to the States. The world had other plans, and I decided it was safer to stay put. I stayed for four months. During that weird, suspended stretch of time, a group of author friends […]
Everyone teaches you what AI can do. Almost nobody teaches you where to draw the lines.
I’m writing this from a corporate apartment in Savannah that I booked because it’s in the same building as a Regus co-working space. I have a Regus subscription now — ten days a month in a private office in any country — and over the past two years, I’ve been rating their locations the way […]
The Newsletter of a Thousand Announcements
Actual representation of all the things I have to tell you this week. I sat down to write this week’s newsletter and realized I have no fewer than six things to tell you about, which means one of two things: either I’ve been wildly productive or I’ve lost all sense of pacing. (It’s both. It’s […]
