🦾 One Window At A Time

The next big edge in content isn’t AI. It's you.

Jun 09, 2026

🧠 Be irreplaceable: Build The AI Mind and Personal Moat.

Fellow Human,

I can’t tell you enough about the importance of doing one thing in one window at a time.

I’m getting to the point where I am purposely isolating something into a single blank screen and then trying to only work there as much as I can. The more you’re task-jumping and window-jumping, the harder it is to keep a strong context. That means you’re going to have weaker results.

I think they’re going to be writing books about this.

This is a huge problem right now: the sheer overwhelm of what you can build, what you can do, what you can use the tools for…. It’s too much.

The human mind isn’t designed for it.

Some will excel here, and most won’t.

It’s kinda like modern obesity. Most humans today are not adapting to our environment… they get sicker, weaker daily. And mortality rates are skyrocketing.

This next wave of AI and work is going to be like that. We will see a power curve (not a bell curve) where a small percentage of people get outsized results because they are able to utilize these new forms of leverage.

And the thing about leverage is, when you use it compared to someone who isn’t, you get FAR FAR FAR ahead.

The whole task-switching, doing a lot at once thing also showcases the importance of needing a very, very, very solid foundational organization system.

A lot of people are using Obsidian for this. You can use Notion for this.

Either way, you just want to have one index of everything, and in that index, you should have all of your personal info, business info, everything you can.

This will be your BRAIN that your AIs work from.

This itself is a skill. It’s hard to remember to put stuff here and to keep it organized. Of course, you can now just give that to the AI.

But you have to reinforce the system on a regular basis. Your agent, if you have one, isn’t going to just add things here unless you instruct.

I made this mistake over the past 60 days or so, where my Notion just grew in complexity all over the place. So what I’m doing now is taking the time to hold off on building anything new. And that’s hard. SOOO many shiny objects.

My new work rules are going to look something like this:

One: Only put work inside the database and the project it belongs to. No new phantom cards, projects, or databases.

Two: I continually take time to look at what I’m working on and make sure that if I’m jumping from project to project or business to business, I’m not just doing things randomly because I happened to look at it and it sounded fun to tackle. A lot of times, I’ll start working on something just because it showed up, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best thing I should be doing.

Here are some ideas for you:

Commit to this now, build a foundation, and do your best to never deviate from it.
Start with a personal index in one database. You can even have Claude build this for you. The Notion integration with Claude is very good, and it does stuff pretty well.
Put finances, life goals, health, whatever you need, all into that personal index.
Make the next database your project’s index. All projects, businesses, and anything you’re working on should live in project management, since you’ll be using it operationally on a regular basis. You can get to the point where you have Claude or your agent move tasks around for you. Maybe you can even retire from managing the tasks and data yourself. That way, you don’t run into the problems of most project management software, where you lose context, miss the order of things, bury tasks, forget to update them, and it all falls apart.
Finally, you have to commit to only putting things in the EXACT area. Really try to make it your operational hub. Be very strict with this. Only put things in your personal index that belong there for the long run. Don’t put tasks there and turn it into a task thing. And keep tasks for projects in the exact project area, tagged with the exact order you should attack them in.

That is literally everything. If you can commit to that, that’s a foundation for building with AI in this next wave of knowledge work.

-Colin

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🧑🏼‍💻 The 5-Min Build — The Inbox Triage Agent 🛠️

Give Claude your inbox for 5 minutes and get back an empty one.

Open Claude and paste your 20 most recent unread emails. Subject lines and first sentences are enough.
Tell it: sort these into 3 buckets. Reply now, Delegate or automate, Delete.
Have it draft a 1-line reply for everything in the Reply now bucket.
Review for 30 seconds, then send.
Save the prompt. Run it every morning at the same time. That’s the system.

The payoff: inbox zero stops being a personality trait and becomes a 5-minute routine.

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⚡ The Prompt — “The Morning Triage”

Here are my unread emails: [paste subjects + first lines].
Sort them into 3 buckets: Reply now, Delegate or automate, Delete.
For each Reply now, draft a reply in under 50 words.
Flag anything that smells like an opportunity I shouldn’t miss.
Keep it in my voice — direct, no corporate filler.

📈 The Money

Inflation will eat you alive.

Like frogs, a slow boil, so most don’t realize they are being boiled to death (financially).

My strategy is simple:

Buy tech monopolies.

Buy these newer AI/Chip monopolies.

Buy Bitcoin bec it has a monopoly on being the only hard unprintable money in the Universe.

And invest in my businesses.

And don’t try to trade. Just keep buying.

YOU WANT TO OWN ASSETS. YOU do not want to sell them. When you sell, you get cash. Then it starts rotting away. So you have to put it somewhere else.

Keep cash reserves, yes, like USDC or something like Wealthfront, where you can earn 3-5% or so on it. But def don’t keep your net worth in it unless you want to see 10-15% of it rot away every year.

Not financial advice of course

📰 Links

📊 Stats (stats source)

More than one in five corporate directors at America’s biggest companies are now over 70. That’s 22.7% of Russell 3000 board seats, up from 18.4% in 2023. The people steering the AI era mostly came up in the typewriter era. Source: Bloomberg

Cocoa jumped from $2,846 a ton to $10,710 in about two years, so the world’s largest chocolate supplier is now making chocolate out of sunflower seeds. Volatility forces invention. Source: Food Dive

Astronomers clocked gas screaming into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, the fastest quasar wind ever recorded. The universe still out-flexes anything we’re building. Source: Phys.org

🤖 Tools Corner (Tools I use)

🛍️ Shopify: I run my brands on Shopify for a reason: it works, it scales, and it keeps the whole business easier to manage.

🎥 Opus Clips: My team uses to get instant clips from my YouTube videos. Stop letting good content die after one post.

✍🏻 Claude: I started out with GPT first. Then Claude flew past them with Notion, Sheets, and Cowork.

♠️ GPT: I use it for image gen and simple tasks. I do prefer the interface to Claude. I just wish it had Sheets and Notion integrations. Come on.

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👋 I’m Colin. Father, founder, and Investor. X, IG → Drop feedback here

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