🦾 Stop Dooming. Start Building.

We haven't colonized a single planet. Relax about running out of work.

Jul 04, 2026

Everyone's terrified AI is about to take their job. They've got this backward.

We haven't colonized a single planet. Every industry outside of tech is still broken. AI doesn't lower the ceiling on what's possible; it raises it. The building is infinite. Stop dooming. Start building.

-Colin
X-IG-TT

P.S. SCREENS WRECK YOUR OBIOLOGY. I know because I’m on screens for hours each day. And I started to feel it: Headaches, eye strain, blurry vision at night… and that wired feeling lying in bed when I should be falling to sleep. The cause? Bright screens and blue light. And that’s why I now wear these during the day (and at night when relaxing): LITEZ Screen Lens. BH readers get 10% off using code BHNL.

⛓️‍💥 Something useful

✍🏻 (he did) I Turned David Ogilvy's Writing Rules Into An AI Writing Coach (Free Claude Skill Inside)

📰 News

🛠️ One Build — The Broken Industry Map

Open Claude. List 5 industries you deal with regularly that still feel painfully broken.
Ask: "Which of these has a gap big enough that one motivated person with AI tools could meaningfully dent it in 12 months?"
Pick the one with the clearest wedge, not the biggest total market.
Write the one-sentence version of the fix. Save it for when you're ready to build.

🎯 Skill — BUILD THE NEXT THING

Spend 60 minutes sketching one thing you could build to fix a broken industry, not a pitch deck, a rough one-pager: who it helps, what it replaces, why now. AI didn't kill the job market. It handed you the tools to go build the next one. That's the way.

📈 Markets

🟢 Winners

META +8.8%. Bloomberg reported Meta is prepping its own cloud buildout to rent to others.
RIVN +13%. Rivian raised 2026 delivery guidance to 65,000-70,000 vehicles.
XLF (Financials) +2.2%. Sector rotation after Fed Chair Warsh said inflation risks have eased.

🔴 Losers

NBIS -17%. Nebius sank on fears Meta's buildout threatens its 27 billion dollar committed capacity deal.
CRWV -14%. CoreWeave fell on the same read-through against its 21 billion dollar Meta commitment.
TSLA -7.5%. Worst day in nearly a year despite strong Q2 deliveries, dragged down with the chip-sector selloff.

Money's rotating out of speculative AI-infrastructure bets into things that already print cash. Foundations over hype, same as always.

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From tweet above

Why it’s so hard to sit down and do the work

The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action. The pursuit of a goal brings order in awareness because a person must concentrate attention on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else.

– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Your mind is a supercomputer running the game of life.

Your attention (an incredibly scarce resource), is the RAM.

RAM, for the non-technical, means “random access memory.” It determines the performance of the computer.

The more programs and browser tabs you have open, the slower your computer will be. The mind works the same way, but there’s one major caveat... you have a threshold for how much your mind can process.

Humans can process around 50 bits of conscious information per second. The unconscious mind can manage about 11 million bits per second (this is for things like walking, sensing, accessing stored habits or patterns), but that’s aside the point.

In other words, when you add it up, you have about 125 billion bits of information to “use up” in your lifetime. That’s it. That’s your potential. Every single thing you give your attention lowers that number by a small amount. That should terrify you.

Sadly, most people live with multiple high-demand programs running at the same time. It’s no wonder they can’t focus. Their attention is split between thoughts about regretful past mistakes, thoughts about stressful future tasks, desires for pleasure and entertainment to escape those, and open loops of tasks they were supposed to complete but forgot about (I’m looking at you dudes who forgot to take out the trash).

The list of distractions goes on, and that’s the danger.

If you understand entropy, you understand that by doing nothing with your life, it only becomes more chaotic and overwhelming.

You don’t stay the same.

You dig yourself deeper into a rut without trying.

The good life demands consistent effort toward your own goals. You know the feeling. When everything aligns and you enter a blur of fulfilling work. I want to show you how to replicate it.

Entropy, for those wondering, is one of the most fundamental principles in physics. The simple version is that there are vastly more ways for things to be disorganized than organized, so systems naturally tend toward messier and often more chaotic states. Energy needs to be put into keeping things ordered.

As an everyday example, if you don’t put energy into maintaining your bookshelf, books will end up all over your house, at your friend’s house, and in places you didn’t think they could end up. The longer you go without organizing your shelf, the more effort it will take when you finally decide to.

Further, if you don’t put effort into cleaning your room, it will slowly get messier and messier until you’re late for work because your good socks are under a pizza box from last week.

Psychic entropy (or the mind tending toward disorder) can then be a useful metaphor to view focus and distractions through. This can be useful for creativity, as we will learn when we talk about a better type of routine, but when it comes to focused work, it’s obvious why you can’t laser in on one thing.

You aren’t productive because you don’t have clarity.

You don’t have clarity because you allow your attention to drift toward one distraction, and before you know it, your mind is like the end of a frat party. People passed out everywhere and you don’t even know where to start cleaning.

The good thing is that the solution is simple, but powerful.

🤖 The AI + Agent + Notion Database System I use to Run Everything… Now available in a ONE CLICK duplication template. Get a personal AI assistant + knowledge and work system in a few clicks… then have your agent update it and run it. All you have to do is type/talk.

AI is supposed to make you more productive. So why does it make you feel overwhelmed? Why do you feel like you’re spinning your wheels half the time?

Because with great power comes the responsibility of organizing it, and that ain’t easy.

You’re the database. Everything lives in your head, in 40 tabs, in “I’ll remember it later.”

You won’t. Follow-ups slip, tasks get forgotten, and you’re sure everyone’s using AI better than you. (Some are.. Most aren’t.)

My AI Agent OS flips this → One workspace for tasks, finances, CRM, work, and personal, that you talk to with any AI.

“What’s due today.” “Log this.” “Remind me Friday.”

Done. For. You. By. The. Robots.

Go full agent, and it updates itself 24/7 while you sleep, even texts you a daily briefing from Telegram. You go from being the database to having an agent run it for you.

It works day one with any AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Claw, all or one.

One-click duplicate, no code.

Your agent can send Slack messages and emails, run recurring tasks, send daily briefings and reports, manage your tasks and finances, and just about anything else you keep programming it to do.

This isn’t a chatbot (it forgets), a template (it’s empty), or a course (you never finish it). It’s a memory system engineered over the last three years for my own personal productivity and recently adapted for the AI age over the last 6 months.

What’s inside:

The foundational Agent/CLAW Databases to organize it all
The Work Database (projects ordered Gold/Silver/Bronze/Next, so Work FOMO is gone)
The Personal & Tasks Database (Boomerang defer-and-return so you never drop a ball)
The AI Skills Database (the foundational skills, sequenced, which ends AI FOMO)
a Quick-Start plus 2 short walkthroughs (under 20 min, not a course)
Bonus content systems area

$67 is the founding price. It rises every time I improve it. So lock it in now. This is going to end up at $199 in the not-too-distant future.

Do I need to be technical? No. Click Duplicate and talk to it with an AI you already use. The full agent is guided when you want it.

Do I pay for anything else? Not to start. It runs on free Notion and whatever AI you have. The autonomous agent runs on a cheap server (about a couple of coffees a month), totally optional.
Will I actually use it? The agent and DB infrastructure comes with you forever. Use it a little or a lot. It’s designed to scale with your life and work.
What if it’s not for me? Run it 30 days. If you don’t feel more in control, email me for a full refund. The risk is on me.

Every day you run this, you’re building a personal AI operating system that makes you harder to replace, a moat no one can copy.

Only $67 → 👉 LINK HERE ← Get it before the price goes up and lock in your 30-day money-back guarantee.

📊 Stats

Ammonium paratungstate jumped from 343 dollars to over 3,000 dollars per metric ton this year. Tungsten demand. Source: Bloomberg
US homeowners installed 673 megawatts of battery storage in Q1 2026, a new record, even after federal solar incentives disappeared. Source: Bloomberg
Subnautica 2's developers will be paid significantly more than their original 250 million bonus after the game sold over 4 million copies. Source: Bloomberg

🔥 Useful Sh!t Corner 🔥

🗓️ On this day in 1776 → The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
🦾 How to be dangerous → Learn to write one killer system prompt. Highest-leverage 30 minutes you'll spend on AI this year.
🌞 Health → Get outside before noon. Ten minutes of direct sunlight resets your circadian rhythm better than any late-night doomscroll fixes it.
🍳 Cooking → Grilling today? Salt your meat at least 40 minutes before it hits the grate; dry brine beats a marinade for a real crust.
💬 Quote → "Well done is better than well said." —Benjamin Franklin
🤖 AI reality check → AI still can't taste your cooking, hug your kid, or want anything for itself. Keep that in perspective today.

P.S. I’m on screens for hours each day. Headaches, eye strain, blurry vision at night… then that weird feeling when I lie down to sleep, even though I should be exhausted and falling asleep fast.

🧰 The Stack & The Goods

🛠️ The tools I actually run my business on → My Apps Stack (click here)

🛒 My favorite products, with subscriber discounts → My Favorite Products

👓 Starting at screens for hours each day started giving me headaches and blurry vision at night. Blue light and eye strain were the culprit. And it’s why I now wear these daily: LITEZ Screen Glasses. BH readers get 10% off using code BHNL

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