🦾 The New Flex
Not coding. Thinking with AI every day until your brain rewires.
The new flex is knowing how to use AI to create a better life for yourself.
You use it to build things, to get more done in less time, to create better products and services, and to better satisfy your customers.
It’s also knowing what’s hype and what’s real.
It’s not doomer-ing. It’s not being worried about the future cuz you’re excited about it.
You’re excited to be alive right now, in an age when more is changing faster than ever before, and more abundance is available to all than at any point in human history.
Then using these new tools to live a healthy, free, and functional life.
Plenty of people have fame, fortune, and riches, yet are miserable, unhealthy, completely dysregulated, stressed, and anxious 99% of the time.
What the fk is the point of that?
SO some strangers think you are “cool”?
Human nature is so dman predcitable.
The flex is understanding your own and acting accordingly.
We are here to use AI to become better humans and spend more of our time doing human things:
Community and connection
Using our hands
Going outside
Let the robots take care of as much as possible.
Get back your time.
The goal is not joining some dystopian metaverse future. The goal is getting outside with others, having fun, and being in the moment. And letting AI—and soon robots—do the ‘heavy lifting’ for us.
This is the way.
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📰 Links
CNBC: Cybersecurity stocks surge on IBM's warning while Nvidia climbs on China news
TradingKey: AMD jumps 6% as ZTE and Kingsoft Cloud get cleared to buy its AI chips
CNBC: Stripe and Advent offer 53 billion dollars to take PayPal private
Motley Fool: IBM slides 25% after a profit warning as cooler inflation lifts growth stocks
TheStreet: Nasdaq climbs on cooler inflation and tech strength
Skift: Even a home World Cup could not stop the decline in visitors to the US
NYT: Physicists finally solve the Feynman reverse sprinkler problem, 143 years later
🛠️ One Build — The Daily Rewire
Pick the first real task you would normally grind through solo tomorrow morning.
Open Claude and think through it out loud: paste the context, state the outcome, and ask it to challenge your approach before it does anything.
Run every meaningful task through that loop for one full day. Not busywork. The real ones.
At the day's end, ask: "Based on today, which task should I never do manually again?" Build that handoff tomorrow.
Repeat daily. 90 days of reps puts you ahead of 99% of people. Not because you are smarter. Because you showed up.
🎯 Skill — THINK WITH IT
Spend 60 minutes running your hardest current problem through AI as a thinking partner. Not asking for output. Arguing with it. Stress-testing your plan, making it poke holes, defending your calls out loud.
The rewiring happens in the back-and-forth, not the copy-paste. One full session today. That's the way.
📈 Markets
🤖 AI
🟢 AMD +6.1%. ZTE and Kingsoft Cloud cleared to buy its AI chips; BofA lifted its target to 620.
🟢 NVDA +3.5%. Fresh China license approvals kept the AI trade bid.
🔴 No confirmed big AI-name losers at Tuesday's close. The whole complex bounced off Monday's selloff.
🔴 The only red in AI was leftover Monday damage. Watch guidance season for the next real test.
💻 Tech
🟢 QQQ +1.1%. Nasdaq led as a cool 3.5% CPI pulled yields down.
🟢 Cybersecurity names surged as IBM's stumble sent buyers hunting for safer software.
🔴 IBM −25%. Profit warning on soft software and infrastructure demand. The crater of the day.
🔴 Outside IBM the tech tape was green. That is the honest read.
🏦 Finance
🟢 JPM, GS and BAC all beat Q2 on strong trading. Big banks opened earnings season hot.
🟢 BLK +5% premarket Wednesday after a clean Q2 beat (13.91 vs 12.59 expected EPS).
🟢 PYPL +19% premarket Wednesday on a reported 53 billion dollar Stripe and Advent buyout offer.
🔴 No standout finance losers Tuesday. Bank beats carried the bucket.
🌎 Other
🟢 Energy held its bid as oil stayed elevated on the Iran standoff.
🟢 Treasuries rallied. Yields fell as CPI matched its 2020 lows.
🔴 Travel remains soft. Overseas US visitors fell 1.8% in June even with a home World Cup.
🔴 No other confirmed big red closes Tuesday. Broad tape leaned green.
Colin take: cool inflation plus bank beats says the boring economy is fine. The AI tape is rewarding reps and real licenses, not demos. Same rule applies to you.
🐦 Tweet
🤖 The top 1% of AI users did not learn to prompt harder. They installed a system.
Everyone else opens a blank chat, types, copies, pastes, and starts from zero again tomorrow.
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Your tasks, projects, CRM and emails live in databases your agent actually manages. You stop being the operating system. You just ask, "What's next?"
Every day you run it, you compound: a personal AI operating system nobody can copy and no employer can take away.
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📊 Stats
A New York man collected 1.3 million dollars from 107 class action settlements using 480 fake bank accounts. Hustle, meet felony. Source: Insurance Journal
Launch costs are projected to fall to 273 dollars per kilogram by 2040, down from 87,000 dollars in the 1960s. Space is deflating like software. Source: University of Cambridge
Ukraine has hit 116 Russian-linked ships in nine days, effectively closing the Sea of Azov to commercial traffic. Source: gCaptain
🔥 Useful Sh!t Corner 🔥
🗓️ On this day in 1799 → French soldiers in Egypt found the Rosetta Stone. One artifact rewired how humanity reads the past.
🦾 How to be dangerous → Run your next hard decision through AI as a devil's advocate before you commit. Ten minutes, zero cost.
🌞 Health → Take your caffeine 90 minutes after waking, not immediately. Ride your natural cortisol first.
🍳 Cooking → Dry your protein with paper towels before searing. Water is the enemy of crust.
💬 Quote → "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." —Will Durant
🤖 AI reality check → The model does not make you smarter. The daily reps of thinking with it do.
🧰 The Stack & The Goods
🛠️ The tools I actually run my business on → My Apps Stack (click here)
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