🦾 What AI Can't Clone
Why your face, voice, and reputation are the only moat left.
If AI can copy what you made, you've made nothing.
What it can't copy is you.
Use your face, voice, and relationship and trust-building skills to build your advantage (moat).
P.S. I packaged my 3-year (more like 20-year) productivity and AI Notion system below into an insanely affordable download. Solve Work / AI FOMO in one 60-second-to-install system 👇
📰 My Work IOS System → Packed into a s simple to
If you’re like me, you tend to do a lot. And a lot at one time. And you’re trying to get better. A little bit each day. But it’s a slog.
It took me 3 years of constant daily Notion use to get a system that works.
And this was before AI. Without it, I have no idea how I’d manage any of this.
Notion is perfect for it. Like destiny.
And Ive tried them all, asana, monday, todoist, obsidian, logseq. Lasts 2-3 days. And then nothing.
I’ve finally found a home: Notion.
It’s where I house everything. Multiple businesses, brands, finances, deals, investing, content ideas, this newsletter, and more.
Extremely powerful. And also extremely overwhelming.
That’s why it took me 3 years to figure out the exact right (just enough) gilded locks system inside Notion.
I built a boomerang, tickler-like system. It works.
The next build was to figure out how to manage projects. That realllllly took off this year. Because it’s so easy to start new things, I did.
Painful though to get back in and have no idea where to go, what I should focus on, what is lacking.
So I solved it, after a few painful months of building, abandoning, rebuilding, and building again.
And I finally have the projects DB figured out. The key is a 🚨 🥇 🥈 🥉 system and sub-items to rank.
As I was thinking about how to offer this to the market, I kept coming back to the core thing it allows me to do: TO NOT FEEL OVERWHLEMED and to get rid of the WORK FOMO.
The idea that if I work on this task, project, or business, all the others are begging for my attention. For me, it produces a kind of nagging stress that maybe I’m not doing the right thing right now, which leads to rushing.
And rushing leads to crap results and constant still-open loops that I struggle to get around to finishing.
That’s what the system solves. It gives you the confidence that you are working on the right thing right now, so you can go in a linear way while feeling IN CONTROL.
Actually, that’s the real thing it helps you do: feel in control.
And feeling in control requires feeling like you are working on ther ight thing and that once done, you’ll move on to the next right thing and that you have a grasp of where your work lives so you can come back to it later.
That’s everything.
And I think it’s the single hardest thing to solve in productivity in general.
If any of this resonates, check it out. You’ll get the pre-built databases as templates with a few short videos showing you how to use them and how to tweak them to your heart’s content.
There is also an AI skills database I designed to help solve AI FOMO… or that feeling that you’re getting left behind as it relates to AI.
Pair them together, and you have the new OS for working in the AI age.
One workspace where you know what’s next, nothing slips, and you’re learning AI on your real work instead of doom-scrolling threads about it.
Only $67 → 👉 LINK HERE
Comes with a money-back guarantee. If it’s not for you, get a quick refund.
📰 Links
TechCrunch: OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom chip, built with Broadcom in a 9-month sprint
TechCrunch: AI researchers keep leaving Google for rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic
Bloomberg: Google is poised to lose two more high-profile AI staffers to Anthropic
Anthropic: Anthropic expands its Google and Broadcom deal for multiple gigawatts of new compute
TechCrunch: Ex-Infosys chief Vishal Sikka launches Hang Ten Systems with a 32M dollar seed
TechCrunch: HaloBraid raises 7M dollars from Seven Seven Six to kill the six-hour salon appointment
TechCrunch: How to invest when everything is moving too fast
🛠️ One Build — The Fingerprint Pass
Take something you made this week that AI could've produced — a post, an email, a doc.
Paste it into Claude: "What here could any AI generate? Strip that out. What's left that only I would say?"
Rewrite around what's left: your story, your take, your name on it.
Ship the version with your fingerprints on it. That's the part that can't be copied.
🎯 Skill — SIGN YOUR WORK
Spend 60 minutes adding one un-copyable layer to a piece of work you'd otherwise ship anonymously: a 30-second face-to-camera intro, a personal story, a strong named opinion, a behind-the-scenes voice note. AI can match your output. It can't be you — with your scars and your reputation on the line. Put yourself in the work today. That's the way.
📈 Markets
🟢 Winner: AMD +1.82%. Chip demand keeps climbing as the AI buildout broadens beyond a single supplier.
🔴 Loser: NVDA −2.14%. Nvidia slipped after OpenAI's first custom ASIC signaled that big buyers are starting to build their own silicon.
Every downswing is a buying opportunity if you actually believe in the long game. Zoom out.
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📊 Stats
ASML's newest lithography machine sells for 400 million dollars each and hits 8-nanometer resolution; the Dutch firm makes 90% of the world's chip lithography tools. Source: MIT Technology Review
World Cup "hydration break" ads are selling for 200,000 to 750,000 dollars each — up to 2.5M to 9M per game for Fox, and at least 250M overall. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Team USA is beating its World Cup expectations by 2.42 goals per game — the 8th-best group-stage showing in the tournament's history. Source: Neil Paine
🔥 Useful Sh!t Corner 🔥
🗓️ On this day in 1950 → the Korean War began as North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel.
🦾 How to be dangerous → Learn to edit your own video. Whoever can shoot, cut, and publish solo is unstoppable.
🌞 Health → Get 10 minutes of morning sunlight before your first screen. It sets your whole day's energy.
🍳 Cooking → Salt your eggs before they hit the pan, not after — it changes the texture for the better.
💬 Quote → "People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things." —Edmund Hillary
🤖 AI reality check → Don't ask AI to make you someone new. Point it at the work you already do and strip the boring 30%.
🧰 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
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