Creator Leverage: Master AI. Build Systems. Grow Your Business

I learnt to write the slow way. In my twenties, I did a four-year degree in journalism in Dublin. My journalism career was an embarrassing disaster as I couldn’t find full-time paying work. I scrapped together a few freelance gigs but I'd to supplement my income with a job as a care worker. But after working a few gigs as a tech journalist, I picked up pointers about writing to a deadline. Ship early and ship often. Later, I took creative writing classes in the Irish Writer’s Center in...

Here’s an interesting piece of AI research: A three-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D-CNN) tool can analyze magnetic resonance imaging scans from a patient and track brain changes over time. In short, boffins can now measure the pace of aging using AI. These morbid death clocks aren’t new, but they’ll only become more accurate with AI involved. It's unsettling when you think about this use case for our future robot overlords. It won’t be long before AI can tell my doctor the exact...

My Irish vampire look disappeared with this AI technique… I can come up with an idea for and bash out a daily email for my list in twenty minutes. Recording a YouTube video takes 1–3 hours, as I’ve to write the script, sort the lighting and warm up for the video. To maintain momentum for my channel, I batch record them. AI still helps me with this creative workflow. I spent last Wednesday recording a few for April. I created some over-the-shoulder tutorials about a new process for crafting AI...

I’m enlisting AI for different types of creative and business projects. Some of these are saving me time, some earned a chunk of $$$ and some are fun. Here are a few of my weirder use cases for our future AI overlords. As a ghostwriter. I enjoy writing, but I don’t like rewriting the same piece of content ten different times. AI is freeing me up from working as a word wrangler. I come up with an idea or create a piece of content once, and my custom Claude Project repurposes parts of it for...

Half of X is fighting over an AI-written story. A new OpenAI model wrote a short story about grief this week. Half of X wants access to the model behind it, the other half is calling out the output as absolute slop. OpenAI Sam Altman says they trained this new GPT model on creative writing (He doesn’t elaborate on what type of data). This model isn’t available publicly yet, so AI spammers can hold off on killing short story contests everywhere. Altman wrote a basic prompt for this model,...

Crowdfunding book publisher Unbound collapsed into administration this month, leaving authors in limbo. The company launched in 2011 as a place where writers could pitch book ideas to readers. They’d get paid to write their books in advance and split some of the proceeds with Unbound, kind of like Kickstarter. Boundless Publishing Group acquired Unbound along with its intellectual property. Now, they’re saying authors will get paid via a “payment plan”. I wonder if these authors can spout the...

This week, the world’s most expensive dog sold for a massive $5 million in India. Celeb Indian dog collector S Sathish spent over 500 million rupees on Cadabomb Okami. His new dog is a cross between a wolf and a Caucasian Shepherd. Eight months old, the dog weighs 75kg and is 30 inches tall when standing. Don’t judge Sathish for a vanity purchase. He’s the president of the Indian Dog Breeder’s Association and owns over 150 rare dogs. He previously bought Chow-Chow, a small dog resembling a...