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607 issues on writing, AI and building things with Claude Code. Newest first.
2026
- I use three CLAUDE md files with Claude Code
- I tested my own email signup and got a notice saying "subscribed"
- I stopped paying for high-priced SEO tools.
- I pointed Claude at 7,000 notes I had written over years.
- I built a monitor that emails me what broke across my sites
- Claude Code kept forgetting what I was working on.
- 34 of my Claude Code skills had never been used. Not once.
- I used to decide what to build next by guessing.
- My site was quietly losing email subscribers.
- Claude Code is my YouTube channel producer
- I batch-created a month of Pinterest pins in one session
- Claude Design vs Claude Code
- I tested Claude Code Ultrareview this week
- Nobody pre-ordered this. I built it anyway.
- I went looking for where this all started
- A decade on this list — and the 10 emails you opened most
- I built my own training coach in an afternoon (no subscription)
- Most people open Claude Code and start typing. Here's what I do instead.
- The $1M offer I refused (and what I'm building instead)
- Closing tonight
- 48 hours until Prompt Writing Studio closes forever
- Why PWS is closing (the real reason)
- Free lesson: the four-part prompt framework
- What you'll actually be able to do with Prompt Writing Studio
- Why I built Prompt Writing Studio (and why it's closing forever)
- What's actually inside Prompt Writing Studio
- I turned a YouTube video into a newsletter email in 30 seconds
- I schedule my newsletter from the terminal (here's why)
- I automated my content calendar with 6 Python scripts
- I spent $697 on Claude Code last month. Here's what I learned.
- James Patterson popped into my inbox
- I mass-accepted every AI code change for a week
- I asked my AI to grade itself (the performance review I wasn't ready for)
- 7 Claude Code workflows I use every day (most people know zero)
- My Telegram AI assistant is a real time saver
- I quit using ChatGPT for coding
- I coded an AI endurance coach in 30 minutes
- I asked AI to test itself (it found a bug I missed)
- How I manage 7,000 notes with Claude Code
- Stop manually organizing your notes (AI does it faster)
- Fixed my analytics in 5 minutes with Cursor
- My new content strategy: Build first, document second.
- How I stopped using AI like a search engine
- I spent 3 weeks building with AI. Here's what actually worked.
- How I organize a dozen coding projects (without losing my mind)
- How I turned 1,000+ notes into content gold with Claude
- I wrote a manifesto about plain text 3 years ago. It just paid off.
- Untitled issue
- How I organize 20+ coding projects (without losing my mind)
- How I'm Using Claude Code for My Note Taking System
- Turn AI into your personal teacher (steal this)
- Steal my "Template Pattern" for AI workouts
- My new favorite teacher is a robot 🤖
- How to write perfect prompts (The COSTAR Framework)
- Question for you
- Amazon is giving my books away
- Can you make money vibe coding?
- Are you joining us?
- Decision time: (Doors close tomorrow)
- Thousands of 5-star reviews (and a gift for you)
- Should you join the Creator White Space Challenge?
- A peak inside my 30 day challenge for creators
- What’s In (and Out) for 2026
2025
- McDonalds AI ad fail
- Is content publishing dead?
- I turned MBA theory into real tools
- Get everything from inside my newsletter vault
- I've sent 1,305 newsletters (here's what actually works)
- Your "coldest" subscriber might become your most loyal customer
- My best-selling creativity book? Amazon is giving it away!
- Cyber Monday: Get both courses (save even more)
- Final hours for Cyber Monday pricing
- How many courses are sitting in your "I'll get to it eventually" folder?
- Why "bell" returns zero results (but "doorbell" works)
- Black Friday deal (that's not bullsh*t)
- 9 years on my list (then finally bought)
- Why AI keeps giving you garbage (it's not AI's fault)
- I paid $500 for garbage (and learned nothing)
- I gave away my AI tools, kept the instruction manual
- This tool will FIX broken AI prompt
- I don't know what an LLM is!
- How much can AI save your business?
- Steal these AI prompt templates
- The MBA framework that’s actually useful
- [Tutorial] How to write an Abstract
- How to use Google Business: Step-by-Step
- This time tomorrow, you'll either be in... or still waiting
- Final hours: Don't let perfectionism win again
- Why your "insatiably curious mind" keeps sabotaging your projects
- Stop polishing. Start publishing.
- Your unfinished projects deserve better than "someday"
- The time management epidemic ruining creators
- Pssst, creators!
- The white space challenge creatives are using to publish consistently
- The real cost of an MBA
- Big update on my local newsletter
- Replit
- The real cost of an MBA
- Why I'm Doing an MBA
- Your Discount Goes Away Tonight
- Last Chance (6 hours left)
- This New Tech Feels Like Cheating
- My Birthday Gift For You
- The $2.5m Cocaine Binge That Changed Everything
- How I Turned My Productivity System into a 4-Figure Payday
- The Creator’s Yin and Yang
- Did you miss this?
- Fun challenge I’m running for creators
- How I carve out creative white space
- Stop trying to be productive (your brain will thank you)
- Your brain is one big overworked muscle
- Need help creating consistently?
- From empty bookshelf to profitable side project in 30 days
- Stephen King changed how I handle interruptions
- My daily habit for craft and cash flow
- What I’m spending on AI every month
- Your questions, answered
- How to build something Google can't destroy
- Got 30 seconds?
- 3 questions you must ask about AI
- Why I stopped writing my daily newsletter
- How I Used Replit To Vibe Code My Latest App
- My fav writing app
- I Caught ChatGPT Stealing My Content!
- I replaced a $99/month tool with AI (and you can too)
- How good is ChatGPT Agent Mode?
- How to create lecture notes with AI
- Steal these AI prompts
- Your pack of AI prompts
- Can you stop AI stealing your work?
- Is this the most annoying habit of ChatGPT-5?
- Why AI “Fixes” Things That Aren’t Broken (and How to Prevent It)
- Why your AI keeps forgetting everything
- How I Started a Profitable Local Newsletter (EXACT PLAYBOOK)
- Behind the scenes: What I'm writing these days
- Steal these AI prompt templates
- Are you into vibe coding?
- The 30-Minute System I Use to Write Daily Emails Without Burnout
- ChatGPT Agent Mode: Cool AI Trick or Total Time Sink?
- How small newsletters can compete with big publishers
- Get paid $1,500 to tell a two-page story?
- How much can you earn with a newsletter?
- Why I ditched SEO for my local newsletter
- This prompt cuts my work time in half
- Vibe coding is all the rage.
- What horse riders know about AI that you don't 🐴
- What I'm doing with my most successful writing site
- How much faster can you create content with AI?
- Pop quiz time: How good are you at writing prompts for AI?
- From $500 UpWork fails to $20 AI wins
- The vibe coding project that's consuming my life
- This AI prompt exposed my worst business habits
- What a German Triathlon Town Knows About Systems
- What Triathlon Racing Taught Me About Failed Plans
- Peak inside my AI-powered toolstack
- The upside-down approach to prompt engineering
- How I Organize a Massive Library of AI Prompts [With Video Link]
- What's it really like to work with me?
- ChatGPT ate my website
- Why I stopped reading business books (and what I do instead)
- Google Docs killed my need for fancy funnels
- The choreographer who taught me about creativity
- Is AI coming for your job?
- Why I spend $300+ a month on AI tools
- My simple "restart engine" method after a hol
- How I Vibe-Coded an AI News Site
- My offer to write a prompt for you
- How To Stop AI from Telling You What You Want To Hear
- My $10 Sunday habit that's worth $10,000
- The Enigma machine vs ChatGPT (spoiler: it's not close)
- Just replaced half my tech stack with vibe-coded tools.
- AI refuses to shut down when told
- How I Write Prompts for AI (As Taught by Google)
- Why I split my day into monk and merchant mode
- Why I ditched WordPress for my next project
- The dark side of testimonials nobody talks about
- Did Wikipedia lose 2 million visitors to AI?
- Don’t miss this AI trick
- AI Dissects My Business
- The content multiplication system that saved me 10+ hours a week
- My secret AI toolkit
- AI as Your Executive Assistant? 5 Tasks to Delegate Today
- [Watch] I Trained AI on My Newsletter. Here's what happened next...
- Are You a Word-Wrangler or Chef Idea Officer?
- The editing mistake that cost me thousands in book sales
- What is PromptWritingStudio?
- I vibe-coded a no-frills AI news site that updates daily
- Still thinking about "The AI Humanizer" workshop?
- You’re invited to The AI Humanizer Workshop
- 21 signs you’re reading content written by AI.
- Final day
- The Parable of The Farmer and the Bamboo Tree
- You're invited to the Zettelkästen Method for Creators
- You’re Creating Content the Hard Way
- Writing never felt this easy
- The secret system behind George Carlin's comedy genius
- Robots on legs are hilariously bad at running marathons
- Sam Altman: Why politeness to AI costs millions
- Final REMINDER
- EMAIL EMPIRE BLUEPRINT Closes tonight
- I wasted hundreds of hours on these email marketing tactics
- How Simple Newsletters Make Me More Money
- A few fun ChatGPT Easter Eggs
- My simple system that turns cold emails into hot subscribers
- Warning: Is AI monkeying around in your garden?
- I saved $2,000 building this tool with AI
- Grammarly or ChatGPT?
- Last day
- 6 hours left
- The prompt writing secret Google doesn't want you to know
- I created this for you...
- The 4-Part Formula for Writing AI Prompts
- 7 Prompt Writing Frameworks You’ll Actually Use (Your Invite)
- Claude AI: FULL tutorial
- Your Questions About PromptWritingStudio… Answered
- The only skill creators need to master in 2025
- What AI Gets Right (And Embarrassingly Wrong)
- LAST CALL: Pro Creators Only closes tonight
- The secret system turns my content into cash
- The 3 deadly traps costing content creators thousands
- You're Invited to Join Pro Creators Only
- Your 2025 Reset Button is here 🚀
- How Apple Notes is secretly sabotaging your best ideas
- Is this weird tech ruining things for artists?
- Poll
- My watch says I’m 34, but AI knows when I’ll die
- How I learnt to write
- This AI technique saved my pale, vampire-looking videos
- 7 weird ways I’m using AI to make money (and save time)
- AI wrote a story. David Eggers called it "garbage"
- The AI revolution is eating book publishers alive
- The $5 million dog making its owner rich
- I built a $5,000 web app in just 2 hours (without coding)
- Will I See You Tomorrow?
- Final Reminder
- 🚨 You're Pre-Approved — But Act Fast Before the Deadline!
- Claude wants to make you money
- The Substack growth hack I'm not supposed to share
- Alarming news from McDonald’s (content creators beware)
- 5 deadly mistakes killing your lead magnets (and how AI can fix them)
- How I got 25,000 email subscribers (and why I deleted thousands)
- The algorithm-proof marketing strategy Denmark can't kill
- This subscriber waited 9 years to buy from me
- How I’m Using ChatGPT Projects for My Business
- How I 10x'd finding content ideas using Claude
- Got a moment?
- Most content has a shorter shelf life than a banana
- The weird Substack hack that only takes 5 minutes a day
- The magic number for email list profits revealed
- Monk Mode vs. Merchant Mode: How I structure my perfect day
- PromptWritingStudio is now closed.
- Why I'm betting on AI, not memecoins (unlike Trump)
- Why I can't share my AI workshop recording (but have something better)
- How I capture client testimonials quickly and easily
- Will I see you tomorrow?
- Final reminder: Workshop invite expiring
- Inside My Private AI Prompt Vault 🔑
- 🚨 You’re pre-approved — but act fast before the deadline!
- How AI killed my word count obsession
- You’re invited to The Art of Prompt Writing workshop
- The $100k executive assistant I hired for $20 a month
- The truth about those 1000+ AI tools
- How I use AI to cut through doomsday headlines
- Want to see inside my AI prompt writing system?
- The weird way I generate content ideas
- The lazy person's guide to LinkedIn leads
- Why dumbing it down pays off
- The secret to writing effective ChatGPT prompts
- These 15 tools made me a better content creator
- Quick question?
- 5 big lies about content creation
- The great Substack land grab of 2025
- Did you miss this?
- I cracked Google's prompt engineering playbook
- Why I'm leaving the niche website business behind
- My super simple system for attracting LinkedIn Leads
- Inside my unconventional Substack playbook
- My controversial take on using AI to write
- My business coach posts about Robbie Williams (here's why)
- Be careful about attracting beginners
- You’re Invited to the AI Content Accelerator
- The Star Trek approach to using AI (that actually works)
- The AI tool that crashed the stock market this week
- The 5-minute note that got me 1000+ likes (here's why)
- The one AI prompt every creator needs
- Writers Make the Best Prompt Engineers
- How I cut my content costs by 93% using this $20 AI tool
- The unconventional way I use AI for ideas
- Why ChatGPT still beats Google Gemini
- The simple Notion system I use to manage my content
- The day I quit being the productivity guy
- Confessions of a reformed viral content creator
- Got a second?
- How I manage my YouTube channel with Trello
- What Google's boffins taught me about writing AI prompts
- Why I quit TikTok and never looked back
- The LinkedIn Strategy That’s Changing My Business
- The hidden cost of business masterminds
- Why I'm bullish on Substack in 2025
- Why Perfect Grammar is Killing Your Writing Career
- 21 little ways to deepen you relationship with anyone
- Are social media networks lying to you?
- Is Viral Content Killing Your Business?
- Weird German words keep me up at night.
- How do you find time to write and create content?
- Why I stopped setting yearly goals (and what I do instead)
- The Critical Mistake Most Content Creators Make
- Why I'm done playing the algorithm game
- Why I killed my paid newsletter
- How I Use Trello for Blogging
- The Influence, Impact, and Income Super Stack Goes Away Tonight
2024
- The profitable email flywheel nobody talks about
- What creators must know about Perplexity AI
- Stop saying hello!
- The best books I read in 2024
- RIP online courses
- [Tutorial] How I create landing pages in 10 minutes
- BIG Claude AI update for creators
- The content platforms I’m ditching in 2025
- The more emails you send, the more money you make
- How a gossip site helps me write better emails
- The lazy creator’s guide to time management
- The editor who taught me how to get hired
- The permission trap that kept me broke for years
- What Doomsday Preppers Know That You Don’t? (Hint: $50k Bunkers)
- Why Most Creators Are Dead Broke (And What You Must Do Instead)
- A prison inmate reads these daily emails. Do you?
- Your invite to my private Telegram channel
- The harsh truth about writing a book
- The podcast agent who took my money and ran
- My go-to copywriting formula 💰💰
- Help with this private community dilemma?
- Am I ditching my newsletter for this weird app?
- This creator tool changed my business (30% off)
- If you eat sausages, we can't be friends
- Your Cyber Monday creator deals are here...
- $344 for a flat white?
- World’s largest crocodile dead at 120
- [Webinar recording] Fix your content strategy in 1 hour?
- [Webinar] I'm about to go live
- You're invited to this webinar
- 8 proven viral formats you can swipe
- I made this for you
- I’ll help you build a $3-5k offer before Christmas
- Black Friday steal for writers and creators
- McDonald's taught me a painful lesson about content
- Black Friday Offers for Creators (Early Access)
- How I Use Trello to Run My Content Business
- The hard truth about your dead email list (and how to fix it)
- ChatGPT Canvas is a game-changer for creators
- How I write proven viral hooks
- How to blow up your account on LinkedIn
- The Friday ritual every creator should follow
- Why I chose pain over a Porsche
- Final day
- 4 words that will change how you write
- My most embarrassing editing mistake?
- How a missing comma cost this company $5 million
- What running 26.2 miles taught me about my writing business
- That you?
- Masterclass - We. Are. Live!
- Is this REALLY Happening?
- Worst meeting ever
- Why are top marketers lying about affiliates?
- The $1M secret playbook you can’t get on social media
- The 5-minute fix for outdated profile pics
- My 2 golden rules for affiliate marketing
- What Gone Girl taught me about picking genres
- 9 websites that pay writers
- How I Write With AI
- I don’t want to annoy my list
- I Abandoned My 6-Figure SEO Business for a Newsletter
- How I Write Daily Emails (in Under 30 Mins) 📧
- The Dangerous Trap of Chasing Subscriber Numbers
- The Dirty Secret About Writing on Medium
- Confessions of a Serial Email Marketer
- 3 Things I’d Do Differently If I Started My Content Business Today
- I Tried 5 Business Models: Here’s Why Coaching Wins Every Time
- Your Discount Goes Away Tonight
- Last Chance (6 hours left)
- This New Tech Feels Like Cheating
- Can You Really Make a Living Writing Newsletters?
- Cursed, Soulless Garbage?
- My Birthday Gift For You
- The $2.5m Cocaine Binge That Changed Everything
- How I Turned My Productivity System into a 4-Figure Payday
- The Creator’s Yin and Yang
- Make art in the morning, make money in the afternoons
- How I Turn My Social Media Into a Content Gold Mine
- The Painful Lesson That Turned Me Into a Pro Writer
- Why Constraints Are Your Creative Superpower
- Pro Creators Only is Now Closed
- Last Chance for Pro Creators
- 6-Hours Left
- Got Questions?
- How I Escaped The Content Hamster Wheel
- Your Invitation is Inside
- The Ultimate Content Repurposing Tool for Busy Creators
- Why "Value, Value, Value" is Killing Your Business
- The Shocking Truth About Course Launches in 2024
- Opening The Doors
- I Want to Give You a Workshop Ticket
- Last Chance (6-Hours Left)
- How I Repurpose One Email into 10+ Pieces of Content
- The Notion Template Every Writer Needs (Sale Ends Soon)
- How I Plan a Week of High-Converting Content in One Hour
- How I Write Online With Notion
- From Content Chaos to Clarity… With Notion
- My Content Management System— REVEALED
- I Track My Writing Like an Ancient Greek Strongman
- The 4-Minute, 33-Second Song That Changed My Business
- A 4-Step Daily Checklist That Keeps My Content Business Thriving
- The Parable of the Monk and the Tiger
- She Doesn’t Get Out of Bed For Less Than $10k a Day
- The Lazy Creator's Guide to More Revenue
- I Wasted Thousands on the Wrong Content Strategy
- My Daily Ritual for Business Clarity
- Confessions of a Serial Email List Builder
- The Hidden Downside of Giving Away Too Much Value
- The Gearstick Strategy That Will Transform Your Business
- Confessions of a Former Niche Website Publisher
- The Dangerous Trap of Professional Labels
- How I Turned Messy Code Into a $10k Opportunity
- Cutting These Bad Habits Transformed My Business
- The Risky Move That's Transforming My Business
- My No-frills Approach to Running a Profitable Content Business
- How I Run a Profitable Newsletter in 4 Hours a Week
- The Unsexy Truth About Building a Creator Business
- What Ticketmaster Hell Taught Me About Pricing
- Last day to buy workshop tickets
- 8 hours left
- You’re invited to this AI content workshop
- The content creation hack 1930s Hollywood execs discovered
- I spent 30 minutes writing you this email
- From disorganized writer to content machine
- Do I write my daily emails with AI?
- How to 10x your content… without burning out
- The opposite of a good idea is a better idea
- I built an AI bot for content creators
- Why I write daily emails
- 7 types of content creators that grind my gears
- I don't have time to create content
- Why most email list owners never make a cent
- Watch out for sneaky Saas founders
- The deadly mistake content creators make
- The Swiss Army Knife of Offers
- What workshop do you want a ticket for?
- Climb this ladder for a 6-figure business
- I started with 300 words a day
- 3 ways you can help clients
- I drink your milkshake
- The surprising downside of going viral
- Little writing
- My love-hate relationship with Apple
- How I manage my content library in 30 minutes a week
- Should you quit your job to write full-time?
- Architects and Gardeners
- "I struggle to come up with good ideas for content."
- Newspaper lays writer off after 55 years. Now he’s laughing.
- The year I missed out on a $11,237 bonus
- What’s your FREEDOM number?
- Things I don't want in my writing business
- I’m a slacker… are you?
- Getting Paid To Write… What’s Working Today
- Work Less, Get Paid More
- I Gave Away 100,000 Books. Here’s What I'd do Differently
- How I Scaled My Writing Business to 7-Figures
- My Playbook for Starting a Writing Business in 2024
- A Question For You...
- The Odd Thing People Do When Using Google
- Why You Need a Business Model
- Are You Doing This Alone?
- Book Writing Myths
- I hung up on my accountant this morning
- Amateur vs Pro Writers
- How I landed coaching clients (and you can too)
- Stephen King takes 45 years to write ONE story
- What's Your Konami Code?
- Secrets of 4 Rich Writers
- The procrastination trap: How to avoid it
- I Missed All My Writing Deadlines Until I Did ONE Thing
- Resending: I want to connect with other writers
- I want to connect with other writers
- Your invite to a private community for writers
- Can a club help you write?
- What my writing routine looks like
- The Loneliness Trap: How You Can Avoid It
- Hemingway's Lost Suitcase
- I don't know what my niche is
- Surgeon general wants social media warning labels
- You're working too hard
- Wells Fargo wants to fire you
- Don’t rely on partner programs to get paid
- It’s Ok to Charge More
- 100s of writers fired because of AI
- Fun side hustles for writers
- How I get paid to write
- I built niche websites for years
- I spent over $32,427 on online writing courses
- Last chance for $4k of writing goodies
- Claim your writer’s dream bundle
- EXPERT: Website writing a waste of time?
- How I Got My First 100 Email Subscribers
- Is Google Trying to 🔥 Blogging
- Elon Musk wants to ban iPhones
- You're being plagiarised
- Final day
- 8 hours left
- Watch out for Twiddlers!
- Your invite to a 6-figure writing workshop
- How to start a newsletter business
- The hidden weapon in my copywriting arsenal
- Writers Need More Than 1 Income Stream
- If I went broke, I'd get paid to write like this
- I cry a little every time I open X
- How I’d start a writing business (If I started over)
- I want to give you a workshop ticket
- The problem with side-projects
- I was paid $573.75 for one email
- I’m working with a new business coach
- The Big Problem With Writing For Free
- Is personal branding a waste of time?
- I built a ChatGPT bot for writers
- The problem with Gary Vee
- Why I never use writing templates
- Big piece of feedback for my community
- My 5 daily non-negotiables
- Famous writers I met
- Are you playing the wrong game?
- Writing one book isn’t enough
- My boss is going to fire me
- Should you quit your job to write full-time?
- I changed my mind
- I've turned into a LinkedIn Lunatic
- Resending: Last day
- Last day
- Your workshop ticket goes away in 6 hours
- Don’t listen to me
- Your workshop invite is inside
- Want 1000 email subscribers?
- Do newsletters work?
- Your advice?
- A secret revenue stream?
- Why I quit building niche websites
- Did I write this email with AI?
- The Truth About Going Viral
- Want some accountability?
- Can you get paid writing online?
- Want to go viral?
- Big mistake writers make with AI
- How can I prevent plagiarism?
- I was plagiarized
- You're Crazy
- The End
- Odd things readers say
- Top writing courses on a budget
- The 3 things writers want
- All my red hot writing secrets…
- I was wrong about LinkedIn
- My favorite piece of writing advice
- Steal like Picasso
- Don’t write books
- From my biggest flop to a creative success
- What it’s like to write a best-seller
- What it’s like to write a flop
- I went big in Brazil
- Taylor Swift made me do it
- The weird time I tried to write a thriller novel
- How writers can get things done
- My EXACT journaling process
- How this writer stopped goofing off
- This weird tech ruined things
- The secret to becoming a copywriter
- How I got paid to write blog posts
- I quit writing on social media
- Where should you write online?
- This rich writer follows 2 rules
- I was a chronic procrastinator
- Day X: Are you Netflix or Disney?
- Content repurposing 101
- Freelance job ideas for writers
- A weird trick I use for writing online
- "You love paying for coaches"
- How I got paid to write product reviews
- How to write your author bio
- Adding personality to what you write online (with template)
- 10 years ago, I did something odd
- How I Made My First Dollar Writing Online
- Want a Notion Writing Template?
- It's sooo HOT over here right now
- I hate Slack
- Here's what you need to write online
- This man lifted a 4-year-old bull
- Not every one has a book inside of them
- This weird tech ruined it
- How I Trained ChatGPT to Write Like Me
- Effort ≠ reward
- Ever wondered what it’s like to be a full-time content creator?
- What It Really Like to Create Content for A Living?
- Ever had a coach who just gets it?
- My EXACT process for Planning 2024
- What I'm Not Getting Goals for 2024