Howdy Reader!

If you've been around these emails for a bit, you know I'm a book nerd. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, I've got a book in my hand. And that love started way back in grade school with a sci-fi series I could never quite remember.

All I had were fragments. A boy gets a robot brother who looks just like him. They charge him up through a port in his belly button. Something happens at a swimming pool. That's it. That's all my brain held onto for forty-some years. I'd tried AI on it before and gotten nowhere.

So the other day I tried again, and this time I just talked to it. I've been using Wispr Flow to dictate to my computer instead of typing, which felt weird at first but has totally flipped how I interact with AI.
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I rambled the whole memory out loud to Claude, every weird fragment, and within seconds, it came back with, "I think you're thinking of My Robot Buddy. The robot's name was Danny One." Yes! That was it! Danny One! A name I hadn't said out loud in decades.

The book is by Alfred Slote, published in 1975, aimed at 8 to 11-year-olds, and it kicked off an entire series. It's out of print now, but Claude helped me track the whole set down through used bookstores and thrift shops for under forty bucks. I missed reading these to my kids, but I'm pretty excited to read them to my grandkids someday.

Here's what I keep coming back to. Every guru on the internet is shouting about making fifteen grand by tomorrow with AI, and I just want to know how it can solve real problems. Finding a lost book is a small one. But the same approach is helping me knock out things in my business I used to dread or skip entirely, like carousel posts and SEO. The boring drudgery work I can now hand to an AI agent.

I'm putting together a bunch of short videos showing how I actually use AI in my workflow, the nuances between the models, and the real-world problems they solve. Thinking about housing it all in a community where you'd get access as you take your AI journey from chatbot questions to actual work getting done. If that sounds like your jam, hit reply and let me know what you'd want to see in there.

See ya around the interwebs,

-Jeff

P.S. The voice-to-AI thing really did unlock this whole story for me. If you want to try the tool I used to talk to Claude instead of typing, here's Wispr Flow. I think we both get some credits if you sign up through that link.