Picture this: you wake up and you have this weird feeling…but you can’t quite put your finger on it. This feeling of doubt…like you’re struggling to think clearly. Like you’re in a bit of a brain fog.

“I’m sure it’s fine,” you think. Some coffee will clear that right up.

You go about your day. You notice you have an issue with your website. You ask Claude, “My website isn’t displaying my podcast episodes the right way. Can you fix it?” Of course! Claude pinpoints the problem and then asks if you want it to deploy the code for you.

A little later, you need to write an article. You ask Claude, “Based on my 10 best-performing articles, what should I write about next?” Claude gives you a list of pretty good ideas, then asks if you want it to draft one of them for you.

After a meeting with some people in your mastermind group, you realize that you need a better product. So you ask Claude, “Based on what you know about me, my area of expertise, and what I’m currently selling, can you come up with something new for me to sell?” Claude comes up with a great idea for a digital product, then asks if you want it to create the outline or slides for it.

At the end of the day, you’re talking to your partner. “How was your day? What did you do?” And that’s when the feeling solidifies: you have a vague idea of what you’ve checked off your list…but you don’t really feel like you’ve done anything.

…so you ask Claude.

I've been thinking a lot about my AI Philosophy (some of which I shared last week), and more broadly AI Brain Rot: the inability to do anything without assistance from AI.

Up on the site today, I have 3 signs you might be suffering from AI Brain Rot, and 3 rules to help you prevent it. Read here:

My latest from around the web:

LATEST ON STREAMLINED SOLOPRENEUR What Solopreneurs can Learn from Discipline is Destiny STREAMLINED SOLOPRENEUR: AUTOMATE YOUR BUSINESS, TAKE TIME OFF WORRY-FREE • S2:E526 The Solopreneur's Guide to Discipline: Systems, Time, and Delegation 14:59 MORE INFO I’ve been on a bit of a reading bender this year — physical books, old ideas, things written long before the age of notifications and hustle culture. And when I picked up Ryan Holiday’s Discipline Is Destiny, I wasn’t expecting it to hit so close to home as a solopreneur. But it did. Listen at Streamlined Solopreneur

Other Stuff:

I did a lot of writing, updating, and recording last week! Here's all of my stuff from around the web:

[YouTube] I Hate Making Thumbnails. So I Built This System: I walk through my system for coming up with thumbnail concepts and delegating them to my thumbnail designer with Notion + Slack.

[Blog Post] How to Automate Your Task List: I wrote about 3 ways to make capturing tasks SUPER easy, including quick capture, speech to text, and using an AI Agent to gather tasks for you.

[UPDATED] The Ultimate Stream Deck Setup for Solopreneurs: Every so often I review my Stream Decks to make sure I'm using them to their fullest potential based on my current workflows. Last week I updated my walkthrough so you can see exactly how I'm using both of my Stream Decks.

[Paper & Smoke] Everyone was on Their Phone and No One Looked Happy: Over on my digital detox blog, I lament about what I saw at a local coffee shop. The title kind of spoils it.

[Friday Wrap-Up] Trading Algorithms + Claude MYTHos [Friday Wrap-Up]: I’ve been deep in my SEO and content strategy, and it got me thinking: am I just trading one algorithm for another? I left social media to stop chasing feeds, but now I’m optimizing for Google, YouTube, and even AI search. Here’s where I landed.

What's your AI philosophy? Do you have any rules around usage?

Reply and let me know!