I've been working hard on a new business for a year. Been working 7 days a week for months. Got my first two sales today and it's a relief. Some random thoughts before I head to bed. - I'm a good coach in my domain, enough to make a living in the domain. But without my business coach I'd be screwed. Having a set of eyes on what you're doing is so important. He's the best - honest, but very tactful with is feedback, which makes it easy to take. I get credit for taking almost all of it because he's the coach and I'm coachable. We're now friends outside of the working relationship and that's neat too. - The 4% Stripe is taking pisses me off. I'm used to having to pay just over 2.6% in transaction fees, but for this, it's 4%. - I've riden my bike - very slow - most days this month. Consistency in that area has been so great to sustain the effort. - I work in Codex and Claude Code every day. And there still is so much to learn with what they do well and what they do poorly, and how you have to be strategic about how you use them in tandem. - Codex browser control and computer control is still vodoo. Excited to listen to the @The Bitcoin Way podcast with Matt Hill in the coming days. Might need to drive to get the dog some special bones to celebrate and listen on the way. I have no idea what the bitcoin prices have been the past week, which is a good thing for me.

I work with four AIs every day: Codex, Claude Code, Perplexity Computer, Claude in the regular chat. Including when I'm on the basement computer riding the stationary bike. Good willing I'll "touch pedal" this fall on some trails. I'm a wild time to be alive. A bit scary, but most exciting. Codex went back to our work since the first of the year yesterday and gave me an audit. I used a prompt that I always use when things are important. "Don't tell me what you think I want to hear - be honest." I got an A- for my skill as a middle age teacher who can't code. Got a C as a developer. Got a D+ for essentially knowing what the hell I should be doing. 😂 On a serious note, we now have a skill that checks in every day to make sure I'm getting one step better each day. I'm teaching it to be both a helpful, encouraging coach and firm about progress every week. It's so neat that you can give it aspects of what you know will be helpful. I've always been a couple notches more curious than that average bear, and that's a real gift right now. Looking forward to getting this new business launched - and it has to work, as the current one is nearing the end that I've seen coming for two years and then setting up a sovereign computing option by the end of the year. The obvious one is a custom health app that I connect to every day, but it also has blood work, doctor's visits, and things like that. Onward.

Gm 😀 ☕ 👊 I love getting Seth Godin's emails each morning. This is a good prompt for me to have a hard-ish conversation after this weekend. "It’s difficult to ride a bicycle in the pitch darkness. We need to see where we’re going to avoid obstacles. And it’s hard to maintain our balance. When we choose to avoid the conversations that make us uncomfortable, we’re pedaling in the dark. Talk about it. Turn on the lights." Have a great day!

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Twitter/X - "Reposts are not endorsements" is in a lot of people's bios. Okay, fair, but I'm not sure it needs to be said. I find it odd. Nostr - Zaps. That's it. Reposts are great and really important, but you can just sap things. We're so trained on the outside to like or comment or repost, but here you can just zap. I'm not sure what my point is, other than I have 50k followers across platforms "on the outside" and the longer I'm here the sillier that system feels. Though, to the be fair, subscribers don't matter nearly as much as they did when I got most of those subs. Matching your content with what the person is interested in - "Interest media" not "social media" - is the name of the game, which I'm grateful for. I still need to post to help the business, and while it's a hamster wheel, I'm grateful to have work to do. #nostr #v4v #sats

AI is wild. Since I woke up this morning... - Codex and Claude code working on a big project - which requires both. - I take my younger kid to sports practice and needed to spend a couple of hours at the coffee shop. Talked to Codex via the phone and it continued to work on the task I started at home, connected to my desktop computer at home. It eventually hit a road block, but only after it did a solid 90 min of work. - I opened up Perplexity Computer at the coffee shop and had it search YT videos of band work recommended by @Tauri | BIP-110 after I posted about working out being hard at 50. Very nice of him and others to offer advice. I put in my age and injury history and what I do and don't like to do from the list that @Bfgreen shared. I sent it the link to a general strength and mobility routine I like. It searched these things in parallel and worked fast, knowing that it only needed Anthropic Sonnet 4.6 to do this work, and not Opus 4.8, which is what it was using to do the main design. Then I said I needed creatine, per nprofile1qqsw0m2xx0mcl620v4a0q8hcq8328y6jwqy6dltcjyq0wdc2q2935zqwy6hfq recommendatio. It liked the Thorne brand a bit more than Momentous, so I went that route. Then I had it make a spect for an app that will create a strength and mobility plan for me to do after I ride my bike - with fonts I like - so I could hand off to Codex when I got home. It'll count macros and I can simply take photos of my food or my watch data when I get off the bike (I don't care a lot about the watch data, but I might in 60-90 days). - Got home and walked the dog - we just meander because he gets to sniff at any and all spots - and talked to Codex about a fun little side project. It created a folder on my desktop for this project, and for me it's pure voodoo to see that folder on my desktop when I get back home. - I had Perplexity Computer research inexpensive bookkeeping solutions. Now back to the desk with Codex and Claude Code working. I need to set up the SSH like this article outlines to make all of this more efficient:

Little Might

How to Set Up Multiple Macs for Always-On AI Agents · Little Might

A practical multi-Mac setup for AI agents: mirrored folders, Tailscale, SSH aliases, relative paths, launchd, and phone-reachable sessions.

Or maybe I can do that with @Start9 StartTunnel -

StartTunnel Documentation - StartTunnel

Bottom line is it's all moving so fast, and it's a lot of fun.

Working out in your 50s is humbling. AND, I’m grateful to have a functioning body that can put in a bit of work. But the tricky thing is I can’t train very hard if I want to be able to train the next day. My metric for success is simple: if my face is sweating it counts. Gone are the days - for now - where I can enjoy trail runs like @Allen in the Rocky Mountains ⛰️ But the hope is to be back on the mtn bike for some easy rides by the fall. Drip by drip. #pow #bikestr