Hi Reader,Think about how you got good at your business. Not from a course — from a thousand small corrections, accumulated over years, into the thing we call judgment. “Do it this way, not that way,” ten thousand times, until your standards were second nature. Your corrections are your judgment, written down one fix at a time. The only question that matters is whether they accumulate or evaporate. Cost vs. investment On a stateless tool, a correction is a cost. You pay it today, you pay it...
5 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader,Two weeks ago: the month-six test. Last week: drift. Today, the architecture underneath both — and the single word that decides whether your AI gets sharper or staler. Stateful vs. stateless These aren’t marketing words. They’re standard software-architecture terms, and I spent 35 years living inside the difference at two of North America’s largest banks. A stateless system handles each request with no memory of the last one. A stateful system carries state forward — deliberately,...
12 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader,Short one this week. Holiday weekend, low attention. One test worth keeping. The month-six test Open the AI tool you bought six months ago — not the shiny one you started last week, the one you were excited about in the spring. Use it on a real task. Then answer one question honestly: is it better than the day you bought it, or exactly the same? If it’s exactly the same, you didn’t buy a system. You bought a pile. I wrote it up here: curiochat.ai/blog/the-month-six-test Why “the...
19 days ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader,The prompt pack was electric for a week. Around week three it drifted — outputs got inconsistent, you were correcting it more than it was helping. So you decided you’d picked the wrong prompt pack and went looking for a better one. That instinct is reasonable. It’s also wrong, and it’s keeping you in a loop. Drift, named The next pack drifts the same way, on the same schedule, for the same reason. You’re treating a pattern as if it were a product defect. I named the pattern this...
25 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader,It’s Tuesday. You open the AI tool. You paste the draft. You type, again: “no — warmer, shorter, no bullet lists.” It fixes it. Wednesday, same task, same correction, word for word. You’re not bad at this. The tool genuinely does not remember. And that repeated re-explaining has a name. The amnesia tax Most AI is stateless — it holds no memory between sessions. Every conversation is a brilliant stranger you have to train from scratch. So you pay the same correction over and over....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader,The founding window closed Monday night. If you walked through one of the doors — thank you. If you didn’t, nothing was lost; the next window is August, and there’s no cart to mind between now and then. So let me use the quiet to say the thing the launch was actually about. Marketing-grade decays. Engineering-grade compounds. That’s the whole wedge, and I wrote it up properly this week. If you read one thing from me this month, read that one:...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader,Two and a half days. By Tuesday morning the founding price is gone — $297 becomes $497, and the direct-reply line I built into the founding stack closes with it. Let me make this clean. What Closes Monday Night Mon Jun 8, 11:59pm ET. Three things end at that moment: Founding price. $297 on AIS, $297 on Stay Sharp. Tuesday Jun 9 at 6am ET, both step up to $497 standard. The direct-reply line. Thirty days of “I’m stuck on this” email access to me — that’s the founding-cohort bonus,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader,The door’s been open since Tuesday. You wouldn’t know it from your inbox — no countdown, no “act now,” no three-emails-a-day. I wanted to tell you properly first. And this week I added something to the founding offer big enough that I want you to hear it from me, not stumble onto it at checkout. First, a pattern A productivity pattern you have to remember is a pattern you’ll eventually drop. Not because you’re undisciplined — because remembering is work, and work that depends on...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader,Last Saturday I gave you the frame. This Saturday I give you the doors — names, prices, terms, and what each one installs in your business. Three days until Tuesday. Door One — AI-Powered Solopreneur Sales page: curiochat.ai/solopreneur/ai-powered (live now for browsing) The operating system for solopreneurs who use AI inconsistently and want real workflows in their real business. What you walk away with (eleven artifacts, not module counts): AI Fit Map + Opportunity Map Business...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader,Last week the sharpness audit. Three weeks ago the ACM door. This week I want to step back further — to the two questions that frame everything I’m shipping ten days from now. Two Questions, Not One Every AI course I’ve seen tries to answer the same question: What can AI do for me? Faster output. More leverage. Better workflows. 47 prompts. 100 ways to 10x your productivity. The answers vary, the question is identical. It’s the wrong question. Or, more carefully — it’s half of the...
2 months ago • 2 min read