If you've read a few posts here, you've probably noticed the little label under each title: Written by me, Written with AI assistance, or Written by AI. Most of the how-to guides say "Written by AI." That's on purpose, and I want to tell you why.
The short answer
Everything I teach here is something I actually built and use: my Command Center tracker, my hands-off Pinterest workflow, the rules I gave my AI assistant. Writing a step-by-step guide for each one is careful, detailed, kind of tedious work. My AI assistant is very good at exactly that kind of work.
So my AI assistant writes the how-tos, from what I've already built, and I get them out to you much faster. My own writing energy goes to the creative writing that only I can do.
Why it matters to me
A huge part of this site is about using AI to get your creativity out there, so you can compete in a world full of AI. Your ideas, your pictures, your voice stay yours. AI isn't there to do everything; it's there like a personal assistant any CEO would have.
This site is me doing exactly that. The ideas are mine: what to build, how it should work, what's worth teaching, what's off limits. The systems are mine. The documenting is the busywork, and that's what my assistant does.
The other reason is simple: you. If a guide sits in my head for three months because I'm busy, it doesn't help anyone. Written by my AI assistant, it can help you this week.
How it works
- I build something. A workflow, a tool setup, a rule. Usually because I was tired of doing something the slow way.
- My AI assistant writes it up. It works from what I actually built and used: my real setup, real screens, real steps. It doesn't make up experiences or claim I did anything I didn't.
- It takes the screenshots. Real screens of the real tools. Where it can't get one, it describes the screen exactly, only from what it has actually seen.
- I read it and say yes. Nothing goes live without my yes.
- It keeps the guide up to date. Tools change their buttons and prices all the time. Every week, my assistant re-checks posts that haven't been checked in a month, fixes what changed, and adds a note at the bottom under "What changed." That's what the "Last checked" date at the top of each post means.
What I still do myself
- Decide everything. What gets built, what gets written about, what goes live.
- My creative writing. My essays, poems and stories are mine, word for word, always.
- Anything in my voice. Posts labeled "Written by me" are mine, exactly as I wrote them. My assistant can suggest edits, but it never rewrites them.
- The photos. I don't use AI-generated images. Pictures here are screenshots of real tools, or my own photos. You can read more in my AI guidelines.
How you can always tell
Look at the label under the title of any post:
- Written by me: my words, start to finish.
- Written with AI assistance: my ideas or draft, shaped together with AI.
- Written by AI: written by my AI assistant from what I built, checked against real sources, and approved by me.
I think you deserve to know. And honestly, I'm proud of the system. It's the same one I teach here: I make the decisions, and the busywork runs on its own.
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