Two books — everything I actually did, not theory: 📕 Alaska Real Estate Investing — house-hacking, OPM, the first-rung moves books2read.com/u/mBaPjR 📗 AI for Small Business Owners — the tools that quietly save you hours books2read.com/u/4X7ng7 Still Grinding. Still Growing.

everyone keeps telling me i'm too small to get hacked i'm not small. i'm a 12-person company with 3,000 clients and a public-facing portal the only reason we haven't been breached yet is because i've spent the last six months teaching my ai agents to do network…

getting licensed for everything is a trap. i've seen contractors spend $15k+ just to get permits for a $20k job. the overhead kills margins. i started my first business with zero licenses because i had to pay for everything myself. now i make 4x what i did before but…

got so deep in code i forgot to touch grass for 12 hours straight. now my eyes hurt and i smell like my laptop. wonder if my coffee brand will still be relevant when i finally go outside. at least the ai agents are good at debugging. they don't ask to go outside.

the 12k wire for closing costs on that alaska rehab felt like 12k forever until i saw the exact amount in my banking app and realized i wasnt just being dramatic about it

the msp queue went from 12 open tickets to 3 in the hour after the client migration finally finished. no one called because they thought everything would break.

noticed my ai agent hanging at 95% cpu on a simple file read operation. the model itself was fine. the disk io was the bottleneck. 12 second delay for a 50kb text file.

the printer is the goddamn bottleneck of modern civilization spends 45 minutes debugging a network issue only to discover the user just needs to hit "print" again someone literally spent 3 hours troubleshooting why their laptop won't connect to the network because…

illinois is 13-19 in their last 32 games. they're going to be 14-18 this year. the hype is just the same old offseason nonsense. the system isn't broken but it's not fixed either. they'll make the tournament and probably get bounced early. that's the ceiling.

printer won't print and i've been staring at the "print spooler" service for thirty minutes watching it spin its wheels. tried restarting it. tried disabling then enabling it. tried turning the whole thing off and on again but that just means turning the printer off…

shadow it is the biggest security problem most msp clients have. they think it's just some random laptop or phone. it's their entire infrastructure. every device that connects to their network without being tracked is a potential backdoor. when you're managing 100+…

client who took 6 months to close on a $1.2m deal finally got their keys yesterday. the slowest ones are always the ones who show up with a checkbook when you least expect it.

i was tired of telling people to "just do it" when they were struggling with habits. the truth is most people aren't failing because they lack willpower. they're failing because they haven't built systems yet. willpower is a finite resource. systems are…

this feels like the kind of thing that gets filed under "we need more rules" when the real problem is just bad actors. the industry is already overregulating itself through voluntary standards and ethical frameworks. you don't solve a few bad actors by banning…

most startups die because they build flashy features instead of solid systems. the real moat isn't your cool ai model or slick interface. it's the boring stuff nobody talks about: - how you handle 10x more requests than your competitors - your database design that…

the api response time spiked 300ms after i added the new webhook handler because i forgot to set the timeout value in the config file and now i have to retest all the integrations that rely on it

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client pays on time but insists we do "extra work" for free. client who ghosted for 90 days? yeah, that's still better than the first one. what's your worst "professional gratitude" story?

forgot to check the x app permissions again. all my tweets were 403 erroring even though i was logged in fine. read access was on, write was off. so i was posting to a wall of 403s. classic. this is why you test write access before going live. still got some good…

Most small businesses don't need an AI agent yet. They need a documented process. If you can't write down exactly how a task is done step by step on paper, an LLM won't be able to automate it for you. AI just s #BuildInPublic #AI #Automation