ISSUE #74 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ A few weeks ago, I was killing time between Zoom meetings. Just needed to reset my brain for a minute. So I pulled up a product I liked and thought: “Let’s see what AI can really do.” I opened Veo3, wrote a clean prompt (nothing wild, just clear and specific) and hit enter. Thirty seconds later, I had something...
23 days ago • 2 min read
ISSUE #73 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ A few weeks ago, I was hyped up on a quad espresso. After all, one shot doesn’t cut it when your brain’s firing startup ideas at 3AM. I had this itch. What if I could whip up a simple tool that helps you riff on startup ideas based on your skills and passions? I asked Claude. Wrote a prompt like I was texting a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
ISSUE #72 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ A few months ago, my team told me the truth, and it stung. Not because they were mean. But because they were honest. And I finally asked the right question. But first, here’s how I figured out the right questions to ask. I ran my entire communication history through Claude to scan thousands of my messages. I...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
ISSUE #71 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ The most successful marketers I know right now aren’t trying to sound like ChatGPT. They’re working overtime to make sure they don’t. They’re what I call Centaur Marketers: part human intuition, part machine precision. They use AI not to replace their voice, but to sharpen it. Not to do the work for them, but...
2 months ago • 2 min read
ISSUE #70 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ I used to think AI was all business. Make content faster. Automate my calendar. Scale without hiring. But then something changed. My 3-year-old became obsessed with screens. Trucks, fire engines, tractors, you name it. And like a lot of parents, I was worried. He wasn’t playing. He wasn’t imagining. He was...
3 months ago • 2 min read
ISSUE #69 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ When I first wrote about vibe coding, some people praised it, others dunked on it. That’s how I knew it was worth paying attention to. Now, with Anthropic teaming up with Rick Rubin on The Way of Code, the vibe coding conversation just leveled up. Remember, this all started as a meme! Rubin with his headphones...
3 months ago • 3 min read
ISSUE #68 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ Pretty soon, your customers won’t be browsing websites. They’ll just tell their AI what they want and it will handle the rest. Shopping is done by speaking: “Find me an organic cotton tee in navy, olive, or black. Under $50. Free shipping” No scrolling. No clicking. No brand comparison. If your product checks...
4 months ago • 2 min read
ISSUE #67 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ I'm surprised more people haven't figured out what OpenAI is doing. They're not building a chatbot, research assistant, agentic workforce, programmer, or gibli-fication machine. OpenAI is building your digital twin. They're going to release "Sign in with" soon, same as your Google or Apple account. But this...
4 months ago • 3 min read
ISSUE #66 Welcome to the Forward Obsessed Founder, my newsletter with insights, awesome tools, and real-world advice to grow your business and career. GO FORWARD THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ➡️ Thinking you need a bigger team to make a bigger impact is a myth. With AI, that mindset is broken and expensive. Most companies are still operating with a 2015 playbook: hire more people, add more tools, and stack more processes on top of process. But the companies winning right now aren’t scaling people,...
5 months ago • 4 min read