I attended the 2026 Decorator’s Apparel summit by Printing United in Nashville in the end of June, and this is an excerpt of Davis Slagle’s presentation The bottleneck is a person Every shop has a ‘person.’ The one you send the hard design to, the rep who just knows what closes. That knowledge never leaves…
I think one of the hardest parts about using AI is getting used to how to interact with it and what it’s good at and what it’s not good at. °FAI: AI is good at two things IMO: Writing and understanding computer code, which is what gives it a lot of power. Mimic Social interaction.…
I run six AI service. Claude for writing and code. OpenAI and Gemini. Ideogram to generate design work. Vectorizer AI to turn that art into clean vector files. Topaz Labs to upscale images. Every one of them charges me a different way, on a different day, through its own login. At the end of the…
Anthropic shipped the most capable model it has ever released to the public on June 9. The government pulled it on June 12. Fable 5 Mythos and the USofA What Made Fable 5 a Jump Fable 5 is “Mythos-class,” a tier Anthropic puts above its Opus models. By Anthropic’s own benchmarks it landed at state-of-the-art…
If you haven’t heard from us in a while or at all, it’s because of the thing I wrote about recently. An old automation that pushes °FAI to subscribers quietly broke. We kept publishing. You just stopped seeing it. The fix is in. The quarterly audit is on the calendar. While we’re here, let me…
I spent the last few weeks digging into why one of our automations wasn’t working. Nobody had touched it in years. That was the problem. The TROUBLE with Automations, Set It and Forget It Is a Lie. When I traced it back, the answer was simple. The platform had changed. The tags and filters the…
So I made some updates to the logs being used in production. You can check out the earlier development here and here. The problem, if someone doesn’t record reclaim sessions all week, we find out Friday when the weekly report runs. By then the week is gone. Accountability lived in the log but nothing was…
If you’ve never read an encyclical, they’re fascinating. Pope Francis wrote a 2015 encyclical on the environment and climate change called Laudato si’. Its translated subtitle is “On Care for Our Common Home.” An encyclical is a glimpse into a mind that is revered and chosen by a large group of their peers to form…
Just for this week we are doing a bit of crossover into °FAI. It’s a topic I think is very important. Here’s the rundown. Episode 15 °FAI is the one where we ask the harder question about AI, who’s steering it? With Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical putting AI ethics on the front page, it’s…
Mirror Image had need for a CRM. So I started Building a CRM on Monday + Brevo. This is a new space for me to build in, and I’m using AI to assist. We tested HubSpot first and then arrived on the Monday / Brevo integration because it seemed to suit our needs better. Maybe…
