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…
Our press operators log every job on a tablet, order number, screens, setup time, run time, delays. That data flows into the weekly report the shop owner reads every Monday morning. The tablet form has been live about three weeks. The operators came back with a list and The Bug That Was Faking Our Numbers.…
Start With the Brain Dump, Not the Slides The biggest mistake I made early on was opening Claude and asking for “a 15-slide deck on screen printing safety.” You’ll get something. It’ll be generic, vaguely true, and useless. Better approach: dump everything you know about the topic into the chat first. Bullet points, half-thoughts, that…
Most of what we cover in °FAI is the side-eye. Water consumption, sycophantic chatbots, the stuff that should make you skeptical. But fair is fair. While we’re busy critiquing AI in our industry and our daily lives, there are places where it’s doing measurable good for humanity right now. Healthcare leads the list. A 50-Year…
Three years ago, somebody asked me if I really thought this AI thing was going to be the future. My answer: I don’t even think this is the future. I think this is the right now. Everybody is just going to wake up to it at their own rate. And Everybody’s Having Their Own AI…
My Downloads folder was a disaster. Screenshots piling up by the hundreds. Time tracking data I had to manually enter into two different spreadsheets every single day. None of it was hard. All of it was stealing time. So I began Automating daily computer tasks with AI. Downloads: Scheduled Cleanup The Downloads folder is the…
