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Writing on AI, business, pharmacy, and building things that matter.

The Resume Is Dead
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The Resume Is Dead

Portfolios, proof, and live interaction are the new currency of credibility. Why degrees are becoming participation trophies and what replaces them.

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How I Built 33 AI Agents (And What They Actually Do)
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How I Built 33 AI Agents (And What They Actually Do)

A real breakdown of the 33-agent AI system that runs my two businesses. What each one does, why I built them, and what I learned about building AI infrastructure as a non-engineer.

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The Operator Mindset: Systems Over Hustle
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The Operator Mindset: Systems Over Hustle

Hustle gets you started. Systems get you free. After building two failed businesses and one that works, here is what I have learned about the difference between working hard and building something that works without you.

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Why I Give Away 16 Free Games
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Why I Give Away 16 Free Games

I built browser games, gave them away for free, and one of them went viral on Reddit. The thinking behind prismstudios.app is not charity. It is strategy.

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How AI Wrote a 19-Track Album (And What I Learned)
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How AI Wrote a 19-Track Album (And What I Learned)

I used AI music tools to compose a narrative album about Mansa Musa, the richest man in history. The 10-track project included a flagship cinematic video. Here is what the process taught me about AI as a creative partner.

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What 749 Coaching Sessions Taught Me About AI Adoption
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What 749 Coaching Sessions Taught Me About AI Adoption

After running 749 AI coaching sessions with business owners across dozens of industries, clear patterns have emerged about who succeeds with AI and who does not. These are the real lessons from the front lines.

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AI for Small Business: 5 Real Use Cases (Not Theory)
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AI for Small Business: 5 Real Use Cases (Not Theory)

Five AI use cases pulled directly from real coaching sessions with small business owners. No hypotheticals. No maybe-someday scenarios. Every example happened, was recorded, and produced measurable results.

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Why I Left Pharmacy - and How AI Changed Everything
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Why I Left Pharmacy - and How AI Changed Everything

18 years in pharmacy, a leap into entrepreneurship, a painful lesson in trucking, and then AI arrived.

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The Financial Statement Trick That Saves My Client All Day
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The Financial Statement Trick That Saves My Client All Day

One of my coaching clients built an AI-powered financial statement comparison project that turned an all-day manual task into a five-minute process. Here is exactly how it happened and what it means for every business owner still doing things the hard way.

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The Case for Operator Energy
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The Case for Operator Energy

Why systems thinking beats hustle culture every time.

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Custom GPTs Changed How My Clients Work
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Custom GPTs Changed How My Clients Work

When a coaching client taught herself to build custom GPTs and stunned her business partner, it confirmed what I have been seeing across hundreds of sessions: the real power of AI is not the tool itself, but what happens when people learn to build with it.

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Building VersAssist: The Uber of Labor
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Building VersAssist: The Uber of Labor

Behind the scenes of building an AI-trained offshore labor company.

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The Day My Client Said AI Replaced Her Marketing Agency
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The Day My Client Said AI Replaced Her Marketing Agency

A client told me that plugging the same information into Claude produced better results than the marketing agency they had been paying for. Here is what that means for every business owner still writing checks to mediocre service providers.

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What Mansa Musa Taught Me About Wealth
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What Mansa Musa Taught Me About Wealth

Lessons from researching the richest person in history and turning it into a 19-track album.

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From Pharmacy District Leader to AI CEO: The Full Story
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From Pharmacy District Leader to AI CEO: The Full Story

The real story of how 18 years at CVS Health, a failed logistics company, and a pharmacy doctorate laid the groundwork for building an AI consulting firm. No shortcuts. No overnight success. Just a pharmacist who learned to build.

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Far Transfer: How Adults Actually Learn
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Far Transfer: How Adults Actually Learn

What learning science tells us about skill acquisition in the AI era.

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Making a Game About Pharmacy
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Making a Game About Pharmacy

How a real pharmacist built Pharmageddon - from idea to playable game.

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AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day
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AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day

The actual daily toolkit of an AI-first CEO. No sponsored lists.

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The Attention and Intention Framework
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The Attention and Intention Framework

An introduction to formalizing attention as a cognitive force.

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