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🧑‍🏫 Latest AI thoughts, tools, and news from unburdn

Main Idea

Quick heads‑up: I’ll be in NYC: Aug 11‑14. My Aug 12 slot just opened—first come, first served. Half‑day refreshers, full-day level-up, side‑by‑side problem‑solving, super‑flexible pricing. Hit reply if you want it. Okay, now the newsletter! A little different this week. Story time… Tattoos. I used to think a sleeve would scratch my mid‑life itch for rebellion. Spoiler: it didn’t. During that last 19‑hour marathon—inner‑bicep shading is still the stuff of nightmares—I had plenty of time to talk shop with the artist behind the machine. He arrived from Venezuela on an artist visa with more drive than most CEOs I meet. Cash was scarce, but talent travels. These days he’s earning money that makes doctors and lawyers blink—and he’s only warming up. Tattoos are the billboard, not the business. With help from his wife and a stack of off‑the‑shelf AI, he’s built an online tattoo‑training academy, automated marketing funnels, a content machine, friction‑free scheduling, and AI‑guided client intake. Zero employees. Just a duo and a shoestring SaaS bill. Next moves: bigger studios and a premium coaching program. Give it 12–24 months and he’ll be clearing $1–2 M a year. Nobody gets displaced; new value simply appears. AI isn’t a zero‑sum knife fight; it’s an exoskeleton for ambition. If a solo artist can weaponize it, what’s your excuse?

Here’s the play:

Audit the grind. List every repetitive task you touched last week. Circle the top three time‑sinks and try to automate. Track weekly delta. If your KPIs don’t move in seven days, the tool or the workflow is wrong—fix it fast. PS: Keep reading for hot-takes on headlines, AI tools, and a personal story + pic

📰 AI News Worth Knowing

🦻 Amazon straps AI to your wrist. It just bought Bee, maker of a $49 bracelet that records everything you say and turns it into reminders, advice, and a perfect memory. Get ready: AI wearables will be as common as AirPods within two years. Read Here 🔍 Google clicks are crashing. Pew found users are far less likely to click links when an AI summary shows up on the results page. Your SEO playbook just expired. Read Here 🚀 Eight‑month unicorn hits $100 M ARR. Swedish startup Lovable leapt from zero to centaur status with just 45 employees—proof that lean, AI‑first teams print money. Read Here 🏛️ White House: pedal to the metal. Trump’s new AI Action Plan deregulates like crazy, pours cash into data centers, and dials down safeguards. Love it or hate it, the guardrails just moved… off. Read Here 🌍 OpenAI’s “empowerment” manifesto. A fresh take on how AI will upend knowledge, health, creativity, and your calendar—if we build it right. Read Here

🛠️ AI Tools You Need to Try

🧰 Unburdn’s Vault. A curated library of AI tools mapped to Crawl → Walk → Run stages. Great cheat‑sheet for leveling up your team’s stack. Explore Here

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The next industrial revolution will be run by teams small enough to fit in a tattoo booth. 🔥 Calendar 90% full—last openings this quarter + October: Aug 12 – NYC (single day, flexible rate) Sep 9, 15, 22, 24, 30 – Denver Oct 1‑3, 6 & 20‑24, 28‑30 – Denver First reply wins the slot. Let’s build your “tiny team, huge impact” playbook before your competitor does. Subscribe

From the Field 🌅 Same view, new chapter.

I first soaked in this view at 20, a college kid chasing late‑night adrenaline and cramming for finals. Fast‑forward twenty years and the soundtrack has flipped: 5 a.m. coffees with my wife Lauren, two kids (10 & 8) drowsy on the couch, and a to‑do list that starts with "legacy," not "last call." Same horizon, different scoreboard. This has been our family retreat for nearly two decades—steady backdrop while everything else evolved. Business #1 sold, Business #2 exited, Business #3 now scaling. The skyline picked up a few extra cranes, but the fundamentals that matter—family, health, compounding effort—haven’t budged. Markets gyrate, tech stacks version‑bump, and AI tools shift weekly. But the leaders who win are the ones who play the long game: keep the core constants, iterate the tactics. Whether you’re automating workflows or mentoring your future replacement, invest in what still looks good twenty years out. Time flies; build something that outlasts the view Thanks for reading. 🙏 Copyright (C) 2025 AI for the Rest of Us LLC dba Unburdn. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe