I am working on a application that helps with these same principles. I took the last twenty years of my life, the mistakes I made running myself into the ground, and designed a way to get guidance working at peak efficiency without the cognitive burnout. I would love your thoughts on it and if you see from for improvement. It's nice to see others trying to help and prevent the same mistakes. 🫶🏼
I tried to send it through the messaging on here, but it sent an error. I sent you a connection on LinkedIn. It's on my page, but I know I can share it with you on there through messages.
I love this idea of building your personal digital board with AI!
Still surprised about people who question AI, its potential - when the only thing they come up with is the fear of "AI slop" and how their genius might get challenged ;)
It's the same old story again. If innovators hadn't overcome doubts:
- We'd have bought more horses than we'd have used automobiles
- We'd have agreed with IBM's prediction that the global market for computers was 5
- We'd still send letters, written with typewriters, via postal mail
- We'd rely on printed books, which are only available in certain areas
The Internet, digital products, and AI are giving us the power to build whole new lifestyle businesses. No armies of workers are needed to create a vast global leverage. And those who doubt will keep drowning in work with little impact.
Ai has done spectacular things for the solopreneur. I can’t imagine building my fractional practice without it. I’d be so bogged down in the things I don’t want to be in. Thanks for sharing this!
Yes, and I think now is a great time we need to take advantage of because news of this is spreading rapidly. We're building a foundation now that will be unshakable.
Love this Dennis! I have said for years and experienced first hand that we glorify hours over achievement and “responsiveness” (context switching as you put in your article) over thoughtful consistency (focus and taking the needed uninterrupted thinking time to plan).
I tell my teams all the time that I do not care how many hours are worked, I care about the amount of meaningful work that is achieved.
If you can get more meaningful work done with fewer hours expended…great.
If you work 80 hour weeks and are not getting that equivalent of meaningful work done….i am unimpressed.
The focus I have shifted to at this stage of my career is expending my energy on truly defining what the most meaningful work for me to be doing is, focusing my time on it daily and being very honest to my teams on what will need to wait until I complete that work.
Awesome! Yes, responsiveness/context switching is a killer of progress and dreams. Focusing on ONE thing at a time is the only way to build our dreams, at a high level.
If we're just working on random/easy stuff instead of finding our way through the "hard stuff", we will NEVER get where we want to go. That's what the other 99% do.
It’s made a huge difference for solo founders. I can’t picture growing my fractional practice without it. It takes care of the heavy lifting so I can focus on the work that actually drives results. Really appreciate you sharing this.
Thanks, Dennis. This was a brilliant article, as always. I really appreciate the clarity and depth you bring to these topics. It gave me a lot to reflect on and challenged me in a good way. Keep sharing your insights 🌞
I am working on a application that helps with these same principles. I took the last twenty years of my life, the mistakes I made running myself into the ground, and designed a way to get guidance working at peak efficiency without the cognitive burnout. I would love your thoughts on it and if you see from for improvement. It's nice to see others trying to help and prevent the same mistakes. 🫶🏼
R.
Love it! Yes, please share I would love to see it... great minds think alike. Sounds like we have some serious parallels.
I tried to send it through the messaging on here, but it sent an error. I sent you a connection on LinkedIn. It's on my page, but I know I can share it with you on there through messages.
Please share here in DMs if you can. Thanks.
Really, really great piece. Resonated a lot with it. I often get caught up in the "when X happens, I will have more time for Y"
Yes... and X is always a moving target. We need to make NOW, X!
This captures the truth so well. We overwork our brains and underuse the tools that could free us.
Yes, that's a great way to put it. We have so many tools at our disposal (nature, family and friends...)... we just need to tap into them.
I love this idea of building your personal digital board with AI!
Still surprised about people who question AI, its potential - when the only thing they come up with is the fear of "AI slop" and how their genius might get challenged ;)
It's the same old story again. If innovators hadn't overcome doubts:
- We'd have bought more horses than we'd have used automobiles
- We'd have agreed with IBM's prediction that the global market for computers was 5
- We'd still send letters, written with typewriters, via postal mail
- We'd rely on printed books, which are only available in certain areas
The Internet, digital products, and AI are giving us the power to build whole new lifestyle businesses. No armies of workers are needed to create a vast global leverage. And those who doubt will keep drowning in work with little impact.
LOVE IT~ Nothing changes if nothing changes.
We need to disrupt the norm, or the norm will keep us stuck and sick!
Thanks Dennis ! Brilliant Article as always 🌞
Thank you my friend... following your lead.
"soul heavy"... keep up the self care 💙
Yes, self care is not an option. If we're not first, we're last. Choose wisely.
Ai has done spectacular things for the solopreneur. I can’t imagine building my fractional practice without it. I’d be so bogged down in the things I don’t want to be in. Thanks for sharing this!
Yes, and I think now is a great time we need to take advantage of because news of this is spreading rapidly. We're building a foundation now that will be unshakable.
the data don't lie, we are not expressing our creativity enough, but we "communicate" so much, it's not a good sign
So true. We need to keep human creativity alive.
Love this Dennis! I have said for years and experienced first hand that we glorify hours over achievement and “responsiveness” (context switching as you put in your article) over thoughtful consistency (focus and taking the needed uninterrupted thinking time to plan).
I tell my teams all the time that I do not care how many hours are worked, I care about the amount of meaningful work that is achieved.
If you can get more meaningful work done with fewer hours expended…great.
If you work 80 hour weeks and are not getting that equivalent of meaningful work done….i am unimpressed.
The focus I have shifted to at this stage of my career is expending my energy on truly defining what the most meaningful work for me to be doing is, focusing my time on it daily and being very honest to my teams on what will need to wait until I complete that work.
Great article Dennis!
Awesome! Yes, responsiveness/context switching is a killer of progress and dreams. Focusing on ONE thing at a time is the only way to build our dreams, at a high level.
If we're just working on random/easy stuff instead of finding our way through the "hard stuff", we will NEVER get where we want to go. That's what the other 99% do.
I am here and now building something epic with my world wide team of volunteers.
It’s made a huge difference for solo founders. I can’t picture growing my fractional practice without it. It takes care of the heavy lifting so I can focus on the work that actually drives results. Really appreciate you sharing this.
Thanks, Dennis. This was a brilliant article, as always. I really appreciate the clarity and depth you bring to these topics. It gave me a lot to reflect on and challenged me in a good way. Keep sharing your insights 🌞
Loved this reframing. The lie of the grind is thinking motion = progress.
In reality, progress comes from high-leverage thinking we keep postponing because it’s mentally expensive.
Busyness becomes avoidance disguised as discipline.
Such a sharp take on how smart people avoid real work by staying busy.
Really enjoyed this. It resonated with me.
Thank you so much for sharing, this is the place I found myself in for a while now. I have copilot Microsoft I haven’t had any time to explore it.
Going to work on this