On Entrepreneurship and AI
Starting something new
When I was 18, I finished high school and built an e-commerce store. It took a few months to get it going. Then it sold $55,000+ of wooden bowls and other products, and is still going 8 years later.
When I was 21, I decided to buy a Tesla, rent it out, and use it for ride-sharing. It seemed like a long shot. I ended up buying two, and doing what I said I would, getting hundreds of 5-star reviews on Turo, Lyft, and Uber. I still have my Model Y.
When I was 23, I decided to start a media business, but then I got distracted by building mountain bike parks, and subsequently an electric mountain biking tours business. I ran twenty tours (all five-star reviews), then sold the e-bikes and circled back to media.
Last spring, I left my lousy sales job and started focusing on writing and podcasting. I wrote and self-published a book of personal stories mixed with fiction and poetry. My media operation (Substack, YouTube, and Amazon) started making money in its first year, and will be making money every year for a long time—if I play my cards right, thousands of years.
I’m learning about artificial intelligence. I explored and wrote about it in GPTs and Humanoid Factory. This is just the beginning.
My next act is developing useful artificial intelligence systems. Developing the AI products I want will help my media operation go on for long after my current body has decomposed, and it will make my work even better while my human body is still alive.
There is a wide range of tasks I’d like to complete—websites, videos, essays, books, organizing events, podcasts, and building AI. At the top of the list is creating digital agents to help complete tasks on my behalf.
When I started in e-commerce, I wasn’t a marketer, then suddenly I was. When I started writing online, I wasn’t a writer, then suddenly I was. Same for podcasting and investing.
I’m starting in tech development, building digital agents to perpetuate identities beyond our current bodies. Human bodies decompose, but rather than a rock in a cemetery to remember us, we can have (be?) an AI agent continuing to make stuff happen.
All grandeur begins with delusions of grandeur.
What I’m Reading
Barcelona is an amazing city and while I was there I started to think about where I want to live.
shared this Paul Graham essay with me, Cities and Ambition.I love New Hampshire, the land, beaches and mountains, food and people, and the lack of firearm laws and taxes. But it’s not the best place for meeting partners—for tech development and relationships. In the spirit of minimizing regret and maximizing serendipity, I am moving an hour south, to Boston.
In March, Paul Graham dropped three essays: The Best Essay, How to Start Google, and The Reddits.
I’m enjoyed Venture Capital’s Space for Sheep from Pirate Wires.
Photos from Spain
Music
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When I was 18 I was a lifeguard! 😆 🏊♀️
I lived in Spain off and on for many years. I’m a performer headline the La Scala show in Madrid. Besides the people being so wonderful and friendly and I also love the food. The best food in Europe. Second is Belgium. If you’re going for the food.
Your line "when I started writing online, I wasn't a writer, then suddenly I was" resonated such that I created my first note, breaking my Substack silence. Sometimes life serves serendipity and we should just say thanks. I appreciate the confidence boost. Perhaps my homepage won't remain blank for too much longer.