Stop babysitting AI. Start orchestrating it. This is where I test what's new, build what's useful, separate signal from hype, and share what actually works across business, design, family, and everyday living.
Whoops, swapped the whole garage.
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Hope you had a nice Labor Day weekend! Back to the races. A few of you asked where's this 3rd drop, which honestly made my day :) Here is what happened. I swapped my entire computer. New machine, wiped the old one, started clean. In garage terms I rolled the whole shop into a different building. Here is the part worth your ten minutes. It took an afternoon and I lost nothing. Not because I am organized. Ask anyone who has seen my actual garage. It is because of one habit I picked up the hard way: Almost nothing that matters lived on that computer. How I work, who I serve, the templates I reuse, the notes that took me years to figure out. None of it was on the machine. It lives in one spot I own that is not tied to any app, any brand, or any laptop. Plug in the new one, keep going. Why this matters more than it did last year Look at the first two days of September:
Four new engines. Forty eight hours. If your whole setup lives inside one of those, you are going to spend the next two years re-explaining your business every time something better comes out. If your setup lives somewhere you own, you swap the engine and drive off. Engines are rented. The garage is owned. One thing to steal Open a plain document. One page. What you do, who you serve, how you like things done, what you are working on right now. Save it somewhere that is not locked inside one app. Next time you open any AI tool, paste that in first. That page is your fuel. It is the whole difference between a tool that knows you and one that meets you for the first time every single morning. 10 minutes. Works with whatever comes out next month too. Another thing I keep noticing Spending time in a new office where people with no engineering background are shipping work that would have needed hefty development a year ago. Watching it happen in real time is something else. That door is open now, and it swings both ways. More on that soon. What have you been up to so far this September? Hit reply. I read every one. Josh techlifewithjosh.com - Garage Map - Past drops |
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Stop babysitting AI. Start orchestrating it. This is where I test what's new, build what's useful, separate signal from hype, and share what actually works across business, design, family, and everyday living.
Happy Friday | Drop 002 The garage is cooking right now. Stoked you're here for it. 1. The engines got better The facts: xAI launched Grok Bot on August 11. Each one gets its own computer, signs into the apps you already use, works overnight, and comes back to you when it needs a decision. Not a chatbot. More like a night shift guy who leaves a note on your desk. Engines stay swappable. That is the whole point, never marry one. But which engine you put in which bay is the actual skill now. I...
You're getting this because you matter to me. There are about a hundred of us here to start. Thank you. Plenty got built these last 10+ years. Just not quite out loud. Websites, then apps, then a software company I co-founded, grew from zero to a few million a year, and exited this summer. Somewhere before that, I took part in a feature film (lmk if you need the stream link), and created an 11-song album (lmk if you still need a copy). All of it behind a curtain so to speak. For the first...