Jonny Chan

I've been trying out old-school AI (Analog Intelligence) and it is working Last year, I bought a $20 cassette tape record, and it has improved my nights more than most apps ever have At night before bed I use it as an audio journal - just recording thoughts and ideas (Cont'd)

Reset is the new Christmas gift Grok Bot just reset weekly limits for everyone. I get excited. Every. Single. Time No wrapped box. No shipping delay. Your AI usage drops back to zero like the week never happened. Usage limits are the new battery percentage. You ignore them until you're at 4% The reset notification is the new full charge Happy reset week, everyone!

I just got a legal notice email that I actually enjoyed PostHog sent a subprocessor update. The email every SaaS has to send and nobody reads It opens with: "Nobody likes boring legal emails, including us" And it's signed "PostHog's Lawyers" Two things I love here: 1/ It's honest about what the email is. A legal requirement, delivered like a human 2/ The joke costs them nothing. Same email, same legal cover, but you actually read it This is brand in the small print. Anyone can write a clever homepage. Almost nobody writes a funny privacy update // My take Marketing isn't just the big campaigns. It's every touchpoint, including the ones you're legally forced to send If your "boring" emails sound like a lawyer wrote them, that's a choice What's the most human automated email you've ever received?

You can rent attention. You have to earn recommendations. Marketing makes people remember you. Brand is what they say when you're not in the room. Memory fades. Tastes shift. Even Coca-Cola still advertises, and it bought Topo Chico. A referral is someone lending you their reputation. If people in your category talk and nobody mentions you, don't fix the marketing. Fix the work, or yourself

You can use AI to do almost everything now, but I am learning this the hard way... If I do not do it myself, I do not remember it. And if I do not remember it, I do not really understand it Understanding takes time. You have to build the neural connections so you can actually use the idea later Yes, reading an AI output gives you the answer immediately, but it skips the part where your brain does the work. To really learn something, I have to go slow. Struggle with it. Wrestle with it. Let the thought marinate Not every task needs that. Admin and busywork, I'll let AI handle it But for the things that are meaningful, I do it by hand. Draw it out. Type it out myself. I do it manually, and it's somewhat therapeutic The slow way feels inefficient. It is also the way it sticks. In summary: Work to understand. In the end, the work is not the output. It is who you become producing it

Recent lesson I learned →  How to communicate anything: What it is (Clarity) Why it matters (Context) What you think (Conviction) How it helps them (Value) Most people skip to 4. That’s why no one believes them

Chat → prompt → skill → workflow → agent → multi-agent → agentic department → agentic company tbh, I still spend most of my time on the first five Multi-agent is where it gets hard. Most runs still need my review Things break and I can’t see where. Jobs time out and nobody tells me why And then when a run finishes cleanly, the output often isn’t at the quality I want I guess a fully agentic department is a long way off. An agentic company is even further

Hired a junior engineer. Too expensive Let him go. Vibe-coded instead Token bill exploded. Created a new role: AI Employee AI Employee needed managing. Created a new role: Human Employee Great news. We now have two headcount

Awesome morning session! Thanks for putting the event together @casey_lau @edithyeung

Srsly, how do artists promote their work after pouring their soul into it? Do they ever ask about "product-market-fit"? How to make money? How to figure out the distribution? Or do these questions only matter to startups and not to art, because the intent has to be pure?