Four businesses means four sets of repeatable workflows, and the coordination overhead across them is where solo operators usually lose time they never track. The tool choices matter less than the connective tissue between them. I write about AI automation for solopreneurs on my Substack and help people build the systems that link their stack together. What is the biggest workflow you are still doing manually across those four?
What you describe about the skill documents and the conversational structure matching how you think that is exactly the experience I have too. Not Claude being better in the abstract but Claude being better for a specific kind of thinking.
It is whether the stack, once built, is still reflecting your judgment or starting to produce it.
A mirror shows you back to yourself. But if you consult the mirror enough times before making a decision, at some point you stop noticing whether the reflection is accurate or whether you have begun to trust the reflection more than the original. The best stack is one where you can still tell the difference.
Your three questions before any new tool are exactly right. I would add a fourth, when was the last time I made a significant decision in this area without consulting the tool first?
Thanks for the opportunity, Jurgen!
Four businesses means four sets of repeatable workflows, and the coordination overhead across them is where solo operators usually lose time they never track. The tool choices matter less than the connective tissue between them. I write about AI automation for solopreneurs on my Substack and help people build the systems that link their stack together. What is the biggest workflow you are still doing manually across those four?
Mostly the things I want to keep doing manually
What you describe about the skill documents and the conversational structure matching how you think that is exactly the experience I have too. Not Claude being better in the abstract but Claude being better for a specific kind of thinking.
It is whether the stack, once built, is still reflecting your judgment or starting to produce it.
A mirror shows you back to yourself. But if you consult the mirror enough times before making a decision, at some point you stop noticing whether the reflection is accurate or whether you have begun to trust the reflection more than the original. The best stack is one where you can still tell the difference.
Your three questions before any new tool are exactly right. I would add a fourth, when was the last time I made a significant decision in this area without consulting the tool first?
Certainly is possible to start trusting the mirror more than yourself
“Mirror stack” is right, but incomplete.
Even a perfect stack fails if tools don’t work together.
Example:
Gemini → thinking
NotebookLM → memory
Google Workspace → execution
Most optimize tools. Few optimize connections.
That’s where leverage is.
Built something around this idea: https://shorturl.at/J6Wwh