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Welcome to this week's edition of Uncrowded Strategies.
Here are my private notes on what I'm building, how I'm growing my family, and the weird things I'm doing to optimize my health this week.
Before I go any further, writing such a newsletter used to take me about an hour before. Now, with AI and voice typing tools like today’s sponsor, I can write this in under 10 minutes! More on that towards the end…
⚡ The Leverage: I walked away for coffee. AI wrote me a 30,000-word manual
(Tool of the week: Claude Co-Work)
I gave an AI full control of my computer this week. And honestly... I'm still processing what happened.
Claude Co-Work is an AI tool that doesn't just chat with you. It takes over your screen. Opens your apps. Moves your files. Does the work.
I had hundreds of pages of raw data on copywriting — scattered notes, frameworks, swipe files, client results. Stuff I've been collecting for years. I fed it all into Co-Work, told it what I needed, then walked away to grab a coffee.
I came back to a 30,000-word copywriting manual. Not garbage. Not filler. A genuinely useful manual that would've taken me weeks or months to write.
While I was sipping an ice black.
It also handles the boring stuff. P&L statements. Cashflow reports. The tedious data entry that my media buyers used to spend hours on. Co-Work just... does it.
The Uncrowded Take: Most people are using AI to write Instagram captions. That's like buying a Ferrari and only driving it in the parking lot. If you're not using AI to automate actual work — the spreadsheets, the reports, the grunt work that eats your day — you're already behind. But it’s not too late, set aside time and start finding ways to intergrate these tools into your workflow!
❤️ The Partnership: Listening was never about the problem. It was about the trust
My wife wrote an Instagram post this week. It reached 2.4 million views in under 7 days, which means many people relate to it.
The topic? Something most parents get wrong and don't even realize it.
She wrote about how we dismiss our kids' "excuses." They come to us with something that feels huge to them. And we brush it off. "That's not a big deal." "Stop being dramatic." "You're fine."
We do it without thinking. But here's what happens over time...
They stop coming to us. They stop telling us things. Not because they don't need us. But because we trained them to believe their feelings don't matter.
Our parents did it to us in our generation; let’s not pass this generation curse to the next.
The Uncrowded Move: The thing your kid is upset about? It might be small to you. But the need to feel heard is always bigger than the thing itself. Listening isn't about the problem. It's about the trust. Kill the trust early... and good luck getting it back when they're 16.
Go read Zoey's full post. It's one of the best things she's written
💰 The Portfolio: Invest in the very company that might replace you
I'll be honest. I didn't make a single investment move this week.
The past two weeks I've been heads-down building Sonny — my autonomous AI bot on OpenClaw. Coding from 9am to midnight. Almost Every. Single. Day. No trades. No research. Just building.
But I wrote something on Monday that I still stand by:
The world still thinks AI is overhyped. It's not.
AI agents are finally smart enough to do real work. Sonny is proof of that. I built an autonomous agent that operates on its own. Not a chatbot. Not a toy. An agent.
If you don't have the time to sit down and code your own autonomous agent, here's my honest advice: invest in the very AI companies stock that might replace you. That's not fear. That's strategy.
Here's how deep I'm going: I'm even considering buying 5 Mac Studio units, maxed out. $12,000 each. $60,000 total. Why? To form a cluster that runs powerful local LLM models. No more API fees. My bots run 24/7, on my own hardware.
I'm not the only one. I've seen dozens of builders on X already doing this.
The only reason I haven't pulled the trigger? Local models like Llama still aren't as sharp as frontier models like Claude Opus or GPT-5.2. But the gap is closing. Fast. I give it 12-18 months. Then all hell breaks loose.
Holding: AI chip companies. All these Mac Studios require chips. Still the safest, clearest long-term bet.
Watching: The local LLM hardware play. When open-source models catch up to frontier... the economics of AI flip overnight.
Building: Sonny. My autonomous agent. Because the best investment is the thing you build yourself.
🧬 The Protocol: No biohacks. Just a fever and an honest confession.
No biohacking advice this week. I'm writing this with a fever.
Coding 15-hour days has wrecked me. My sleep schedule? Gone. My meal routine? Gone. My body finally said: "You're done."
So this is a struggle edition, not a success edition.
But here's the deeper thing I'm wrestling with...
With everything I'm seeing in AI — the speed, the capability, the agents that actually work now — I have this fear sitting in my gut. Something is about to shift. Not slowly. Not gradually. The way COVID hit. One day, everything was normal. The next day, the world changed overnight.
I feel that same energy building with AI. And it's equal parts exciting and terrifying.
The honest truth: I still haven't found the balance. The pull to build faster, learn faster, stay ahead... it fights against the peace I know I need. I'm praying and reminding myself that God remains my source. That I can move with urgency without losing my peace.
I don't have a clean lesson this week. Just the messy middle.
Sometimes that's the most honest thing I can share.
See you next week,
Gabriel
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