🐝 The Sting
Learn AI in public. Embrace the ridicule. Ship daily. Share experience and results. Measure.
Things built: 15 People watching: 11 Cashflow:-$147
🎂 There’s four more of you! That’s amazing! Welcome. 🎂
🤖 🧠 Learning
Making the most out of December plans. Day two.
For starters, I followed instructions from yesterday about what to do to grow my readership, and there are 4 more of you here, nearly a 50% growth (if I’m getting that math right), so that didn’t suck.
Honestly, sometimes the most relaxing thing to do is to simply follow instructions. Let’s see if this gets me to 10,000 by the end of 2026, then I’ll be really impressed.
The biggest evolution so far concerning the way I think and use AI has been about how I prompt it.
I think I am just about to get over my anthropomorphizing hump. Meaning when I say, please or thank you, it’s for me, so I remember how to talk to humans, it’s no longer because I think the machine is impacted by me.
That’s what happens when you start to use a tool. It looses its mythic quality. And it gains its practical impact in return.
There will be plenty of posts covering how I’ve launched products (Bestfairlawn.com is very close to going live). I want another shake at reviewing the instructions on how to build a website with AI but that’s also about to go live somewhere. I may just give you exclusive access to it for being subscribers.
It’s all to say that the central thing I have discovered this last month is to the real balance between the practical possibilities of working with AI and the continued need to imagine what it can do next, tempered by a no none-sense understanding of it’s limitations.
🍯 🦡 Building
What did I ship today?
A personal outreach campaign on DMs that brought four of you to join our little adventure.
A rebranding of the 🤑 Selling section below to 🧰 The Beginner’s Stack.
🧰 The Beginner’s Stack
Tools I am using to fake being an expert.
1. Beehiiv (The Platform)
"I tried other platforms, but Beehiiv is the only one that makes growth feel like a game. It’s what runs this newsletter. The Deal: You get a free trial + 20% off (I get a commission to keep the lights on)."
2. Wispr Flow (The Time Saver)
"I hate typing. This tool turns my rambling voice notes into perfect text. It’s the only way I can write this much every day. The Deal: We both get a free month if you try it."
3. Emergent (The Coding Cheat)
"I am not a coder. Emergent is my 'vibe coding' partner that writes the messy parts for me. Essential if you want to build apps without a CS degree."
Last Word.
Knowing what you want is half the battle. Being willing to accept what that means is the real struggle.
Making daily progress,
Bram Fellow Beginner & Chief Mistake Maker
P.S. Did I do something totally backwards today? Or do you have a better prompt for this? Hit reply and tell me. I’m here to learn just as much as you are. (I read every single email).