Today has not been a good day. I’m pretty sure we got mild food poisoning or something. Both became my son have been mostly bed bound. I get bouts of energy that I am using when I can, but it’s definitely not much.

It’s days like this that I’m so glad I time budget, and I track my daily tasks. I don’t have the energy to do much today, so if I can find quick wins to snipe in the moments of lucidity, I’m taking it.

I managed to rally late today after sleeping off a lot of it, just enough to keep myself caught up on this week’s commitments. Definitely not 100% back yet though.

Hoping tomorrow is better.

Envato’s move to a 50% commission is…perplexing. Feels like they’re biting the hand that feeds them at best, extortion at worst.

What’s funny is they decided to do this as AI is literally making it easier than ever to get off of these platforms. It’s like they WANT You to leave.

Seriously though, own your platform, y’all. WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads have been around for a coon’s age, and solve your problem without paying an arbitrary tax to whatever Envato’s investors decide you need to pay.

That distribution ain’t worth that tax. You could literally run an affiliate program with Siren Affiliates with a 25% commission rate (which I think is already really high for reliably converting software!) and capture a lot of that distribution, while actually taking ownership of those relationships and spreading out your dependency to your entire network.

I think I’ve perfected my cozy gaming setup. I’ve been reeeeeeally loving this gyro controller setup, and it’s genuinely been awesome to have fun gaming without being at my desk (which is the LAST place I want to be at the end of my workday!)

I’ve been using AI to do about 95% of the actual execution of my work for the past 3 months or so, and I’m learning a lot about when AI is not the right tool for the job.

Which honestly when I think about it is the biggest reason why I have been so obsessively using it lately. For me it’s not about replacing myself or whatever, it’s more about understanding the ever-changing limits of the technology, and making sure I’m optimizing my work around what it can do, but more importantly what it cannot do.

That’s the thing about things that are trendy and being hyped like crazy…you get a lot of hyperbole, and anecdotal evidence, but the only way to truly know the truth is to use it, and use it a lot. Discover its limits, and figure out when you should just do it yourself.

I think the people who are going to come out ahead in this era are going to be the ones that are using AI, obviously, but it’s not just using it, it’s actually integrating it as a multiplier instead of a replacement.

Over the weekend I discovered the flick stick + gyro controller configuration for FPS games. If you’re typically a mouse/keyboard player and want to get a LOT closer to the control you have with mouse/keyboard using a controller, give it a try.

Kicking it old skool today