Howdy,
I’ve been taking a bit of time lately to build tools that I (and you) can use to level-up.
Here are a few that are simply outstanding:
- Gurus will let you test my Gurus skill for free! Get feedback from multiple AIs at the same time, and have the results grouped together.
You can use it to do: Brainstorming, Debugging, Grill me, and more❗This tool is really focused on working on your code - USP Coach helps you determine your Unique Selling Proposition which is, by far, the most important thing you can uncover for your business.
- CopyWriting Coach leverages over 70 different books, seminars, courses, etc. It can bring your words to the next level in no time❗ Feed it your copy or a URL and it will impress you!
- GrowYourBiz Coach helps think of innovative ways to jump-start your business. AI is amazing at coming up with ideas. Give it a try asking for 20 ways to grow your business and throw out the ones you hate!
- TurnAround Coach will help uncover what is really wrong with your business and propose ideas on how to fix them.
- ProspectFinder is built with the sole purpose of thinking of “outside the box” ways to find and reach your prospects.
All of the above have free uses and can be complete game changers for your business.
I’ve been using them myself and with my clients and I’m blown away at how helpful and insightful they are!
Now on with the show…
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Are you a Micro-Manager (of your AI)
In this Hero extract we discussed how specific we should be when giving prompts to AI, and when you should (or shouldn’t) spell out exactly how you want it to do the job.
Why We Micromanage AI and How to Stop | Hero Extract
Sharing your Clipboard between Devices
I don’t talk nearly enough about our 46 apps at DirtSimple.app.
If you want to share your clipboard between devices you should check out ClipShare.
It’s free, simple to use and works on most types of devices and OS (Android and iPhones, Windows or Mac computers, etc.)
Which Plan Gives you the Most Bang for the Buck❓
If you’re looking at OpenAI and Anthropic, trying to decide which plan to go with, the following video is for you!
Turns out it is quite complicated to tease-out❗
In this video we walk through how, depending on how you use the models, you might choose the different providers.
Maximum Effort flips Claude / ChatGPT lead
BTW, while I’m heavily into Anthropic (Claude), I do think you get just as good results from OpenAI and Grok, and Gemini is not far behind.
When AI knows you better, you will think it is smarter
A lot of people “try AI” and say it is dumb or they don’t like it, but that’s like running into a stranger on the street and expecting them to understand your preferences and styles.
In this hero extract we discuss teaching AI your preferences.
Train AI With Your Hidden Preferences 🧠 | Hero Extract
Improving People’s Lives: Story #121
I was on a client call and the 3rd party on the call were not native English speakers. We recorded the call so, after it was over, I took our video and fed it to our tool that both transcribes and translates videos.
Then I burned-in the French subtitles and sent it to the 3rd party. They were blown away at how fast I did it (and at virtually no cost).
AI is helping the world get smaller every day❗
📚 What we’re reading
- How to Securely Shop Online
- How to find the Smallest or Largest number in Excel
- 250 Unique APIs
🤖 AI News that you Need to Know
- Put local AI on a bootable USB to troubleshoot a dead PC offline (Thanks Mike❗)
- Are Smart AI models ready for Self Improving❓
- Anthropic’s financials will blow your mind🤯
- Use AI to make your chores more fun
⚡️Productivity tips: Don’t forget this one…
Ctrl+Shift+Delete – Clear browsing data on your browser
🤣 A spot of Humor: Sir Patrick Stewart was such an amazing actor!
Patrick Stewart Being Effortlessly Hilarious for 12 Minutes Straight!
What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #155
Last week I went through 52 files, and a lot of the fixes came from letting Claude AI work directly on my computer to find and solve problems while I did other things.
My Hotkey Lookup tool can now spot the hotkeys in the programs you’re running, ClearCut cuts the pauses and filler words out of my videos, and a new OpenRouter wizard🧙makes setting up an AI token painless.
In this week’s video I walk you through all of it, plus a new AI editor I’m building that copies the style of a reference video.
What we Automated this week #155
Clients say…
First, sorry for my bad English, you probably don’t understand Joe how much you have done for me. you all have changed my life in the best possible way.
I’m a designer with 11 years of experience in this field who has worked for very large companies like DreamWorks and SpaceX, I have automated most of my routine work helping your channel and your amazing guests (especially I’m a big big fan of Isaiah, he explains amazingly) now I’m planning to change my field of work and transition to programming,
I am very excited about my future. Thank you — Lasha Brodzeli
AHK Hero 🦸
Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 623 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to Hero members❗
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- AI needs to learn to Copy and Paste
- Claude Skill for Creating Demos for Scripts
- Joe’s Bot calls his wife
- AHK Tools
- Hotkey Lookup – with AI support
- Noise Suppressor – Keep some speakers, suppress others
- Hire That Editor – Borrow a video’s “Style” and apply to your video
- Social Media Blocker
- Personal Info Scrubber
- Updates to Noticeable Text
- Issue with cJson lib for v2.1Alpha❓
- Rust Tools
- Icon Grabber
- Image Resizer
- Image Converter
- Progressive Web Apps on DirtSimple.app
- Find your Unique Selling Proposition with USP coach
- Get your business back to booming with TurnAround coach
- Find your target customers with Prospect Finder
🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- Some things are and always will be out of your control. Stop freaking out about it. If you gotta cry, cry. Don’t make a big deal of it. Life has tears built-in — John Carlton
- Learn how to calculate the future cost of your bad decisions — Joe Glines
- Investment in knowledge pays the best dividends — Benjamin Franklin
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P.S. I highly encourage you to try out one of our new coaches on DirtSimple.app.
The USP coach is my favorite. It really helps clarify the “one thing” that you should emphasize to your prospects.
Or use it on yourself to figure out what you should be mentioning to others…
