Navigating the AI Wave Without Drowning

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📘 Learn: FOMO—The New Hustle Trap?

Every time I log into LinkedIn, someone’s automating an entire business before breakfast.

The AI wave is thrilling—but also exhausting. It feels like 2016 hustle culture in a new outfit. A nonstop race to master every tool, build every agent, catch every wave… or get left behind.

In moments like this, I return to a quiet truth from Zen master Shunryu Suzuki:

That’s our real edge in growth: not having all the answers, but staying open to discovery.

Because when FOMO drives everything, curiosity disappears. And so does presence.

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🛠 Optimize: Permission to Experiment (and Mess Up)

This week, I gave myself space to be a beginner again:

• Claude + Model Context Protocol (MCP): Started playing with contextual prompts and saw how fast agents could reduce complexity.

• Make.com, Zapier, N8n, Replit: Explored workflows that sparked ideas across creative and UA systems.

• Baby & Ghibli Image Experiments: No expectations—just play. It reminded me that fun is productive, too.

Not everything I tried worked.

But everything moved me forward.

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📈 Grow: Build Weekly Momentum

Here’s how I’m approaching this new landscape- with focus and sustainability:

• Ship small, weekly: A micro-automation, a creative test, a short reflection. One visible output, every week.

• Curiosity over panic: The goal isn’t to use every tool. It’s to follow what energizes me and builds leverage long-term.

We’re in the best possible moment for thinkers, builders, and systems people.

But that doesn’t mean we need to ride every wave.

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Final Thought

It’s okay to pause.

To breathe.

To remember you’re not behind—you’re right where you need to be.

Let’s build this wave the right way.

— Daniel

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PS: What’s one experiment, creative idea, or system tweak you’re curious about?

Reply and I’ll share what helped me test it.