AI Almost Wrote This Newsletter

Newsletter · Mar 22, 2026

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But it didn't…

But ALMOST.

Which is crazy for me to say because I absolutely love writing these each week. I usually write them on Thursdays and I literally don't schedule anything else in the early morning so that I can do this.

It's a treat.

So to think that I ALMOST had AI write this for me is WILD.

Mainly because: I never thought that AI would really be able to portray my writing voice. It's not formal by any means. There's random references, slang, abbreviation, I like to capitalize random words, I use "…" more times than I should. I have run on sentences and generally write like I talk. All of which I really love because it's what separates my writing from any kind of AI "slop" as they call it.

BUT

*insert foot in mouth*

We are getting VERY close to AI being able to completely replicate my voice, your voice, everyone's voice… in fact, it's really already here, it's just a matter of prompting it correctly.

So here's the breakdown of today and what I'm going to share with you:

How I'm building "skills" in AI to help me with EVERYTHING
Conducting business research
Creating a masterclass of content in a matter of minutes
Daily briefs and weekly summaries
Integrating my agent into Slack to give me feedback on what's happening

Yes, that's a lot. But I'm going to 10,000 ft view all of that so that you can understand the concept without getting lost in the sauce.

FIRST, let me say this:

I've been talking about AI in one way or another for the past few years here. It is NOT a hypothetical futuristic thing. It's real, it's here and it's not just for business.

This is stuff that can change your LIFE.

Skills:

In Claude, I'm building out "skills" that I store in its memory to help me better with specific things. For example, one of the most powerful skills that I have in there is just context on who I am. I took ALL the conversations I've had with Claude and ChatGPT over the last 3 years and distilled it down to the essence of Kevin.

It now really knows me, who I am, what my motivations are, etc.

That alone is a superpower.

Conducting business research:

I think I have mentioned this before, but there's a family friend that started a business with a product for companies that use forklifts. He's wanted to sell the business for a while now, and we've had MANY conversations about this. Problem is, it's as dead as a doornail.

No customers, no revenue, nothing. In its heyday, it was making a casual $250k/year. But now, nothing.

I'm still very interested in it, because...

1) I believe I have a great skillset to take this over and market it appropriately and

2) because this could be an earn out scenario where I don't put ANY money down and just pay out the owner a % each year until we hit an agreed upon number.

But I digress. I wanted to deep dive into this industry further. I dropped all the information that I knew into Claude Co-work and all the sources that I currently have and prompted it to conduct market research, help me understand if this business is still viable and what strengths/weaknesses I have that I need to factor in.

It was a much longer prompt, but you get the point.

It spit out an incredible PDF on everything that I asked of it.

Creating a masterclass of content:

It is easier now than ever to create courses on what you know. I have a ton of material that I needed to coursefy. I loaded it all into Claude and had it generate a website for me that I could share with people to work through the material on their own time.

Freaking amazing.

Daily/weekly briefings:

It's important that I stay up to date on a handful of things each week/everyday. Prior to this, it's been all manual.

NOW I run a scheduled task that scrapes the channels/emails/schedule/areas that I need it to and gives me a full brief each day and then a summary of the week every Friday.

Integrating my agent into Slack:

This is mind blowing. I am now able to connect an agent of mine into Slack where I hang most of the day and for it to help me summarize and keep track of, distill, pay attention to all the things that I had been manually going through.

Now it's all in one place for me. I just have to run the task.

Ok, done.

Like I said, that was a very brief overview of several things that you could EASILY do.

I'll leave you with this... Just experiment more. Get a paid plan to Claude and start trying to hand off SOME tasks to it. Then iterate, adjust, try it in different ways, until you're satisfied with the outcome.

In the process you'll be learning a far more valuable skill than any of us realize.

Until next time...

Stay in the fight,

My best tweet this week:

@kevinasrx

I'm re-reading "The 4-Hour Workweek" and it occurred to me that things needed to be updated.

With this update, all the pieces come together and I truly believe the life Tim talks about is more possible now than ever.

Thanks to Claude, this is a brief update of the classic that

4:44 AM • Mar 15, 2026 ↗

My favorite tweet this week:

@felixrieseberg

We're shipping a new feature in Claude Cowork as a research preview that I'm excited about: Dispatch!

One persistent conversation with Claude that runs on your computer. Message it from your phone. Come back to finished work.

To try it out, download Claude Desktop, then pair

8:35 PM • Mar 17, 2026 ↗