Week one complete!
Today a friend came up with such an awesome phrase that i’ve adopted it…
Tactical Stress!
Tactical Stress is putting genuine pressure on yourself by making a firm decision which is time delineated. A firm decision is basically when you’ve said ‘screw it’ – ‘screw the consequences, screw the challenge, screw the dangers … i’m doing it anyway.’
It also means you cut out the other options. When you have other options it means you can always retreat. You can always change your mind. That’s not a mindset that will produce optimum results.
I’ve started posting on LinkedIn every day for the last week. I’ve had a few people message me about it; and a few comments. I’ve barely used LinkedIn before now so I haven’t even got to the optimisation part yet. For me, it was about making that ‘public’ commitment to taking a path which helped put the tactical stress on me. And it’s a fun place to be right now.
However, I am under no illusions how challenging it is going to be competing in the industry from my situation. The players are already established and AI is an easy addition to existing functionality. Is it overhyped – yes and no. The tools coming out are a product of great imaginations, and I consider those part of AI. More on them in the future.
At the same time, I’ve got a lot of great people around me, i’m at a good experience and skill level; and I tend to think in an unorthodox way. I also know there’s no real true failure possible here. The only failure would be to not start – to not go through the AI transformation process myself. At the end of it, I will know a lot more about myself, and about the new paradigm. If I ‘succeed’ in some meaningful way, that’s just additional awesomeness.
And finally, the market is pretty damn big. I do think I will find some chink in the armour if I keep on going. I will find at least one opportunity and when that appears, I am 99% certain that having a platform ready to go – ready to adapt to that opportunity … is a good strategy going forward.
Incremental Progress On Building The Platform
I had some life things to do today but I managed to get some time in on my AI platform.
I still feel that the tried and tested beauty of the Laravel framework is a really solid choice to do that. Today I reminded myself of Policies, Tests, Mailables, Service Providers and Events. I configured a welcome email based on an email verification event, and it reminded me of how well thought out the framework is.
After sorting out the remainder of the Stripe integration, I will hook the system up to some different LLM APIs and I’m going to play around with local ones. At least at that point I will have a system which is somewhat of a basic ChatGPT clone… but I can build upon it.
Income, Grants & R&D Credits
The next major milestone is to finish configuration of Stripe since I have an idea which might get me customers onboard sooner rather than later. If I can bring some income in and delivered scaled value from the system to begin with, that’s going to be a big help.
I also need to bring daily research into grants into my reality. I’ve seen other people get grants relatively easily, so now that I’ve made my decision I will be able to find something. That, and R&D credits.
That’s it for now.
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