Once you’ve hit your 40s, you truly realise that actually health is wealth. It’s so easy to just think that earning money is the cure to all your problems and is the key to happiness. We are literally indoctrinated with it from birth.
In previous life chapters I burnt myself out many times. IT work is basically infinite if you choose it to be… and doing so will consume you. I’ve always said to newcomers to the industry that the easiest thing to do is to get a 9 -5 developer job and be happy with it. Take time off, relax, paid holidays, maternity, corporate benefits, sick pay, etc.
But self-employment is a much different game.
And part of that game is about making sure you look after yourself. I’ll post more about this in the future.
Today I woke up earlier than normal, did my exercise and then went to the library for my remote working space today. The main goal for today was getting my landing page up and running so I can get Stripe to verify that.
I’ve written today’s work diary here – mainly about wordpress and marketing.
As i’ve said before… I’m getting the platform in place so that I can start building stuff on it, whatever I choose to do.
I’ve decided to begin my offerings as one which helps other navigate through the AI space but also leveraging all the dev experience I’ve already got. The next six months will be a steep learning curve as I catch up on concepts, tools, market choice and most importantly, practically implementing AI tools and building my own.
I’ll also need to start getting a team together. But that’s a side note for another time.
Point is, my offering is to help others navigate through their own AI transformation, together with any other web stuff they need (I’ve suddenly realised I quite like online marketing) and the ones who sign up to the monthly service will get lifetime access to all products I build for free.
Will this work?
Well, the value is in my consultancy plus development. That’s already proven over the last twenty years. The added value is helping them study their business within the context of AI transformation. Also, I’m thinking of a few ideas that can deliver more value like industry reports, a selection of the best YouTube videos on AI… and then the value on top will be the AI Platform that I want to build toward.
So what’s the end point on the AI Platform?
Essentially, AI Agents.
Everyone eventually will have their own AI Agent. How that works exactly I don’t know yet… but we will all have a ‘digital twin’ of some sort and this will abstract away a hell of a lot of things for us, and help us navigate through life more effectively.
They will know everything about us – hopefully as a standard this is all encrypted and private rather than hosted in the cloud. Because they have this context, they will be able to offer individual advice, provide reminders, etc, etc.
People will have AI agents… and companies will have them also. Buildings, cities, governments, etc. And then i’m sure a lot of the James Bond villains of the world envisage one overriding one that monitors and calls the shots… Aladdin anyone?
Use your imagination.
So that’s where I want to move towards. I am totally aware the big boys will be doing this already … but I’m fairly certain I can build something with my own twist to it, and if I build it, I’m sure as I keep going I may find a niche that it can fit into.
That’s it for today.
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