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But companies and governments owning the natural resources that powers the utilities took over the world.

US for example owns the LNG trade right now and that’s a major choke for power production across the world, China owns the rare earth metals that goes into solar and wind.

took me a minute to figure out what this is but this is nice. i've already caught a few repos i blindly installed with obvious security risk

we use a service called Briefhq.

First: It’s a MCP/cli you can hook up to Claude code and slack, it integrates with GitHub.

the harness lets you record decision as contextual info you can pull up whenever your start a planning session.

It also makes sure your decisions don’t conflict with each other.

I find myself talking through a decision I made months ago with it, update it with any new decisions and it just figures out how to merge everything.

No extra workflow outside of this.

_Are you letting AI interact directly with ops tools?_

Yes but very cautiously and always with human in the loop. AI is great at cutting away ops noise (false alerts), OK at root cause analysis / debugging and terrible at actually prioritizing and fixing the thing.

It's not a solved a problem and companies like Rootly's actively speaking in this area. I'd read their blog and see what's the latest in the field.

why do this instead of using a merchant of record?

Well they did and Facebook refused. Hence the "do not track" feature.

Too. many. features

if you're in the same geo - small claims court.

otherwise, consider it lost + name and shame

Tug of war with tencent. Hope they figure it out like Apple did with Google.

They had entire section on substack as well, which is basically what I'm doing.

Stat seems like only 15(?) authors on substack makes $1,000/m or more. Which is wild.

True in strict monetary senses.

But through this process I've

- gained an engaging audience on X - multiple inbound leads that turned into long term collabs - a discord community of my best readers where we meet once a week

Worth the investment

Agreed. Much like a founder building a company for the sake of being a founder.

Rarely makes good products.

You nailed it.

Thank you.

So just to clarify I didn't have an audience when I wrote the book. I took the time and told people my story over the past 6 months, and while I did that - sold books.

I think good storytellers should be able to build an audience regardless of the format - highly recommend any aspiring author to try it.

I have a site, user can pay and get an email with the pdf/Epub link.

No paper.

I write in notion, export to markdown, then compile to pdf / Epub with pandoc

It's super easy, highly recommend