Monday, September 7, 2026

Claude AI for Business: The 10X Playbook

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Claude isn't a chatbot anymore. Stop prompting — start delegating.

Most people type a question into Claude and copy the answer. That's using a fraction of it. Claude is now a stack for thinking, creating, remembering, connecting, delegating, automating, and orchestrating real business work — and this is the playbook for running it like an operator, not a tourist.

Claude AI for Business: The 10X Playbook takes you from your first good answer to a governed, automated Claude Business OS — beginner to builder, everyone levels up. Written by a founder who runs an agentic AI workforce in production, it's a complete implementation system, not a prompt dump.

You'll master the whole stack:

  • Projects, Memory & Context Engineering — give Claude your company's brain so it stops starting from zero.
  • Artifacts & finished deliverables — real spreadsheets, decks, docs, dashboards, and mini-apps.
  • Skills, Connectors & MCP — teach Claude your procedures and safely connect your tools with least-privilege permissions.
  • Cowork — delegate a complete job, schedule recurring work, and run reliable multi-agent workflows behind a human approval gate.
  • Claude Code — for operators and founders, not just developers: build tools, automate operations, work in parallel.
  • Department playbooks for executive, marketing, sales, customer success, operations, finance, product, and engineering.
  • Safety & governance — prompt-injection defense, permissions, evidence, and an ROI scorecard to prove it worked.

Signature frameworks — the Capability Ladder, the BRIEF delegation method, the Governed Business-Agent Pattern, and Proof-Before-Scale — give you a memorable path, plus a living companion vault of workbooks, 101 Power Moves, 50 BRIEFs, and an exhaustive, proven Skill library.

By the last page you'll have built a personal AI chief of staff, at least three recurring Cowork workflows, a governed connector stack, a live dashboard, and a 30-day rollout your whole team can run.

Stop prompting. Start delegating.

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Agentic Software: The App Layer Wins

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The software era just ended. Here's what replaces it—and how to own it.

For thirty years, business software did one thing: wait for you. You opened the app, clicked the buttons, chased the tasks. That era is over. The next generation of software doesn't wait—it works.

In Agentic Software, Contractor+ founder Justin Smith sends a dispatch from a few years into the future: a real, revenue-generating company increasingly run by a governed AI workforce—a marketing team, a support team, and a success team, all built as software and directed from a chat window while the founder sleeps.

This isn't theory, and it isn't hype. It's a working field guide and a live case study—hand-drawn and plain-spoken—that shows the exact architecture behind a company that markets, sells, supports, and improves on its own, and gets measurably smarter every night.

You'll learn how to:


  • Stop operating software and start directing it—the shift from tools to teammates.
  • Build the one asset that compounds: a shared "brain" your AI never forgets.
  • Draw an org chart of agents—managers, specialists, and validators that scale output without scaling headcount.
  • Keep AI aggressive and safe at the same time with an autonomy ladder, a confidence gate, and a kill switch.
  • Run the whole thing affordably by routing every task to the cheapest model that can do it well.
  • Turn one painful workflow into your first agent—with a concrete 90-day plan you can start Monday.

The winners of the AI era won't be the companies with the biggest model. They'll be the incumbents who move first—the operators who own the data, the workflow, and the customer trust, and wrap a workforce around them before the competitor down the street does.

If you run a business, lead a team, or simply want to understand where software is heading, this is the playbook for the agentic era.

Start with one workflow. Earn trust one rung at a time. Let the loop compound.

Includes original hand-drawn diagrams and a step-by-step blueprint.



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Sunday, September 6, 2026

ChatGPT for Business: The 10X Playbook

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ChatGPT for Business: The 10X Playbook:

100 AI Workflows to Save Time, Grow Revenue, Automate Operations, and Build a Smarter Company

Most people use 5% of ChatGPT. This is the other 95%.

You've been typing questions into a chatbot. Meanwhile ChatGPT quietly became a business operating layer that can research, analyze, create finished work, connect to your tools, and run tasks on a schedule. This is the playbook for using all of it — like an operator, not a tourist.

ChatGPT for Business: The 10X Playbook is not a prompt collection. It's a complete implementation system that turns the way you work into repeatable, AI-powered business systems — beginner to builder, everyone levels up. Written by a founder who runs an agentic AI workforce in production.

Inside, you'll master the full 2026 stack:

  • Stop prompting, start briefing — the Universal 10X Brief that turns vague requests into professional work orders.
  • Projects, Memory, Files & Deep Research — give ChatGPT persistent company context and documented, cited research.
  • Finished work — data analysis, Canvas, docs, spreadsheets, decks, and Sites, done to your templates.
  • Agent Mode & ChatGPT Work — hand off multi-step jobs across your connected apps, safely.
  • Skills, Plugins & Workspace Agents — productize your best workflows into reusable, shareable systems.
  • Department playbooks for marketing, sales, support, operations/finance, people, and product.
  • Accuracy, security & ROI — evals, prompt-injection defense, permissions, and a scorecard that proves it worked.

The signature frameworks — the Five Levels of Leverage, the Master Workflow Pattern, and the Universal 10X Brief — give you a memorable path, plus a companion vault of 100 workflow cards, a Business OS workbook, and a Skill library.

Finish the 30-Day 10X Challenge and you'll have a personal ChatGPT Business OS: ten production-ready workflows, one for every department, a reusable Skill or agent, a scheduled workflow, and an ROI dashboard.

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Stop prompting. Start operating.








Saturday, September 5, 2026

THE WHISPER IN THE JAR

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Prophecy always demands a witness. She was seventeen when she learned that the gods do not send visions to help. What she saw, she could not unsee. What she warned against, she only hastened. And what she became, no one had a name for. Across the burning cities of the ancient Mediterranean, she walked. She lived among scholars who feared her, slaves who hid her, senators who used her. She loved quietly. She lost everyone. She kept writing letters to a girl who could no longer read them. And when she could bear no more witnessing, she sealed herself inside a clay jar and waited for the world to forget her. The world forgot. Until someone came looking. A literary historical novella in the tradition of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. For readers who love quiet, philosophical fiction set in the long shadow of the ancient world.


Friday, September 4, 2026

MIND: PSYCHOLOGY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW YOUR MIND WORKS...

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MIND: PSYCHOLOGY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW YOUR MIND WORKS...


https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736002554

This is a book about the most important discoveries in psychology. Not just the gnawed bones of the studies in a textbook, but what has been left out of what you think you know. From Genius to Suicide Bombers, from Science to Sex, all the best they never told you in school. 362 Pages, 7.5X9, fully illustrated

• The Brain: How experience controls the biology of the brain: Adrenalin, Cortisol, and Neurotransmitters flood the brain in response to words, Hollywood horror movies, anxiety-producing thoughts, and the girls shrieking “Witch, Witch!” at the Salem witch trial...

• Quest for the Mind Code; how the mind is programmed by the environment.

• New Evidence: How learning "hardwires" the brain for language, emotion, culture, sex....

• MInd Control is an everyday occurrence. Psychology’s General Theory of Relativity; Kamikaze pilots, suicide bombers, celebrity, Tank Killing dogs, sex, and Sacred Cows.  

•The success of Genius is not about the brain, it is about learning how to think. How the greatest minds in history made their discoveries, in their own words.

• Cogito, ergo, cogito cogito: I think, therefore, I think, I think. The fact that we can think has created the illusion that we do think. Test yourself.  Perception determines our reality.

• What the greatest minds in psychology know about how the mind works. Understanding how the mind works gives us the potential to control our own mind, just as Einstein’s understanding of the atom gave us the potential to control the atom. We are far behind in that understanding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. OUTSIDE THE BOX: Genius is from the MIND, not the Brain. 

 Learned programs of thinking make Genius possible.  Genius, in their own words.

2. INSIDE THE BOX: Quest For The Mind Code

"The obscure we see eventually, the completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." The Dean of news, Edward R. Murrow.  Psychology’s Special and General Theories of Relativity

3. PEEKING OVER THE EDGE The Conscious Mind: Assembly Required: The new evidence. The Brain itself cannot develop without experience.  Experience “hardwires” the brain; from language to sex.

4. CULTURE AND ATTRACTION: THE "WOW" FACTOR:  ANY STIMULUS—ANY EMOTION

5. THE MYSTERY OF INSTINCTS THE NATURE VS NURTURE CONTROVERSY The Real Story.

6. ORIGIN OF THE INDIVIDUAL Forget the Theories, this is the Hard Evidence

7. DNA: THE GREAT MYSTERY OF BIOLOGICAL PROGRAMS IN OUR BRAIN

“...instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way especially apparent when its function goes wrong.” 

8 THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE:  COGNITION AND CREATIVITY Experience Becomes Cognition.

9. PERSONALITY "Never forget that each of you is a distinctly different individual, just like everyone else."   Margaret Mead

10. WHAT INTELLIGENCE REALLY IS “If people knew how hard I had to work to obtain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful after all.”  Michelangelo 

25 POINTS:  IMPORTANT GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES:






Thursday, September 3, 2026

Best of Friends Trilogy

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Book 1: Best of Friends: What happens when a family death wreaks havoc among siblings? What would you do if the ‘peace-maker’ of the family suddenly loses control? If the opportunity arose, would you agree to simply ‘burn the will,’ sell the estate and split the proceeds? What would be your response when calling the cops and being told: “We’re not coming out, unless there are bullets flying and bodies to count?” Elizabeth Caliente is faced with such propositions in Sherry Brantley’s award-winning ‘Best of Friends’ trilogy. Best of Friends has won two national awards for ‘Best Fiction of the Year!’
Book 2: Before Best of Friends: In this much-anticipated prequel to the ‘Best of Friends,’ trilogy, readers discover how the Fabulous Five group were formed in their youth, and are introduced to the unfolding of the powerful secrets binding the group together. Secrets only this private group were privileged to know. Join this tight-knit group as you uncover the mystery of the ‘Secret of the Blanket.’ Included is an excerpt from the books’ final work of the trilogy, ‘Still Best of Friends.’
Book 3: Still Best of Friends: The explosive conclusion of the ‘Best of Friends’ trilogy! The Fabulous Five were bound together by secrets they’d all swore to carry to their graves. But with the ‘Dastardly Duke Discovery’ exposing the ‘Secret of the Blanket,’ will the Fabulous Five find themselves desperately being consumed in a modern-day media frenzy that is threatening to consume them? Will this group of friends be able to survive the onslaught of the public revelation of their past deeds? Or will they crumble under the weight of their unexpected circumstances? Travel with the Fabulous Five: Elizabeth Caliente’, Kim Worthy, Kiona Stone, Angela Jackson-(A.J.) and Quineeta Davis as once again, they attempt to weather the storms of adversity that threaten to decimate their bond, their friendship, their past! Will the ‘Dastardly Duke Discovery’ prove to be the final nail in the coffin? Or will vow to continue to ‘deny ‘til they die,’ their involvement in the mystery they’re shrouded in?
Meet the dynamic members of the Fabulous Five as this explosive trilogy takes readers on a whirlwind excursion among five friends. Though often humorous, the ride is filled with lessons on friendship, family dynamics and strong relationships. You’ll love connecting and bonding with the members of the Fabulous Five, as they deal individually and collectively with the drama that surrounds them!


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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!: Don't Think Like A Man--Think Like A Diva!

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From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!:

Don't Think Like A Man--Think Like A Diva!


Tired of male authors advising that we women should 'Think Like A Man But Act Like A Lady? Frustrated with male authors that claim they will spill the 'secrets' on how to get and keep a man? Fed-up with books that continue with the double standard that 'women should hold out & put themselves on lock-down' while men get to spread themselves all over town? Want to learn how to become a Brilliant Bitch in control? Want to finally learn the 'secrets' to not only getting the man you want--but one that also wants YOU? Then this volume of the Dynamic Diva series, 'Don't Think Like A Man--Think Like A Diva is for you! Learn to not just 'name' your power, but to claim it! Want to be a Real Woman with a REAL Man? Want to experience what you desire AND what you Deserve? Want to show partners that are not respecting you how to begin to do so, or 'Get 'Ta Stepping?" Then begin by honoring YOU in all your glory. When you honor you, others are compelled to do the same!


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