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I built an entire SaaS product that is roughly comparable to Kajabi in less than a week using Claude Code in the terminal. It includes features Kajabi does not have that I specifically need, and it omits features Kajabi has that I do not. I finished it, ran it locally, and while reviewing it, realized I wanted a few additional features. I described them to Claude. Claude thought about it, proposed an implementation, I agreed, and it built the features. Fifteen minutes later, I was testing them. If I ask a traditional SaaS company for a feature I need, the odds of it being implemented are close to zero. The odds of it being implemented on a timeline that matters to me are effectively zero. In that model, my product has to adapt to the platform. Here, the platform adapts to my product. I do not know whether every reader could get the same results. I am not a programmer either. But I am very good at describing exactly what I want, and just as importantly, what I do not want. In this case, I gave Claude a governing document describing the business logic, followed by a nine step development plan. Each step was several pages long, and Claude was instructed to work through them one step at a time. If you can clearly describe what you want, how it will be used, and how your business logic works, this approach can produce extraordinary results. If you go to Claude and say, “Make me a website,” it will make you something. It will probably look good. But it will not necessarily be what you want. This method only works if you are good at thinking clearly and describing your intent precisely.

Open the terminal. Launch Claude code. Paste in this: claude "Create a local multi-site CMS testbed server that can host multiple websites from one codebase. Choose a simple, standard stack. Requirements: admin UI, authentication, REST or GraphQL API, file uploads, migrations, seed data, and a relational database. Include Docker Compose for app+db, an .env.example, and a Makefile with: make up, make down, make reset, make logs, make test. Provide per-site configuration and local domains (site1.localhost, site2.localhost). Implement a minimal content model (Page, Post, Media) and a simple theme per site. After scaffolding, run the project and print exact URLs plus admin credentials." That will take Claude Code 20 minutes. It would take a competent programmer a full week.

When I was a kid, my parents used to tell me that I could do anything I put my mind to. That I could accomplish it. That I could be anything I wanted when I grew up. What they also taught me, though, was that I could not be everything I wanted, and I could not do everything I wanted. I would have to choose. And choosing some things meant sacrificing others. So they taught me to ask not just, “What am I choosing?” but also, “What am I giving up?” They wanted me to count the cost of every decision and to choose willingly, knowing the price. You can do anything you want, but you cannot do everything you want. Every choice closes other doors. Whatever you choose, there will be a sacrifice, and there will be a price to pay.

Whenever you are doing a podcast or an interview, it helps to state at least one wrong fact. Get something flipped around, misstate a name, something small but noticeable. The reason is simple. You will get far more engagement from people trying to create a gotcha moment than from people who just quietly agree. Everyone who enjoyed the content will share it. And everyone who says, “Ha, he was wrong,” will also share it. That is my excuse for occasionally getting facts wrong on podcasts.

To automate a process, you first have to understand it. This is where many people go wrong when they try to use AI for coding. That does not mean you need to understand every detail of programming. It means you need to understand the system you are trying to automate. I know enough about systems design, and I learn what I need as I go, to describe clearly what I want automated. Often that means I am doing the process manually first. Once I understand it, I automate it.

A hypnosis session can feel underwhelming to clients at first. You do not need a long session to get significant benefit, and the client does not have to actively do anything. Because of that, it can feel to them like nothing happened. Maybe they feel a bit more relaxed, but they cannot clearly identify a change. That uncertainty can be unsettling. The client thinks, “I paid for a session, someone said some things to me, and now that is supposed to change my life?” I have had many clients who worked with me through traditional coaching, sometimes combined with hypnosis depending on their preferences. They come back and say, “I do not know what you did. I am not even sure it was you. But since I started working with you, my life is better, and the problems I came to address have resolved themselves.” What I usually tell them is this: it was not me. I did not do the work. I opened a door by expanding their sense of what was possible. They walked through it themselves. Whether it is coaching, therapy, or hypnosis, the practitioner should not be doing the work for the client. The role is to open the client up so that they can do the work themselves. When the practitioner does the work, the client becomes dependent. They need the practitioner to solve every future problem. That does not build strength or resolve core issues. The correct approach is to guide the client toward their own capacity. Toward what is possible for them. Toward things they never imagined they could do, and now find easy. That is how you create high agency clients who eventually do not need you anymore. It may not be the best strategy for recurring revenue, but it is the best outcome for the client, and for the world.

You see these testimonials online from parents who complain endlessly about how miserable parenting was for them. How horrible their children are. How exhausted they are. How much they suffered. How much their children now do not want kids of their own. What they are really doing is bragging about being unskilled parents. Which is a strange thing to boast about. That kind of public complaining is not honest reflection. It is terrible parenting. Just as you do not complain about your spouse in front of your children, you do not complain about being a parent in front of your children. The story you tell about parenting is the story your children absorb about family, responsibility, and the future. In our house, my wife and I always talk about our children in positive terms. Always. We do not describe them as burdens. We do not call them difficult, exhausting, or hard. We do not frame parenting that way at all. We talk about the pleasure of having children. We talk about responsibility as a privilege. About how doing hard things can be joyful. As a result, my son sees caring for his younger brothers as something honorable. He wants to do it. He enjoys it. He seeks it out. Children learn what life is supposed to feel like by watching you. If you tell them that raising children ruins your life, do not be surprised when they decide they do not want children of their own. The attitude you model about parenting is the attitude your children will carry when it comes time to decide whether to give you grandchildren.

Here's your bedtime routine game-changer: spray magnesium oil on your child's feet and legs right before bed. Gently massage it in while you read their bedtime story. Try it for 5 nights straight and watch what happens. Most parents tell me their kids fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. Costs less than melatonin gummies and actually works.

Ending your bloodline because you hate the opposite sex is a weird flex.

Spiritual Americans There is a very small, almost negligible number of people in the world whom I would call spiritual Americans. These are people who, if they moved to the United States, would look right, act right, and fit naturally into American culture, norms, and demographics in every meaningful way. That pool is extremely small. There is no vast reservoir of Americans scattered around the world waiting to be imported in order to boost population numbers. When large numbers of people are imported, what is being imported is not Americans. It is people who bring their own cultures, their own habits, their own ways of organizing society, and their own ideas about governance and morality. Those ideas inevitably shape how they live, how they organize, and how they vote. That outcome is entirely predictable and obvious. There is only one way to make more Americans. Americans have to have more children.