My membership had an August launch date. I deleted it and wrote a number in its place: 50 subscribers before launch. Then I checked the current count. Four, and one of them is me.
My first product sat finished in a folder for two months while I waited to feel ready for the launch infrastructure. I treated the launch as a checklist instead of a department and shipped it in three evenings, for the price of a one-dollar test purchase.
I read one line about how AI memory works, then audited the three files my assistant loads before every session. They were three to four times heavier than they should be, and trimming them surfaced three processes I thought were running but weren't.
I built a stalest-first view of every open project in my vault and immediately discovered I was running the same onboarding initiative as two separate workstreams.
I built an AI workflow to cut 90 minutes off weekly newsletter prep, and somehow ended up with half the company on the distribution list.