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As a one-man business, I wear every hat at once.
Which gets overwhelming, and messy. So I stopped posting for a while and started building. Mission Control, the system that keeps WonderLoop running.
How it works now:
• I say an invoice needs to go out.
• The invoice gets made, all the right details filled in.
• A tidy draft email shows up, ready in my drafts.
• Then a ping on Telegram: ready to send, want to approve?
• I read it over, hit send. Done.
Behind every step sits an AI agent with its own job. One does the numbers, one writes, a third watches the whole thing. I'm always the final check. Nothing goes out the door without me seeing it.
A few hats off. Time left for the work I'm actually good at.
And now it's getting out of hand. 😅
Because I gave all those agents names. And faces. And personalities.
• Mr. Butterhead runs the show.
• Mr. Pennysworth handles the money.
• Jonathan Inkwell writes.
• And in the picture, that's Hawkeye Jenkins, my strategist. Full character sheet, his own personality, even a British accent.
Then it hit me: I've got a strategist "on staff" and I never asked him whether this post is any good.
So I asked him. What do you make of this, Hawkeye?
"Let me understand. In three months you've asked me nothing. And the first thing you want my opinion on is whether to post this. My advice: don't post yet. Let's build a strategy first, then post with intent. You're going to post this anyway, aren't you? That makes you an ask-hole: someone who asks for advice and then does the exact opposite. Go on then."
Next week, Hawkeye finally gets to work. I'll keep you posted.
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