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The Most Common Lie at Work in 2026
Everyone is bluffing about AI.The gap between pretending and fluent is real. It is also the shortest, most closable gap of your career.
Jul 15
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How To Stay Relevant In Our AI-First World w/ John Brewton & Wessal Khader
A recording from John Brewton's live video
Jul 15
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How to Actually Make AI Write Like You, Not Like a Robot, With the Accent of Your Favorite LLM.
Every AI model has a built-in writing style that hides your voice. This article shows the research that proves it, then gives you the complete fix.
Jul 13
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The Five Founder Problems I Discovered Coaching +100 Substack Founders in 2026
The Five Problems That Surfaced While Building a $200K Newsletter Business and How to Solve Them
Jul 10
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Companies Don’t Want Employees. Employees Don’t Want to Work for Companies.
TL →DR
Jul 8
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How I Became Irrelevant. And How I Made Myself Relevant Again.
The three-step loop that took me from irrelevance back to relevance: the Do-Fail-Learn Method to become AI fluent.
Jul 2
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June 2026
The 25 Most Important AI Jobs I Run For Myself & Build For My Clients Every Week
The full list of what an AI-fluent founders, companies and operators run and loop, from writing to research to deals. Pick one and build it this summer…
Jun 30
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AI Fluency, Defined: The 5 Moves That Replace Prompt Lists
AI fluency is the capacity to see a workflow whole and build it yourself. Not knowing a tool. Operating one. Here is the definition, the 5 moves that…
Jun 27
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The Five Moves That Turned My Substack Into a $200,000 Business
A short, action-first guide supplement for everyone ready to start building
Jun 25
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How I Built a $200,000 Newsletter Business From a Substack Nobody Was Reading
What worked, what I would do differently, and what you can copy
Jun 23
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How to Build Your Own AI Employees: A Simple 2026 Guide
Build an AI staff that writes in your voice, runs your research, preps your meetings, and does your repeat work. No code needed.
Jun 21
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Oper(AI)ting Masterclass Preview - Build Your Own AI Employee w/ John
A recording from John Brewton's live video
Jun 19
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John Brewton
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