Monetize the systems you already built
The Friday afternoon I took the Effortless question to my office wall with a stack of sticky notes.
Monetize the Systems You Already Built
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What would 30 people at my disposal be doing if I had a digital publishing house?
That question landed on a Friday afternoon in March. I went to the wall in my office with a stack of sticky notes. The Effortless question from the week before had cracked something open, and I was ready to map the answer.
One color for discrete tasks. Another for recurring work. The wall filled fast. After two decades of leading these systems and developing them by hand, I was finally putting them on paper to automate.
By the time I stepped back, I had four book concepts out of my head and into a repeatable structure that could properly hold them. Then, butterflies in my stomach. My wow, I get to build this signal.
The "team" I'd mapped was already palpable: 18 years of building editorial teams trained me on how to express and develop the exact skills my AI tools needed. I built it on a subscription I was already paying for.
The systems you built for yourself are the ones the world needs from you.
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