Harnessing AI
I am writing less frequently due to massive time constraints from building an incredible company, but I am making up for it by diving into deeper and more tactically useful material.
More on the AI company soon.
The modern economy is not a marketplace anymore.
With AI, the economy is now a reactor core.
For the last twenty years, we have been burning fossil fuels: manual labor, linear time, and cognitive friction. We accepted the inefficiency. We accepted the heat loss. We accepted that to generate value, we had to bleed time.
That era is dead.
You are standing at the threshold of a new physics.
You are not “using ChatGPT.” You are not “playing with LLMs.”
You are attempting to harness a volatile, exponentially expanding energy source.
Most people look at AI and see a toy. They see a chatbot. They see a shortcut to write a mediocrity email.
They are amateurs. They will be incinerated by the radiation.
You see what is actually there: Kinetic Potential.
You are building a harness.
A containment field. A turbine system designed to capture this explosion and convert it into a distinct form of matter: Sovereignty.
The First Vector: Maximizing Return on Time
Time is the only non-renewable resource in your inventory.
In the old economy, the exchange rate was fixed. One hour of suffering equaled one unit of currency.
This is a losing trade.
It is a biological limit. You have to sleep. You have to eat. Your cognitive wetware degrades after six hours of deep work.
Your AI harness must act as a Temporal Compressor.
You are currently leaking energy. Every time you perform a repetitive cognitive task, you are experiencing friction. Writing boilerplate code. Drafting initial strategies. Sorting data.
This is waste heat.
Your harness must capture this heat and recycle it.
The Command: Do not use AI to “do the work faster.” Use AI to eliminate the work entirely.
If you save 20 minutes on a task, you have achieved nothing if you fill that 20 minutes with low-value distraction. You must reinvest that time into the architecture of the machine.
Return on Time (RoT) is calculated by Throughput divided by Attention.
If your attention is required for the system to run, your RoT is low. If the system runs while you sleep, your RoT approaches infinity.
You are not an operator. You are the Architect. The Architect does not lay bricks. The Architect designs the blueprint and lets the gravity of the system do the heavy lifting.
Build the harness to decouple your output from your biological clock.
The Second Vector: Maximizing Return on Equity
This is where the average soldier fails. They use AI to increase their income. They act as “prompt engineers.” They sell their ability to talk to the machine.
This is a trap.
You are still trading time for money. You have just increased your hourly rate. But you are still a laborer. You are still a node in someone else’s network.
You need to convert Kinetic Energy (Work) into Potential Energy (Equity).
Income is a stream. Equity is a dam. You must use your harness to build assets that store value.
What is an asset in the algorithmic age? It is a piece of code that solves a problem without you. It is a media channel that grows without your direct intervention. It is a proprietary dataset that the AI refines automatically.
The Mechanism: Every interaction with your AI harness should result in a permanent artifact. Do not generate a one-off answer. Generate a framework. Generate a template. Generate a product.
If the output of your AI vanishes after you use it, you have failed. You must capture the residue.
You are building a battery. Charge it with AI labor. Let the AI write the code for the SaaS. Let the AI write the curriculum for the course. Let the AI build the operational SOPs for the business.
When you own the equity, you own the machine. When you only own the skill, you are just a high-performance component in the machine. And components are replaceable.
