What I’ve been learning about myself is this:
I have the visionary mind of an engineer who loves creating new worlds.
But I also have the heart of a healer, and I don’t want people to be left out.
And in the middle of that is a dilemma.
I’m already bored with the very basic AI stuff I’ve been teaching. I can feel myself outgrowing it. And what we’ve been working on together this week — untangling domain names, Google, DNS, Squarespace, WPX — is actually a perfect case study of the real problems people run into.
But here’s the thing:
I don’t really understand this stuff deeply enough to teach it.
If someone came to me and said, “Hey, can you help me fix the same problem you were just working on last week?” I’d probably just be standing in the same pool of frustration with them.
I wouldn’t be the expert.
I’d be another confused human.
And that matters to me.
I don’t want to pretend I know things I don’t know.
I don’t want to become “the tech person.”
I don’t want to teach this.
What I do want is for people to feel understood in their frustration.
I want them to feel seen.
And then I want to be able to say:
“You know what might help?
A little help from AI.”
Because honestly, this is what I do now.
I copy and paste what I’m seeing from Google Search Console, from WPX, from Squarespace, from wherever.
I give it to AI.
And I ask it to help me sort out what’s happening and what the next step might be.
It still takes time.
It still took me days to get this sorted out.
I had to walk away from it more than once.
I had to rest.
I had to come back.
But in the middle of it, something else happened.
While I was working through this one problem, I also started noticing other tech frustrations I’d been carrying around for years.
Old messes.
Abandoned ideas.
Half-built systems.
Extra accounts.
Extra subscriptions.
Extra chaos.
And suddenly, with AI’s help, we started making a game plan.
Not just for one website.
For my whole digital life.
And for the first time in a long time, I felt better about it.
Like there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
Not because everything was fixed.
But because it was finally understandable.
And I could see a path forward.
I’ve made a lot of “messes” over the years.
I’ve abandoned projects.
Started new ones.
Created overlap.
Created confusion.
For a long time, I thought that was my fault.
That I was scattered.
That I was disorganized.
That I just wasn’t “technical enough.”
But I don’t believe that anymore.
I was just trying to get things done inside a broken, fragmented system.
A system where platforms don’t talk to each other very well.
Where every company designs its own little world.
Where engineers are mostly focused on the project in front of them — not on how it fits into the larger ecosystem.
Not on how it feels to use.
Not on what it’s like for regular people.
So I kept building workarounds.
I kept improvising.
I kept trying to move forward.
And sometimes that created chaos.
But it wasn’t because I didn’t care.
It was because I cared so much that I refused to stop.
Now, with AI as a partner, I don’t have to carry all of that alone in my head anymore.
I don’t have to memorize systems.
I don’t have to become an expert.
I can stay in my real lane:
Understanding people.
Seeing patterns.
Holding complexity with compassion.
Building bridges.
And helping others feel less alone in their confusion.
That feels like the right work.