Five newsletters carved in one sitting.
1. Productivity: No XP Waste
AI coding tools like Claude Code have reintroduced a weird new form of multitasking.
You type in a prompt, the AI gets to work, then you have 2-3 minutes of waiting.
So what do you do with that time?
Most people pick up their phone and start scrolling. “Smarter people” do a brainteasers 🙄.
Neither of those things are particularly productive.
The actual answer?
Restructure how your days look:
- Deep focus tasks first thing in the morning. No AI, no distractions. Thinking, writing, strategy.
- AI/coding tasks for the bulk of the day. These run almost continuously as you play whack-a-mole with Claude Code terminal windows.
- Filler tasks in the AI wait gaps. Quick emails, Slack replies, small admin tasks.
The goal: no XP waste. Keep AI running close to 24/7, batch deep work to mornings when your brain is sharpest.
Full article on this coming soon.
2. Ops: Set Client Expectations Before They Set It Themselves
And now for something non-AI.
The “always available” trap kills margins and sanity in service businesses. And you created it — by not saying anything upfront.
Fix it in your first client conversation:
- State your response window (“I respond to emails within 24 business hours”).
- Define what counts as an emergency and how to reach you for one.
- Set meeting booking rules — calendar link, minimum notice.
- Clarify out-of-scope communication (weekend texts = replied first thing Monday).
Clients respect boundaries when you set them early. They only push them when silence lets the precedent form. One sentence in your proposal saves hundreds of hours of boundary-pushing later.
3. Tech: Writing 5 Newsletters in 5 Minutes
Why write one thing at a time when you can write five?
Claude Code subagents let you run parallel tasks. I use a custom agent — @newsletter-writer — with my style guide baked in. One prompt can call it five times, one for each newsletter. Claude spawns five parallel processes. Output goes straight to separate files.
The result: 5 newsletters in under 5 minutes, each about 90% ready to publish.
You still edit. But editing is faster than writing.
In The Complete Claude, Claude Code & AI for Work Productivity, I walk through exactly how to set this up — including the custom agent configuration and style guide integration.
4. Courses
I have a range of online courses that teach business people what they need to know about productivity and AI:
1. Next Level Productivity
A practical, straightforward course that teaches you how to achieve elite-level personal productivity in today’s constantly interrupted world.
2. The AI Agents, Automations and Agentic Workflows Guide
This non-technical course shows business people and non-coders how they can build and use AI agents in ChatGPT and Zapier.
3. The Complete Claude, Claude Code & AI for Work Productivity
A comprehensive course taking you from beginner AI concepts like prompt and context engineering, to cutting-edge AI productivity using terminal-based AI tools like Claude Code for non-coding office work. Usable with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other current LLMs.
4. The AI Playbook
This is my longer premium course on how businesses can deploy AI tools and technology across their processes and teams.
5. ChatGPT for Managers
See how AI can solve complex management challenges in less than 30 seconds. Full prompt library and examples included.
That’s it for this week!
— Aaron