I went live today to show how I use AI on Substack. It turned into one of my favorite conversations in a while, so I wanted to share the recap while it’s fresh.
The video is above if you want the full thing. Here’s the short version.
What I walked through:
My writing system is called Drift. It knows my voice from past articles, but I taught it everything else.
Including a personal anecdote.
Follow 18 anti-AI writing rules.
Run a humanizer that strips the AI language back out.
Important: Drift asks me questions before it writes. I don’t hand it a topic and walk away. It interviews me first, I answer in my own words, and the piece comes out sounding like me thinking out loud.
I stopped typing. I talk to my laptop with Whisperflow now. It works.
The “what not to say” moment:
Someone asked how I train it on what to avoid. I had a fresh one from this morning.
It gave me the line, “make people go wait, can you do that!” I read it and knew immediately. That’s not me.
So I told it. And I told it to update my voice profile so it never tries that again. Lots of back and forth. That’s the whole point.
My Notes workflow (this got the most questions):
I connect my browser with Claude and it analyzes my profile plus five high-performing profiles from the last 14 days. Likes, restacks, comments.
I feed the summary into Drift. It writes notes in my voice.
I batch-upload through my scheduler as a CSV. Three a day, done for the week.
That gives me time back to actually read and reply to people instead of staring at a blank note box.
What the chat brought up:
Courses trained on your own documents
Claude interviewing you to build your content pillars
Editing your writing without touching your voice
Using Perplexity for research, then Claude for the prose
Image tools, after four months of fighting with the text rendering
Thank you to everyone who showed up and made it fun.
One more thing. My June AI business builder program is one-on-one and there’s one spot left, open until Sunday. It’s for people who want to package their skills and sell them at real prices, automate their workflows, and start landing business clients. Drift is included, plus the new sales-email skill I launched last week.
If you want in, let me know asap.
