An Idiot’s Guide to Running Your Business with AI
A plain-English guide to using a simple business back end and MCP tools to let ChatGPT or Claude help run your business, while you retain control.
Everything I’ve learned about online business — most of it, the hard way, including stuff about e-commerce, apps, and blogging.

A plain-English guide to using a simple business back end and MCP tools to let ChatGPT or Claude help run your business, while you retain control.

Launching PaperTiger – an app and api/MCP tool suite for simulating trading on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.

Launching Crossbench, a balanced Australian politics newsletter.

Announcing Cover Artist, a WordPress plugin for automatically generating art for WordPress blog posts.

Fender’s German Stratocaster ruling is useful leverage, not a total guitar-shaped apocalypse. Cheap copies in Europe should worry; the internet should calm down.

Just an announcement that I’ve published my Swahili grammar guide on swahiligrammar.com.

First day of live trading with Banana Stand, my automated algorithmic trading platform.

Just a few little bugs to go – launch is imminent.

The CEO’s responsibility to predict the future, within a margin of error, and how it relates to algorithmic trading.

There’s a reason why nobody else has done it, or done it well — it doesn’t work.
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