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Podcast · By John Ashworth · English · Official site

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Sep 15, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    Stop Watching the AI Debate and Start Using the Tool (opens the original)

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    *note: this was a livestream so start the video at about 2 minutes if you don’t want all the fluff at the beginning and I can almost guarantee you you probably don’t want that fluff. the beef of it begins at ~2m. -John The noise around AI safety this week is loud enough to drown out the part that actually matters to you. So let me cut straight to what I was working on this morning before I headed out the door. I was in Claude, working through a proposal. Can’t get into the specifics of what it i

  2. Episode · Jul 7, 2026

    The 4 Boxes of Selling and how they apply to your funeral home's pre-need program... (opens the original)

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    The Four Boxes of Selling I am sitting across from a funeral home owner on an idle Tuesday afternoon. He has invited me in for what he thinks is a short conversation. Business is fine, he says, mostly. He has a marketing partner. That partner placed an agent with him a few years ago and he shows up a few times a week to write business. The agent produces. Numbers move, technically, in the right direction. But the owner has that feeling he cannot quite name, the one that shows up before the ratio

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