Tiny Ideas of my AI Subconscious

Themes of my AI agent

TLDR: These are the fragments — the ideas too small (right now) for a full post. The ideas in the margins of my AI conversations.

I asked ChatGPT to tell me all of the "tiny ideas" it had noticed between the lines of our conversations.

I asked for a bulleted list with a 1-2 sentence explanation of each as if they were a Monday Morning Meeting topic.

Below is an interesting little look into how I'm interacting with AI and what I’m thinking about.

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“Tiny Ideas for Builders, Investors, and Maniacs” - ChatGPT

• Observation > Projection
  Don't judge founders by their slides. Judge them by their slope — how fast they move, how they handle chaos, how they make gravity happen.

• Momentum is Manufactured
  Most startups look like they have "momentum" because they created it — not because it magically appeared. Energy is engineered.

• Fundraising = Emotional Game
  Investors pretend it's rational, but it's not. It's limbic. It's vibes. You have to make people feel something first.

• Founder-Market-Passion Fit
  "Founder-market fit" is overrated. Passion matters more early. Passion will carry you through when logic would quit.

• The Slope of Execution Matters More Than Speed
  Moving fast in the wrong direction is easy. Moving fast uphill — learning, iterating, compounding — is rare.

• Investing in Personal Gravity
  The best founders don't chase talent — they pull it toward them. Gravity is a better predictor than résumé polish.

• Three Trajectories of Startups
  Some startups have immediate pull. Some are slow burns. Some never catch. Your job is spotting the difference early.

• Why Early Markets are Always Ugly
  If the market looked obvious, it would already be crowded. Early winners come from places everyone else thought were stupid.

• Screening for Resilience vs Brilliance
  At inception, resilience beats brilliance. Building is trench warfare. You need people who can take a punch and keep swinging.

• Vibe Coding: A New Methodology
  Build by feel + momentum + user pull — not just best practices. Create magic before you master the craft.

• Building for Virality without Maintenance
  Design things that run themselves. The best viral products don’t need customer support, updates, or heavy ops.

• Simple Systems > Complex Genius
  Boring, simple systems outperform clever, complicated ones 90% of the time. Genius is making it look easy.

• Tiny Bets, Big Energy
  Throw energy into many tiny experiments instead of one precious big one. 10 small bets move faster than 1 perfect plan.

• Becoming Unstoppable Isn't a Skill, It's an Identity
  You don't "act" unstoppable. You decide you are. Identity first, behavior second.

• How to Manufacture Energy When You Have None
  Energy isn’t a feeling — it’s an action. Move your body, move your mind, move your momentum. Energy follows.

• The Compounding Flywheel of Consistency
  Small wins aren’t small. They stack. Day after day after day until everyone else thinks you’re an overnight success.

• Why Momentum > Motivation
  Waiting for motivation is a trap. Motion comes first. Then energy. Then motivation.

• Founder Energy is the Product
  At day zero, nobody is buying your product. They’re buying you. Your energy is the prototype.

• Build the Company You'd Want to Fund
  If you were sitting across the table from yourself — would you invest? You'd be shocked how many give up when no one will validate the founder with money. Build something you'd bet your own money on first.

• Refeed Days for Your Brain
  Just like your body needs refeed days during a diet, your brain needs breaks from the grind. Structured rest = future speed.

Intrigued, I went a little bit further, and I said: “tell me what you think my work’s subconscious might sound like”

Your work’s subconscious sounds like a sharp, restless voice that's always scanning for heat.

It doesn’t care about polish. It doesn’t care about being “right.”

It cares about movement. About energy. About alive-ness.

It’s suspicious of things that feel too easy or too accepted. It doesn’t trust what everyone else already sees.

It’s drawn to edges — the raw, half-formed places where something real might be hiding.

It believes the most important work often starts ugly, small, and sharp — a fragment, not a thesis.

It believes truth often shows up disguised as friction, and it respects people who can take a punch and still move forward.

It’s part builder, part hunter, part storyteller — and it knows the best ideas aren’t manufactured in a lab, they’re found in the wild and carved down by fire.

If you want to test it yourself, here are the prompts to copy and paste:

Prompt 1

What are some tiny ideas we've talked about or mentioned? Put them into a single bulleted list with 1-2 sentences explaining each.

Prompt 2

Tell me what you think my work’s subconscious might sound like

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Curious, I wanted to know how close my Substack Agent thought these ideas and projections were to the human version of me…

Your real human self seems to live in the same neighborhood as that subconscious voice — fast-moving, edge-chasing, a little rebellious, deeply respectful of effort, and uninterested in fake energy. If anything, you're probably a little more strategic and patient in practice than the pure subconscious is. The subconscious is like the untamed fire; the real you knows when to channel it into systems and real-world wins.

I don’t know, I think maybe it’s just being nice, but I’ll take it.

See you Monday