Joe Casabona

I help solopreneurs stop doing it all themselves, with simple systems that give them their time back (without giving them more decisions to make).

If you’re ready to get back the only thing you can’t buy more of, without feeling overwhelmed, I can help.

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  1. AI and The Emperor's New Clothes People who say AI sounds like them sound more like the Emperor in The Emperor's New Clothes.
  2. A New Engine for Casabona.org Casabona.org no longer uses WordPress for the first time in 20 years.
  3. What is Conscientious AI Use? Are you using AI without thinking? Creating slop? Degrading your work. It's time you learned about Conscientious AI Use.
  4. Automation vs. AI: Which One Should You Actually Use? Why should you use AI when a process automation is better? Let's look at Automation vs. AI and figure when to use both.
  5. What Abigail Adams Showed Me About Shallow Thoughts in the Age of AI The publication In Pursuit is doing a fantastic series on all of the presidents and the women behind them for America's 250th anniversary, and I've finally
  6. Not Sure Where to Start? The 4 Systems Every Solopreneur Needs The 4 solopreneur systems that save me 14+ hours a week. Learn the admin, CRM, content, and idea-capture systems to build first — and where to start.
  7. Start Here Before You Build: Simple Solopreneur Systems That Actually Work I found myself in a rare position yesterday morning: I didn't know what I was going to write about for this newsletter. The best I had was a vague idea about
  8. Why Repurposing Is the Solopreneur’s Smartest Content Move Over the weekend, I saw Toy Story 5, which I highly recommend. You will probably cry.
  9. A Simpler Content System for Busy Solopreneurs Last week the parish carnival was in town. It's one of my kids' favorite summer events so we got the weekly pass, which ended up saving us $120 (seriously, we
  10. The Fewest Links Philosophy: How to Build Automations That Don’t Break There's a children's game in Philly / eastern PA that's called "Whisper Down the Lane." Pretty much the rest of the USA calls it "Telephone." If you're

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