Marco Lamina

Active Inactivity - The Art of Doing Nothing Discover the power of "active inactivity" and why doing nothing can supercharge your productivity. Break free from hustle culture and learn to embrace rest as a transformative personal strategy.

9–5 me: clock out, feel free.
Self-employed me: clock out... and still feel pressure to hustle.

I wrote about the art of "Active Inactivity" — learning how doing nothing can make you better at everything.

blog.marcolamina.me/p/active-ina...

Escaping Corporate Grind: A Software Engineer's Journey to Freedom Discover a personal journey of breaking free from corporate expectations, finding purpose, and embracing uncertainty in this transformative career narrative.

Just took a giant leap—I've left corporate America after 15 years to embrace uncertainty, independence, and creativity. I wrote about why this scary step feels so right in my essay "A Journey Beyond Corporate America."
Check it out, and let's connect! blog.marcolamina.me/p/a-journey-...

YouTube video by Cory Zue User Onboarding Tips and Tricks for Django Developers

Just published a short video about how I built the anonymous onboarding flow for Life in Weeks.

Letting people play with your app before sign up is one of the best way to get more conversions - especially in B2C.

And it's not hard to build (in Django)!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFnE...

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Amazon.com: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals: 9780374159122: Burkeman, Oliver: Books

So cool! Reminds me of the book 4000 Weeks, you might enjoy it www.amazon.com/Four-Thousan...

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune." ― Jim Rohn

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO The Man That Makes Millionaires: Turn $100 to $10k With This Step By Step Formula! Alex Hormozi

brilliant conversation about professional #growth youtu.be/Kl-I7sUcAOY?...

The Trump FCC is at war with the First Amendment The MAGA thought enforcement is in fact unprecedented — and dangerous.

Cool cool cool www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

The Golden Age of Engineering: AI is Supercharging Engineers—But Who’s Getting Left Behind? AI is transforming engineering, making developers 10x more productive. But while engineers thrive, many are left behind. Are we widening the gap, or can we make AI accessible for all? Explore the resp...

AI is supercharging engineers - we’re building faster, learning quicker, and doing more with less.

But while we race ahead, most people I know aren’t using AI at all. If we don’t bridge this gap, are we leaving them behind?

Do we have a moral duty to make AI accessible?

How can AI be used to build a better future for humanity? This yesnoerror.com

3 months ago I spent $30 on AI headshots. I had no idea it was THAT easy to do it myself :o Thanks Cory!

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Me realizing the automation I just ran deleted all docs and spreadsheets I worked on over the past two weeks

Interesting! What do you use for analytics?

What They Don’t Tell You About Entrepreneurship Being an entrepreneur has truly been one of my life's most challenging and rewarding experiences. Over the past decade, I’ve launched three…

Motivation isn't a one-time thing; it's built on understanding your "why". Essential reading for solo entrepreneurs looking to stay the course. #Focus #Motivation medium.com/@joshi.vandi...

Complete Guide to AI Agents for Small Businesses Discover how small businesses can use AI agents across industries, with a step-by-step guide to getting started.

As a solo entrepreneur, efficiency is key. AI #agents offer a game-changing opportunity to simplify daily operations. Less admin, more innovation! Ready to take the leap? Learn more: botpress.com/blog/ai-agen...

How So?

Introducing Operator A research preview of an agent that can use its own browser to perform tasks for you. Available to Pro users in the U.S.

#AGI is coming, folks... OpenAI defines artificial general intelligence (AGI) as "a system that can outperform humans at most economically valuable work". Their new AI agent "Operator" demonstrates what that could look like openai.com/index/introd...

Today I used ChatGPT's audio & visual capabilities to brainstorm a content creation strategy on my whiteboard. I put my phone next to me, camera pointed at the board, and started talking. The conversation felt incredibly natural produced a strategy that suits my business perfectly.

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO CIA Spy: "Leave The USA Before 2030!" Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Gut! - Andrew Bustamante

Came across a fascinating Podcast with Andrew Bustamante, an ex-CIA operative who left the agency and is now teaching his skills to entrepreneurs. What stuck with me was a framework for understanding people's core motivations. RICE - Rewards, Ideology, Coercion and Ego. youtu.be/QVVe2rCHtN0?...

Build AI teammates with Zapier Agents Create your custom AI agent in minutes. Equip your agents with live business data and have them do work across 7,000+ apps — on command and while you sleep.

Zapier came out with its own solution for building agents. Seems like it could be a time-saver on paper compared to building them manually on n8n or Make. Anyone tried them?https://zapier.com/agents

That's correct. In the GPT's instructions, I give it clear guidance on how to use its tools in different situations. Combined with "conversation starters", it makes for a super quick workflow

Absolutely not. I just think it just becomes exponentially more difficult with project size / complexity. A good understanding of software / cloud architecture and testing are invaluable IMHO. But I know there are folks who would disagree, so don't take my word for it :D

Hopefully? I still see my CS degree + years of experience as not optional for building great products. But who knows if "building products" is even going to be a thing in a few years. Interesting times...

Did that for a year. It's an easy trap to fall into. Now I solve problems for wellness practitioners in my local area. Real people who care about other people. I feel human again.

Today, I had to do a corporate training course on AI ethics policy. The videos, characters and voices were... AI-GENARATED 🫠

Step 5: Create more agents. Next, I'm going to create an agent to help me with content creation for blogs and social media. What are you going to build?

Step 4: Have a meeting with your agent. I like to run daily standups to stay organized. Paul automatically logs every meeting in a Google Doc and reads it at the beginning of each meeting, so the quality of our conversations improves over time.

Step 3: Define your agents actions. Use the Make.com webhooks to create the actions for your agent. Paul can access Google docs, read my current backlog and create new Linear issues for me.

Step 2: Create a custom GPT on ChatGPT.com for your agent. Give it a name, a purpose and instructions. For example, I've built "Paul", a product manager that runs daily stand-ups and retrospectives with me.

List of Make.com scenarios that serve as GPT actions

Step 1: Define agent capabilities on Make.com. I do project management on Linear and use Google Docs a lot, so I've created some basic read/write actions. Using the "Custom Webhook" trigger, you get a unique endpoint for each scenario.

For a while now, I've been exploring different platforms to create AI agents that assist me in daily tasks. I finally found a system that is both easy to use and flexible. So far I've built a product owner, project manager and brand expert.