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They kept telling me AI was for young people. They were wrong.
The letter that started it all, and the only permission slip you'll ever need to begin.
Read the issue →I'm Annette. I started a tech company in 1995, raised seven kids, and built things on three continents. Now I'm 57 and learning to create with AI out loud, the wins, the flops, all of it. Come pull up a chair.
Three honest reads to get you going. No jargon, no gatekeeping, just one grown-up figuring it out right beside you.
The letter that started it all, and the only permission slip you'll ever need to begin.
Read the issue →Not a tutorial. The honest story of deciding the train had not, in fact, left without me.
Read the issue →The day my assistant went from polite and useless to genuinely helpful. The builder stuff, told as a story.
Read the issue →They kept telling me AI was for young people. They were wrong.
I'm not here to lecture you from some glossy expert's chair. I'm just a little further down the same path, turning around to say: come on, the water's lovely, and you're far more ready than they've made you feel.
Every week I share what I'm building, what broke, and what I'd tell a friend over coffee who asked, "okay, but what are you ACTUALLY doing with this stuff?"
One sunny, jargon-free email a week about actually using AI. Free, and you can wander off anytime.