David Southern 🚢 👻

I ghostwrite educational email courses for the Maker Industry.
Maker obsessed with making themed projects to solve problems.

[David Southern 🚢 👻 @TheMakerEdge]

Have you always wanted to start Making things, but didn't want to fail on your first project?

Join my FREE 5-Day email educational course: The New Maker's First Project Roadmap!
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[David Southern 🚢 👻 @TheMakerEdge]

7 takeaways for entrepreneurs from Derek Sivers's book "Hell Yeah or No"

• Change your default answer to "no"
• Believe you are below average
• Great goals cause change now
• Don't use single advice
• Embrace new ideas
• Share what is obvious to you
• Success comes from evolution

[David Southern 🚢 👻 @TheMakerEdge]

What business owners can learn from Anakin Skywalker.

Anakin is fully convicted of his beliefs and acts on it.

Anakin acts immediately without overthinking.

While other Jedi are still strategizing what the best move is, Anakin has already completed multiple battles.

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The biggest mistake I made when purchasing online courses.

I would learn, then not implement.

Education without implementation is just entertainment.

Entertainment is great, but that's not what makes courses so powerful (and sometimes expensive).

You have to act immediately.

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The number 1 reason your content business is failing.

Lack of consistency.

Most people see an "overnight success" wondering how it happened. We don't see the weeks, months, or even years of work that went into it without anyone seeing it.

Lock in for consistency this week.

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The 1 skill that turns your 3D printer into an idea manufacturing machine.

3D modeling.

2 flavors of modeling can meet the needs of what you want.

Creative projects? Try out mesh modeling with Blender.

Real-world accurate solutions? Try parametric modeling with Fusion 360.

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5 topic frameworks for writing a Maker newsletter.

• The 2 Year Test
• What you wish you knew before starting
• Under/over rated techniques
• Quick, niche projects
• Unpopular opinions

Many know they need a newsletter, but worry they'll run out of ideas to write about, so steal these.

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What newsletter writers can learn from the McDonald's CEO.

Would you from 2 years ago subscribe to your newsletter?

If not, it's too dense.

If so, you're on the right track.

Write for who you wanted to become 2 years ago.

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Why I still use a paper notebook in addition to a Notion second brain.

I tried to keep both synced for too long and it was frustrating.

My notebook is now for sketches and one-time use notes I don't need to save.

My Notion second brain is for to dos and long-term notes.

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In 2021, I thought I was burned out on Making things till I started theming projects.

Theming brought joy back to me for 5 reasons:
1. I appreciated my favorite movies more.
2. I use both sides of my brain.
3. I ditched boring shapes.
4. I look for new techniques.
5. I create what stores lack.

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The 3 best methods to insulate your job from being replaced by AI.

1. Become your company's AI expert
2. Deliver solutions, not project results
3. Proactively seek automation

AI will not replace your job, but people who embrace change (including AI) will.

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4 easy ways to find the best topics for your newsletter.

1. Poll your social audience
2. Find recurring ideas in comments
3. Give more details from recent videos
4. Expand winning short-form ideas

With these ways, you'll never run out of newsletter issue ideas to write about.

[David Southern 🚢 👻 @TheMakerEdge]

3 crucial pieces of Maker advice I wish I had when starting to build things.

1. Start the build before you think you're ready.
2. Don't try to make the project perfect.
3. Add flexibility into the design.

These would have saved me months of delays on my first projects.

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The 1 reason now is the best time for Makers to incorporate microcontrollers into builds.

Not knowing how to code isn't an excuse anymore because AI can write it for you.

More than that, AI can then help you understand the code for troubleshooting in reality too.

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Click the full article below for the full, free prompt to leverage AI to learn AI.
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The single most overlooked method to create better AI prompts:

Leverage AI to learn how to leverage AI.

Sounds cheesy, but AI knows how it processes information better than humans. So who would be better to help highlight what the differences between good and bad prompts are?

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Confidence comes from actions. Not the other way around!

[Katie Mironenko @Writelinker]

Use AI to think with you.

Not for you.

[David Southern 🚢 👻 @TheMakerEdge]

@chinbeard @EvanAndKatelyn I missed this one somehow, but love the tape!!

[David Southern 🚢 👻 @TheMakerEdge]

@batincaylak Exactly! Excel didn’t make accountants obsolete, but created a demand for accountants that knew Excel.

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I cannot fathom how people are so terrified of AI taking people’s jobs.

AI is a tool to gain leverage.