John Lesoine

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John Lesoine

John Lesoine

@JohnLesoine

Systems engineer. Real stories. Real frameworks. Helping technical professionals shape the room and get promoted.

San Jose, CA Katılım Ocak 2025
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John Lesoine
John Lesoine@JohnLesoine·
Your best idea is dying in a chat window. And it's not your fault. You have the idea. You can see the whole thing in your head. So you open the AI chat and start describing it, and the first few exchanges feel like magic. Then you add the next piece, and the next, and somewhere around the fifth or sixth turn it starts to wobble. It forgets a decision you made twenty minutes ago. It contradicts itself. It hands you something that looks right and isn't. You paste a correction, it apologizes, it breaks something else. Here's what I want you to know before you blame yourself: it wasn't you. It was the approach. One big conversation is the wrong container for a real system. It was always going to wobble. Not because your idea is bad or your prompts are weak, but because you're asking a single overloaded chat to hold the whole tangle at once and never drop a thread. Nothing can do that for long. The fix isn't a better prompt or a bigger model. It's a different way of thinking about the whole thing, and it's one you might already have. Because the thing that actually builds software with AI isn't coding, and it isn't "prompt engineering." It's orchestration: breaking a job into pieces, handing each piece to whoever's best at it, and keeping the whole thing moving. If you've ever run a project, planned an event, or gotten a team through a deadline, you've done it. You just haven't pointed it at AI yet. The shift from prompting a chat to orchestrating a system is the difference between an idea that dies in the window and one that ships. The system breaks your idea into named jobs. Some of those jobs go to plain code, the stuff that should happen the same way every time. Some go to the AI, the stuff that needs judgment. You wire them together with clean handoffs, you check the work, and you get something that runs, not a brilliant conversation that evaporates when you close the tab. I'll show you the whole method over the next few weeks. But you can start today, on the idea that keeps dying on you, in about five minutes. No code. The whole build is in the book. amazon.com/dp/B0H85Y9SKQ
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Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter
I am called a paid shill. Yes, that’s correct; I shill to get paid. So do every single one of you. 🫵😂
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John Lesoine
John Lesoine@JohnLesoine·
@AndrewWriteCopy Who apologized for writing a long letter because he didn’t have time to write a short one?
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Andrew Gould
Andrew Gould@AndrewWriteCopy·
Quick Copywriting Tip “Writing is rewriting” Wrote Ernest Hemingway. Don't try to make your first draft perfect, great, or even good. Just get your ideas down. Then in the edit you can make them good, then great, and then perfect. (Well, maybe not perfect!)
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Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter
The first hypnosis book I ghostwrote was back in 2019. More than 6 more since then. Not to forget the REFRAME YOUR BRAIN project...
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Codie Sanchez
Codie Sanchez@Codie_Sanchez·
The older I get, the more I realize... - being disliked by idiots is just proof you’re not one of them - you rarely win big without pissing someone off - anger is useful in physical fights, but a killer of logic - strong beliefs paired with little knowledge is a dangerous place to operate from
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John Lesoine
John Lesoine@JohnLesoine·
The pattern he's describing has a name. The Greeks wrote it down 2,300 years ago. We shrank it into the word trivial. Classical education ordered knowledge in three arts, in a fixed sequence. Grammar: the facts of a thing. What is actually there. Logic: reasoning on those facts. Rhetoric: making the conclusion move people. Grammar came first on purpose. Reasoning can only work the material it is handed. The old axiom, Aristotle by way of the medievals: nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses. Swap the vocabulary and you are looking at the AI stack. Data is grammar. Models are logic. Output is rhetoric. The entire industry crowded into logic, racing to build the strongest reasoner. Ellison walked back a stage and bought grammar. The layer everyone skips is the layer everything downstream depends on. @AlexHormozi has been making the operator's version of the same point: turning AI loose on everything, including what doesn't matter, loses to deciding what matters and pointing it only there. The Greeks had a word for that too. Phronesis. Judgment about what is worth doing. The three arts were later bundled as the trivium. That name survives in English as trivial. The foundation of every educated mind, filed under doesn't-matter. The strongest mind in the room still loses to the one who owns what minds need to know, and knows what is worth their time. He's right that the pattern held through every era. The ancients wrote it down first.
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Larry Ellison just told every AI company on Earth they’re fighting the wrong war. The entire industry is racing to build the smartest model. More parameters. Better benchmarks. Faster inference. Ellison isn’t building a model. He’s controlling what every model needs to be useful. Every frontier AI trains on the same public internet. Same scraped pages. Same recycled text. When everyone has the same data, it’s not an advantage. It’s a floor. The only data that creates separation is private. Medical records. Financial models. Defense systems. Proprietary research locked behind firewalls for decades. That data already lives inside Oracle databases. Not Google’s. Not Microsoft’s. Not Amazon’s. Ellison didn’t enter the model war. He positioned himself above it. He rebuilt the database so AI can reason on private data without ever absorbing it. Training folds your data into the model permanently. Once it’s in, it never comes back out. Reasoning thinks with your data and hands back only the answer. The data never moves. One is surrender. The other is sovereignty. Ellison: “These are remarkable electronic brains.” He didn’t build the brain. He owns what the brain needs to think. Everyone is building the most powerful mind in human history. A mind is only as valuable as what it’s allowed to know. Own the knowledge and it doesn’t matter who builds the brain. That pattern has held through every era of human civilization. AI doesn’t break it. It proves it.

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Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter
You’ve already lived the book. Now let someone else write it. Exactly the way you would. Only better. If not ... the Best.
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Brittany Hugoboom
Brittany Hugoboom@BritHugoboom·
I actually think reading is going to make a huge comeback. Book sales have gone up this year. Booktok is always blowing up books. One could argue they’re not books of substance however… I have noticed a resurgence on X and in schools like @uaustinorg on focusing on the classics. Even with the hate that “The Odyssey” is getting, it will still likely get millions of people reading the book and from there, surely “The Iliad.” When things are popular on X, they tend to enter the mainstream a few years later like peptides. And beauty has had a huge resurgence, followed by love of classics. And with the rise of homeschooling and searching for an alternative to the public school system, I believe that classical liberal schools will become more and more popular. Print magazines are becoming more popular in NYC. I see less young people on their phone and more often bringing vintage cameras or doing “analog” type things. So when everything becomes “AI slop” from the photographs to the writing to videos, more people will gravitate towards creativity and substance.
Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter@JoshuaLisec

What do you suppose this means for book writing & publishing as a career?

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John Lesoine
John Lesoine@JohnLesoine·
Repetition works every single time Repetition works every single time Repetition works every single time Repetition works every single time Repetition works every single time Repetition works every single time Repetition works every single time Repetition works every single time
Katelyn Bourgoin 🧠@KateBour

It sucks when a good idea takes months to catch on. It sucks way more when you get bored of it and kill it before your audience has even heard it twice.

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John Lesoine
John Lesoine@JohnLesoine·
You’ve broken everything down into systems already. Each piece can be its own agent tuned to one task. Step by step with no steps skipped, but the mastery of human judgement will not allow a ghostwriting client running for president to tell everyone she shot her puppy Selling the title alone as an upsell is a four figure proven business if you have a title people will spend $20 on sight unseen everything else
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