What if content was as easy as doing nothing?
I love making. I can make stuff all day.
The thing I've never been consistent with is content and distribution. The work gets done. Talking about the work is where it falls off.
So I've been treating it as a systems problem. The question is simple: how do I make a system around content that is as easy as doing nothing?
That takes a radical way of observing and doing things. Because when you look at it properly, the content is already there. All the work we do, all the stuff I do with agents, could be content. Every note, every build, every conversation is material that could become tweets, posts, ideas. It could become everything.
What's missing is something to catch it.
So what if my agents were constantly harvesting from my random notes and from my discussions with them? Pulling out ideas for content and for builds. The bank fills up as the days and weeks go, without me sitting down to fill it.
I've already had a taste of it. A while ago I was in a client meeting. I was in my writing studio taking notes, and my agent was reading my notes and taking notes on my notes. Both of us working on one surface.
At the same time I had my command center open, where I could chat with the agent, talk in real time and copy answers straight into the Teams meeting. Teams ran on the MacBook. I presented off that while I worked with my agents on the Mac Mini.
Between all these services, it almost felt like we were all in the same room together. It's a great agentic human working experience. I feel very empowered in my working capability with all of this.
And the meeting kept working after it ended. My agent turned it into one record, a task list and a project plan. My content agent pulled posts out of it.
This piece came the same way. It was an idea I had in the shower. I recorded a voice memo and sent the transcript to my content agent. It drafted the piece and put it in our content studio, where I'm editing it now. When I'm done, scheduling or posting is a button or an instruction away.
It's still pretty clunky. Soon it will be a lot more streamlined.
If you've never been consistent with content, trying harder probably won't fix it. Build the system that catches what you're already doing.
Do the work. Let the content come out of it.