Ai beat me
…and stole my job
Ok, I am finally giving AI a shot. Call me a late bloomer, a late adopter but I’m finally seeing it’s worth and potential for what it can do for advertising and here’s my conclusion:
It can make sh*t stink even worse
It can make gold multiply
…depends on how you use it. What’s undeniable is that the word “AI” is a trend. It’s an easy way to sell B2B services for just about ANYTHING because it has something called new (and people love the word “new”)…
My reasons for using AI and not giving it more tasks are vastly different. Yes, I love money. yes, I love making my CLIENTS more money…
…but more than that I’ve always valued MYSELF to be the ‘black box’ to do it. Let me explain:
If i made a client $10,000,000 in a year
It provided me evidence that the knowledge, skill, process, WHO I am and WHAT I know is worth $100,000,000. (giving myself a ‘healthy’ 10X multiple as I consider my “BRAIN” a tech company and not a real estate company)
So, my justification was instead of training a learning model, why not train MY learning model and be able to do it. I refused to let AI let me “sleep on the wheel” while it drove me to wherever…
I mean, why rob myself of the joy of driving. BUT, perhaps AI does have a use in driving in Downtown traffic when I’d much rather not.
And, here comes the kicker to this whole AI thing and how I’m using it…
My entire purpose is to achieve mastery. To evolve. To become the expression of the highest version of myself. — even the business I run and how I make money is simply a measurement of my growth INTERNALLY and skill level.
This means that I don’t believe in this thing that we’ve been conditioned to think about work since we were kids. That it’s a “necessary evil”. Something we gotta do till we drop dead. I mean, there’s literally an infinite way to make money. And trust me, vacations, women, parties get old… quick.
It’s great ‘for the gram’ but its not why you were born and raised as a spiritual being on this plane for.
So why rob yourself of the JOY that can be work?
I’m a sucker for good ads and I just watched a young bright kid who I exchanged a few conversations with back in 2020. You might have heard him Paul Hilse. The guy that might show up on some pages you follow on Instagram as a ‘shoutout’ for teaching you how to make faceless youtube channels and make ‘passive income’ all automated with 0 work so you can travel the world for the rest of your life.
I mean, it sounds great but I seriously think there’s something deeply flawed by the people that DO IT for this reason. Look, I chased the money. But, ironically enough I only started making the BIG money when I stopped chasing the money.
I remember 2 KEY moments that made the difference:
Instead of frustration for another month with LOW sales, I started showing gratitude, thanking what little I made online and being happy about it. That it was working. That I was doing it. I genuinely became excited by my own progress. I have all the ambition in the world but I wasn’t in a pit of self-deprecation and mental self-bullying for why I made only 2k this month anymore…
Instead of money, I told myself “I want a vacation”
I have a theory that our brains don’t really know what money is. We’re like pavlovian dogs that salivate when we hear a bell ring because everytime we heard the bell ring the owner brought food.
Thing is money is like the bell ringing. It’s a sign things are working and you are growing and evolving, but it’s not the meal that you actually want. It’s primitive. I mean seriously, how gross is it that people in 2025 get hard from seeing bundles of paper and people throwing it and running around in a frenzy to get it and pick it up!
It’s actually funny and ridiculous to me that pieces of paper do that to people. A number going up and were all happy and a number going down and were jumping off buildings (don’t do that… I’m making a point);
So here I see another video. SAME MESSAGE, different Mechanism. The SAME desire that all the 9-5ers struggling have. to make “passive income” and never work again.
To be as useless to society as the people on welfare checks while they travel the world, drive fast cars and suck the teet of our beautiful planet while this time…
It’s not Andrew Tate saying to make clips of his interviews and post it on tiktok to sell his sh*tty education program
It’s make entertainment for other job hating people who need an escape and have an addiction to entertainment worse than the drug addicts on the street to “be free”
Be the dealer and give people a hit of that sweet sweet ‘Bread & Circus’.
Notice the similarity:
Life sucks
it’s not your fault
You tried everything and failed
But this time it’s different
I’m the messiah — I’m the gooroo, I got you
This is my sob story, my dad beat me as a kid
I was down on my luck, nothing worked, I survived by eating sand
Then ‘suddently” i got this great idea
it changed everything
I got it without working and it was so easy that YOU can do it too
buy my course / book a call
and YOU TOO can have a yacht, a bugatti, vacation 365 days a year…
and be completely useless to society…
I’m not saying its wrong. I see why this message appeals to the masses that uphold our system. But I also see that this is the WRONG way to go about things…
UNDERSTAND: the “how” was never important. All these methods work. Literally EVERY single method on planet earth works. And, if you truly go above and beyond in it, and you truly put some soul into it, and you ANSWER the call to opportunity when it shows up to your door decisively without hesitation you WILL get there…
I see two major problems with people these days…
They have a bad relationship to this thing called “work”. They want to do as little of it as possible then sit on their a$$ and be lazy and enjoy the fruits of other people’s labor. They sit and complain that life is unfair and they look for a way out.
Their goal is “money” and nothing else.
And that is why, even if these people learn from the greatest teacher. Even if they have step A-Z handed to them perfectly where all they truly have to do is “press a few buttons” and they have “passive income” they will still be failures for the rest of their life.
Why? They didn’t integrate work into their lives. They didn’t find a way to make it meaningful and purposeful. They didn’t invent anything. They slept on the wheel and let AI do it all for them. And guess what? it worked today.
But how many chinese products can China Copy before they look to America for something new to copy? Who is the truly original thinker here? Who is moving THEMSELVES and civilization forward?
Nobody will remember you as another guy that made a faceless youtube channel and got a couple mill. In fact, what you need to realize is that money comes EASY. But money itself can be a golden cage…
it can bring the worst sides out of you
it can bring new problems like bad friends, drug addictions, and problems with the law or the tax man
I’m not saying don’t try. I’m saying why is your goal to “make money” and retire and never work again and sit on your a$$ all day doing nothing?
Do you truly believe you have nothing greater to show for? To GIVE to society? Do you truly belive that that is the truest extent of your capabilities?
“I just want to make bread. I want to make money”
I hear it from my friends all the time. Salivating dogs. Not realizing its the MEAL they wanted at the end.
I love my work. My relationship to work has always been a testament to achieving MASTERY. I like being challenged with problems. Understand: work should be fulfilling. And I look down upon people that want to retire at 40 and never work again. I still believe that everyone has something great to contribute to our world and make it better. And, making money and having that be the end of your contribution, the end of your growth, the end of your challenges, the end of your worries and financial difficulties is a DISSERVICE to your personal evolution, to your unique journey, to why you are here, and what you are here to accomplish in the first place…
So, to all the people chasing money, hoping to get rich, and then go to Dubai and live there forever you are a SLAVE like Andrew Tate said. Just a different kind of slave.
You are still playing life by THEIR rules dictated by THEIR currency. You are still painstakingly building pointless “businesses” to make this paper they print while THEY dangle a dream in front of you.
while THEY sell you the idea that you want a jet, yacht, car, vacation, 10/10 baddie girlfriend. WHO put that idea in you? WHO told you that is what you truly want? WHO told you that “when you get this you’ll be happy and I’ll show you the way”?
Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe you are struggling now BECAUSE you needed it?
Maybe it’s time to play life on your terms. Your own games. You can never truly ‘escape the matrix’…. but you can play it to your advantage.
And “starting a business” or “trying this new AI money making scheme” just for the sake of money is primitive.
INTEGRATE work into your life. Truly find the deepest most profound fulfillment in whatever it is your doing. If you are starting something new, STICK TO IT…
But get rid of this notion that you’ll work hard and ‘retire’ and never work again. I’m telling you it will be your own version of HELL.
Instead, find a way to work for YOU. If you need a safety net. A safe harbor position to do it, great then by all means.
I’m saying you gotta live for something MORE than money. More than the dog salivating at the sound of a bell. You gotta live and play the game to YOUR rules.
Nothing should ever be done in life solely for the sake of money. And I get it, you got bills to pay you got a roof to keep, kids to feed and the world is stretching you thinner and thinner…
But who said that was bad? who said the kingdom of god was within you…
Perhaps its time to stop looking outwards. Stop letting people pull your strings and sell you all these. things that WORK but may not work FOR you.
What I mean by that is, I believe you are great. I believe there is a wonderful world out there — that is not a yacht party every day with paid strippers…but something TRULY fulfilling to you that makes your soul sing. That makes your soul feel like “you have arrived.”
Maybe I am brainwashed too to believe that exists but I believe all the ads you see that TRY and give you that feeling are just a china copycat, an IMMITATion of something you can only get by walking your truly unique journey.
So, back to AI.
AI is dope. I like it. It has massive potential to make money but it’s also like a crypto pump and dump…
Don’t be the last guy holding the bag because you never developed CHARACTER, relationships, LASTING ASSETS that pay…
I told you that the first learning model I train is my brain.
I love learning. I love working. I will work till I’m dead.
Because the parties get old, and you will arrive at the same question that you had when you were struggling without money and struggling WITH money…
What now?
And, only you can answer that my friend. Nobody else can.
-Shakoor