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  • No Manual Yet, Issue 12: This? No, two back. A spoken request selects the pricing slide. Matt Hertel and ViableCloud series footer.

    Issue 12 · 11 Oct 2026

    This? No, two back.

    Have you ever been presenting to a potential customer when they say, "You remember 25 minutes ago, when you talked about pricing?" You do remember. You've just got no idea which slide it was.

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  • Two office chairs pulled up to one desk with a report on the monitor: a real job, done together. No Manual Yet, Issue 11.

    Issue 11 · 4 Oct 2026

    Why saying "use more AI" doesn't work.

    The AI news is all doom and gloom at the moment, and people are scared. The people in your company are reading those headlines too. Then the message comes down from the top: "We all need to use more AI."

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  • A completed task sends a correction into shared instructions, and the next task retrieves it before work begins. No Manual Yet, Issue 09.

    Issue 09 · 20 Sep 2026

    When the task is done, the compounding work begins.

    You're heard people raving about loops. A company is now a series of loops, loop engineering etc. You know the classic LinkedIn guru stuff. Then I realized that I was using loops too. Dang, I guess I'll be a LinkedIn Guru then.

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  • No Manual Yet Issue 08: It still only happens when I push. A colleague pushes a wheeled desk while another works at the laptop.

    Issue 08 · 13 Sep 2026

    It still only happens when I push.

    I spent another ungodly amount of time on LinkedIn looking at what people do after their first attempt with AI. A completely selfless act of research. Obviously.

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