Get your mind out of the gutter - the only d**k pic I'm talking about is a "desk" pic! I can't take you people anywhere, GAWD

So the other day I was looking for my tape measure, and I finally found it in the back room where I had last used it literally months ago when I was putting something together. That's how seldom I use physical tools. Compare that to my brother, who has an entire work van filled floor to ceiling with proper construction tools that he uses every day. But when it comes to digital tools, my brother doesn't even have a computer, whereas I have one that looks like it runs Skynet on the Cyberdyne OS.

I say all that to say this: humanity's capacity to change the world through toolmaking is astounding. We walk down the street, bouncing ideas around in our little three-pound meatsack brains while munching on potato chips, and from that exercise we produce tools that reshape the very fabric of our existence. That's insane.

In that spirit, today I'd like to do two things:

1) I want to see your favorite tool, whether it's an old hammer, a deluxe power saw, or your PC battlestation. Reply with a pic and a paragraph about why you love it. It'll be great, like chatting on BBS's during the early internet, for the three of you old enough to remember that.

2) I want to show you a bunch of the custom AI tools I've built for people over the past few months. I finally got around to putting together a pitch deck to highlight my capabilities for client work, so take a look and let me know if there's anything I can build for you too!

Oh, and one really fun thing I've realized over the past couple weeks is that I'm settling into the brand style I like to illustrate my AI work. You'll see that all the section headers in the deck are anchored by cute little robots drawn in watercolor art style, like I did with the Youbots last week.

This is a style I arrived at by experimenting with a bunch of combinations in Midjourney until I got to something I liked. Using robots to illustrate AI is an obvious choice, but I'm putting a couple twists on it by making them cute little individualized characters drawn in warm, artistic watercolors rather than cold metallics. I think out of everything I'm creating right now at breakneck speed, sitting down at night playing around with art styles and image generation is the most relaxing and enjoyable thing I'm doing.

Have a great week, friends.

Nate

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