One Skill, Four AI Platforms: Join Me Live Friday

Coming Up: last Friday's Lightning Lesson didn't record, so I'm running it again, free, on October 2.

Sep 30 • James Gray

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Hands-on AI Plugin 8.1: What Shipped and How to Update

What Shipped: a knowledge graph from one sentence, a registry the framework runs from, and a Test step that grades the real run.

Sep 29 • James Gray

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Introducing the Hands-on AI Playbook

A new section of Graymatter. One play a week you can put to work, for leaders who own results.

Sep 26 • James Gray

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August 2026

Give Your AI a Memory of Your Business

Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki pattern, Google's Open Knowledge Format, and plain files any AI tool can read.

Aug 24 • James Gray

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June 2026

Why Your Best Work Can Come Later in Life

Reinventing my career at 61, and the research that says the best is still ahead.

Jun 14 • James Gray

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May 2026

The Most Important Subject You'll Ever Study Is Yourself

You don't build your unique capabilities. You discover them, and then you find the courage to follow them.

May 31 • James Gray

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April 2026

Three Questions Before You Say Yes (in the AI Era)

A filter from Brad Stulberg's The Way of Excellence for navigating an AI-reshaped career

Apr 20 • James Gray

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AI Didn't Create This Question. It Just Made It Impossible to Ignore.

You already know your Life's Task. You just haven't had the courage to say it out loud yet.

Apr 19 • James Gray

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March 2026

3 Free Lessons. 1 Complete AI Framework.

The Business-First AI Framework — from messy process to tested, optimized workflow — taught live on Maven over three weeks, for free.

Mar 27 • James Gray

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Your AI Workflow Isn't Autonomous If You're Approving Every Step

Claude Code's auto-mode is the first real answer to the permission-fatigue problem that's keeping AI business workflows stuck in demo mode.

Mar 26 • James Gray

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Leaders Who Won't Build Will Get Left Behind

The AI era rewards clarity and discernment — skills you can only develop by getting hands-on

Mar 16 • James Gray

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The 10 Building Blocks of Agentic AI

A practical guide to the vocabulary, layers, and combinations that power every AI workflow

Mar 2 • James Gray

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