What I'm building and why I'm writing it down
Thirty years online. Still not a computer guy. Here's why that's the point.
I have been working online for thirty years. I started before Google existed, before social media was a concept, before most people had a reason to care about the internet at all.
I have helped hundreds of businesses build real solutions, and I have been blessed to work alongside some of the most talented designers, and technologists over these last 30 years.
And I still do not consider myself a computer guy.
That is not false modesty. It is the point.
The people I build for are not computer people either. They are the owner running a $2M wilderness lodge who knows their guests by name but has no idea why their website stopped generating leads. The attorney who built a practice worth trusting but cannot figure out why no one can find it. The biochemist laid off after twenty years who is rebuilding from scratch at 55 and does not know where to start.
These are capable people who have stopped believing it. That is the problem I keep showing up to solve.
Right now I am running three businesses, building and shipping real apps, hosting a weekly AI Mastermind, and walking alongside a friend through something that matters deeply to him.
I work six days a week and honor the Luni-Solar Sabbath on the seventh. That rhythm is not background detail. It is the source. My faith does not sit alongside this work. It runs through it, and if you read long enough, you will see it.
I am not writing this publication to teach anyone. I am writing it because I keep seeing the same patterns break the same capable people, and I have found that naming them out loud is more useful than staying quiet about it.
Every week I will write one diagnosis. One thing that is breaking, why it is breaking, and what I would do about it. No trends. No listicles. One idea, fully realized.
If you are already capable and have half-convinced yourself otherwise, you are in the right place.
Richard D. Stuart
The Weekly Prescription