18: Nobody Wants Your Web UI Anymore

About this Episode

This week we start with the small wins. Two Momentum coworking members grew enough to upgrade to offices, and Fireside shipped Air, a clean new website theme built around your cover art.

Then John plants his flag: within a few years, chat will replace clicking around in web apps. He's already stopped opening the dashboards for the tools he uses every day. Kris pushes back on behalf of the huge non-technical crowd that's still asking AI to rewrite their emails.

From there it gets personal. Why working with AI all day makes people feel harder, what to do with all the open loops in your head, waking up with dread, finally sending the ask you've been avoiding, and real advice on getting better sleep. And John explains why he's back on Claude after building a polished iPhone dice game in an afternoon.

In this episode:

• Why members who outgrow coworking might be the best proof it works
• Projecting success, and when it backfires
• Fireside's new Air theme with light and dark modes
• The web UI is disappearing, and what replaces it
• Why AI-written tests are slowing everyone down
• Async AI work vs. synchronous people
• Using an AI project manager to clear the deck
• Sleep, caffeine, cortisol, and shutting your brain off
• Asking for what you want, even when it feels awkward
• Building custom tools that solve only your problem
• Just doing the thing instead of ruminating on it