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Every issue of The Muddy Middle documents something I'm figuring out in real time as a non-technical operator navigating AI. No tidy conclusions. No expert advice. Just honest notes from the muddy middle.

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Issue No. 13 | September 1, 2026
Skip the AI mastery courses.
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Issue No. 12 | August 25, 2026
More instructions isn’t always better.
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Issue No. 11 | August 18, 2026
The tool is not the strategy.
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Issue No. 10 | August 11, 2026
Your AEO audit score doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Issue No. 09 | August 4, 2026
Cool isn’t a business outcome.
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Issue No. 08 | July 28, 2026
AI didn’t save me time. It gave me more work to do.
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Issue No. 07 | July 22, 2026
I thought good work found its audience. It doesn’t work that way.
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Issue No. 06 — July 14, 2026
I turned three months of AEO work into a free prompt pack. Here it is.
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Issue 05 — July 7, 2026
I've been scared of Google Analytics for years. Turns out I'm dangerous enough to ask the right questions.
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Issue 04 — June 30, 2026
I built a system to measure whether AEO was working. The proof showed up first.
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Issue 03 — June 23, 2026
I have a degree in accounting and I'm an attorney. AEO is nothing like either of those fields.
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Issue 02 — June 16, 2026
I spent a week trying to connect two platforms. The answer was to stop trying.
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Issue 01 — June 9, 2026
I didn't plan to learn AI. A business problem made me.
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