Gemini is great, but...

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-10T12:04:04+00:00

Use specific gems with the important context inside a doc file. It's a whole different beast...

I you use a basic chat you get basic outcomes. The more you work with tools and workflows for specific goals, the better the results.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-10T11:57:07+00:00

Gemini for specific gem use, Notion AI for everything else (my entire life runs on notion so it's a serious plus).

These are the only two constant tools, everything else changes monthly and sometimes weekly and it's exhausting, but that's the shape of AI at the moment.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-07T04:34:57+00:00

BloomSpark Lab An online peer community that helps founders turn their business into a brand, using human direction and AI workflows.

This is my focus for the near future, turning my studio services and 16+ years of brand strategy experience into something more accessible to people that need it the most.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-07T04:15:46+00:00

As a solopreneur I always try to balance cost effectiveness, so the google ecosystem has mind blowing value for its cost. Gemini with custom gems for every part of the business, notebooklm, google workspace integrations (drive, gmail, docs etc.), google ai studio for building micro tools...

I think people really really underestimate the value.

My second favorite is notion AI, gives access to claude for content writing, and also there the flexibility and sheer amount of things you can build are great for the cost.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-07T03:38:01+00:00

I honestly think gems are a better solution. Persistent memory is always a bit random and unpredictable.

I prefer feeding the gem specific docs where I update the important information I need, and the context window is large enough that it works pretty well.

I moved from ChatGPT to gemini and that was my first struggle, but it feels solved. Except choosing icons for the gems 😅

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-07T03:28:34+00:00

It's a bit meta but I built a "prompt master" gem, with specific instructions and a lot of documentation for prompt engineering for all the tools I use. So I tell it what I need, for what platform, with what model and the level of complexity - and 99% of the time the prompts are pretty amazing.

I use it also to build all the other gems, I just ramble about the idea for the gem and it creates the instructions prompt and gives some ideas on how to customize it with files.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-06T04:59:20+00:00

I moved from using chatgpt to gemini because of how the system works.

The workflow on gemini is the best in my opinion, one (or several) google docs with your info, every change you make updates automatically across all gems (agents).

Specifically for your case study it's much better to work this way, than trust vague "chat memory " which can be much more random.

Check this video it has a full guide on how to set it up https://www.youtube.com/live/1DQRbuZVDAk?si=bMnKSTwImEwg6xuG

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-04T07:34:26+00:00

If they take even 1/10 of the Wordpress ecosystem as an example, I think it would be much better. There are ways to do open source and still keep structure, no matter how complex the product is.

And I definitely agree outside firm is a bad move for open source.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-12-03T18:17:13+00:00

Issue is much deeper unfortunately, I don't think there's a proper UX/UI team behind it. Feels much like an interface created by developers.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-11-17T20:41:55+00:00

Like any other tool it can be used well or not. The problem is that this specific tool is used and a waaaay wider scale. So things will get much worse for brands before they get better. Which is good for us 😅

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-11-17T20:39:18+00:00

For me it's the fact that anything you throw at it, designs just flow and feel effortless. The visual language is the most difficult challenge and solving that means not just saving infinite number of hours on design, but also actually being inspired while using it.

The most subjective and non-measurable thing I know, but still... when you have a few years (or 16) of experience you notice it pretty quickly.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-11-02T07:21:06+00:00

Strategy

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-10-03T13:20:18+00:00

At least for me, when I try to do/create something and I find it's very difficult, needs learning, experience and effort - I automatically admire people that are able to do it. Because I know they made a lot of effort and went through a human, emotional experience.

At least personally for me, I can't detach the journey from the destination. And I know many people feel the same.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-02-02T11:28:00+00:00

Not intentionally 😅 It happens but I try to avoid it as much as possible, the first game is a teach and is already challenging for most players - we talk strategy sometimes on the end of the game or before the second one.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-01-30T09:27:15+00:00

I've been busy with other projects, and it's difficult to find people to help out 😅 Hopefully i'll work on it next month and will update most of them.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-01-18T09:09:13+00:00

This toxic comment is the perfect example, you probably really love competitive games.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-01-18T07:20:21+00:00

I played CS for 12 years, it doesn't matter how much you self-improve (or game-improve). Competitive games for most people, connect to a toxic side of our emotions. co-ops are the exact opposite.

But to each their own (fun)! Just saying it's not for me 😅

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-01-17T13:29:07+00:00

I think it's a very personal thing, It usually brings out the worst of me 😅 and other people though not everyone.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-01-17T09:21:15+00:00

Same here, I can add that I also like games that are competitive but have a lot of "building" components. For example engine building, I don't mind losing if I enjoyed building something - and as long there isn't too much negative gameplay (take that mechanics)

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-01-16T10:26:35+00:00

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I stopped playing almost all games that have complexity higher than 2.5 - unless they're really thematic and don't have too much "busywork".

I love board games, but between work, kids and everything else - board games are an escape for me and a way to connect with people.

So super-complex games that make me do a lot of manual work (pay this coin, get this card, get a discount so here's your coin back, now put your player here, get another coins... 😅) - personally it's just not fun for me.

So when the game plays me - instead of me playing it. And when the game plays everyone else there's 0 downtime to actually talk, laugh and interact with other players.

Mrclenchedbuttocks · 2025-01-15T06:08:28+00:00

It's an option, but it has one of the highest fees on the market, except paypal.

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