Tech that matters in your every day life

VOL. I · NO. 001

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA · WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2026

COMPLIMENTARY · OPENING WEEK

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A fine day to learn something new.

★ THE PEOPLE'S TECHNOLOGY WEEKLY ★

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MOVING THE PEOPLE TO THE EDGE OF WHATEVER TECHNOLOGY HAS TO OFFER

PLAIN-ENGLISH PLEDGE

No jargon. No hype.

If we can't explain it to a neighbor, we don't print it.

EVERYDAY TECH

LEARN & EARN

HOME AI

YOUR PRIVACY

GREEN TECH

COMMUNITY

WATCHDOG

OPENING WEEK

Check in daily for a new story. This is not a linear production. Things will change. That’s the beauty of Life.

How we measure Everyday Impact

Every story is rated on five plain questions: does it touch your home life, your job, your money, your learning, or the planet? More filled circles mean it matters more to a regular Wednesday. That’s the whole method — no jargon required.

Homogeny is the Death of Humanity

Everyday, we should work towards a world that WE create. The more perfection we seek, the more we loose what makes us unique. Because what is perfection? I see it every day walking past a group of people who have no particular place to be but present. A yard full of flowers and even weeds where butterflies and bees can rest, not a manicured lawn that needs more water in a summer day than a human needs in one week. Don’t conform to the world. Conform your world to you.

Three Things You Can Ask an AI Assistant to Learn This Week

WATCHDOG

The Data Center Next Door: Who Pays the Water Bill?

A new AI facility promises jobs which means a better economy. But at what cost? Is it sustainable? Will the community really benefit from this? Millions of gallons. Soaring temperatures. More Electricity. There is an alternative.

By the Move Smart Desk

COMMUNITY

How a Group of Artists Built a Collective to host Residencies for cheap across California

Some festival goers wanted to grow their community and spend more time doing what they loved most, CREATING, so they worked together acquiring lofts, one at a time in cities that would increase their exposure that would have otherwise be too expensive alone.

By the Move Smart Desk

In This Edition

Everyday Tech

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Learn & Earn

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Home AI

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Privacy & You

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Green Tech

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Watchdog

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LEARN & EARN · THE LEAD STORY

He only wanted the Perfect Resume. Now He Builds Custom AI Assistants.

A guy who switches careers the way people exchange their phones, finds himself building AI assistants

for people, their jobs, and businesses.

Here is how he began, and how you can start after this weekend.

BY THE MOVE SMART DESK · PHOTOGRAPH FORTHCOMING

ENGRAVING — portrait, career-switcher at his laptop

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Drop a real photo here — the engraving is a placeholder for opening week. TBD :)

For five months, James Maddox poured every second, and calorie, he had into learning everything he could about how AI is shaping the world and how it works. He definitely lost a few pounds during this process, spending as many 18 hours swiping through articles while scrawling notes on architect’s planning papers, which he later transferred to his laptop.

Hundreds of free YouTube videos at 1.75x and a $20 a month subscription to Claude by Anthropic. No tuition. No classroom. Just one question opening the doors to hundreds more.

From asking a machine for what it needs in order to give me the best results asking a person what it is that they desire, James went from learning how to speak with precision to learning how to listen even more intently.

By learning how a machine worked he could understand more about him self and others. He was not “a tech person” he’s never written a line of code, and he still haven’t. Simply asking the right questions and giving precise directions, his AI assistant, who’s been trained on how he works, begins the process on making his debut media company Move Smart, Bay Area! (this is not an excited voice, its slightly irritated).

I opened more and more doors of information that deepened my understanding while lowering my ability to share the knowledge. There were days that I would sleep for 2 hours and hop back on my laptop because I thought of a new connection between concepts I was learning.My advice for anyone looking to dive into AI tech: start with one honest question. What is your purpose and what do you desire?

EVERYDAY IMPACT

on your Wednesday

HOME LIFE

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YOUR JOB

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YOUR MONEY

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LEARNING

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THE PLANET

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Reads like a friend explaining it.

HOME AI

What a "Home AI Server" Actually Does for you and Your Culture

tiny home server on a shelf

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The home AI server allows for culture to come back in a way that the internet has been dissolving for years, and has blocked from happening again. It looks like having ability to build and build with non algorithmic influences. You and your friends with sync’d servers to share information with each other. Only you guys are seeing it and can comment on it and can grow it. It’s your own tribe of people, sharing their unbridled interests in the safety of your truly private social media. Your interests aren't being harvested, commodified and sold for profit by someone who isn’t apart of your culture to someone who’s actually in your culture

EVERYDAY IMPACT

on your Wednesday

HOME LIFE

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YOUR JOB

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YOUR MONEY

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LEARNING

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THE PLANET

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Reads like a friend explaining it.

YOUR PRIVACY

A Phone that doesn’t track your Festival Going habits.

ENGRAVING — phone, no strings attached

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Your shopping history, location, pages you follow, posts you liner on, data of the phots you take, and your contact lists are all cues that are used to track if an ad is shown to you. I found out that my value to Meta is about 8 dollars based on my interests.

EVERYDAY IMPACT

on your Wednesday

HOME LIFE

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YOUR JOB

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YOUR MONEY

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LEARNING

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THE PLANET

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Reads like a friend explaining it.

GREEN TECH

What NOT Having a Data center in your back yard looks like.

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Having a data center in your backyard does not look like a big ass building that covers the size of 20 football fields or more. It looks like having a Double stacked air conditioner, system inside or outside of your home. It looks like water not being wasted by the ton. It looks like you not having to pay a monthly subscription for your data to be hosted in a cloud service that you will not have access to if you happen to be without service. It looks like biodiversity not being bulldozed over.

More columns fill in as opening week continues.

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Tech that matters to your every day life.

He only wanted the Perfect Resume. Now he builds Custom AI Assistants.

A guy who switches careers like people exchange their phones, finds himself building AI assistants for people, their jobs, and businesses.

Here is how he began, and how you can start after this weekend.