Inner Circle Weekly Briefing #4: 11/9/25
We Spent 80+ Hours Learning About And Building With AI Last Week. Here's What Matters.
Right now, the four of us are dedicating a combined 80+ hours per week testing AI tools, building workflows, and extracting patterns from real-world implementations with clients and companies.
Everyone’s reading about frameworks. We’re extracting the invisible patterns that make frameworks work.
Everyone’s collecting tools. We’re building stacks where data flows automatically.
Everyone’s solving problems. We’re teaching you to shift your thinking across five levels of abstraction to find insights others miss.
This is how you turn AI knowledge into working systems.
Let’s go.
Preview Of What We Shared This Week
1️⃣ Max Bernstein On How Taleb’s Unconscious Patterns Reveal Hidden Risks
(comprehensive prompt included)
2️⃣ Tam Nguyen On Choosing Software That Actually Connects
(integration framework with research prompt)
3️⃣ Zain Haseeb On Finding Billion-Dollar Insights In 10 Minutes
(complete framework + prompts with 4 case studies)
4️⃣ Michael Simmons On Life Beyond AI Frameworks
(personal milestone)
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1️⃣ Max Bernstein: The 7 Invisible Patterns Behind Nassim Taleb’s Thinking
How Unconscious Mental Models Control Every Decision You Make
What You Get:
The 7 invisible thinking patterns Taleb uses before applying his frameworks
Complete Decision Analyzer prompt that reveals hidden risks automatically
Exposure measurement across multiple dimensions of your decision
3 concrete next moves based on how Taleb would actually think through your situation
The Extraction: Taleb’s books teach you what to think about (Black Swans, Antifragility, Skin in the Game). His brain runs unconscious patterns that control how he thinks. Inversion is just one of seven.
Your Cognitive Fingerprint: Most people ask “How do I succeed?” Taleb automatically flips it: “How do I avoid catastrophic failure?” This happens before he even applies his frameworks.
2️⃣ Tam Nguyen: Stop Buying Tools For Features Alone
The Software Selection Framework For Integration-First Decisions
What You Get:
5 critical questions that separate integrated tools from data silos
Real comparison of meeting notetakers (APIs, webhooks, security side-by-side)
Research prompt you can use in any LLM to compare any tool category
Integration-first buying process that eliminates manual data transfer
The Bottleneck: You’re buying tools with the best UI or features, then discovering three months later they can’t connect to your AI workflows. Isolated tools create manual work. Connected tools eliminate it.
Why It Matters: When you’re building AI systems where data needs to move seamlessly, the question isn’t “What can this tool do?” but “Can this tool connect to everything else I’m using?”
3️⃣ Zain Haseeb: The 5-Level Framework That Surfaces Non-Obvious Insights
How Netflix, Amazon, Southwest, and Nintendo Found Billion-Dollar Pivots
What You Get:
Complete Perspective Ladder framework (5 levels of abstraction)
4 business case studies showing tactical to paradigm shifts
Exact prompt template for any LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
Use case examples for different types of strategic problems
The Leverage Point: Most people get stuck at “Sales are down” or “Product launch didn’t work.” The real insights live in the gaps between tactical and systemic thinking. AI can systematically move you through all five levels in 10 minutes.
The Multiplier: Netflix moved from “DVD rentals declining” to “We need to own content.” Amazon shifted from “Excess server capacity” to “Computing should be a utility” (AWS). Each started at Level 1. The breakthrough came at Level 4 or 5.
What This Unlocks: Before AI, this kind of multi-perspective analysis required expensive consultants or weeks of strategic planning. Now you can run it in 10 minutes with a structured prompt.
4️⃣ Michael Simmons: Welcoming Baby Naya
A Pause From The Frontier For What Matters Most
On this last Monday, my wife and I introduced Baby Naya into the world. We now have a 15-year-old, 17-year-old, and 0-year-old. Said differently, my wife and I have now gone from the youngest parents of our kids’ friends to the oldest.
I feel grateful, excited, and a little scared. As we neared the end of the rollercoaster of our kids becoming adults, my wife and I decided, “Let’s do it again.” And here we are.
While we’re all racing to stay ahead of AI developments, the most profound moments still happen offline. This week, I’m taking time to be present with my family. The Inner Circle content continues, and I’ll be back to sharing frontier insights soon. For now, I’m exactly where I need to be taking in life’s most profound moments.
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