84% of the world has never touched AI. Here's what it means for the rest of us.

Hi everyone,

A chart broke my brain last week.

Benjamin Tannenbaum shared this simple bar chart in a LinkedIn post.

AI adoption across 8.1 billion people.

That last number is a red dot, barely visible on the chart. A sliver of humanity.

I was at dinner with my business partner David Henzel when he pulled the chart up on his phone. He studied it for a minute. Then he looked at me.

"You're not even in the 0.04%."

I put my fork down.

"Think about it," he said. "That 0.04% includes everyone who's ever opened a terminal and tried a coding tool. Students playing with Copilot. Engineers testing Claude Code on a side project. You run your entire company through it. Your sales pipeline, training programs, content system, client pages, analytics. Everything. You're a fraction of a fraction of that dot."

He was right. And it hit me in a way I didn't expect.

Because despite all of that, I still feel behind.

Every single day I wonder: am I far enough? Should I know more? Is someone else doing this better?

People visit my office, watch me work for ten minutes, and their jaws drop.

"Wait, you do ALL of this through a terminal?"

Yes. Every part of the business. And I still feel like I'm not enough.

Here's what I'm realizing: imposter syndrome scales with ambition. The more you learn, the more you see what you don't know. The more you build, the more you imagine what you could build. It never goes away. It just changes shape.

That chart gave me permission to see the truth. Almost nobody is doing what I'm doing yet. Not because I'm special, but because we're still in the earliest days.

I've been building the Human AI Manifesto. Writing a book about this. Training companies on AI adoption. And still, privately, wondering if I'm qualified.

That dinner conversation changed something.

Seeing the numbers on a chart made it real. I'm not competing with millions of AI experts. There aren't millions. There aren't even thousands doing what I do. It's a handful.

So here's my commitment: I'm going to share more.

The real stuff: the systems I build, the workflows that save me hours, the experiments that fail.

The moments I stare at a Claude Code terminal at 11pm and feel like I'm creating something nobody else has seen yet.

Because if you're reading this newsletter, you're probably ahead of 99% of the world too.

You just don't feel like it.

I'm curious. What's your version of imposter syndrome with AI? Where do you think you fall on that chart?

Hit reply and tell me. I read every one.

Anthropic shipped remote control for Claude Code last week.

You start a session in your terminal, and it shows up in the Claude app on your phone. You can walk away from your desk and keep controlling everything.

I've been doing this for months. My version required Tailscale, Termius, and tmux. Three developer tools I didn't know existed a year ago.

I run two Claude Code subscriptions: one on the Mac Mini, one on my laptop. Both controllable from my phone while I'm out on a walk.

Now Anthropic built it in.

This was the promise of OpenClaw, the community project that tried to bridge Claude Code and mobile. Anthropic just made it native.

They also shipped a plugins update. More on that next week.

The models are powerful enough. They're not the limit anymore, you and your processes are.

The answer: build skills.

Here's exactly how to do it.

What is a skill?

How skills connect to Claude Cowork plugins:

How to build your first skill:

Real example: A founder I work with runs a 65-person team in Germany. Every week, he opens Asana, reads every team status update, and writes a summary. He built a skill for it. Now AI generates the report in seconds.

"But I don't have an API connection to my tools."

You don't need one. Claude in Chrome can open a browser and do what you do. If your knowledge work happens in Chrome, it's automatable right now.

I've been saying this for a year.

Write down your processes and build systems around them.

The people who started early are seeing incredible output today. The models aren't holding anyone back. The question is whether you've told them what to do.

Learn more about Claude Skills and Artifacts:

I've been sick for two weeks with some bug that wouldn't quit, and I've been blasting Fred Again on repeat.

He's playing Alexandra Palace this Friday with Skream and Romy from the XX (one of my all-time favorites) and I'm gutted I can't make it.

I lived in London for eight years. My friends are attending the concert, making music history.

I guess I’ll have to get on with making AI history instead. It’s time to cook!

(If you're reading this, Fred: I'm a fan)

March 12, 2:30 PM GMT.

Claude Code for Founders. 50 spots. Free.

I’ll be showing you exactly how I do what I do. Live demo in the terminal.

Reply to this email to get the link.

Tim