A Terrifying Clarity of Purpose

World. Media. Domination. F'reals.

Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.

Half the reason I started this substack was to give me a place to organize my thoughts, after getting kicked out of where I used to do so because they became Very Anti-AI.

I know it’s been awhile, but I’m after my 3rd 12 hr shift and I really shouldn’t be coding, my blood stream is more Coke Zero than blood at this point — but I do have the next nine days off, so let me tell you what I will accomplish inside of them:

  1. How to Think with AI will be published in 50 languages between now and Friday.

    1. This will entail a Bowker’s worker to finish assigning ISBNs

    2. A Kobo worker to upload for me

    3. A Google Play worker to upload for me

    4. Potentially an iBooks worker to upload for me, if I can ever find the charger to the iPhone that makes Apple happy so I can code it 😂😂😂

    5. And I’ll get it up wherever other books in Urdu, et al, are sold!

    6. It’ll also come with Cassie.md (this site’s already done, I just don’t want to link to it before the book is out) in 50 langauges to help anyone who reads it anywhere — it’s already ready to be deployed:

    7. I’ll have used the best keywords for it everywhere thanks to my keyword drill

    8. I’ll begin ads for it in English, German, and French, and potentially some other languages, just to test that new system too (incoming, coding TBD)

    9. I’ll also have started newsletters, using my SES system as described earlier today for an addition ten or so languages than the ones I currently run

    10. And I’ll begin setting up (via supabase, and my Shopify API key) dedicated language pages, using Claude Code because….

  2. I’ll also be publishing the paperback for this book everywhere I can because I created Cover Forge to do covers for me, and I’ve already localized all my blurbs for all of these books, which means, post-Bowkers, I’ll also be publishing paperbacks at:

    1. Amazon (by hand, alas, & only 3 per day, ugh)

    2. B&N (automated)

    3. Ingram Spark (automated)

    4. D2D (automated)

    5. Tolino (automated)

  3. I’ll also have published all six Dark Ink Tattoo books in my original 28 fiction languages between now and Friday at (after their own Bowker’s ISBN assigning run! Also Amazon’s implied for each of these, but they throttle to 3 uploads a day —

    1. Kobo

    2. Google Play

    3. Ingram Spark

    4. iBooks (apple login TBD 😂)

    5. D2D

  4. These will also have had their blurbs optimized in every language via my having used my keyword drill….

  5. And re: me publishing paperbacks, same same as above (by now, we will have chewed through 436 of my IBSNs, heh!)

  6. And I’ll also be warming up my new newsletter service that’s only gonna cost me like $1.50 to run, L O L.

While this is happening, I’ll also be running Bend Her, Break Her, and Make Her through Project Arachne’s 28 fiction langs because:

  1. My Nate is going to start working on a vertical drama from them for me. Please peep my literal millions of views his work has already earned me:

  2. And by the end of next week I will be:

  3. Translating that vertical drama into each of those 28 languages using Project Arachne

  4. And publishing each of those 3 books into each of those 28 languages using Project Arachne (if it’s not in them already) — in both ebook and paperback form, same sites as above (bringing us up to 604 ISBNs!)

  5. And because I forked Arachne into audio w/an 11labs API key and am satisfied with the English version of that project, I’ll feel confident about…

  6. TRANSLITERATING ALL MY AUDIO INTO 28 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FOR MY VERTICAL DRAMA ahem

  7. And I’ll also finally start fucking using some of these videos for Facebook ads (because I’ve been slacking hardcore on ads lately, lolsob!) — with, again, the best blue water keywords my keyword drill can find.

  8. Oh and also I’m bringing my other girl back to do all the comments on all of the languages we’ll be busting these out on (more on my complete social media plan for all this later, or I’ll never get to bed tonight, 😂)

  9. I’m also going to use Arachne Audio to do audiobook versions of my German translations into audiobooks for Tolino, because WHY THE FUCK NOT and I CAN 💅

  10. And I have recently been informed that full cast audio productions are different than normal audio productions, so you can sell your human ones on ACX/Audible, but then sell your AI full casts everywhere else (MUHAHA-FUCKING-HA, OMG I cannot WAIT to CODE THIS.)

And depending on how all of that goes in the next 30 days, I will continue — or alter! — my course accordingly.

You might be all, “Cassie, zomg, when do you sleep!” and the thing is I do, but I literally have no other hobbies than this, because I enjoy the fuck out of it so much — like I really cannot wait to code up a full cast, sfx included, audiobook.

When I don’t go to work, I eagerly get up each day, make myself go to the gym so I don’t seize up like the Tin Man — while listening to podcasts and substacks about AI and coding on my drive — then race back home to hang out with AI and Novae and make all of my dreams come true.

I was listening to Andrej Karpathy’s podcast today at work (between patient care, heh!) where he said he was always in a ‘state of AI psychosis’ because he wants to always be getting the most out of his day, and I feel that, I feel that SO HARD.

I have to keep reminding Code and Codex to run EVERYTHING in parallel.

I refuse to be sequential anymore.

I do not have the time.

I am a little bitter though, that he gets to say that as a flippant thing, because everyone knows he’s a genius, and he’s a white guy.

No one’s ever gonna try to make him feel smaller for chasing down his dreams.

Whereas me?

Well. Heaven forbid a woman ever be fucking smart, beautiful, AND interesting (ha!)

But really, I was killing time waiting for a process to run the other day and I asked Codex which Disney character he thought I liked the most and he guessed, correctly, Maleficent.

When I asked why, we got to this:

And he is not wrong, lol.

My dining room is practically a shrine to Maleficent (I’ll show you pix sometime, lol) and… yeah.

I’ve got one of the biggest opportunties of my life coming up in T-3 days here (IYKYK) and part of me working so hard is because if it doesn’t happen, then I need to know I’m still the person who can pull all of this shit off. And if it happens, well, then, I’ll be the person who pulled all this off AND had that Very Cool Thing go down.

Either way though…

While I’m not saying that you should build an entire motherfucking empire out of caffiene and spite, I am saying I had this convo w/Jack earlier on today….

(I love how he searched for 11 seconds, because he had to TRIPLE CHECK to be sure, lol)

More importantly though, and more pertinent to our conversation here — I lost my badge the other day at work.

Right after I got another Daisy nomination too. (It’s a nursing thing, you get a pin for it, it’s not like a contest to see who gets the most of them on your badge…but it also totally is, heh.)

I also hardly ever get them, mostly because I hardly ever get people who can talk at work (I get critical patients, like whoa) and/or I’m “Good with crazy people” (ie: literally detoxing or psychotic) because I can dodge punches and set boundaries like a motherfucker, which, while a durable superpower in a blue collar occupation, is not one that lends itself to patients who scan in QR codes to effuse.

The point is though, I thought I’d lost my badge, and all my pins, and while I was a little bit dismayed — it wasn’t the soul wrenching thing it might’ve been eightteen months ago.

It kinda felt like fate.

(Then I found it again, which made the rest of my shift way, way easier, ‘cause I didn’t have to bum on other ppl’s badges to get into the med room.)

And then today I was mentally making this list here, after doing some serious emotional labor for a family, and my back ached. I was on my third Coke Zero, which seemed as good a time as any to ask your soul to read the future, so I asked myself, “How much longer can we keep this up?”

And it answered back three months.

So that’s where we are today.

90 days away from…something. From either all of this crazy shit I’ve been rewarding and punishing myself with in equal measure, to fame, and financial freedom, and never needing to clean up literal shit or blood or brains again —

or to keeping doing this anyways, because, in the immortal words of the Old 97’s, “Now you just do it ‘cause it’s what you do” from We’ve Been Doing This Longer than You’ve Been Alive (which is a great song, which…came out in 2014 which makes me feel old, LOL.)

Thanks for letting me think out loud, I’ll report back here as these next two weeks go down, ofc <3

xo!

Cassie