Glenn Daniels II

Touch Stone Publishers

Chief Operating Officer

Touchstone Publications

The Science of Goal Setting
Why Smart Goal Setting is Dumb
●   Ted Talk
●   Personal Development Seminar
●   Management and Leadership Development


http://touchstonepublishers.com
http://glenndaniels2.com

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●   Helping employees cultivate their skills and knowledge
●   Providing skills, techniques and resources in ways that motivate employees

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Experiential Keynote Speaker & Engaging Content Creator for Senior Level Leaders | Empowering Leadership Excellence for Your Organization

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The resignation didn't happen in a dramatic boardroom showdown. It happened via a Slack message at 9:14 PM on a Tuesday.

"I'm out. Sent the formal letter to HR."

This was my Lead Architect. The person holding the keys to our AI integration. I called him immediately. 

"It's not the money," he said, his voice flat. "It's the latency. I spent six months waiting for approval to refactor the core loop because the annual objectives were locked in January. By the time we got permission, the market had moved. I can't work in a museum."

We hadn't failed him on compensation. We failed him on clock speed.

We were managing him against a compliance rubric while he was trying to manage an exponential technology. The friction between our static governance and his dynamic reality ground him down until he simply disconnected.

High-velocity talent will not tolerate low-velocity infrastructure. We lost our best asset because we insisted on measuring him by last year's calendar.

We isolated the specific metrics for Learning Velocity in the 'Learning Velocity Architecture'. It is a triage kit for your HR stack.

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Most organizations are currently incinerating capital on what I call 'Innovation Pantomime.'

We analyzed 40 recent enterprise 'AI implementations.' The pattern is stark. 70% represent zero functional utility—they are merely legacy workflows with a generative interface slapped on top. This is the Capability Gap disguised as progress.

The math doesn't hold. If you deploy a tool that saves 15 minutes per employee per day, but requires 20 minutes of prompt engineering and verification to function reliably, you have not innovated. You have introduced structural friction.

The 2nd-order consequence is more dangerous: Organizational Cynicism. When leadership celebrates tools that do not actually work, high-performers disengage. They smell the theater.

Strategic leaders must pivot from 'adoption metrics' (how many logins?) to 'utility metrics' (what distinct economic value was created?).

If the output requires more human verification than the original task took to execute, kill the pilot. The goal isn't AI everywhere. It is leverage where it matters.

We have codified the framework for distinguishing high-value leverage from digital noise. Equip your leadership team: For the Quick Reference Guide check here: https://lnkd.in/g8Rn9jtr

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The AI Theater Detector: Separating Hype from Utility

The demo was flawless. The interface was sleek, 'Cobalt Blue' accents glowing on the 85-inch screen. The vendor promised us a revolution in our supply chain logistics.

Then the CFO, a woman who has navigated three market crashes and built this company from a garage, asked a single question.

"Walk me through the error reconciliation process when the model hallucinates an inventory shortage."

The room went quiet. The vendor clicked to a backup slide. "Well, the human in the loop would..."

And there it was. The gap. The shiny tool wasn't replacing the work; it was hiding the complexity. We weren't buying leverage; we were buying a subscription to a new kind of headache.

Real value is rarely cinematic. It looks like dirty data being cleaned, boring governance protocols being established, and your best people quietly getting 10x faster at the hard stuff.

Don't fall for the glow. Look for the gears.

We have codified the framework for distinguishing high-value leverage from digital noise. Equip your leadership team: For the Quick Reference Guide check here: The AI Theater Detector: Separating Hype from Utility - Touch Stone Publishers LTD

Stop celebrating 'AI Adoption'. It is a vanity metric.

I see leaders patting themselves on the back because 80% of their staff have ChatGPT accounts. This isn't a strategy; it's a license for chaos.

Here is the uncomfortable truth: Most of what passes for 'AI Strategy' in the C-Suite right now is just fear of missing out, dressed up in a slide deck.

You are likely backing 'AI Theater' if:
1. The use case is 'content creation' rather than 'decision intelligence'.
2. No one can explain the data lineage.
3. The 'efficiency gains' are projected, never measured.

We need to unlearn the impulse to buy the tool before defining the problem. Real capability building hurts. It requires retraining your workforce to think probabilistically, not just handing them a text generator.

If it feels like magic, it’s probably a trick. If it feels like engineering, you’re on the right track.

We have codified the framework for distinguishing high-value leverage from digital noise. Equip your leadership team: For the Quick Reference Guide check here:

Open article: The AI Theater Detector: Separating Hype from Utility by touchstonepublishers.com

Donna Smith

You’ve always had ideas about your own digital projects, but you never learned to code. 

Read my About section.
Read a couple of my posts. 

Read your mind. Are you still afraid to do this even after reading my story?

If yes, maybe it isn’t meant to be. 

If you’re ready to take the leap, I’ve got good news. 

You’ve already taken the hardest step. You decided you’re going to do this. 

You’re going to bet against the odds. 

Yes, you can learn to code. 
Yes, you can build your own software. 
Yes, you can save time and make money by doing this.

Yes, programming is hard. 

Hard, not impossible. 

It’s also something that will set you free. You will never have to ask anyone’s permission to create something. You will do it. It isn’t going to be shiny and amazing at the beginning. Of course there are going to be a lot of mistakes. 

But over time, you’ll get better and better. 

You can only find your style by doing the thing. 
Not by reading articles, not by watching YouTube videos. 

Only by writing code. 

So what’s keeping you from starting today?

Only you can answer this.

Chief Motivational Officer 

You are a non-technical SaaS founder with a plan. 

Technically not a founder, because you have only an idea. And you haven’t brought this idea to life. Yet. But you can’t wait much longer. 

You need someone to create an MVP of your SaaS for you. 

So you can validate the idea and start moving forward.

Am I correct? 

If you’re still reading, my guess couldn’t have been too off. 


I’ve built 2 MPVs for clients in the past. You can look at my recommendations for a review of client #1. Client #2 wanted to remain anonymous. You could be #3. 

You can also check my Featured section to see what projects I’ve built in the past. 

If you’re interested in me building your MVP, send me a DM.

Let’s see if your idea really is as good as you think.

SaaS MVP Developer

SkillSnippet - Microlearning Platform

Hand on your heart. When did you stop learning new things?

When you stop learning, you stop making progress.
When you stop making progress, you’re stagnant. 
When you’re stagnant, you’re not moving. 

And when you’re not moving, you’re as good as dead. 

I’m a fan of life-long learning. That’s why I created Skill Snippet. 

It’s a microlearning platform designed to help people quickly gain practical skills. You can start by giving something 15 minutes a day. Or half an hour. 

If you feel like it, give it an hour every day. 

Can you imagine where you’ll be in a year?


Click on the link in my Featured section and sign up for the Beta testing list.

Maker

SaaS landing page boilerplate (Next.js)

Are you an Indie Hacker at the start of your career? Have you developed a project? Want to put it out there for the world to see? Great! 

I’ve developed and launched a FREE Next.js SaaS landing page boilerplate. 

You can: 
- quickly build a responsive landing page
- modify the code however you want
- save time releasing your project

Not bad, right?

The template includes:
1. SEO page optimization
2. basic deployment scripts
3. responsive UI components (React-Bootstrap, React-Icons)

Check it out on the link in my Featured section.

If you need any instructions on how to deploy it/set it up, my DMs are open.

And don’t forget to star the repo if you find it valuable!

I’m 49 years old and I started programming 3 years ago. You think it’s too late to start? Well I don’t think so. 

Learning to code when you’re older is tough. Especially when you don’t have a clear idea about what you’re trying to build. 

You feel like: 
→ you will never learn to code
→ you should have started sooner
→ you’ve missed out on so many things
→ you will never be able to build the products you want

You know what? It’s normal to think like this.

Programming is difficult, yeah, but it’s not impossible.

You will gain the ability to build whatever you want. Your life will change.

I went into programming because I had so many ideas I wanted to build.
Some people told me I should find someone who will build the projects for me. But that wasn’t an option. My mind was full of ideas. I knew I wouldn’t build them unless I learned to code. 

When I first started 3 years ago, I didn’t know anything about code.

→ HTML? 
→ Python?
→ JavaScript?  

I didn’t know what language to learn.

I had no idea:
→ what these words mean
→ what I should even start with
→ what a large or small project is
→ how to think about what I wanted to build

Anybody can learn to code if they build knowledge over time.

Some people disagreed with me. They said it’s something you can or can’t do. They wouldn’t try it, because they thought they wouldn’t understand it. It’s definitely an issue of confidence. People feel like they can’t do it.

You can learn anything with enough dedication.

People see code for the first time, it scares them away. Happens all the time.

It’s hard at the beginning. It’s scary, and you might want to give up.

Have you ever seen a page of JavaScript? Exactly, it’s overwhelming.
You don’t know where to begin. So you don’t start at all.

Another problem is with people wanting to learn it fast.

They watch YouTube videos about others building a $1M SaaS platform during a weekend. Or 10 different tools in 10 weeks. Of course there are cases like this, but for most of us, it takes time.

Everyone has their own pace. It took me two years. Why?

The first project I attempted was too complicated for me. So don’t start too big.
It comes down to learning the basics. A simple to-do application means you can apply that knowledge to something bigger. 

Interested in seeing what projects I’m working on? Check my Featured section. 

Need any help with starting your programming career? Send me a DM!

Struggle to find ideas for your first project? Happy to help :)

Want some of my motivation? You’ve got a taste.

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