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=== Assistant: Good. ===
Good. The fact that you can articulate both versions cleanly tells me exactly where the fracture line is.

I’m going to do two things before asking the next question:
# Make a ruling (not a suggestion)
# Translate your answer into an operational constraint

==== For the next 12 months: ====

Albert’s List is a cash-flow asset, not an identity lab.

The “AI testing ground” function is explicitly disallowed inside Albert’s List during this period.

This is not a moral judgment. It’s a sequencing decision.

Why:
* You already have employment covering learning and exposure to AI
* You already have curiosity outlets
* You do not yet have Albert’s List behaving like a boring asset
* Optionality comes after stability, per your own manifesto

Your ego answer is understandable — but it is reactionary, not strategic.

We will give AI experimentation a container later. Not here.

==== : ====

Anything that does not serve this fails by default.

==== - Shorts, TikTok, IG growth → suspect ====
* Multiple newsletters → suspect
* Infinite tooling experiments → suspect
* Weekend work → violation unless structurally justified

We are not acting yet. We are still diagnosing.

==== Which specific activities inside Albert’s List most often cause you to “just check one more thing” or lose entire afternoons — even when they are not clearly increasing revenue? ====

Name the activities, not the feelings.
Bullets are fine.