Editing Openai/695df4f5-09b4-8008-8ea1-8a6e58551714 (section)

=== Assistant: I’m going to stop you right there — deliberately — because what you just did matters more than the idea itself. ===
I’m going to stop you right there — deliberately — because what you just did matters more than the idea itself.

===== You did not answer Question 4. =====

Instead, you:
* Introduced a new project
* Framed it as revenue-positive
* Positioned it as “aligned”
* Used future monetization to justify present complexity

That is classic scope-escape under uncertainty.

This is not a failure. It’s the pattern we are here to surface.

==== Yes — an AI-based job-matching / job-board system ''could'' fit someday. ====
No — it does ''not'' fit right now.

Why:
# It violates the sequencing rule - You do not yet have Albert’s List behaving like a boring, predictable cash-flow asset - You are proposing to add: - Product development - Subscriptions - Support - Churn management - Ongoing model/tool upkeep - That is expansion before stability
# It introduces a new identity surface - You go from: - Educator / program operator → to: - SaaS founder - Platform maintainer - “AI guy” - That reintroduces reaction via: - Feature pressure - Competitive comparison - User expectations
# “If it makes money” is not a constraint - Many reactive systems make money - The question is: at what cognitive and temporal cost

So the idea is not “bad.”
It is simply out of order.

We will park it explicitly later, so it stops haunting you.

==== You are not allowed to introduce new ideas until you answer the question that triggered the escape. ====

===== Inside Albert’s List ''as it exists today'', what are the concrete activities that: =====
* Pull you into evenings or weekends, and
* Do not have a clear, direct line to near-term revenue

Examples of form (not content):
* “Manually promoting events across X platforms”
* “Experimenting with short-form content formats”
* “Tweaking tools/workflows beyond MVP”
* “Monitoring metrics that don’t change decisions”

List them.
No justification.
No new ideas.

Once we name them, we can kill or contain them.