Here's another edition of Uncrowded Strategies.
These are my private notes on building wealth, raising my family, and breaking the generational patterns I inherited. I write them for myself first, to document who I'm becoming. But I share them because I know I'm not the only one fighting this war.
⚡ The Leverage
I made a huge mistake this year.
I asked my team to adopt AI agents. I gave them the tools. I gave them the frameworks. And then I waited for the magic to happen.
Nothing happened.
And honestly, I should have seen it coming. Asking someone to adopt AI is like asking someone to redesign their own job. Unless they think like an architect, someone who can look at a broken system and reimagine it from the ground up, they're just going to bolt AI onto whatever they're already doing.
That's not what this is.
AI hasn't just improved workflows. It has changed the economics of work. What used to cost $5,000 and three people now costs $50 and one prompt. That doesn't mean you make the old workflow faster. It means the old workflow is dead. You rebuild from scratch.
So I stopped delegating the transformation. I took back the processes myself.
This week I:
Took back the finances. I built an accounting system that gives me a clean P&L and real-time cash flow. Every week, or whenever I want to check on the numbers. No more waiting for month-end reports that arrive too late to act on.
Built a media buyer agent. It now runs ads across all my client accounts. The workflow that used to take hours of human setup and monitoring... the agent handles it.
Put my AI agent directly into Slack. This one is interesting. The agent is interviewing each team member about their daily workflow, then coming back to me with ideas on how to reinvent each process from the ground up.
And I've landed on a simple framework for how I'm approaching all of this:
First, take back the process. You can't redesign what you don't understand. Get your hands dirty again.
Then, rebuild the workflow. Don't just improve it. Ask yourself: "If I were starting this from zero today, with AI, how would I design it?"
Then, package it as a skill. This is the big one. Once you've nailed the new workflow, you turn it into a repeatable "skill" that an AI agent can run over and over. You define it once. The agent executes it forever.
I think skills are the future of all AI agents. The agent doesn't need to be creative. It needs a clear, repeatable playbook. Your job is to create the playbook. The agent's job is to never stop running it.
And if you think this sounds extreme... a self-taught entrepreneur named Matthew Gallagher recently built a GLP-1 telehealth company called Medvi as essentially a one-man operation using AI. $410 million in sales in 2025. Projected to hit $1.8 billion in 2026. At $410M in revenue, the company is very likely valued north of $1 billion already.
One person. AI agents. A billion-dollar company.
Sam Altman predicted it. Dario Amodei gave it 70-80% odds by 2026. It's no longer a prediction.
If you are a business owner and you're still waiting for your team to "figure out AI"... stop waiting. Take your processes back. Redesign them yourself. Then hand the new playbook to an agent.
The one-man company isn't a meme anymore. It's a business model.
❤️ The Partnership
I started going to therapy.
I know. The guy who writes about breaking generational patterns... finally sitting on the couch. Honestly, it should have happened sooner.
In therapy I learned about something called Internal Family Systems (IFS). The idea is simple: through trauma and the hard stuff we face as kids, our nervous system creates different "parts" to protect us. These parts take over. They run the show. Sometimes they do things that don't even make sense to us, but they made perfect sense to the scared kid who created them.
Here's what I discovered about myself.
When I was a child, I wasn't physically safe. So my nervous system created a part. A "manager." A protector. And this manager has been running the show ever since.
He kept me alive. He made me a high performer. He built the businesses, the discipline, the relentless drive.
But he also blocked my emotions. My ability to connect with people. My ability to rest.
Even though I am safe now... this part of me didn't get the memo. Every time I feel out of control, even slightly, the manager takes over. He makes me work. He makes me busy. Because in his world, busyness equals safety. Stillness equals danger.
That's why I can't rest. A 7-year-old version of me decided that resting was how you get hurt. And he's been calling the shots ever since.
So what am I doing about it?
Two things.
Naming it. When I feel the urge to "do something" even when nothing needs to be done... I pause. I ask: "Is this me? Or is this the manager?" Just recognizing who is driving makes a massive difference.
And ten minutes of nothing. Every day, I sit in complete silence and stillness. No phone. No prayer. No journaling. Just... nothing. Ten minutes.
It sounds small. It's the hardest thing I've done in months.
But those 10 minutes are how I tell the manager: "We're safe now. You can stand down." And slowly... he's starting to believe it.
If you're a high performer who can't turn off... it might not be ambition. It might be a protector who never got the memo that the war is over.
💰 The Portfolio
Remember at the start of this year, I mentioned I exited about 20% of my portfolio in this newsletter?
The market has been brutal in Q1. And honestly? I was expecting it. I'm starting to load up again with Tesla.
I sold around $450 back in January. Yesterday, I bought back in at around $360.
Tesla reported Q1 deliveries at 358,000 vehicles against a Wall Street estimate of about 365,000. The stock dropped 5.5% in a single day.
But I was actually waiting for this miss. The disappointing deliveries were totally expected. Tesla's aging lineup, increased competition from China, and the EV demand slowdown made a miss almost inevitable. So I set my trigger and let it execute.
Now the important nuance. Tesla is no longer a car company bet. The vehicle deliveries matter less and less. This is now a play on two things:
Full Self-Driving (FSD) & Cybercab. If Tesla cracks autonomous driving at scale, the economics change completely. Robotaxis. Licensing the software. The margins go through the roof. The first Cybercab has been delivered and they are ramping production in April & May.
Optimus (the humanoid robot). Elon has been redirecting factory lines to build these. If Optimus becomes a commercial product... the addressable market is unlike anything we've seen.
Both of these are high-risk, high-reward bets. Neither has generated meaningful revenue yet. If they don't materialize in the next 12-18 months, the market will re-value Tesla as a mature automaker, and the stock will look very different.
⚠️ This is not financial advice. I am simply sharing what I am doing. Please do your own research. I am mentally prepared to be wrong on this one.
🧬 The Protocol
This week's experiment: Methylene Blue.
Yes, the blue dye. The one originally used to treat malaria over a century ago. It turns your tongue blue and your urine green. Weird? Absolutely. But hear me out.
Methylene Blue works by supporting your mitochondria, the energy factories inside every cell. At low doses, it acts as an "electron cycler" in your cells' energy production chain, essentially helping your cells produce more ATP (energy) more efficiently. There are actual clinical studies, including double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, showing it can improve memory, focus, and cerebral blood flow.
I've been taking USP-grade Methylene Blue. This part is critical: never use industrial or aquarium grade, which can contain heavy metals like arsenic and lead. After a few days, I noticed sharper mental clarity and better sustained focus throughout the day. Not jittery like caffeine. More like... the fog just lifted.
The critical warning: Methylene Blue is an MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor). If you are on any SSRI (Prozac, Zoloft, or any other antidepressant) do not take this. The combination can cause serotonin syndrome, which is potentially life-threatening. People with G6PD deficiency should also avoid it entirely.
This is purely my experiment. Not medical advice. But if you're someone who's always chasing mental clarity and you've done your research... this might be worth looking into.
The Verdict: Keep. For now.
See you next week,
Gabriel Judah