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The Weekly Harvest

You already said the wisest thing you'll say this year.

Nobody wrote it down. Somewhere in twenty hours of talking I say the truest version of something I believe, once, to one person, and then it's gone. This is the system I built so it stops disappearing.

What I kept losing

The good material doesn't arrive when we're writing.

For years my answer to this was to write more. Sit down, open a blank doc, and try to manufacture on Sunday what I'd already said better on a Tuesday call. It almost never worked, and I think I know why now.

The sharpest version of what we believe doesn't show up when we're performing for a page. It shows up mid-sentence, when we're trying to help one person in front of us and we stop reaching for the polished answer. Then the call ends, the recording goes into a folder, and the best thing we said all month sits in a transcript nobody will ever open.

So I stopped trying to write more, and built something that goes and gets what I already said.

Every Sunday morning

Three things, waiting before Monday.

It reads every conversation you recorded that week across Fathom, Granola, Otter, Fireflies, Zoom, Grain and the rest. What it hands back is not a meeting summary.

What a recorder gives you

"Eric and James discussed workload management. Key takeaway: delegate non-core tasks. Next steps: build a dashboard."

What the harvest gives you

"I've never had anyone bring me anything I haven't lived through." Said once, in passing, forty minutes into a call about something else. Quoted exactly, with the timestamp, and drafted three ways.

One is a record of a meeting. The other is a post.

First

A wisdom bank

Every line worth keeping, quoted exactly the way you said it, with a link back to the timestamp so you can hear yourself say it again.

Then

Finished drafts

Five to seven short posts and one long piece, written from your own voice profile, each one traceable to the conversation it came out of.

Then

The week laid out

What goes where, on which day, on which platform, with a day left open, because something better always happens midweek.

How it reads a week

Six signals, in the order they're worth stopping on.

Most of what we say in a week isn't content, and a system that can't tell the difference just buries us in noise.

  1. 1

    The Repeat

    You said essentially the same thing to two different people, unprompted, in the same week. This is the strongest signal there is. It means the idea is load-bearing for you, it's already been tested on a live human, and you'll stand behind it.

  2. 2

    The Reframe

    You flipped how someone was seeing a thing. "That's not actually the problem." Teaching travels further than opinion.

  3. 3

    The Receipt

    A number, a date, a scar, a scene from your own life. Receipts are what separate us from everyone else saying the same true, generic thing.

  4. 4

    The Correction

    You disagreed with the conventional wisdom in your field. Points of view travel. Agreement sits still.

  5. 5

    The Question

    What you asked that changed the temperature of the room. The sharp ones land harder than any answer we give.

  6. 6

    The Confession

    You admitted a cost, or a failure, or something you got wrong. Only ever about yourself, and only inside the lines you drew during setup.

If a stranger could have said it, it isn't your voice, it's noise, and it doesn't make the cut. Three real pieces beat seven padded ones. On a thin week you get two and an honest note about why.

The part I care most about

What it will never do.

I record calls where people tell me things because the room was private. Hot seats. Client strategy. What nobody would have offered in public. None of that is content, and a system that can't spot the difference isn't worth having.

So every piece of material passes a gate before anything gets mined, and whatever is ambiguous stays private.

Red · never leaves the room

Medical, legal, financial and therapeutic conversations. Anyone's health, money, marriage or kids. Anything about a named client's business. Anything said inside a confidentiality agreement. Discarded on sight, not paraphrased, not used as inspiration.

Amber · the pattern, never the particulars

Change the industry, the numbers and the details. If the point only lands because of them, it drops to Red. Written as a pattern you've observed, never as a story that happened.

Green · yours

Your history, your scars, your failures, your frameworks, your opinions. Anything you said on a stage, a podcast or a webinar, where you were already broadcasting.

There's one more rule that matters more than people expect. In any recorded conversation, the most quotable line is very often somebody else's, and it isn't ours to post. The harvest only mines your own speech, using the speaker labels, and anything it can't firmly attribute to you gets flagged or dropped.

Free, and yours in about ten seconds

Send it to me.

Two prompts. The first one sets the whole thing up: it finds your recorders, interviews you, builds your confidentiality rules with you, runs a live harvest on your last two weeks so you see real output, and schedules the weekly job at the end. The second is that job.

No course, no upsell, no drip sequence. Drop your email and the next page has both of them.

  • You need a voice profile first. If you don't have one, the setup prompt tells you how and refuses to continue without it, which is doing you a favor.
  • Works with Fathom, Granola, Otter, Fireflies, Grain, tl;dv, Zoom and your notes app. It goes and checks rather than asking you to remember.
  • Nothing to install and nothing to maintain. Two prompts and a scheduled task.
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Why Sunday

Two reasons, and the second one is the one people miss.

A Sunday run catches the complete week, so nothing from Friday afternoon gets stranded, and the content is sitting there when we open the laptop Monday.

The other reason is capacity. Demand for Claude peaks on weekdays between 13:00 and 19:00 UTC, and usage limits drain faster inside that window. Weekends sit fully off-peak at any hour. Running a job that reads a whole week of transcripts on Sunday means it isn't eating the capacity we want for the actual workday.

3:00AM Sun · Pacific
4:00AM Sun · Mountain
5:00AM Sun · Central
6:00AM Sun · Eastern
11:00AM Sun · UK

Setup asks whether you'd rather have it land Saturday. The whole weekend is off-peak, so any hour works.

Eric Farewell

Rather do this with me in the room?

The system is free and it stands on its own. If what you actually want is someone in the room while you figure out what you're building and who you're becoming, that's the work I do.