iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was making content decisions based on vibes. And I don’t mean “vibe coding” vibes. I mean the bad kind — the “I feel like this would be a good video” kind.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When every strategy feels like manufactured urgency and recycled formulas.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One positioning statement. And everything else follows from it.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The surprise wasn’t one forgotten thing. It was realizing my mental definition of “product” had been filtering out real, sellable digital products the whole time.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Those tactics give you false numbers. They also drive down your open and click rates.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Part 1 of the Watch Me Build series... grab a coffee, this one's a ride

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here’s the shift in one line : the click is disappearing, and being the source AI trusts is taking its place.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Grounding means NotebookLM only uses what you upload—no hallucinations, no generic internet answers. Just your sources, making it a specialized expert on YOUR information.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There are zero rulebooks and playbooks right now… no matter how many marketers might tell you otherwise. It’s moving way too fast.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The gold isn’t in the first output. It’s in the iteration.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How I stopped duct-taping apps together and created a personal ops hub that actually matches how my brain works

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Understanding these layers is what separates an agent that works reliably from one that gives you unpredictable results.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

your dashboard can’t tell the difference between a devoted reader and a pixel firing on autopilot, and your metrics have been partly fictional for years

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

That local knowledge turned out to be like pouring gas on a fire.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It just appears between your messages as though it belongs there.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Substack is where I publish. My website is where I live. And that’s a distinction worth making if you’re building anything online.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Testament that you can build a business and life you love, without being a slave to social algorithms (if you love it, you do you!).

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

AI made producing content nearly free, and it did nothing to make judgment cheaper.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

when the trust is already there, you don’t have to convince anyone. You just have to build something worthy of it.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In March, I wrote a piece called “ What Substack Doesn’t Tell You About Your Subscribers (And Why That’s Not an Accident) .” It was about the gaps in Substack’s analytics, the quality problem with its recommendation engine, and the incentive structures that

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Maybe that’s a trauma response, lol.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

That’s the Substack recommendation engine. And most of us, myself included, until I really sat with the data, have been counting those drive-by sips as subscribers.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That’s not a you problem… that’s a question problem.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The best part of any adventure isn't the destination... It's who you meet along the way.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Tangible and tactical beat motivational, and it wasn’t close.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The AI space is moving at light speed. Ikigai is the reason I'm not worried about it

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Generating generic blog posts inside Docs is boring. Using Gemini as a developmental editor? That’s where it gets good.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3 Pro Image) is a different beast entirely.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Decisions get made about your work, your face, and your reputation, and you find out when it’s already live.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

(Image by Kim Doyal using Nano Banana 2) If you’ve tried keeping up with Google’s AI announcements lately, you probably feel like you need a PhD in computer science just to understand what’s going on.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

your email list, your tools, your products.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s not some perfectly crafted mega-prompt. It’s a conversation.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I had the knowledge but not the framework. Karo’s article gave me the framework.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The question set that changes everything (and the prompts to set this up)

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You have a sense of what your message is, what your themes are, what you keep coming back to. But you’ve never actually read it all at once. You can’t. There’s too much of it, and you’re too close to it.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The problem is that every one of them came from the same place…

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Those tactics give you false numbers. They also drive down your open and click rates.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

😉 And btw, this was SO much better because I had already dialed in my voice & audience, thanks to Daria’s guide, “ The Claude Skills That Finally Made AI Write Like Me (And How to Build Yours).” When she shared that Claude can now create visual and

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Grounding means NotebookLM only uses what you upload—no hallucinations, no generic internet answers. Just your sources, making it a specialized expert on YOUR information.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When every strategy feels like manufactured urgency and recycled formulas.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The content pipeline takes a single approved brief and produces a scored, verified blog post draft in under three minutes, with no manual handoffs between steps.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

An MCP is a bridge. Claude (or ChatGPT) on one side, everything else on the other.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The gold isn’t in the first output. It’s in the iteration.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Understanding these layers is what separates an agent that works reliably from one that gives you unpredictable results.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We’ve all duct-taped together a collection of apps, notebooks, and browser tabs and convinced ourselves it’s a “system.” ( It’s not a system. It’s organized-ish chaos with good intentions. )

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The skills you’re developing right now, building apps, automating workflows, deploying AI agents, creating entire content systems, are not limited to “the AI space.” They transfer to any market.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The point of running seven instead of one is that each looks at a different surface. You learn the most from where they agree.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Although the style customization has a "premium" crown icon, it's free. Take advantage of this while you can!

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It just appears between your messages as though it belongs there.

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Kim Doyal @kimdoyal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The more space I have in my life, the easier it is to create. That’s how Sunni’s work makes me feel.

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