Indian Summer

I was walking along the beach in Santa Cruz and two old dudes stopped to take a photo of me and my family. One of them said, "What an Indian summer."

Haha, I had no idea what that meant.

I Looked it up and it's that weird in-between period when summer is ending but fall hasn't really started yet. I got to thinking, that's kinda how life feels right now.

This month I'm talking about building my own apps with AI, getting my hands dirty at AppSumo, growing TidyCal and SendFox again, raising two daughters, and trying to figure out how much work is actually enough.

If you're building a business, experimenting with AI, or just figuring out what you want the rest of your year to look like, you'll like this one.

In this conversation, you'll enjoy 3 BIG things:

• Why building my own AI apps made me a better CEO
• How to figure out what deserves your time between business and family
• Why sometimes deciding what's already enough is a key to happiness.

Enjoy these 3 things plus many nuggets along the way.

I have also been sharing emails on my brutally honest advice on a variety of topics. People have been loving it. Sign up at noahkagan.com and join 350k other people who get juicy insights every month.

Links & resources mentioned

• AppSumo

• AppSumo Radar

• Rhino Voice, Noah's private, on-device AI dictation app

• Meeting Coach, Noah's real-time AI coaching app

• TidyCal, scheduling and paid bookings

• SendFox, email marketing

• Claude, the AI Noah used to help build and work through a lot of these projects

• Paperbell, Laura Roeder's coaching platform

• Indian Summer by Pedro the Lion, the song Noah mentions when explaining the episode title