💪 Keep delivering value.
💡 Guiding light: Connect with people. Add value to people's lives.
Opportunities
Business moves, one click each.
All clear. Nothing open.
Active projects
What we're building.
🏗️
Building One
The operations hub itself. Dave and Mike's command center, shipping daily.
🎭
Short Bus Book
The Short Bus kids book. Illustrations, story, getting it ready for the world.
Goals
What we're aiming for.
🎵
50 Songs
Finish the 50 song goal. 46 released, 4 to go.
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2,000 Streams
Get Dlaney to 2,000 streams. 1,053 so far (Sep 28).
Tugboat outreach
Reach out to 10 businesses and help them with their website. 3 of 10 reached.
Why we're here
Deliver more value.
The Studio exists to give more than it takes. Every week we put real work into the world: helpful hands, honest feedback, and music made to move people.
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💌 Helpful emails sent
Real website fixes flagged for local businesses, free. No pitch, just help.
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🎵 Songs released
Real music, made in public. Written to move the people who need it most.
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🤝 Applicants welcomed
Every candidate gets a real look. Great people build the studio.
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🎥 Instagram videos
Reels and posts made in public. The content engine that grows the audience.
Dave's work
What Dave is doing.
🎬
Filming two videos a week
Two videos every week. Piano, songs, behind the scenes. The content engine keeps running.
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Leading design of One
Dave leads the design of the One project. Every pixel, every decision.
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Leading design of Short Bus
Dave leads the design of Short Bus. The book, the musical, the whole world.
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Managing tugboat.io
Dave runs Tugboat right now. Mike takes it over eventually.
Handoff
Transition to Mike.
Dave hands things off. Mike picks them up. One by one.
🚌
Short Bus
Mike takes charge of Short Bus going forward. The book, the musical, all of it.
In transition
Mike: I'm learning about Short Bus and how to make sure everything is ready to go for the final book. Watching how the pieces fit together, the story, the images, the whole thing. I want to understand it cold so when Dave hands it off, nothing drops.
🚢
Tugboat
Mike takes over Tugboat eventually. Dave runs it for now.
Planned
Mike: I've been watching Tugboat and the process is there. The outreach rhythm, the audits, how Dave runs it. I can take over soon, just getting the reps in so it's smooth when I do.
Mike's board
What Mike is working on. Same board as his page, everything stays in sync.
📊 Key goals
Finish the 50 song goal46 released, 4 to go.
Finish the Piano ChallengeDay 67 of 99, 33 days to go.
Tugboat outreach3 of 10 targets reached.
Dave
Dave's work
Every key area of life, each with an AI agent running it.
Dating
Active · AI agent
Speed dating in Colorado, Christian speed dating across the US.
Dating
Active · AI agent
Speed dating in Colorado, Christian speed dating across the US.
The rhythm
- Daily, 8:00 AM: Hunt for speed dating in Colorado and Christian speed dating across the US.
- Monthly: Keep the dating events travel plan document current.
Coming up · October
- Wed Oct 14: IYKYK Chicago, 6:30pm, Recess, 838 W Kinzie St
- Thu Oct 15: IYKYK Austin, 6:30pm, Dave & Buster's Austin South (tickets not on sale yet, 48h watch on)
- Mon Oct 19: IYKYK Orange County, 6:30pm, Four Sons Brewing, Huntington Beach
- Tue Oct 20: IYKYK San Diego, 6:30pm, Novo Brazil Brewing, Mission Valley
- Wed Oct 21: IYKYK Nashville, 6:30pm, Honest Coffee Roasters (or Minneapolis)
- Thu Oct 22: IYKYK Houston, 6:30pm, Sunday Press Garden Oaks (optional add-on)
- Sun Oct 25: Pre-Dating 40s/50s, 4pm, Left Hand RiNo, 4180 Wynkoop St
- Tue Oct 27: Pre-Dating 30s/40s, 6:30pm, Left Hand RiNo
- Fri Oct 30: Halloween Lock & Key singles party, 7pm, BrewDog, 3950 Wynkoop St
- $48.71 IYKYK credit on file (expires Sep 29, 2027)
The plan
- More in-person speed dating. The apps are low ROI: women 28-35 rarely look at a 46-year-old there.
- ~650 speed dates so far. Keep the reps up.
- She has to choose him back. Mutual choosing only.
📣 Reach out
🎂 Upcoming birthdays
✅ Recently contacted
Friendships
Coming soon · Coming soon
Great friendships with the people around me.
Friendships
Coming soon · Coming soon
Great friendships with the people around me.
The rhythm
- Scope: Great friendships with friends, business associates, and the people around me.
- Status: This role is opening soon. The scope above is the job description waiting for its agent.
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Fitness
Active · AI coach
7,500 steps a day, swim and yoga almost every day.
Fitness
Active · AI coach
7,500 steps a day, swim and yoga almost every day.
The rhythm
- Tracking: 7,500 steps a day.
- Tracking: Swim almost every day.
- Tracking: Yoga about every day.
- Every 3 days: Check-in ping: pulls the latest step data, asks how swimming and yoga are going, and keeps the streak honest.
Build
Active · Studio Director & CEO
Build the studio, build Short Bus, build all sorts of great stuff.
Build
Active · Studio Director & CEO
Build the studio, build Short Bus, build all sorts of great stuff.
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The rhythm
- Ongoing: Run every sub-business like a real CEO: keep everything moving and everything organized.
- Ongoing: Keep the sub-business breakdown current, so the whole company is visible in one place.
The businesses
- The StudioRecord label · Running
- DlaneyArtist · Running
- Short BusMusical · Running
- TugboatConsulting · Running
Queue
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🚢 Live Shipping Feed.
Watch us build the startup in real time.
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📹 Content
Made in public.
Every video is a rep. The content engine that grows the audience and moves people.
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Videos posted
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Piano days
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Songs released
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Intern
Interns
First studio hire · $15/hr + bonuses. Phone + virtual assistant.
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Dating coach
October dating plan
Daily speed dating hunt · Colorado + US Christian events.
Coming up
- Oct 14 · IYKYK Chicago
- Oct 15 · Austin ticket watch
- Oct 19 · IYKYK Orange County
- Oct 20 · IYKYK San Diego
- Oct 21 · IYKYK Nashville
- Oct 22 · IYKYK Houston
- Oct 25 + 27 · Pre-Dating Denver
- Oct 30 · Halloween Lock & Key party, Denver
Fitness coach
The fitness rhythm
Keeps Dave the fittest version of himself.
The rhythm
- Lifts 2x/week
- Swim 4x/week
- Yoga daily
- Glute/hip work for the travel sitting
- Protein up from 2k cal
- Check in every 3 days
ONE is the internal operations hub. It stays out of search.