The week’s task — three SACAs.
A SACA is a Self-Assigned Captain’s Action — you pick it, you own it, you ship it. Each takes 20–30 minutes, and any one completes the week — do all three if you want to go deeper. Open the PDF for the print version; the full text lives here too.
🖨️ Print this week — the one-page Week Runner (PDF)
WEEK 1 · SACA 1
Draft Your AI Charter
Five lines. What AI is for. What it never replaces.
Captains build guardrails before they touch the throttle. Today is the smallest, hardest, most important SACA of Week 1: define what AI is for in your life — and what it is not for.
Action checklist
- Open Claude (primary) or your tool of choice.
- Write five lines: what is AI for in your life? What is it not for?
- Save it where you'll see it daily — pinned note, second-brain, fridge.
- Post one line of your charter in the bootcamp comments.
CAPTAIN'S NOTE
If you can't write the charter, you're not ready to use the tool. That's not a problem. That's the first lesson.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Habakkuk 2:2 — "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that he may run who reads it." Your charter is the tablet.
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WEEK 1 · SACA 2
Write Your 5-Year Captain's Vision
One paragraph each: marriage, fathering, body, money, spirit.
A captain who can't say where the ship is going won't notice when it drifts. Use AI as the rough draft. You cut, you sign, you keep.
Action checklist
- Ask Claude to draft one paragraph for each domain:
- Marriage — what does it look like 5 years from now?
- Fathering — what kind of father will your kids describe?
- Body — what physical state are you in?
- Money — what's your financial position?
- Spirit — what's your walk with God?
- Read each paragraph aloud. Cut every line that's a wish but not a decision.
- Re-write the survivors in your own words. AI drafts. You sign.
- Save it. Re-read it the first day of every month for 5 years.
WHY THIS MATTERS
A man without a written vision is steered by the most recent email. Write it down so the day can't move you.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Proverbs 29:18 — "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Including the captain himself.
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WEEK 1 · SACA 3
Build Your Wheelhouse (Creed + Log)
Two sails at once — your Creed, and the morning send that runs it for you.
The Wheelhouse is two sails: your Creed (the "I am…" man you're becoming) and your Captain's Log (the day's actions). Write both — then automate the part you'll skip on a hard morning, so the Creed shows up before your feet hit the floor.
Action checklist
- Draft your Creed — present/future-tense "I am… / I will…" lines that call forth the man you're becoming in Christ (covenant, not hype). Paste to Claude: "Interview me on my identity in Christ, my marriage, my fathering, and how I lead my home; then draft a creed grouped by those domains — present and future tense, one Scripture anchor per section, ending on a line of grace. I'll edit every word." Make it yours.
- Start a Captain's Log — today's actions in one place (Habitify, or your daily note).
- Automate the 0600 Creed send: Apple Shortcuts → Automation → Time of Day → 'Show Notification' with your Creed. No Reminders app needed.
- Add 'Read my Creed' as a daily Habitify habit so the streak holds the line.
WHEELHOUSE = TWO SAILS
Creed + Log. Getting in the Wheelhouse each morning is two of your six sails at once — the fastest leverage in the whole course.
SCRIPTURE SIT
Habakkuk 2:2 — "Write the vision; make it plain… that he may run who reads it." The Creed is the vision made plain.
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CAPTAIN'S NOTE
What I want you to know about this week.
Every man wants to start with the tool. The charter feels like busywork — five lines, too small to matter — so men skip ahead and wonder three weeks later why everything they built points six directions. The charter is the keel. Write it badly first, then sharpen it. If you can’t write it yet, you’ve just found the first real lesson.
More from Adam — a personal story and what trips most men up — drops here as the cohort runs.
