Edition 342 | April 15, 2026 The Dyslexic AI Newsletter by LM Lab AI

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I wake up most mornings with this feeling.

It sits right in my chest. It is not doubt, exactly. It is more like waiting.

Waiting to be understood.

I have been writing about dyslexic thinking and AI for over three years now. Over 340 editions of this newsletter. And I know I am not right about everything. I also know I am not wrong about everything.

But I am not sure I am fully understood by very many people yet.

That is the honest truth.

There are people I look up to in this space. Dyslexic thinkers. Neurodivergent leaders. People with valuable platforms doing important work. I admire them. I have reached out. I have had some great conversations over the years and built some truly valuable relationships and friendships.

But I have not connected with many of those people in a way where I have felt real impact. Where I have felt like the work landed.

I thought it was going to happen faster.

I thought more people would get it by now.

Not the technology. People are adapting to AI. They are seeing how hopeful these tools are for neurodivergent minds, for dyslexic thinkers, for humanity in general.

There is always bad with the good. Do not get me wrong. But I am a huge optimist when it comes to these tools for how my brain works because I am using them firsthand.

I am creating things that were never possible for me before.

In Edition 341 ("I Have Never Seen Anything Like This Before"), I talked about vibe coding custom software for Makena's homeschool curriculum, building evaluation tools, and how none of it feels like work. It feels like play that produces useful things.

That is not hype. That is a guy with a recreation degree who could barely get through a written essay in college now building software by talking to his computer. If that does not tell you something about what these tools mean for dyslexic minds, I do not know what will.

I keep learning more and more. And as a lifelong learner, it is fascinating to have tools that can meet my brain where it actually lives.

But here is the part that still feels heavy.

I am learning all of this at the same time my own kids are going through their education. And education is changing and shifting so fast. We wrote about that in Edition 341 with the ArtQuest story at Santa Rosa High School. 150-year-old brick buildings next to portables with cutting-edge film equipment. Old meets new. The future sitting right next to the past.

It is all connected. It is all moving. And I am standing in the middle of it, writing and talking and sharing, not always sure it is being heard.

But I share it anyway.

I get it off my chest. I put those thoughts and words out into the AI world, the old internet world, and out into the universe through my voice vibrations and thoughts.

Here is where I want to be really clear about where this is headed.

I am extremely optimistic about what comes next.

About the opportunity to meet and work with the groups and labs and builders who are thinking about this the same way I am. I am coming out of my shell. I am starting to share my experiences differently, in ways that allow for real collaboration and real opportunities with others.

If you have been here since Edition 323 ("Going Against the Grain"), you know that finding my voice has been a long road. That edition was about not fitting in. About spending a lifetime on the outside of conversations that were not designed for the way my brain works.

AI changed that for me. Not all at once. Slowly. Over 340 editions and three and a half years of figuring it out in public.

And now I am ready for something bigger.

Here is the thing that drives everything I do.

I do not want to be told how AI is going to change my job. My life. My daughter's education. My future. I do not want to sit back and wait for someone else to figure it out and hand me a set of instructions.

I want autonomy. I want agency. I want sovereignty over my own choices.

And I want to use these tools to help me make better decisions. Not to be told what to do.

That is why I keep creating all of this content. That is why I keep building tools and frameworks and writing 342 editions of a newsletter that sometimes feels like it is going into a void. Because I can see where this is headed. I can see how the future is going to adapt and change around these tools. And I refuse to let that future be something that happens to me.

I want it to be something I shape.

This is why having these conversations now matters. Even when people are not ready for them. Even when the audience is small. Even when the feeling in my chest says nobody is listening.

Because the people who engage with these opportunities now, while the rules are still being written, are the ones who will have a say in what those rules look like. The people who wait to be told what to do will be adapting to someone else's decisions.

I have spent my whole life adapting to systems that were not designed for me. I am done doing that by default. I want to be the one designing the systems this time.

And honestly? This is the most exciting and fun time to be alive.

I mean that. We have all of these amazing tools at our disposal. All of this knowledge and information being unlocked and made available to everyone. The things I can build today, by voice, from a waiting room, were not possible three years ago. Were not possible one year ago.

That is a special, unique moment in history. And I do not take it for granted.

This is my hero's journey right now. Truly. And I am just getting to the good part.

Not just to share our unique views on AI and language models and what this means for dyslexic minds. But to quantify it. To qualify it. With research and data. Not just anecdotal observations or guesses or hypotheses.

I want to work with the deep-thinking minds. The labs. The tools. The researchers.

I want to make sure we are using all of this knowledge and data and analysis and AI to design around how dyslexic minds actually work. In education. In careers. In how we build tools and systems and workflows.

In Edition 338, we talked about the Palantir CEO on neurodivergent advantage and Gartner's prediction that 20% of Fortune 500 companies would actively seek neurodivergent talent. In Edition 334 ("The Data Is In"), we looked at the Anthropic labor market study and cognitive flexibility as job security. In Edition 332 ("A Year Ago, I Was in a Hospital Bed"), I introduced the Cognitive Balance Model because I needed a framework that respected how our minds actually work with AI.

The frameworks exist. The data is emerging. The tools are here.

What is missing is the coordinated effort. The research partnerships. The funded, intentional, collaborative work that turns what I have been writing about for three years into something with scale and permanence.

I think there is a tremendous amount of value in that for the future. And I am looking forward to creating those partnerships and networks and tools, and doing the research and coordinating with anyone else on this same path.

I want to build something that keeps this core mission strong and consistent.

Something that stays rooted in neurodivergent and dyslexic thinking. Separate enough from the other projects we have built over the years that the mission does not get diluted.

But connected enough that the team remains impactful and involved.

Because it is critical to have the best dyslexic minds, teams, thought partners, and cognitive partners across industries all collaborating in this unique moment. Bringing all of our different subject matter expertise together. Providing the most value-driven opportunities for neurodivergent thinkers. For ourselves.

And for the betterment of humankind in general.

This is important. I do not want to keep it under wraps. That is why I have been talking about it for the last couple of years.

In Edition 333 ("25 Tools. Zero Memory."), I launched the Cognitive Partner Membership. In Edition 341, I was honest about the fact that I should have launched more of the platform already. That perfectionism and my discomfort with sales and marketing have been real obstacles.

My friend Tobin Trevarthen wrote something today that stopped me cold. He wrote about sticktoitness. Not as a cliché. As a real question. What does it actually take to see the shift you need to make and stay with it long enough for it to become real?

His point: most people do not fail at knowing what needs to change. They fail at holding onto it once the environment pushes back. And what gets labeled as a lack of discipline is often something else entirely. It is a lack of the right conditions.

That hit home.

I have not been lacking discipline. I have been trying to hold a new direction inside old conditions. Building something radically different while still operating with the same habits around sales and marketing and launching that have never been my strength.

The work is not about forcing myself to do the things I hate. It is about redesigning the conditions so the mission can hold. That might mean bringing in the right collaborators. Renegotiating my own expectations about what a "launch" has to look like. Letting go of perfectionism that used to feel like quality control but now just feels like delay.

Tobin says sticktoitness does not live in effort. It lives in alignment. And when the environment supports the direction, you do not have to push as hard. It starts to become the way you operate.

That is where I am headed.

But now I am ready to forge new opportunities. Create new tools. Find ways to fund this research and development in a way that is a public benefit business opportunity but also one that allows a group of professionals to work together as entrepreneurs with their own autonomy and agency.

The Cognitive Balance Model. The Human Guidance Index. The DLM three-layer architecture. The Single Source of Truth. The evaluation tools. The homeschool systems. The career guidance. The prompt libraries and agent workflows.

All of it has been building toward this.

Not a product launch. A movement. One that is rooted in evidence and built by the people it is designed for.

This edition is different. There are no copy-paste prompts. No three-step framework to run this Friday.

But there is something I want you to do.

1. Think about what you are waiting for.

If you have been sitting on an idea, a project, a conversation you have been meaning to have, a tool you have been meaning to build, ask yourself what you are actually waiting for. Permission? Perfection? Someone else to go first?

I have been waiting too. And I am done waiting.

2. Reach out.

If you work in research, education, neurodivergent advocacy, AI development, or any field where this work connects, I want to hear from you. I am not looking for followers. I am looking for collaborators. Reply to this email. That is all it takes.

3. Share this with someone who needs to read it.

If you know someone who wakes up with that same feeling in their chest. That weight that is not quite doubt and not quite frustration. Someone who has been building or thinking or working in this space and wondering if anyone notices. Send this to them.

Because the thing about that feeling? It gets lighter when you realize other people carry it too.

That feeling in my chest? It is still there.

But I am starting to understand what it actually is.

It is not frustration.

It is fuel.

And I think a lot of you know exactly what I am talking about. That restless energy that comes from knowing something important before the world catches up. From seeing connections that other people miss. From having spent your whole life processing information differently and finally, finally, living in a moment where that difference is becoming an advantage.

We have been talking about this for 342 editions. The Cognitive Balance Model. The neurodivergent advantage. The idea that nobody is getting replaced by AI but people will get replaced by other people who know how to use AI.

This is the moment where it starts to become real.

Not because the tools arrived. The tools have been here.

Because the people are ready. And I think that includes you.

Edition 343: First results from the self-improving loop. What actually happened when I ran the weekly debrief for the first time. And what I heard back from you.

Matt "Coach" Ivey Founder, LM Lab AI | Creator, The Dyslexic AI Newsletter

Dictated, not typed. Obviously.

💭 I wake up most mornings with a weight in my chest. It is not doubt. It is the feeling of waiting to be understood. After 340 editions and three years, I am naming it.

🔬 I want to move beyond anecdotal observations. I want to work with researchers, labs, and builders to quantify what dyslexic minds bring to AI collaboration. With real data. Real partnerships. Real scale.

🏴 I refuse to wait for someone else to tell me how AI changes my life. I want autonomy, agency, and sovereignty over my choices. The people engaging with these tools now are the ones who will shape the rules. This is the most exciting time to be alive and I am done being passive about it.

🚀 I am ready to forge new opportunities. A public benefit business model. Entrepreneurs with autonomy. The best dyslexic and neurodivergent minds collaborating across industries.

🧱 Every framework I have built (Cognitive Balance Model, HGI, DLM architecture, Single Source of Truth, evaluation tools) has been building toward this moment. Not a product launch. A movement.

🤝 I am not looking for followers. I am looking for collaborators. If you work in research, education, neurodivergent advocacy, or AI development, reply to this email.

🔥 That feeling in my chest? It is not frustration. It is fuel. And I think a lot of you know exactly what I am talking about.