Entrepreneur. Builder. Curious by default.

Build.
Test.
Report back.

I’m Michael. I turn curiosity into businesses, systems, and things worth sharing.

These days, that means practical AI, online business, and publishing. The experiments, the lessons, and the useful bits live here.

Michael Ryan Thompson sitting at a café table
The approach

Less theorizing.
More finding out.

NOT A GURU. STILL A STUDENT.

A little context.
A lot of learning.

~$30MHistorical ecommerce sales
at Tempus & Co
~800Students taught through
Day Trade Lifestyle
Still building.The next chapter is
the interesting part.

01 / The work

A few things
on my workbench.

Different projects. Same instinct:
find a real problem, make something useful,
and keep making it better.

Publishing / Live

Nimbus Books

Word searches, puzzle books, and a good reason to put the phone down.

Visit the bookstore
AI & automation / Building

Less busywork. More building.

Practical AI workflows and small tools for the unglamorous work behind a business.

Start with one useful workflow
Playbooks & courses / Developing

Knowledge you can put to work.

Focused guides now. Deeper playbooks and courses as the work develops.

Open the starter guides

02 / Take something useful

Less someday.
More step one.

A small library for people who would
rather try something than just save it.

Free to read. No email gate.
Next on the workbench

More hands-on playbooks. Deeper courses.
Built around doing, not just watching.

Follow the progress on X
Michael outdoors in a white shirt
Michael teaching a Day Trade Lifestyle lessonOne chapter of the story.
Always a work in progress.

03 / The person behind the projects

An operator.
A beginner.
Usually both.

I like the part where an idea stops being a conversation and starts becoming a real thing.

My background is in ecommerce. I built and operated Tempus & Co, and later helped create Day Trade Lifestyle, teaching hundreds of students along the way.

Now I’m bringing that operator’s mindset to AI, publishing, and digital products. Some things are familiar. Plenty of things aren’t. That’s a good reason to stay curious.

This is where I connect the dots: what I’m making, what I’m learning, and what might help you take your own next step.

Michael

The next good idea starts with a conversation.

Building something?
I’d love to hear.

A question, an interesting experiment,
or a project we should talk about.
Come say hello.

Find me on X