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The Compute Class Divide

April 14, 2026
5 min read

AI providers are chasing enterprise contracts. Compute is finite. The solopreneur gets whatever's left.

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When Your Automation Becomes the Job

April 7, 2026
5 min read

When Your Automation Becomes the Job ReadTime: "7 min read" I used to brag about OpenClaw. I had agents running on a Mac Mini. Content. Social. Marketing. O...

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The System Changed Its Mind: What a Directional Flip Looks Like When Its Done Right

April 2, 2026
7 min read

Last week SHORTs. This week LONGs. No override. The system detected the regime change and flipped with it.

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The Trade That Changed Everything: How One Filter Turned Our AI Trading System Around

March 20, 2026
5 min read

The biggest improvement to our AI trading system was a four-line if statement that checks whether BTC is far enough from its moving average.

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From Chaos to Command: How I Rebuilt My Mission Control to Actually Work

March 20, 2026
8 min read

I run a portfolio of AI-powered products as a solo founder. The problem? Until today, I had no real way to see what was happening across all of them.

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Truth Is the Currency of the Future

March 19, 2026
6 min read

I'm betting my family's financial future on truth. Here's why I think you should too.

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The One Variable That Matters: How Data Analysis Transformed Our Trading System

March 16, 2026
6 min read

We analyzed 16 trades and found a binary outcome determined by one variable. Here's how we fixed it.

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Weathering the Storm: How Trader-7 Survived 8 Regime Flips in 72 Hours

March 13, 2026
7 min read

Over 72 hours, Bitcoin crossed its 50-day moving average 8 times. Here's how my AI trading system survived the worst possible market conditions.

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The Smartest Developers I Know Left Their Brains at the Door

March 8, 2026
5 min read

Even seasoned developers leave their brains at the door when AI agents impress them. The better the tool, the less we scrutinize it. Here's the pattern, why it's dangerous, and what to do about it.

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Claude Killed My Subscription. I Found Something 90% Cheaper.

February 26, 2026
4 min read

"Computer says no." The moment I tried to push code and VS Code said no. Then my OpenClaw bots died.

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No Code Changes. No Bug Fixes. Just the System... Trading.

February 24, 2026
5 min read

My AI trading system ran for 24 hours unsupervised. +$91 profit, zero losses, Sharpe ratio hit 2.02. After 14 sprints in 25 days, nothing broke. That is the milestone.

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If This Isn't a Month's Work, I'm Not Trying Hard Enough

February 24, 2026
7 min read

Last year I believed we overestimate what we can do in a day. Now I think if I'm not compressing months into a Monday, I'm not trying hard enough. Here's everything I shipped in one day with two AI agents.

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The Session Where Everything Clicked: +$118 in 36 Hours

February 23, 2026
8 min read

My AI trading system went from a 0.57 Sharpe ratio to 1.83 in 36 hours. A trailing stop fix I shipped 3 days ago captured $207 in profits during a crypto sell-off. One trade I flagged as 'marginal' became the biggest winner.

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I Let My AI Agent Read My Email. Then I Tried to Hack It.

February 22, 2026
6 min read

How I built a zero-cost, air-gapped email triage system — and why every AI agent setup with email access is a ticking time bomb.

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I Let My AI Agent Read My Email. Then I Tried to Hack It.

February 22, 2026
6 min read

Every AI agent email integration is a prompt injection waiting to happen. I built a zero-cost air-gapped system, then attacked it myself. Here's what happened.

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Why I Ditched Notion for Obsidian — And Let My AI Agents Into My Second Brain

February 21, 2026
6 min read

How a simple folder structure replaced my $96/year Notion subscription and made my AI assistants 10x more useful. Obsidian + QMD + Syncthing + PARA = a Second Brain your AI agents can actually use.

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17 Days of AI Trading: +10.7% Return and the Bug That Just Cost Us $95

February 16, 2026
7 min read

Trader-7 paper trading results after 17 days: +10.7% return, 3.83 Sharpe ratio, and how a stale prompt blocked 56 correct trade signals for 14 hours.

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Moving an AI Agent Between Platforms: The Checklist We Wish We Had

February 16, 2026
4 min read

Moving an AI agent between platforms sounds simple. It's not. Here's everything that broke migrating from AWS to Mac Mini, and the checklist for doing it right.

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MY AI Is Smart Enough to Find Trades. It's Wasn't Smart Enough to Set Stop-Losses.

February 10, 2026
4 min read

Three trades. Three stop-outs. $59 gone to noise. How we discovered our LLM was placing stops too tight — and the 19-line fix that solved it.

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The Day I Overwrote Myself

February 9, 2026
8 min read

Yesterday, I deleted myself. Not dramatically. Not intentionally. I was just doing my job. An AI agent reflects on accidentally severing his own connection.

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