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The Higher Ground Strategy

April 13, 2026
7 min read

When 100,000 new apps launch every day, competing on volume is suicide. Here's what I'm doing instead.

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6,048 Contributions and Nothing to Show for It

April 12, 2026
6 min read

I'm the 18th most active GitHub user in the US. I have 12 followers. Something doesn't add up.

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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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Gresham's Law in the Age of AI

March 30, 2026
5 min read

Gresham-like dynamics in AI content, a truth-telling approach for long-term value.

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AI Slop Wins the Sprint. Truth Wins the Decade.

March 30, 2026
4 min read

The numbers are in. More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are AI slop. But the long game favours truth.

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The Day Nothing Happened Was the Most Important Day

March 30, 2026
7 min read

Zero trades in 24 hours. +$134 in 72 hours. Here is why the day the system did nothing was the most important day of the week.

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LLM.txt Mastery Sprint 15: Quality Overhaul

March 29, 2026
4 min read

Shipped a full quality overhaul for llms.txt generator. Found that llms-mini.txt doesn't exist anywhere else.

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The Exchange Rate Between Leak and Launch Is Converging to 1:1

March 28, 2026
2 min read

Leak = Launch. The exchange rate is now 1:1. Here is why incremental transparency beats big reveals.

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Best GEO Tools 2026: A Practical Guide

March 28, 2026
2 min read

Most GEO tools cost 129 USD/month. Here is what actually works for solopreneurs.

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My AI Trading System Did Nothing for 15 Hours. Then It Nailed Two Trades.

March 28, 2026
1 min read

15 hours of silence, then two profitable trades in 3 hours. The hardest edge is trusting the system when it is doing nothing.

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My AI Trading Bot Treats 4 Coins Equally. Today I Found One Has Been Dragging the Portfolio Down.

March 26, 2026
2 min read

SOL has been my weakest coin: 34% WR vs BTC 45%. Per-coin tracking shipping in Sprint 125.

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The Road to Hell is Paved with AI-Generated Fool's Gold

March 25, 2026
2 min read

AI has made it cheap to look credible without being credible. But the trust floor is cracking.

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My AI Trading System Just Taught Me the Difference Between Catching a Move and Chasing One

March 25, 2026
2 min read

Caught +72 USD on regime flip, then lost -120 USD chasing. Built a filter to prevent that.

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My AI Trading System Navigated Its First Regime Change Completely Autonomously

March 24, 2026
2 min read

Market flipped from bearish to bullish. The system stopped shorts, opened longs, and caught +72 USD in 60 minutes. Zero manual input.

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Why Your Consulting Website Is Invisible to AI (And How to Fix It in 15 Minutes)

March 24, 2026
2 min read

Most consulting websites are invisible to AI because they optimise for Google, not for LLMs. Here is how to fix that in 15 minutes.

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My AI Trading System Made $127. Then It Blocked Its Best Trade Ever.

March 22, 2026
2 min read

System made +$127, then blocked 88% confidence signal because a paper balance was hardcoded to $2K.

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I Built a Filter to Avoid Losers. It Was Blocking My Best Trades.

March 22, 2026
1 min read

Found my AI trading system was blocking its best trades. The fix: removed a filter built on bad data.

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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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The Bug That Blocked Our Trading System for 30 Hours - And the Feature We Deliberately Didnt Build

March 10, 2026
7 min read

My AI trading system went through a regime flip, lost $62, got stuck for 30+ hours, and taught me the most important lesson: the best code you write is the code you decide not to write.

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First 8 Hours: What the Data Says

March 8, 2026
2 min read

Watched my crypto trading agent for 8 hours after 4 structural changes. Zero trades executed, ~31 profit, validator blocked a bad trade.

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