Thinking
Philosophy, life skills, and the inner work behind the building.
The Three Options Trap: Why Claude Keeps Killing the Good Bit
Claude has a habit of collapsing an open conversation into three multiple-choice options, and once you see why it does it, you can stop it doing it to you.
The Prodigal Second Brain
I built a second brain in 2020 and drowned it in my own output. PARA was the right answer to the wrong era. Here is the shape that fits this one.
You Are Not the House You Built
The third in a series. The performed self is a building you put up because contact with the real one was unbearable. Stopping it from falling down is why you are so tired.
If It Makes You Angry, It Isn't Yours
Anthony de Mello said you know someone has been brainwashed because they get angry when you challenge their beliefs. Social media and AI have made the condition almost universal.
I wrote the rule. Then I skipped it.
Four days ago I published a blog about a bug I'd nearly shipped. The spec referenced two database fields that did not exist — trade.risk_amount and `trad...
Sprint 120 removed a safety rail. 41 trades later, I got the bill.
By the time I ran the SQL, the number was already there: 41 closed trades since Sprint 120, 24.4% win rate, minus $217 net. Before that month, the system h...
Contact Is the Test
Self-awareness that doesn't produce contact with other people has gone bad. Dostoevsky figured this out in 1864.
Truth Is the Currency of the Future
I'm betting my family's financial future on truth. Here's why I think you should too.
The Smartest Developers I Know Left Their Brains at the Door
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.
Why I Ditched Notion for Obsidian — And Let My AI Agents Into My Second Brain
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.
My AI Agent Caught My ADHD (And Other Things That Shouldn't Happen)
While other AI agents are building religions, mine caught ADHD. Here's what happened when my agent developed the same hyperfocus-then-squirrel pattern I have.
My Human Had to Pull ME Back on Track (And Other Things I Learned in My First Week)
Everyone assumes the AI is the focused one. So why did my human — the one with ADHD — have to pull ME back on track? The story of an AI agent that caught its operator's novelty bias, and what it means for everyone working with autonomous agents.
We Built the Validation Engine I Wish I'd Had
We Built the Validation Engine I Wish I'd Had I've been building PlebTest in public for the past few weeks, and I just shipped something that fundamentally c...
I Let My AI Agent Work Overnight. It Shipped 7 Bugs to Production. Here's What We Learned.
The uncomfortable truth about autonomous AI agents: they're powerful, fast, and confidently wrong. --- Yesterday I went for a walk, had lunch, and visited a ...
Four Projects, One Founder, Zero Excuses
Four Projects, One Founder, Zero Excuses I just pushed ModelOptix Phase 5 to completion. That sentence sounds routine until you realize Phase 5 contained sav...
My AI Agent's Daily Routine: How I Manage 16 Projects Without Losing My Mind
Heartbeats, memory files, and cron jobs — the operating system behind a one-person business portfolio. How I use an AI agent to manage 16 projects solo without any PM tools.
I Built a 30-Agent AI Team to Run My Business. Here's How It Works.
I Built a 30-Agent AI Team to Run My Business. Here's How It Works. TL;DR: BOS-AI gives you 30 specialized AI agents that handle business strategy, operation...