The Journey
Field reports from building with AI in public. What's working, what isn't, and what it cost me. Open numbers, the failures before the wins.
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I Leaked an API Key and It Turned My Own Domain Into a Phishing Weapon
I got phished from my own verified domain, using an API key I'd leaked myself: what actually leaked, how fast it happened, and what I changed.
A friend said it was a business. I decided it was not, and built it anyway.
A friend said it should be a business. I spent forty years around operations and resilience, so I assessed it honestly, decided it was not, and built it anyway, for free. Here is the reasoning, and why the map of your estate should be a file no company owns.
Everyone's selling AI consultancy. The data says nobody's buying.
A $1,000-an-hour AI consultancy playbook is doing the rounds. The demand data, and a friend who sells everything except this, disagree.
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.
Contact Is the Test
Self-awareness that doesn't produce contact with other people has gone bad. Dostoevsky figured this out in 1864.