On thinking clearly, communicating well, and working with AI without outsourcing judgement.
Technology
I added an AI assistant to my biker merch store. It answers from the store's own data, refuses to make things up, and hands anything that needs a decision to my phone. Here is how it is built and what I changed after the first day.…
Technology
How the CMS imports a WordPress blog without breaking a single address, what an old archive is full of, and the evening I found 2,228 blank drafts.
Technology
The public blogs are plain files, so the admin is the only thing worth attacking. The layers in front of it, the checks behind it, and the Cloudflare setting that locked out everyone except me.…
Technology
Pressing Publish turns into one git commit, pushed straight to GitHub, which my host deploys. Why git, why I stopped using GitHub's API, and the one folder the CMS may touch.
Technology
The technical version of why I left WordPress. What the CMS is made of, why each piece is there, and how a written spec kept an AI-built project on track.
Business & Growth
Put a competitor's name on your positioning line and read it aloud. If it still holds, the line is not yet saying anything only your firm can say.
AI & Work
I record. Claude edits, checks its own work, and stops at a draft. How it works, what I refused to let it do, and what the first video taught me.
Business & Growth
A survey of 1,200 CEOs across 21 countries finds 72% expect skills shortages to be a bigger growth barrier than access to capital. This changes the argument for independent work.
Technology
A WordPress blog kept crashing over a simple task, so I built a custom CMS focused on plain HTML, robust security, and an AI-assisted editing workflow.
AI & Work
The assumptions you bring to a prompt matter more than the prompt itself. This paper argues that the gap between what AI tools can do and what most people get from them is not a capability gap or a formatting gap. It is a diagnostic gap, built from unexamined assumptions about audience, purpose, and what “good” actually means. It draws on research in human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, and decision science to make the case that the prompt engineering industry has, almost entirely, been selling solutions to the wrong problem. Seven sections. One uncomfortable question: what are y…
