Writing on leadership, design, company building, games, and my many adventures.

All of my long-form thoughts on things I'm interested in. Collected in chronological order.

AI Can Design Everything Except What Matters

Why designers and product people should stop competing with AI on speed and start owning the one thing it can't do: deciding what good looks like.

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Markdown Beats RAG - Building a Second Brain with LLM Wikis

Karpathy's LLM wiki idea finally made my second brain work. Here's how I'm using it.

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Self Learning Systems

I built a thing that makes games while I sleep.

aitechnology

Every workflow deserves a skill (and other lies I told myself)

Do you need a skill for everything or is just a couple core ones enough.

aitechnology

Memory, Heartbeat, Skills: The Anatomy of a Real AI Agent

A look at what actually makes an AI agent useful: memory, heartbeat, and skills.

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AI Hackathon at Podium

What a Hackathon Taught Me About Where We Really Are with AI

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The Personalization Paradox

Reflecting on Personalization for Students: My Skepticism About Its Impact on Human Connection

educationpersonal

Questions I Ask Myself When Starting a New Venture

Here are some of the questions I ask myself when I’m starting a new venture.

startupsleadership

How Deliberate Practice Helps me Become a Better Netrunner Player

Applying deliberate practice to improve any skill you want. I found it to be an effective method to improve my Netrunner skills.

gamespersonal

Artist Colony — Making your own Netrunner credit poker chips

How to make poker chip Netrunner tokens.

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Welcome to the Loser Club

Applying deliberate practice to improve any skill you want. I found it to be an effective method to improve my Netrunner skills.

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