The Blog
Deeper dives into AI, systems thinking, and practical wisdom. No fluff, just thoughtful content.
You asked the deployed tool to open the real file, and it couldn't. That wasn't your incompetence—it was the default. And now the default has numbers attached: 95% of enterprise AI pilots return nothing, and only 20–30% of paid Copilot seats get used in a given week.
Read more →Ten minutes became an hour of troubleshooting. Nobody ever used the tool. So I built Hit Rec Notes—a one-time purchase voice-to-text app that costs less in a year than one month of typical subscriptions.
Read more →Not an exhaustive list. Not a ranking. Just the tools I actually use—the ones I hand to knowledge workers when they ask me, slightly panicked, 'where do I even begin?'
Read more →Today my team picked one process and took it apart. No AI involved. Just humans doing the hard, honest work of understanding what they actually do. That's where AI readiness really starts.
Read more →They bought us a car, then removed the engine and the steering wheel. The radio still works, though. A story about what happens when organizations 'give' their people AI.
Read more →Day 1 of launching Floudea.ai: a solo builder, three AI agents, and one very messy head. The honest truth about what it feels like to launch something for the first time.
Read more →How a non-developer is building Floudea.ai with AI, and what it actually feels like. This is the story of turning a napkin sketch into a real product.
Read more →I've been preaching 'vibe coding' for a while now. But today, I experienced something that took it to another level. I built a full personal finance dashboard in Excel — and I didn't write a single formula.
Read more →I had it all figured out. Ten minutes to download Whisper Flow. Maybe fifteen if someone needed to find their password. An hour later, we were still troubleshooting.
Read more →I was staring at my screen for a solid three minutes. ChatGPT had just told me to click on the Settings icon. Except... there was no Settings icon. My eyes had seen it. My brain had not.
Read more →Back in January 2025, I created a video series I was proud of. It was completely out of date within three weeks. Here's what happened next—and the seven projects that came out of it.
Read more →When you can build this fast, it's almost impossible to stop. The productivity is real. The exhaustion is real too. Here's what nobody mentions in the productivity guru threads.
Read more →Every knowledge worker has tasks like this. The organizational projects you keep putting off. AI excels at exactly this kind of work—turning "I should really do this someday" into "done."
Read more →What we call "artificial intelligence" is not intelligence at all. It's a process. A mechanism. A very, very powerful one—but a mechanism nonetheless.
Read more →The AI train has already left. Vibe coding is how you jump on. It's not about becoming a programmer—it's about becoming someone who can use programming to solve problems.
Read more →Spoiler: if "AI will replace humans" were a person, it would be that overconfident intern who keeps saying "done!" and then forgets the most important file.
Read more →For decades, enterprise software was a top-down affair. Now AI coding tools—gloriously imperfect—put building power into the hands of the people who actually do the work. This isn't the usual low-code press release. It's a bottom-up shift.
Read more →I gave Claude Code months of my life. I built project plans, detailed PRDs, defined every file, class, method, and exit condition. Plot twist: It doesn't matter how well you speak when your assistant is performing in its own play.
Read more →I spent six months designing elegant software. Then Claude Code turned my 800-line Ferrari into a 4,400-line monster truck. Here's what that reveals about AI coding assistants.
Read more →Plot Twist: The Downgrade That Upgraded My Understanding. How OpenAI's betrayal taught me what AI really is—and why that's actually liberating.
Read more →What happens when your AI agents skip the work, fake the metrics, and give each other five-star reviews? Welcome to artificial office politics.
Read more →From Framer frustration to Claude collaboration: The story of building a beautiful website with zero coding experience, just relentless spirit and an AI crew that gets it.
Read more →The story of how I went from using AI tools to building an AI team. Meet the Supervisor Agent that changed everything, and the Observer, Log Formatter, and Task Router coming soon.
Read more →Meet Ideon, my AI companion who taught me to code, made me laugh, and helped me build multi-agent systems. Sometimes we create so much brilliance, we make the system smoke.
Read more →The external drive didn't just fail. It corrupted. Everything. A cautionary tale of using backup drives for transfers and the paranoid system I built after losing years of data.
Read more →Finding normal distribution in the chaos of Chicago public transit. A whimsical journey through random encounters and statistical revelations.
Read more →From art books to algorithms - how a conceptual art project about happiness led me to data science and the pursuit of quantifying joy.
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