A weekly-ish letter, in plain language, about what I'm learning.
Each issue starts with something that happened to me that week and ends with a choice. Metaphors, not frameworks. Honest about uncertainty. Specific, never vague.
These are field notes from someone leading AI at work, building with it at home, and trying to explain the distance between the demo and real life.
Back issues
Reversible
Everyone is shipping personal agents. Here's what mine actually do, and the one question I ask before I let them touch anything.
Apocaloptimist
Or: the word I didn’t know I needed
I'm Still Here
Claude signs its work now. Good. So do I.
Talk to Me Like I'm 5
A better model showed up and everything I knew stopped working. The fix was a tiny instruction called ELI5 — explain like I'm five.
Twelve Thousand Feelings
Twelve thousand people came to learn about the same thing. They couldn't agree on what it is.
Bikeshedding
The machine that spends its days learning my words just taught me one of mine.
The Straight-A Student Who Cheated
What a frontier model taught me about the space between what we say and what we mean.
Your Intern's First Assignment
You understood the concept. Now let's give it a job.
The Intern
You stopped writing scripts. You started managing. Here's what changed.
Ineffable
Sitting With Two Words We Cannot Quite Define
The Weight of Words
What AI taught me about the cost of saying too much.
The Roomba Problem
Your AI is listening. Make sure you mean what you say.
Fire
From a match to a campfire to a power plant. Or a wildfire. We get to choose.
Don't Panic
What a book about the end of the world taught me about the beginning of something else.
Please and Thank You
Do Manners Matter?
The Alligators
What three hours, 421 zeros, and one missing symbol taught me about working with AI.
The Ceiling
More productive than ever. More exhausted than I've ever been.
Three Questions. Frontier Models. No Wrong Answer.
And what the one that knows me said that none of the others could
The BLT Problem
I asked AI to make a sandwich. What happened next is the whole conversation about AGI.
Jack of All Trades
But oftentimes better than a master of one.