How I actually use AI every day — systems, agents, and the honest failures in between.
I built a window into my second brain. Then I noticed windows don't answer questions. One redesign later, the dashboard does one thing: tells me what to do right now.
My AI chief of staff had one flaw: he only worked when my laptop was open. Here's what I built instead.
The vault knows everything. Charles reads it all. The problem is that seeing any of it requires a terminal conversation. I needed a glance, not a briefing.
None of that information was in the vault. No file listed Saturday's schedule. Charles didn't remember it. He looked.
I didn't build CLAUDE.md to be smarter. I built it to run rules I wrote on a day I was thinking clearly, whether or not I'm thinking clearly today. Here's the structure behind it.
I failed at GTD three times. The problem wasn't discipline. It was maintenance. Here's what changed when I stopped being the one doing it.
I gave my AI a name, a memory, and a set of rules. Here's what I built, and why it stopped feeling like a tool.
I gave my AI a name, a memory, and a set of rules. Here's what I built, and why it stopped feeling like a tool.
I said 'if I do it twice, I turn it into a skill.' Here's what that means in practice, and what happens when skills start chaining.
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Last week I presented at one of the largest developer conferences in the world; Next.js Conf. The video is now available on Youtube.…