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AI Skills & Engineering

Tools, agents, and engineering practice

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AI Agent

Common Sense Is Not the Mechanism: Rebuilding Industries Around Demand, Constraints, and Scarcity

“Is common sense the same as the mechanism underneath?” That was where I got stuck while testing ideas across several industries. I had also …

AI Agent
A fixed demand axis beside industry workflow cards being reconnected
AI Agent

Forgetting Is Harder Than Remembering: Why a Living System Must Know When to Let Go

This piece is a thought experiment conducted through simulated interviews from the perspectives of cognitive neuroscience and AI memory …

AI Agent
Hierarchical memory systems heat active nodes, sink outdated information, and retain audit trails
AI Agent

Open Design 0.16.1: A Design Harness for Coding Agents

Open Design is easy to misread. The name also belongs to the older open-design movement around shared product blueprints, but this article is about …

AI Agent
Open Design as a four-plane design harness for coding agents
AI Agent

Claude Code Playbook: 10 Configurations for Reliable Agent Workflows

Put the Tip List Down for a Moment I began this article as a collection of Boris Cherny’s Claude Code habits. That version had a problem: social …

AI Agent
Claude Code playbook for verification, permissions, worktrees, loops, and parallel agents
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Loop Engineering for Solo Builders: Verifiers, State, and Safe Automation

Why Does Getting Better at This Make Me More Tired? Let me start with a strange thing I banged my head against for a long time before I understood …

AI Agent
A quiet control desk representing verifiable loop engineering for solo builders

Growth & Life

Growth, reflection, and lived experience

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Growth & Life

I Don't Have an Execution Problem. I Need a Battlefield That Can Say No

At the beginning of 2026, my GitHub contribution graph stayed nearly blank for several weeks. A few months later, the same graph showed hundreds of …

Personal Growth Product Strategy
A precise wooden bridge extending from a drafting table into a steel load-testing rig
Growth & Life

Reading Hongyi in Quanzhou: Seeing Through, Then Taking Life Seriously

At dusk, I sat on the rooftop of Youli Café and raised my coffee cup toward the twin pagodas of Kaiyuan Temple. The camera recognized the distant …

Personal Growth Self-Discovery
An out-of-focus coffee cup above Quanzhou's old city, with Kaiyuan Temple's twin pagodas beyond the red-tiled roofs
Growth & Life

The Scoreboard You Choose Will Eventually Choose You: How Incentives Reshape an Organization

This is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are composed of organizational psychology and organizational economics …

Product Strategy Career
Luminous scoreboards pull teams into unified action, founders begin to examine its shadow
Growth & Life

The Opposite of Freedom Isn’t Constraint-It’s the Defaults That Live Your Day for You

This piece is a thought experiment in simulated interviews. The respondents are synthesized from existential philosophy and behavior design …

Personal Growth Self-Discovery
Default options form an automatic loop; one foot actively steps onto an unmarked path
Growth & Life

A Second Brain Preserves Your Decision Function

I had only asked my second brain to organize the thoughts of a friend. It placed scattered notes in order by time, theme, and cause, then tried to …

Personal Growth Self-Discovery
A layered second-brain system preserving memory while choices branch into lived paths