Designing devbox-doctor: A Safer Mac Toolchain Audit
I am building a developer-machine checkup skill called devbox-doctor. The idea sounds simple: inventory a Mac, identify tools that may no longer …
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Agent Skill Design: What a Dangerous SKILL.md Taught Me
What makes an Agent Skill valuable is not a clever prompt, but a clean division of responsibility: deterministic work goes to code, judgment goes to …
Building an AI Knowledge Base: From Notes to Executable Workflows
After the Framework Stood Up, I Realized I Had No “Shared Workshop” The five-part Info-to-Creation series got the framework standing: information …
How AI Agents Rebuilt My 120-Post Blog From Scratch
What actually happened here How large a team does it take to rebuild a four-year-old blog with 120+ posts - content architecture, operations, all of …
Where AI Agents Still Have a Blue Ocean
Suppose you had to place a bet today on one direction in AI agents. What is the first question you should ask? Most people ask whether the thing can …
How to Build Real Trust in Unattended AI Agents That Act
Suppose you actually have one now - an agent that takes a job end to end. Pulls the data, writes the code, runs the tests, opens the PR, updates the …
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Growth, reflection, and lived experience
When Distance No Longer Changes You: What Keeps Life Moving After Exploration Fails
This is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are fictional characters composed of developmental psychology, field …
Every Path Has a Price
This is the final essay in Reckoning with Reality. The first six considered profit, competence, action, feedback, and technology. The last returns …
After AI Solves a Problem, Where Does the Bottleneck Move?
This is the sixth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay separated fast feedback from slow results. This one turns to a question that …
The Fastest Numbers Are Often Furthest from the Outcome
This is the fifth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay asked what kind of action can produce evidence. This one examines the speed …
Action Does Not Automatically Lead to Truth
This is the fourth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay examined how intelligent people use competence to escape. This one asks the …
The Escape Routes of Smart People: Applying Ability to the Wrong Problem
This is the third essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay examined the limits of profit. This one turns to a more personal question: …
