AI Workflow Quality Gates: A Practical Engineering Guide
“It Runs” Is Not a Reliability Standard Most personal AI workflows begin with one acceptance test: did it produce something? A draft appears, a …
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Build an AI Second Brain with Claude and Obsidian
A Second Brain Is a Working System, Not a Larger Notebook Most note systems are built for a future reader called you. You save a link, polish a …
AI Content Creation Workflow: Turning Knowledge Into Work People Want
Creation Is the Outward Half We’ve reached the final layer. Information has been denoised, records have been sedimented, knowledge has been …
AI Knowledge Base Workflow: Turn Notes Into Verified, Reusable Capability
Growing Bigger, Getting Less Useful We’ve reached layer three. Information has been captured and denoised; records have been written down and …
AI Note-Taking Workflow: Turn Fleeting Inputs Into Verifiable Records
The Semi-Finished Product Filed Under “Knowledge” In most people’s mental model, notes only have three tiers: see information → turn it into …
AI Information Filtering Workflow: Capture Signal Without a Noise Archive
The Default State of Information Is Noise The previous essay laid out the framework: information, records, knowledge, and creation are four distinct …
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Growth, reflection, and lived experience
Ignite and Settle (Part 3): Anxious Attachment - Why We Keep Seeking Reassurance in Love
This is Part 3 of “Ignite and Settle,” and the close of the series. Part 1, The Quality and Time of Companionship , asked why we turn away just as …
Ignite and Settle (Part 2): Avoidant Attachment - Why We Want to Run When Someone Gets Close
This is Part 2 of “Ignite and Settle.” Part 1, The Quality and Time of Companionship , described the act of “running when someone gets close.” This …
Ignite and Settle (Part 1): The Quality and Time of Companionship - and Why We Turn Away Just as We Come Close
This is Part 1 of the “Ignite and Settle” series. Part 2 is on avoidant attachment - why we want to run when someone gets close. Part 3 is on …
The Super-Individual Stack: AI-Native Product Directions and Solo Builder Ops in 2026
“Software is eating the world.” - Marc Andreessen, 2011 “Now AI is eating software-and the question for the rest of us is: what’s left for one …
Seen Clearly, Loved Deeply: Five Lenses on Love, and the Buddhist Synthesis
“From love springs grief, from love springs fear; for one freed from love there is no grief-whence, then, fear?” -Dhammapada “Just as a mother …
2026 May Thought Notes: On the Edge, I Recognize Myself Through Action
Prologue: A May Without flomo For the entire month of May, I did not write a single flomo note. I barely posted to my feed either. This was not …