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AI Agent

AI News Pipelines: Automation Limits and Human Judgment

Suppose you ask an AI system to track one field - papers, releases, benchmarks, first-party changelogs, and the conversations around them. How far …

AI LLM
An AI news pipeline reaching the boundary between automation and human judgment
AI Agent

From Chatbot to Agent to Skill: Turning Judgment into a System

A Year Later, Why Does AI Still Feel Like Extra Work? AI now writes copy, translates documents, summarizes meetings, and inspects spreadsheets. Yet …

AI LLM
Chatbot to Agent to Skill, a three-stage framework for reusable AI workflows
AI Agent

Give AI Tasks, Not Just Direction: Define Done First

After Three Hours, What Is Left on the Table? I have had evenings that began with a modest intention: settle the angle of an essay. Soon I was …

AI LLM
A six-part AI task card connecting an open direction to a verifiable result
AI Agent

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 …

AI LLM
Five quality gates surrounding an AI workflow, from evidence to human review
AI Agent

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 LLM
A safe three-layer AI second brain built with Obsidian, Claude, and a capture inbox
AI Agent

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 …

Product Strategy Personal Growth
Knowledge cards moving through an AI-assisted creation pipeline toward an audience, then returning as a measured feedback loop

Growth & Life

Growth, reflection, and lived experience

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Growth & Life

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 …

Super Individual Solo Builder
The Super-Individual Stack: AI-Native Product Directions and Solo Builder Ops in 2026
Growth & Life

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 …

Buddhism Philosophy
Growth & Life

2026 May Thought Notes: On the Edge, I Recognize Myself Through Action

Quick Navigation Start with the long read: 9 sections in the body above. 1 archived notes this month, filed under 1 themes: Daily Notes and …

Blog Monthly Notes
Growth & Life

April 2026 Thought Notes: Living in Laos, Borders, AI and Agents

2026 April Thought Notes 222 notes this month | recorded from 2026-04-02 to 2026-04-30 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 87 · Travel, Places and Cities …

Blog Monthly Notes
April 2026 Thought Notes
Growth & Life

Maintaining Self-Worth in the Age of AI

Pascal wrote in the 17th century: “All of humanity’s problems stem from one thing: man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Three hundred …

AI Personal Growth
How to Maintain the Weight of Self in an Age When You Are No Longer Needed
Growth & Life

March 2026 Thought Notes: Money, Genocide Memory, Southeast Asia

2026 March Thought Notes 464 notes this month | recorded from 2026-03-01 to 2026-03-31 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 135 · Travel, Places and Cities …

Blog Monthly Notes
March 2026 Thought Notes