The Third Position on AI
There are two camps on AI: it replaces humans or it's just a fancy tool. Both are wrong. Here's what actually happens when you build with it every day.
Writing
Anyone Can Use AI. The Art Is Situating It.
Everyone has access to the same AI. The difference isn't the tool - it's whether you've given it somewhere to stand. Situating AI is the craft that separates generic from yours.
The Small Room
Every musician I admire made the same choice — intimacy over scale, craft over volume. The small room isn't a limitation. It's where I do my best work.
Stop Chatting With AI. Start Building With It.
Month one, I explained my business every session. Month seven, one word loaded the whole context. The difference isn't the tool — it's what you build between the conversations.
Stop AI Creating Sprawling Documentation
AI wants to document everything. That instinct will bury your signal in noise. Here's how to keep it lean.
The Five-Layer Stack: How to Work With AI
The AI conversation focuses on prompts. That's 30% of the work. Here's the architecture that makes the system useful instead of generic — including the layer that almost never gets built.
You Can't Discover Without Building
I stopped reading business books and started building things instead. Every ugly first version taught me something no framework ever could.
One Michelin Star Forever
I had a level system. Level 8, Level 9, Level 10. Then I noticed I was defending the level instead of doing the work. Marco Pierre White solved this decades ago.
From Context Amnesia to Compound Intelligence
I was losing 20 minutes every session re-explaining context the model had already seen. A wiki in a Git repository fixed it — and the speed difference was immediate.
Claude Code: 10x Faster Web Development
Context, not tools, is the real secret to 10x faster development with Claude Code. The speed advantage is the infrastructure I've built underneath.