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.
Writing
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.
AI-Written Python and Django Code
I built a production system in four weeks with Claude Code. Twelve months and 6,379 commits later, here's what I actually know about getting reliable code from AI — and why almost none of my original advice still applies.
When the Algorithm Comes for Your Business
The algorithm is coming for your business. Here's how to use AI as an amplifier instead of fighting it — lessons from decades of digital evolution.