77 Reasons to Love Your Life — Why I’d Write This Differently After 17 Years
I wrote 77 reasons to love your life in 2009. The reasons haven't changed much. [...]
May 2026 (23)
7 Reasons to Enjoy Life More — 16 Years Later
In 2009 I gave 7 reasons to enjoy life. Sixteen years later: some held up, [...]
Living as a Digital Nomad: Revisiting a 16 Year Old Primer
I wrote a digital nomad primer in 2010. Here's what it got right, what COVID [...]
7 Things To Do when the Shit Hits the Fan
In 2011 I wrote this list from inside a disaster. Here's what held across 15 [...]
How I Actually End My Day in 2026 – Compared to 2011
In 2011 I wrote 33 ways to end your day. In 2026, the phone colonized [...]
April 2026 (8)
Assess, Decide, Do + Substrate = Long Running, Self Improving Agents
The same architecture that labs use for long-running agents maps exactly to Assess-Decide-Do. I'm building [...]
A Week with AIGernon, my Personal AI Assistant
Sam Altman says one-person unicorns are 1–2 years away. The bottleneck isn't AI capability — [...]
5 AI Predictions for the Next 5 Years
From instant translation reshaping Europe to space data centers overtaking Earth compute — 5 AI-driven [...]
AIGernon Running on Zo Computer
Michael Grady built a production AI system for neurodivergent professionals using my Assess-Decide-Do framework and [...]
Claude Mythos, the Anthropic IPO and the Apocalypse that Never Was
Claude Mythos may indeed by a good model, but there's a lot of fear mongering [...]
March 2026 (10)
The 58th Mouse: What a Cloning Experiment Tells Us About Isolation — and AI
Japanese researchers cloned mice for 58 generations. What killed them has everything to do with [...]
We Don’t Spend Our Lives (Just) Talking
Chat isn't the final AI interface. Embodied cognition, spatial interaction, and peripheral signals matter too. [...]
Introducing Flight Lens – Flight Intelligence and Ticket Prices
Flight Lens computes a real-time traffic pulse for global aviation. Search flights, set alerts for [...]
Introducing Hacking Habits – Flowing Financial Resilience
Calculate the life hours cost of any purchase, install financial habits in 15 days, and [...]
AI Made Us All Wizards – Wizards of Oz
The billion-dollar one-person company sounds like a cheat code. But someone still pulls the levers [...]
February 2026 (11)
The World After Oil: Can AI Inference Be the Next Reserve Currency?
Ray Dalio says the dollar is in trouble. If AI inference replaces oil as the [...]
5 Random Words – An AI Storytelling and Image Generation Experiment with Apple Intelligence
How I built Just 5 Words, an iOS app that turns 5 random words into [...]
Zen Tales – The Buddhist Stories App I Wish I Had 10 Years Ago
Listen to 50 Buddhist stories with AI-powered reflections. From koans to Buddha's life, Zen Tales [...]
Lessons Learned While Vibe Coding an iOS App in 7 Days, from Idea to App Store – Genesis Prompt Inside
5 practical lessons from building iOS apps with Claude Code in 7 days. Includes my [...]
Why I Built AI Kiddo, A Kids Vocabulary App (and How)
How watching my toddler master YouTube's UX led me to build AI Kiddo, a vocabulary [...]
January 2026 (15)
Why Trust Matters More Than Technology for Human Survival
Technology made everything fakeable and cheap. Now trust—not intelligence—is our survival currency. Why returning to [...]
Assess Decide Do in Claude, but with Skills
How using Claude skills reduced my ADD framework's integration overhead by 94%. From monolithic megaprompt [...]
How To Deal With Crab Mentality, the Reddit Flavor
Understand how crab mentality works on Reddit. Learn why posts start getting attacked once they [...]
How To Avoid Being Scammed on LinkedIn
Learn to spot sophisticated LinkedIn recruitment scams that use compromised accounts and malicious repos. Use [...]
I Asked My Claude AI If “He’s” Actually Magic
Reveals AI that calls itself "appropriately modest" is slightly chilling. Exploring the inflection point where [...]