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What I am learning, built in the open. The takes are free; the receipts are attached.
A new one ships almost every week now. Here is why chasing the latest one is mostly wasted effort.
14 September 2026Autonomous AI tools are being handed real access faster than anyone is checking whether that is wise.
14 September 2026The gap between a polished product video and the actual tool is often wider than you'd guess. Here is what to check.
14 September 2026AI can help you prepare for a difficult moment. It should never be the one having it for you.
14 September 2026If a free tool already solves it, buying the course is the wrong move, and I would rather tell you that than sell you something.
14 September 2026One version invites you to settle. Three versions make you the editor.
3 August 2026A growing pile of research says the numbers used to rank AI models don't measure what they claim to.
6 August 2026Three self-paced courses just went up. Here is why they exist and what they are not.
10 August 2026After months of doing this daily, here's the one line that would have saved me the most time.
13 August 2026The note-linking dream sold for a decade, and the twenty-minute alternative that actually ships.
27 July 2026The bottleneck was never the intelligence. It is that nobody wrote down what done means.
27 July 2026If you can write a clear email, you already have the core skill. Proof inside.
27 July 2026A real spec-driven build, start to finish, on a tool you can use right now.
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