Writing
Essays, investigations, and commentary.
Just say no to STE-100
Or: the right tool for aircraft maintenance is the wrong tool for your Tuesday.
Everyone wants to write with impact. Almost nobody knows the methods.
The techniques are a century old. Choosing between them is the part nobody does, so I built something that does. Testers wanted.
More on Mechanical Writing
Exploring Claude's Output Styles as communication mechanisms.
In Defense of Mechanical Writing
Writing has a job to do. Perhaps we should specify the job.
Introducing Work-Ledger
See what AI is doing, and how to make the work better
Don’t Tell Me You Used AI. Tell Me What Changed.
How to explain your AI work so hiring managers see judgment, operational thinking, and real business impact.
Evaluate What You’re Building, Not What You’re Paying
Work Ledger: Understanding what your AI investment is actually building.
Security Risks, Common Pitfalls, and Best Practices in the Claude Skills Ecosystem
How do we know what good looks like?
Tricorder: A System for Learning from Code Review
An LLM-based system for capturing, measuring, and operationalizing the knowledge created during code review.
Flow State or Documentation: This Skill Lets You Have Both
A Claude skill to keep your working notes
The most important part of your work evaporates
Working Knowledge — a three-part series on expertise, institutional memory, and the IP problem nobody's treating like one.
This Is What AI-Assisted Building Looks Like
The ideation, the stack, and what it actually takes.
This Is Shipping, Not Showing.
I built four automated podcast feeds without writing code. Why that matters more than the podcasts themselves.
Showing vs. Shipping
Demos are impressive. Equipping is impactful.
Consumer-grade tools. Industrial-grade reach. Civilian-grade judgment.
The three levers that changed what AI can do — you set the limits; you own the outcome.
From nouns to verbs. How to make AI do things, not just say things.
A short, practical setup for connecting Claude Desktop to Gmail via MCP.
Focus Time Is Now Portable
From Idea to Action — Without Breaking Focus
Don’t Let Your AI Session Eat Itself
A Practical Guide to Context Management in Analytics Development
It’s Not You, It’s Me
A field guide to building a durable, high-leverage relationship with AI
Why Your AI Sessions Degrade — And What’s Actually Happening
A deeper look at context decay, for readers of Don’t Let Your AI Session Eat Itself
AI Doesn’t Improve Thinking—Unless You Design for It
The missing ideation layer in AI workflows
AI as a Thinking Multiplier
How I turned a research paper into a system that forces better thinking
Non-Linear Learning With AI
How tools like NotebookLM turn dense documents into navigable ideas
Turning Reading Into Leverage With NotebookLM
How I use AI tools to turn a single article into shareable, domain-relevant insight
Writing Isn’t Hard. Thinking Is.
Using AI to separate ideation, structure, and communication
Napkin Analytics Meets New York Times Wordle (#2)
Why constraints shape judgment
Asking Smaller Questions
How GPS, handwriting recognition, and stroke care were retooled around human judgment
Building a Thoughtful Document Vault on Top of Evernote
A design-first, open-source experiment in long-term storage and retrieval
Napkin Analytics Meets New York Times Wordle (#1)
What a simple word puzzle reveals about reasoning inside constrained systems
The Hidden Structure of Policy Networks
How lobbying coalitions self-organize — and what graph theory reveals about their durability.