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Essays on product, AI, leadership, and building. Long-form, hands-on, and occasionally about what broke.
Career
Applying for jobs is like stand-up comedy
A lot of the standard job search advice is bunk, and the rest is easier to follow if you treat the whole thing like an open mic. Go up rusty, test your material, learn to handle hecklers.
June 23, 2026
Leadership
Everyone can build now. The fundamentals shouldn't change.
AI made everyone a builder. It didn't say who orchestrates them, or who validates and integrates all the prototypes.
June 23, 2026
Building with AI
You should have a website. And you can build it in an hour with Claude.
An old colleague got laid off, shipped a personal site ten days after I sent him a starter kit, and took back his story online. So I turned the starter into a free plugin.
June 11, 2026
Building with AI
AI is researching you. Make sure it gets your story right.
ChatGPT showed up in my site's referrer logs. Companies are worrying about how they appear in AI search. The same logic applies to many of us.
June 10, 2026
Building with AI
How to Digitally Detox Right Now (Even If You're Job Searching)
I check my inbox twice a day. Here's what a morning briefing from my AI assistant gave me back in a brutal job market.
June 8, 2026
Building with AI
Need an AI recruiter that works for you? Try this one.
Open-sourced a Claude Code plugin that turns Claude into your job search assistant. The accessible version of the system I built for myself, free on GitHub.
June 6, 2026
Building with AI
I build web apps from my phone. Here's the whole setup.
No code, no IDE, just a Telegram message. A Mac at home runs Claude Code, and a free guide gets you the same setup.
April 14, 2026
Building with AI
We're not building great AI tools for non-technical audiences (yet)
I built a job scanner that runs while I sleep. I couldn't hand it to a smart, motivated friend. The gap between 'I want that' and 'I can do that' is still enormous.
March 20, 2026
Building with AI
What Running an AI Job Scanner Daily Actually Looks Like
Two weeks running my AI job scanner. The field report: extraction failures, a temporary block, duplicate noise, and what actually held up.
March 6, 2026
Building with AI
I Paid to Scrub My Data From Hundreds of Data Brokers. Then I Sent Even More to an AI.
I pay a service to scrub my data from hundreds of brokers. Then I hand an AI my taxes, my finances, my fears. Where should that personal context actually live?
March 2, 2026
Building with AI
I Built an AI Job Search Assistant That Texts Me When It Finds Roles I Should Apply To
How a Mac Mini in my apartment scans LinkedIn twice a day, filters for roles that match my profile, and texts me the results, for about six cents a day.
February 23, 2026