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How AI Put My Wife Into Labor

I automated my paternity leave: calendar blocks, out-of-office, client emails, team notification. One trigger, everything fires. The trigger fired two weeks early. My wife was asleep.

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Your AI-Generated Content Looks Like Shit

I read my AI morning briefing as 400 lines of markdown in a terminal window for months. One sentence fixed it. I'm going to be mad about the wasted time forever.

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My First Brain Sucks. So I Built a Second One.

Every AI session, you rebuild context from scratch. Who you are, what you're doing, how you think. That context is worth keeping. Leaving it in the chat window means you're destroying it every time you close the tab.

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You Have to Be Lazy as Shit to Be Good at Automation

Every productivity guru says be more disciplined, use a planner, wake up at 5 AM. Discipline is not coming. It's not on the schedule. I checked.

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I Accidentally Gave All of One Person's Work to a Different Person for Two Weeks. She Was Very Polite About It.

My automation routed by name. Two people on my team had similar names. The bot had a favorite. It was the wrong one. Twelve tasks went nowhere for two weeks.

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You're Scared of the Wrong Thing

The AI apocalypse started not in a boardroom but in the inbox of someone who kept forgetting to follow up. Spoiler: that was me. You're probably scared of the wrong part.

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I Stole My CEO's Brain and Turned It Into a Script

He spent four hours doing an analysis once. I spent a weekend automating it. Now it runs every week without him. He knows. He's fine with it.

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My Brain Is Broken. Turns Out That's the Job Description.

My neurologist says I have ADHD. My clients say I'm extremely organized. I built 1,300 automations so both things could be true at the same time.

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When Robo Daddy Lies Straight to Your Face

My automated health score flagged an account as churn risk. Every signal pointed the same direction. I almost sent the retention pitch. Then I pulled the call transcript.

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AI Tells Me When to Fish. I Still Don't Catch Shit.

I spent six hours building a Python script to optimize my fishing trips. It accidentally fixed my customer health monitoring too. The fish remain unimpressed.

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I'm an Awful Manager. AI Makes Me Better.

Every Friday I send my team personalized recognition DMs. A script scans their Slack activity and tells me what to look for first. The DM is mine. The research isn't. Both parts are real.

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