Blog
I write about productivity, self-development, and building things that matter.
Productivity 
The System Finally Stopped Fighting Me
How I manage projects and tasks in the dashboard I built with Claude Code I spent years searching for the perfect tool. I tried…
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Blog Seventy People in My Yard
Last night my wife and I hosted a barbecue in our yard. Calling it an event is generous; it was a get-together. We invited…
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Productivity What It Actually Costs to Run My Entire Life in a Custom App Built With Claude Code
I’ve now got more than thirty days of real cost data on the dashboard I built in Claude Code, the one a lot of…
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Updates How I Manage My Entire Life with a Custom App I Built in Claude Code
For years I’ve tried to put together a productivity system that actually fit my life. If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ve watched…
Read More » Blog I asked AI about my health for a month. It cost me time I’ll never get back.
On building a system that changed my week, chasing a fix that wasted a month, and the line between them A few weeks ago,…
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Blog We get to live in whatever we build
On burnout, wandering, and the difference between what happened to you and what you participated in Friday evening I opened a Claude chat, connected…
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Blog Caring isn’t scalable. That’s the point.
On personal CRMs, a bus driving away, and what we lose when we outsource the work of remembering This past weekend my son left…
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Blog Friction is why your good intentions don’t stick
On a finished journal, an over-engineered system, and the thing that’s quietly killing your consistency I just finished my third journal. Front to back.…
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Blog You can’t lead out of a place you haven’t seen victory
On a month of depletion, a line that landed while driving, and what it means to lead when you don’t know where the ground…
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Blog When the thing you built around your interests outlasts the interests themselves
On forced pivots, chosen ones, and the hardest transition most builders eventually face I’ve made about five or six significant pivots in thirty years…
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Blog I had AI analyze 90 days of my journal. Here’s what it found.
On confirmation, self-deception, and the things we already know but haven’t changed yet On January 1st, I started uploading my handwritten journal entries to…
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Blog Flying blind
On feedback loops, teenagers, and building things that don’t tell you if they’re working For most of my career I’ve created outcomes for people.…
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