My wife is a master planner. She holds the family schedule in her head — who needs to be where, which weeks are heavy, what's about to collide. When she writes "Green ball" on the calendar at 4:30 on Wednesday, there are no other details. There
The hardest part of working from home isn't the work. It's the transitions. No commute to decompress, no walk between buildings, no physical signal that says: different mode now. You know the feeling. You close a work call and your kid walks in. You're
I've been maintaining lists for twenty years. To-do apps, GTD, outliners, sticky notes. In recent years I came back to handwritten notebook and pen, Bullet Journal, interstitial journaling between tasks, some Apple Notes and Reminders, a shared family calendar. Fewer tools, more analog, less overhead. They all worked.
Software has always justified itself by scale. You build something because a million people will use it. The cost of writing code demanded that math. One engineer's time had to be worth more than one person's problem. AI just broke that equation. Right now, people are
I've read about mental models for years. Munger's latticework. Farnam Street's catalog. Shane Parrish's book. I could name twenty models at a dinner party and explain each one clearly. I couldn't tell you the last time I used one to
I'm good at building things. I'm not good at the stuff that keeps a life running. I can design a system, lead a team, debug a problem at 2am. But ask me to organize a trip and I'll stare at browser tabs for an
Most personal AI is a capable stranger. It can summarize a document, plan a trip, draft an email. But it doesn't know what you avoid, what you crave, what patterns you fall into when you're stressed. Infinitely helpful, infinitely generic. I wanted to see what would
How I replaced a dozen apps with a git repo and an AI that reads markdown files.