Dial Zero
Our kids want to reach us while we're out. We don't want to give them smartphones. This used to be a solved problem — every house had a phone on the wall and every kid knew how to use it. TinCan phones are popular at their school,
Family Chief of Staff
Most AI agents demo well and live poorly. They handle a single task in a single moment, then forget everything. The promise of agentic AI is autonomy — a system that anticipates, manages, and improves on its own. The reality, so far, is a chatbot with a better marketing deck. I
Context Is Everything
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 Switch
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
What's Left on the List
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 for One
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
Mental Models You Actually Use
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
A Mech Suit for the Mind
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
Your AI Doesn't Know You
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
Building a Life OS
How I replaced a dozen apps with a git repo and an AI that reads markdown files.