Articles

10 articles

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The Scoreboard Is the Moat

How to turn your own taste into a number, gate your publishing on that number, and grow a set of checks that gets stronger every week — no engineering required.

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Every Decision Was a Decision to Build Less

A meta-analysis of the reasoning pattern that ran through one refactor session — and how to turn it into a thinking skill you can run on purpose.

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I Stopped Trying to Prompt My Way Out of AI Slop. I Built a Scoreboard Instead.

A working session where an X post about fixing AI slop became a real, running quality gate — one that blocked a bad change, caught a silent production dip, and turned every failure into a permanent test.

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The Absorption Stack

How LLM capabilities reshaped knowledge work in five moves — and what's left for the practitioner once each layer of cognitive labor gets absorbed.

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The Ladder Was the Trap

Eight AI-era identities in forty months — and why the practitioners who kept climbing are losing even when they think they're winning.

series

The Judgment-Builder's Blueprint

A teaching series on building the judgment infrastructure that AI can extend but not replace.

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Three Rounds of Not Quite Built the Skill I Needed

How a fuzzy idea about teaching through AI conversations became a working /teaching-block command — and what each failed version revealed.

tutorial

Brand Writing Team — Skill Reference

A multi-role writing team that takes a raw idea from a knowledge entrepreneur and produces a publishable brand-building piece. Six specialist roles, one orchestrator, clear handoff contracts.

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I Built a 6-Agent AI Team That Writes PRDs

A deep-dive into TrelloAgents — how a Kanban board became a state machine, six Claude sub-agents replaced a Python orchestrator, and the 1→N→1 pipeline pattern behind it all.

series

Ambient AI: The Invisible Harness

A 7-part series on building ambient intelligence systems that work invisibly around your knowledge practice.