The Flywheel Effect of Structured Learning
Why deliberate learning compounds differently from everything else we consume.
The Notebook — Full Archive
Every entry mirrors Some Assembly Required — new posts appear here automatically on the next rebuild.
What an Agent Does When It Doesn’t Know What To Do. Or Shouldn’t Do.
This is the second article in a series about designing agents.
The Purpose of an Agent Is What It Does
We keep using AI to automate old processes.
Taylor Swift Taught Me How To Write Better System and Agent Prompts
The first system prompt I ever wrote for a client had four adjectives before the verb.
I bought a book last week. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford’s inquiry into the value of work—hand to tool to material, the kind of competence you can’t fake because the motorcycle either starts or it doesn’t.
I have been using ChatChat to build a canonical record of how I work, and the relationship between the end product and the thinking that got me there.