AI, Engineering & Product Essays
AI-Native Obsidian Vault Setup Guide
Instructions for setting up an Obsidian vault as a holistic life operating system covering work, personal life, and everything in between.
Joining Rocket Money as VP of AI Engineering
Leading AI engineering at Rocket Money to write the playbook for how engineering teams operate in the AI era
Running Claude Agents in Parallel with Git Worktrees
Use git worktrees to run multiple Claude agents on separate features without conflicts
AI-Augmented Note-Taking
Claude Code transformed my note-taking from rigid systems into a discovery engine. Learn how AI scaffolding creates competitive advantage through pattern recognition.
Rescuing Your Claude Conversations When You Rename Projects
If you've ever renamed a project folder and watched weeks of Claude Code conversations vanish, here's a script to help you move directories without losing your conversations.
On Shutting Down, Five Years of Learnings, and Teaching What's Next
I Spent 5 Years Building Murmur Labs. Here's What Killed It.
Reflections on 5 years at Murmur Labs. What we built, what worked, what didn't, and how I'd approach starting something new.
Why Every Engineering Tool I've Built Eventually Became a Workflow Tool
From Sherpa at Zappos to Webflow HUD, I've spent my career building tools that make other builders faster. Here's how I approach it.
Greatest Hits
My best writing on AI, software engineering, and the philosophies that guide how I build and collaborate.
How I Use AI Daily
For 2 years I built an AI workflow automation platform. Now I use AI daily to amplify my velocity from one two-week sprint to 10 one-day sprints.
The Cost of AI for The End User
AI companies are struggling to find sustainable pricing models. Subscriptions commoditize, platform taxes feel extractive, usage-based creates friction, and ads remain unproven. The race to monetize AI is revealing fundamental tensions between costs, value, and user expectations.
Stop Buying AI Agents When You Need a Workflow (Here's How to Tell)
The difference between AI workflows and agents boils down to whether you're designing a factory line and hiring a consultant. Both have their place. Confusing them leads to systems that either do too little too rigidly or spin wildly out of control.
Philosophies
The philosophies I live my life by.
The High Throughput Zero-Writing Documentation System
Walk and talk into Voice Memos. Brain dump everything. Ship transcripts to Claude. Get structured output.
Git Worktrees: Multiple Branches, Zero Context Switching
Work on multiple branches simultaneously without the mental overhead of stashing and switching
A 2x2 Framework for Navigating AI Disruption
Not all change requires the same response. A new framework for diagnosing which kind of disruption you're facing—and choosing the right strategy.
The Workflow Builder You Deserved (Magic Mode)
We built it in a week last year. Prompt a workflow into existence, see changes in green and red, accept or reject modifications, then click into nodes to refine. Chat-driven generation that doesn't lock you out when you need the details.
AI Builder's Club
A practical podcast series exploring real-world AI automation workflows.
The New Maker Schedule Isn't About Making
AI agents are turning makers into directors. Our leverage now comes from orchestrating systems, not executing tasks.
Is One the New Many?
AI has made it possible for one person to do what once required entire teams, fundamentally rewiring who can build, compete, and win in the modern economy.