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Reviews, recommendations, and guides for various digital tools, applications, and resources that enhance productivity, creativity, or technical capabilities.

69f4f3ddf78e5b4c9406b684 2026-05-01

You don't need to know what an agent is to use one

Two things matter, context and tools. Here's how to walk yourself from a one-shot prompt to a scheduled task that runs your morning, using a kid's school inbox and tomorrow's calendar.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753c6 2026-04-19

First look at Claude Design: the grind goes away

A weekend with Claude Design. Your job is safe. Most of it. The production-line work belongs to the robots now, same as it did for PMs and engineers. Figma should be worried, and designers should be ready to reclaim the strategic seat.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753c5 2026-04-02

The Problem With Your AI Setup Is You

Your AI workflows are probably fine. The problem is that they still wait for you to show up. Moving from automation to autonomy is less about capability and more about your willingness to let go.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753c4 2026-03-19

Product Managers, Stop Carrying Water for Your AI

You paste in Slack threads, Jira tickets, meeting notes. The AI writes something great. But you spent an hour gathering context so it could spend ten seconds synthesizing. You're doing the grinding. It's having the fun. That doesn't feel right.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753c3 2026-03-11

One Document, Every Touchpoint

I distilled how I talk about my work into a single positioning doc, then used Claude Code to propagate it across my website, LinkedIn, and scheduling page in an afternoon. The friction of keeping your positioning in sync is gone, and that changes how often you're willing to do it.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753c0 2026-02-03

I Had a Tense Client Call Coming Up. AI Did the Prep I Wouldn't Have.

AI will help us do the things we already do. But it will also help us do all the things we wouldn't have done that can make all the difference.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753b9 2025-09-02

Tools My Tools Can Use

A small project for a non-profit client revealed why I'm choosing different tools now. I no longer want tools that expect me to use them. I want tools that my tools can use. The future isn't no-code, it's AI-orchestrated code.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753b6 2025-07-02

Building Your Personal Data Pipeline: Taking Control of Your AI Context

Companies leverage proprietary data for AI advantage. As individuals, we should too. I'm building my own personal data pipeline to make all my scattered context (notes, conversations, insights) searchable and mine. Here's why you should consider doing the same.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753b5 2025-06-16

How to Build AI Automations That Others Can Actually Use

AI can generate any script, but handing it off to non-technical users is still a nightmare. I found a way to use AI to build visual workflows that others can actually run and modify. Here's my breakthrough with n8n and Cursor.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753ab 2025-03-24

AI Use Case: Reclaim Your Focus and Follow-Through with AI Meeting Notes

Transform meetings with AI note-taking. Focus fully on conversations while AI creates summaries with action items. Learn the simple 4-step process plus advanced techniques to turn your meeting library into a searchable knowledge base.