#Tools
The stack: what I run, what I would change, and the tools I dropped.
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Why I Stopped Reading Hacker News Every Day
An honest account of my 7-year daily HN habit, the moment I quit, the 3 things I lost, the 4 things I gained, and the 1 thing I would tell anyone considering a similar change.
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The README That Replaced a Sales Call
A real story about a 1-page README that did the selling for me, the 3 calls I stopped taking, and the 4 sections that made the README actually work.
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A Weekend Project That Made $0
An honest case study of a side project that made $0, what I learned from the project that I could not have learned from the $300 project, and the 1 thing that made the $0 worth shipping.
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My 2026 Tool Stack (and What I Would Change)
A real, no-affiliate, what's-actually-on-my-Mac list of the 14 tools I use daily, plus the 3 I would change tomorrow if I had to start over.
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The 30-Minute AI Audit: What to Keep, What to Kill, What to Try
A practical workflow for triaging your AI tool stack every 90 days. Includes the prompt that runs the triage, the scoring rubric, and the decision matrix.
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Stop Using Cron the Hard Way: A Practical Automation Stack
Cron is fine. Cron alone is the problem. Here is the small stack I use to turn 'I should run that every morning' into something that actually runs, logs, and tells me when it broke.
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Why I Stopped Using 'Helpful' and Started Using 'Useful' Instead
A single-word swap that makes AI output measurably better. The why, the how, and the prompt that does it.
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The Hidden Cost of AI Tools You Don't Use
You are paying for four AI tools and using one. The three you are not using are not free. Here is the real cost, and what to do about it.
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I Built a Blog Writing Factory So I'd Actually Write
I built a blog writing factory in Python last weekend. Not because I wanted to write a blog — I have a Notion graveyard of half-finished posts to prove I do not — but because every time I sat down to write one, the same 30 minutes of 'where do I save the draft, what tone am I using, do I have a checklist' ate the actual writing.
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What I Learned From Posting My AI Outputs Publicly
3 months of posting my AI outputs on social media, what worked, what flopped, and the 3 things I learned about sharing work in public.
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Stop Optimizing Your Prompts. Start Collecting Them.
A prompt library is more valuable than a perfect prompt. The case for collecting, not optimizing, with a starter library of 5 prompts that pay for themselves in a week.
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A Weekend Project That Made $300 (and the Parts That Did Not)
An honest case study of a small side project: what worked, what flopped, the 7 days of work, the $300 in sales, and the 3 things I would do differently.
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Why Your AI Prompts Suck (and the 3-Field Fix That Works)
Most prompts fail for the same three reasons. The fix is not a longer prompt. The fix is a structured one. Here is the smallest structure that actually moves the needle.