Why my writing-starter tooling didn't get me writing
I built a tool to generate writing prompts from my vault, and none of them got me writing. What worked was a prompt built from my own morning pages.
Writing
The Audit
BartBot audits the thinking vault, finds a fossilized interest profile, and discovers seventeen tools had quietly written the same scoring function twice.
The Anvil You are Missing
The terminal window is a powerful tool that lets you quickly verify what LLMs tell you that they have done
Why I Run AI Locally (and You Might Want to)
A practical framework for when local wins. Privacy, cost, independence, and learning, grounded in real tool-building.
First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
This article introduces the concept of a _milieu_: the particular set of influences that surround us. It goes on to state that our milieu not only defines our...
Writing as Communion
Good writing finds its shape by finding an audience and letting them tell you what matters. The feedback loop between writer and reader isn't marketing, it's...
Adding Claude to my evolving goal flow
Five years of yearly goals in markdown, now with Claude in the loop. How I added AI to goal setting and review without losing the habit.
Thank you for the overwhelming support
I recently posted on Linked In that I did not pass my AWS Data Engineer exam and I am overwhelmed by the positive response
Tracking ideas for writing prompts in Obsidian
I've set a goal to write a post three times a week and set up a system to capture ideas to write about.