A personal notebook
Making tech feel a little more helpful.
Notes on intelligent systems, thoughtful tools, and the work between them.
Teaching AI How I Work
Everyone's showing AI on greenfield projects. Nobody's showing the messy reality of brownfield. Here's how I formalised my process and taught AI to follow it.
Keep readingHow Do You Measure a 10x Developer?
Everyone claims AI makes them faster. I wanted proof. So I scraped three years of my own work data and put it on a graph.
Keep readingThe Moment AI Actually Clicked For Me
I got Copilot early last year and could not buy into the hype. Months later, a 15-minute TypeScript MCP changed everything.
Keep readingI Tried to Prompt Inject My Own AI
I hid prompt injections in my own blog posts and asked three AI agents to summarise them. All three had file-system access. None of them took the bait.
Keep readingMeet Dai: I Set Up OpenClaw This Week
I pointed an AI at my actual life — calendar, voice notes, homelab, file system — and gave it a name. What happened next changed how I think about AI tools.
Keep readingThe Two Speeds of AI Coding
After months of building with AI coding tools, I've landed on two very different workflows. Gas Town for autonomous orchestration, Copilot for mobile iteration. Different gears for different problems.
Keep readingFrom Chaos to Clarity: My Decade-Long Journey Through Personal Knowledge Management
A decade-long journey from OneNote chaos to an AI-augmented PKM system built on PARA. How I finally found a system that evolves with me.
Keep readingHow to automate Windows setup and configuration
Save time and effort by automating your Windows environment setup with PowerShell and Chocolatey.
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