What Happens to a Project When You Stop for Three Weeks?
I took almost three weeks off from building anything. Here's what I noticed when I came back, and why I think that matters more than daily output does.
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Learn to See Your Work as Systems
The cheapest way to understand what LLMs are actually for: stop taking courses, pick one repetitive thing you do every week, and map the trail of little jobs around the part you love. Three worked examples from three very different jobs.
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I'm Writing a Fantasy Novel Using the System I Used for Business Books
The story bible, chapter beats and check-back loop I used for business books transfer almost completely to fantasy, and the research turned out to be the part nobody warns you about.
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How to make your vibe-coded app not look vibe-coded
Your app doesn't look off because of the code. It looks off because of the defaults you never changed. Here's the checklist.
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The Forests Are Always Thinning
A podcast about the Maya collapse on a weekend run, and the familiar shape of it: the way discipline quietly unspends itself once the pressure eases.
What Coca-Cola's Turnaround Taught Me About Building Small Projects
Lessons from Inside Coca-Cola that apply to building apps, teaching, and making things work better.