Writing
Insights from building AI systems
Architecture, patterns, and lessons learned.
Architecture
The Four-Tier Skills Architecture
How I organize 44 AI skills across personal, development, consultant, and system layers using a single decision tree.
Self-learning
Breadth Reveals Transferability
The leap from Level 6 to Level 7 wasn't from going deeper. It was from proving patterns work across 7 domains.
Self-learning
Building a Compounding Knowledge System
Most knowledge systems decay. Here are the rules for building one that gets smarter over time.
Architecture
Context Accumulation Is the Hardest Problem
Full product campaigns can exceed 200K tokens. Neither pure RAG nor pure summarization solves this alone.
Self-learning
Contextual Nudging Over Random Reminders
Growth recommendations should surface when you're already in the relevant context — not as random interruptions.
Industry
The End of Easy SaaS
Software stocks lost $285B last week. The panic says agents killed SaaS. The reality is more interesting.
Architecture
When to Let the Agent Decide — and When to Ask a Human
The hardest part of AI agent workflows isn't the AI. It's knowing when to pause and ask a human.