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Training the Fast Brain
May 19, 2026 · 4 min read
My fast brain runs most of my day. The leverage I have found is treating my instincts as a trained policy — something I can install deliberately, not just inherit.
The Systems I Build Are the Ones I Needed
May 3, 2026 · 4 min read
For years I thought I was a builder by temperament. After being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I started re-reading the catalogue — and the building started to look less like preference and more like compensation. A note on what I have figured out, and the part I have not.
Briter — Technical Companion
Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min read
Architecture, auth model, image pipeline, git-sync queue, and the content-only deploy fast path that makes Briter feel fast. Plus the Next.js 16 standalone gotchas that future-me will thank present-me for.
Briter — Or, What Happens When You Diagnose the Wrong Problem
Apr 18, 2026 · 5 min read
I thought I needed a way to reach people more consistently. What I actually needed was a way to stop losing drafts to the friction of publishing them. This is the story of that misdiagnosis, the small tool I built in response, and where I think it goes next.
Workspace 42 — How I Stopped Losing Context Between My Own Days
Apr 11, 2026 · 5 min read
How I built Workspace 42 with Notion, n8n, and TickTick to stop losing context between days and reduce the friction between notes, meetings, and tasks.
Workspace 42 — Technical Companion
Apr 11, 2026 · 6 min read
The technical companion to Workspace 42 — the n8n workflow architecture, why business logic lives as scripts, the cron schedule, and the tradeoffs I'm consciously carrying.