Time-Compression & Lossy Reach
(Or, how the "Solitude Curve" actually works) The solitude curve describes the pattern: AI assistance lets you work independently for longer stretches before needing human intervention. But…
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The Solitude Curve
Whether we're in 1957 looking at the first compiler, or 2025 looking at AI assistants, the dynamic is similar: automation that extends how long you can work productively without external dependencies.…
Firefly: A Safe AI Learning Companion for Kids
Over the past couple weeks, I built "Firefly": a walled-garden AI companion designed specifically for kids. Here's what it looks like in action:…
The Empire Strikes Back
... maybe ... we're watching the end of the era where you could meaningfully opt out of big tech platforms while remaining professionally competitive. Maybe AI integration requirements make that stance unsustainable for anyone who wants to participate fully in modern work.…
A tale of three Claudes
Claude-in-Browser works better than I expected. The Chrome extension lets Claude interact directly with web pages, and I've been using it since it became available to all paying users. It's a…
Current setup
Chickened out on getting the ZSA Navigator; instead, just have a (relatively cheaper) Kensington trackball — not the Slimblade but it’s “junior version”, the Orbit.…
The Augmentation Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight
Everyone's debating whether AI will replace workers. They're missing the revolution: it's already augmenting millions of us. Edward Zitron’s "The Case Against Generative AI" ma…
Renting Intelligence by the Hour
[saw how new features over the last year are all either "Pro-first" or even "Pro-early", have had lingering thoughts about this since ...] Think of the gap between two people tack…
Janus v2.0
* I've released Janus v2.0, a native macOS AI chat application with dual provider support. You can download it here. Why Build This * The original Janus prototype solved a specific problem: I…
Finding the Human Signal: iA Writer’s Authorship Guides
The most valuable writing tool I’ve discovered recently isn’t another AI assistant—it’s iA Writer’s “human versus AI” authorship guides. The feature is quite simple: As you write, iA Writer visibly m…
Quick Youtube summaries
As someone who watches a LOT of Youtube, I need to either get an idea of what a video's about, or sometimes save some details about it in a personal archive. Though I don't have a Gemini Pro…
ClaudeCode & Obsidian: Teaser
I can write a fuller post on this later, but here's a sneak peek at how things can be, when you let ClaudeCode be "a local delegate" to your Vault. Here's it processing my Inbox for…