The Assumption You Didn't Know You Had
The cold reader doesn't reveal that you wrote badly. They reveal the assumptions you forgot you'd made. What asking people to read the KnowledgeForge README cold taught me about context and documentation.
Private Tools Don't Export
KnowledgeForge is an open-source reasoning framework for AI coding assistants. Three years of private use, 43 modules reduced to 9 in a Pareto pass — and what writing the README taught me about explaining tools you build for yourself.
What I Wish I'd Known Before Building Nightwatch
What I Learned Building Solo AI Tools: On Limits and Leverage
Solo founders building AI tools hit limits that are structural, not effort-related. Working harder doesn't fix them. Three limits and three leverage points — the ones that actually matter.
The AI Panel That Changed How I Think About Agents (Seattle Tech Week)
I expected the usual conversation about model selection and prompt engineering. What I got was a room full of builders talking almost exclusively about failure modes and environment design.
Nightwatch: What I Built When I Needed Someone to Work While I Sleep
I had a list of monitoring and research tasks that never got done. Not because they weren't important — because they required sitting at a computer. So I gave a machine the keys.
From AI Tinkerer to Tool Builder: Three Years of Surviving the AIPocalypse
Three years ago, I made a decision that would reshape everything: if I was going to survive the coming AIPocalypse, I would