Weekly build notes showing how I build agentic systems. Steal the systems, workflows and automations.
public-apis lists 2,029 free APIs. I tested 25 worth building with and paired each with three project ideas and a Claude Code prompt to start.
I used to add 15 to 20 items to my list every morning, work all day, and still feel behind. Then I found the top 3 rule. Three focused things a day is 15 a week, 60 a month, all of them the ones that actually move something forward.
A lot of people ask about my schedule, so here it is: the full week. A 4am start, a full-time job leading three teams, a startup, content, gym, and family. It all fits, but only because I follow a system.
Six organizing concepts behind the modern second brain: PARA, Johnny.Decimal, MOCs, Zettelkasten, GTD, and Diátaxis. What each one is, and the problem it solves.
The gear on my desk. What I use to build every day. Some links are Amazon affiliate links — I earn a small commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you.
The apps and software I open every day. Descriptions in my own words, grouped by role.
The last mile of shipping a site is always the same: deploy it, then wire up a real domain. I turned that whole flow into one Claude Code skill. Deploy to Vercel, point a Cloudflare subdomain at it, done in a few minutes.
I ship a lot of sites. Every one gets the same four analytics tools, wired the same way, in about twenty minutes. Here is the stack and why each one earns its place.
GA4 counts who showed up. It does not tell you what they did. Here is the tiny dataLayer helper I use to track a whole funnel, forwarded to GA4 by a single Tag Manager tag.
Here are 4 methods to enhance your markdown reading experience inside VS Code. Pick the one that matches how you actually work.
For years, every meeting I sat in evaporated when the call ended. Then I stopped trying to capture them by hand and built an agent that does it for me. Here is what changed in my week, and why this is the first automation I would build if I were starting an agency or startup today.
I joined Tiago Forte's Build a Second Brain cohort a few years ago. Loved the framework. Could never keep up the maintenance. Over the last two months, that changed. I built five AI operating systems using Claude Code and Hermes-Agent. Here is what is different now, and the one that I keep thinking about.
I went quiet on social media for three months. No posts, no comments, nothing. I went deep with two co-founders. One is a marketing genius. The other runs a 7-figure ad agency. What 90 days of silence and proximity actually taught me, and why I would do it again.
My personal site was invisible to AI search engines. No robots.txt, no schema, no llms.txt. Here's how I fixed it in one session and went from a GEO score of ~15 to 78 out of 100.
My cofounder watched me debug for three hours and asked why I was still smiling. The answer became a phrase we say to each other every day.
You can't pick the perfect gem from the bottom of the jar without picking one from the top first. Here's how 9 imperfect ideas led me to the one that stuck.
In 2025, I came back to code after 12 years away. I shipped 9 products in 10 months. None of them got traction. But each one led to the next, and the last one stuck.
After 12 years in management, I thought my coding days were behind me. Then I discovered AI coding tools and started staying up until 4 AM again.