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.
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.