Executive Orders. In Plain Language.
July 17, 2026
Every new U.S. Executive Order, put into plain language, with a receipt on every claim: click it and see the exact sentence, highlighted in the official text.
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Writing
I take things that look complicated and break them down into something you can use. It's how I wrote my books, and it's how I think: the concept that seems elusive is usually one good explanation away from obvious. Some of it is what I've learned, some is what I'm still figuring out, and some is just me thinking out loud.
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Apps at the Speed of Need
July 4, 2026
Anyone can attempt to prompt an app into existence now. The middle layer that used to build our software is thinning, and what it carried didn't disappear. The work remains.
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AI Models & Tools for Collection Management
June 29, 2026
I came home with six bottles of rum and realized I'd lost track of my own collection, so I built a private catalog on my own hardware that reads labels and enriches itself from the web. Then I wrote the recipe so you can build your own.
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AI for Coffee: Or How I Automated the One Thing That Didn't Need Automating
June 15, 2026
I taught a local AI my coffee palate, tested it against my own dialed-in profiles, and turned the result into a blueprint anyone with a Fellow Aiden can build from.
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AI Doesn't Have to Be a Solo Sport. Until It Is.
May 28, 2026
When I say "solo," I don't mean truly alone. I mean working with AI as the only other presence, without other humans in the loop.
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The AI 75% Trap
May 11, 2026
The 75% keeps getting easier. The 25% is where the work lives.
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Show & Tell: Deep Research and Asking the Tool How to Use the Tool
April 15, 2026
The first thing I did was ask Qwen what I was about to ask Qwen to do.
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All of This Has Happened Before. All of This Will Happen Again.
April 12, 2026
The material changed and the design process somehow managed to stay the same.
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Show & Tell: Building a Pipeline Worthy of the Content
April 11, 2026
I had the materials, the curiosity, and the infrastructure. The only thing missing was the pipeline to put it together.
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AI Needs UX: Principles for Integration, Trust, and Clarity
April 9, 2026
A set of UX principles for AI that reflect how we design, deliver, and validate human-centered AI in real-world systems.
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Show & Tell: Dammit Jim! I'm a UX Designer, Not a Firewaller!
March 22, 2026
At my core, I'm a UX designer. One evening last week, I realized I needed to understand my own systems much better.
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Show & Tell: It Took 6 Months to Launch an iOS App in 6 Days
March 18, 2026
The Feed & Thread is the result of six days and six months. I never knew I wanted to launch an iOS app when I started.
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Show & Tell: Tugboat
March 17, 2026
I wanted to understand a geopolitical conflict better than my usual news sources were letting me. So I built Tugboat.