Building with AI
I’ve been building a lot with AI, specifically Claude Code, for the past month. The biggest project …
Apr 2026
Ouroboros
Notes on tools, time, and the shape of personal software
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Building with AI
I’ve been building a lot with AI, specifically Claude Code, for the past month. The biggest project I’ve been working on is Ouroboros. I’ve also done quite a deep dive on this site, using Claude Design to come up with this current iteration, as well as using Claude Code to roll my own CMS for this site. In addition to that, there’s another little service site I’m building that’s a bit under wraps until it launches. I’m abuzz with everything I’ve been building.
Universal Mentor & Coach Prompt
The below prompt is something I add to each conversation I have with LLMs/AIs that isn’t a coding chat. I am concerned a…
Mar 30, 2026
Another morning on the trail
On the trail!
One of the things I’m enjoying is watching the slow changes that occur when walking the same trail mornin…
Mar 24, 2026
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Get it girl!
I’m someone that isn’t ever up on timely cultural trends. It’s probably my allergies to the status quo or …
Mar 24, 2026
Change requires consistency
In order to change, consistency is required in the form of rituals or systems. These provide the backbone and solid base…
Mar 18, 2026
AI Discipline
A lot has been written about the huge leap forward the different AI models went through in late 2025. Before this jump, …
Mar 15, 2026
"We must be willing to be changed by what we see"
From a recent essay:
We tell our daughters that kindness is the most important thing in the world. But how can we be ki…
Mar 15, 2026
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Universal Mentor & Coach Prompt
The below prompt is something I add to each conversation I have with LLMs/AIs that isn’t a coding ch…
Mar 2026
Another morning on the trail
On the trail!
One of the things I’m enjoying is watching the slow changes that occur when walking t…
Mar 2026
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Get it girl!
I’m someone that isn’t ever up on timely cultural trends. It’s probably my allergies t…
Mar 2026
Change requires consistency
In order to change, consistency is required in the form of rituals or systems. These provide the bac…
Mar 2026
AI Discipline
A lot has been written about the huge leap forward the different AI models went through in late 2025…
Mar 2026
"We must be willing to be changed by what we see"
From a recent essay:
We tell our daughters that kindness is the most important thing in the world. …
Mar 2026
Morning on the trail
Snow beginning to melt and stream running clear. On Tuesday, it was 20°C; this morning, -4°C. New En…
Mar 2026
This is a fascinating concept
This is a fascinating concept: Crime as a Service (CAAS). The IMSI Catcher isn’t something I knew ab…
Mar 2026
First ride of the season
It was 20°C today. Went out to start Bella and nothing but clicking. She hasn’t been on a trickle ch…
Mar 2026
Change your liking
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his o…
Jan 2026
Predictability is banality
Denny Crane: You know, the best part of my marriages has always been the first day.
Alan Shore: “Ju…
Jan 2026
Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
See also AI Discipline and Predictab…
Jan 2026
Comets & habits
The meteor belt remains in its circular orbit but occasionally a comet lets loose from some unseen f…
Jan 2026
Complexities in relationships
Do we over-complicate our relationships by adding or considering our fears and insecurities into an …
Jan 2026
Almost everything is a paradox
Often, to gain that which we desire, we must behave in an opposite or in a counter-intuitive manner …
Dec 2025
Grief is a lens with which to increase focus
As Kathryn Schulz remarks in her conversation with Ezra Klein (“Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘…
Nov 2025
It behooves us to know ourselves well and deeply.
If we do not, how can we live a full life? Be a mature, confident, kind, emotionally resilient human…
Sep 2025
The point of education is expanding your known world and self
You should be a different person after active learning. Education grows yourself and should alter th…
Sep 2025
It is difficult to understand our potential without first realizing our potential
Both in my HES religion coursework (on the “Three Peas (Ps)”) and in other writing on Kundera, there…
Sep 2025
Emotions and thoughts do not define personality
Our raw emotions and thoughts aren’t our personality, though they are often conflated as being so. W…
Sep 2025
Stable relationships allow emotions to surface without judgment
From one writer on relational stability:
Goal of relationship is to create a space for both people …
Sep 2025
AI use in education will increase bad behaviors
The past two courses at HES have allowed, even encouraged, use of AI, or rather LLMs. I did use the …
Aug 2025
Learning how to learn requires experimentation, reflection, and then adjusting based on internal feedback
One writer on learning puts it well: we need to “experiment, reflect, adjust” in order to learn how …
Aug 2025
Concentrated effort is required to foster critical thinking
Thinking hard and deep about concepts and ideas requires focus and concentration. This means activel…
Jul 2025
College English majors can't read critically
A recent study tested college English majors and their inability to distinguish between figurative a…
Jul 2025
Meditation creates the capacity to open our lives
A very real consequence to meditating so regularly, albeit for short durations at a time, is that li…
Jul 2025
Relying on technology for processing notes and information doesn't mean you'll understand it
Reading through a recent guide on zettelkasten practice (section 2.3.3), one notes that we can highl…
Jul 2025
Teenagers are infantilized in the modern age
Hackers, the 1995 film, treats high school students like adults, as opposed to the infantilization o…
Jul 2025
The Enshittocene is what we get when capitalism is the driving force
The Enshittocene, coined by Cory Doctorow, is the “perfect breeding ground for the worst practices i…
Jun 2025
Be real online
One writer described AI as a “mediocrity machine” — the culmination of reducing attention spans to s…
Jun 2025
It can happen (again)
Because something hasn’t happened before, does not mean that it won’t happen in the future. And thos…
Jun 2025
The app behind the notes
Ouroboros is also a desktop app.
Calendar, tasks, notes, and people in one local-first workspace. Tauri + SvelteKit + SQLite. Standards-based, private by default.
Tour the app