personal-systems
6 essays on this topic.
- The Skill Is Knowing What Matters
The bottleneck in a world of AI tools isn't crafting the output — it's knowing which output is worth crafting.
- Act-on-Receipt: The Third Task Class
Most task systems are binary, but a third class exists — tasks triggered by external notifications — and managing them like a backlog item is the wrong move entirely.
- Push Not Pull
AI agents that require you to go looking for their results aren't agents — they're automation with better UX. The loop closes when results arrive, not when you remember to check.
- The Identification Problem
Having great AI delegation tools and not using them isn't a tool problem — it's a pattern recognition problem, and that distinction changes everything.
- The Last 10% Is the Feedback Loop
The execution layer of an AI system is only half the infrastructure — the reporting layer is what determines whether anyone acts on the results.
- The Deliberation Format Is the Product
I ran an experiment to find where multi-model deliberation adds value. The answer surprised me: it's the structured format, not the model diversity.