Notes

The diagnostic lens. Naming the right question inside a mid-market operating environment given what AI has changed.

Field notes from inside the work. Wins, breaks, and the operating equivalent of getting it wrong and figuring out why.

Repeatable patterns and frameworks. How operators actually run the next quarter.

• The Automation Gap Is Your Window. It's Closing.

  2026-03-17 Operating question

  The gap between AI capability and actual deployment is the biggest strategic variable for growing companies. The firms that treat it as breathing room will suffocate when it closes.

• What I'd Actually Build for a Solo Family Law Firm

  2026-03-05 Operating question

  The system I'd build doesn't write motions. It gives the attorney three extra hours a day to write better ones.

• "Dad, I Just Created JavaScript."

  2026-02-22 Built in the fire

  My ten-year-old sat down with an AI agent, zero coding experience, and a problem he wanted to solve. Five hours later, he'd built a working chess game.

• AI Just Compressed Your Production Costs. Now What?

  2026-02-22 Operating question

  When technology compresses the cost of production, the businesses that restructure around the new economics win. The ones that try to preserve the old model lose ground.

• Your AI Agent Has Read Access to Every File on Your Computer (And You Probably Don't Know It)

  2026-02-22 Built in the fire

  I set up an AI agent with a separate user account and no admin privileges. Then I found out macOS was quietly giving it access to my personal files anyway.

• How to Set Up OpenClaw on a Dedicated Mac Mini (And Why You Should)

  2026-02-16 Operating playbook

  Most guides for setting up AI agents start at 'run the install command.' Nobody talks about the decisions you need to make before that.