- Oct 26, 2026
One Place for Every Project: What Two Months of ClickUp Did for How I Organize My Work
I wanted one place for the ideas I have across all my projects, and a record of changes that's easier to read than a list of GitHub commits. ClickUp became that place, and it now holds the ideas and progress for four projects. - Sep 28, 2026
Opus Plans, Haiku Writes the Docs: A Planning Skill That Picks the Model for Every Step
I'm on Claude's $20 Pro plan, so I'm always looking for ways to get more work out of it without paying more. The phased plan skill makes every plan say which model does each step, and it runs by itself whenever I'm in plan mode. - Sep 2, 2026
Cheap Enough to Be Wrong: Testing a Hypothesis Before Building On It
I was sure a hosted reading service would make my daily learnings deeper. Instead of building it, I spent a morning building the thing that would tell me whether I was right. - Aug 20, 2026
Challenges of a Small Model: Managing the Context Window
My nightly wiki job kept warning me it was almost out of context. Doubling the window made the warnings stop, which turned out to be the least interesting thing I could have done about it. - Aug 4, 2026
Intentional Frugality: Building Functional AI on a Limited Monthly Budget
When I started actively building AI workflows this past April, I didn't sit down with a strict, pre-planned budget. What I did have was a healthy, operator-level anxiety about the cost of compute. - Jul 28, 2026
Building Wren: How a Morning Brief Script Evolved into a Local Agent OS
I started with one question — how much real work can a personal AI assistant handle on local hardware, without shipping your daily life through a cloud API? - Jul 25, 2026
The First Four Months: From AI Discovery to Forging Wren
When I retired at the end of March 2026, my day-to-day shifted from the standard corporate track to a new phase of rigorous, hands-on technical building. Here is a look at exactly how I have spent my time. - Jul 25, 2026
The journey begins…
Welcome to my personal logbook. As a tech professional who bridges the gap between Product Management, Engineering Operations, and Software Development, I built this space to document my transition from a 35-year career into an active phase of post-retirement technical building.