Over the last few years, I've become the person my business partners and collaborators come to when their AI tools aren't behaving.

One partner was arguing with ChatGPT (or Claude, or Gemini -- the specific tool hardly matters) about it not doing what was being asked. As we dug in, I realized our experiences were wildly different despite using the exact same interfaces.

They were taking all the LLM's suggestions -- we are highly social animals, and it would be rude not to go along! -- whereas I am ruthless about keeping irrelevant and potentially distracting things out of the conversation. That one distinction transformed their results. Even just the secondhand version they shared with another of their business partners improved their chats, too.

Another collaborator wanted to prototype software without me hand-holding every step. I gave them a starter project, they used "vibe coding" tools to lay out screens and mock functionality over a couple weeks. We then spent a day or two rebuilding on the right foundation, and they had live users in the system the next week.

The push that finally tipped me over the edge came from my friend Andre Chaperon. I made a throwaway comment in Andre's community about sharing my thinking around all this "some day." Andre gave me a loving challenge: what was keeping me from shipping in public? My immediate answer was "time." There's a kernel of truth there, but it isn't the whole story. I then realized it was a form of perfectionism -- I didn't want to share incomplete thinking while things were still coming together. Which is exactly what Andre's phrase "shipping in public" is designed to inoculate against.

I also told myself a story about not wanting to be known as "the AI guy." I dismissed that just as quickly: I'm already being sought out for my opinions on this. I might as well share them in a way that helps more people. That's part of my calling -- to help the helpers, to amplify expertise -- so here I am, leveraging the same LLM-based tools to scaffold the work and share my messy thinking, making it clearer in the process of sharing.

What You'll Find Here

This site is a laboratory, not a showroom. Nothing is final -- especially considering how fast this whole field is evolving and the way tools and thinking are changing every day.

My perspective is pragmatic, from inside the workshop where I'm actively applying the tools and documenting my thinking. Things like working with generative AI as an amplifier of existing expertise, not a replacement for it. Or treating AI output like it came from a talented high-schooler who can do remarkable work, but needs careful quality control on anything outside your domain.

I use these tools as thinking partners, not employees or interns. I'm firmly in the human-in-the-loop camp.

You'll find me writing about how to keep the hyper-human aspects central -- making the important decisions yourself rather than delegating them to a model. About why provider independence matters when the technology moves this fast. About the vocabulary and mental models that help you navigate from simple chat completions through agentic loops and memory systems. About agentic coding, LLM-paired programming, and the levels of abstraction that let you work with these tools rather than for them.

And more importantly, you'll get the insights from decades of delivering trainings and coaching sessions and absorbing models of human interactions. The fact that the AI tools are in our lives doesn't make us less human -- it suggests we embrace our humanity more deeply and more intentionally. And the AI outputs seem to improve when we do, which is a nice bonus.

So, you'll find the frameworks I can't help but reach for -- parallels with human organizational structures, with how we learn and develop expertise, with the curse of knowledge and how it shows up in every generative AI interaction.

Who This Is For

This is for you if:

• You have expertise worth amplifying and you're looking for ways to do that thoughtfully
• You want to engage with the models of humanity, not just the technical hijinks
• You're skeptical of both the AI hype cycle and the AI doom club
• You want pragmatic perspectives from someone who's building with these tools daily
• You're willing to do the thinking work, not just following tutorials and recipes blindly

If that sounds like you, I invite you to explore. Start wherever your curiosity leads.

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This site is built in public. It will be messy, iterative, and evolving -- because that's how thinking works.