Three things I delete from almost every AI draft
When I use AI for first drafts, I spend most of my editing time deleting: fake origin stories, forced AI angles, and tidy morals the model invented for me.
Thoughts
Notes on tech, work, and life from 11 years of building digital things. Less hot take, more slow take. 28 posts
The practice that fell apart after ten minutes
A beautifully structured 90-minute U12 baseball practice fell apart in ten minutes. The fix was not a better spreadsheet, but a one-sentence pocket plan.
When I Stop Correcting a Young Player
How I decide when another coaching cue will help a young player and when it will only create noise, freeze them up, and block real learning.
What I Write Down During a Youth Baseball Game
During youth baseball games, I let the app track the score and use my notebook for the human data: faces, failed drills, invisible players, and one actionable line per kid.
Fluent emptiness and the missing Tuesday morning
A draft about my Withings scale sounded polished and personal, but it was fluent emptiness. Here is how I now spot that pattern and push writing back to real detail.
What My Automated Archive Exposed About My Writing
Reading a batch of AI-written posts in my Ghost archive made the patterns obvious: recycled transitions, invented habits, generic intros, fake closure, and why even a few real notes change the result.
I Would Rather Publish 600 Useful Words
Fixed word counts made my writing longer, not better. I stopped aiming for 1,000+ words and started cutting until it hurt. The result: denser posts, better trust.
The lineup I got wrong
One bad Saturday lineup showed me how quickly attitude and last year’s logic can override hard numbers, and how I changed my process afterward.
What a 90ms Font Swap Taught Me About Performance Budgets
A tiny 90ms font swap burned a full day of my attention and completely rewired how I think about performance budgets and where to spend effort.
Coaching Positions: How I Read 12-Year-Olds Before They Know Themselves
Try-out season is where 12-year-olds tell you who they are without using words. You just need to know where to look and how to listen.
Running Family Logistics Like a Sprint Board in a WhatsApp Group
My partner and I run family logistics like a sprint, but our board lives in WhatsApp. No fancy app, no Notion setup. Just one group called “Fam” with a few simple rules.
Sovereign AI for Healthcare Records: Patient-First, Not Platform-First
I wanted to see if sovereign AI plus decentralized records could give patients actual control over their medical data, not just another privacy checkbox. This is the architecture I ended up sketching out.