Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.
42 ways you should be using AI right now - Fast Company
Agentic AI can make life—and work—easier. You know this. But are you doing anything about it? Time to get off the sidelines and into the game.
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.
Amelia Wattenberger
I create things on the web, explore novel interfaces, turn data into meaning, and empower devs with AI.
AI as the greatest source of empowerment for all
I’ve always considered myself a pragmatic technologist—someone who loves technology not for its own sake, but for the direct impact it can have on people’s lives. That’s what makes this job so exciting, since I believe AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history. If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever.
My Thoughts on AI, Part 2: Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools
My own personal AI development setup, workflow, and tooling
I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
The Ma of a New Machine – Scott Jenson
The current Silicon Valley flex is trading notes on your favorite new AI tools over lunch. Each week brings another one to explore. Some of these tools are very impressive; I’ve been able to reply to someone with an alternative UI design in less than a minute, and they were dumbfounded: “How did you do that so fast?”
21 Productivity Hacks I’ve Picked Up Over the Years
A thorough list of practical productivity methods I've used and refined over the last 16 years.
I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
AI as a Tool for the Mental Load | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
AI didn't make me faster at tasks. It took over the tracking, the invisible remembering that runs a household, and gave me back creative energy I forgot I had
How to Do AI-Assisted Engineering
15 experienced engineers and engineering leaders share their real-world experiences with AI-assisted engineering.
On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI
Many students who are just now embarking on a PhD in AI are understandably anxious. It feels like our field is zooming forward ever faster. Our clever methods are often surpassed before they are published. Our deep insights seem less critical to frontier lab progress. AI is automating aspects of the research process that used to require years of specialized training.
36 important life and work lessons a top tech executive learned before turning 30
The days are long but the decades are short.
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Artificial adventures
I've been playing around with AI. Nothing I'm doing is particularly exciting, but the internet tends to only surface the most extreme opinions in either direction and I found it useful to hear from friends who have opinions that aren't optimized for click-through rate.