Productivity
22 posts
How I Use AI to Act on Ideas, Not Just Collect Them
Two changes doubled my follow-through on ideas: defining a first step for everything, and building a bridge to AI tools for execution.
Your Ideas Deserve Better Than Apple Notes
Apple Notes is fine for grocery lists. But ideas need a first step, a status, and a path to action. Here's what I built instead.
The Case for a Dumb Idea App
Ideas aren't tasks. They don't need due dates, priorities, or kanban boards. They need fast capture, a first step, and a path to execution.
Evergreen Gets Even Evergreener
Continued development of my personal CRM Evergreen and how AI agentic coding with Claude and MCP helps make rapid iteration happen.
Project Diaries in ContextSwitch: Your AI-Powered Development Journal
How ContextSwitch's diary feature combined with Claude Code hooks creates an automated development journal that tracks decisions, progress, and blockers.
AI Tools I Actually Use
A practical rundown of the AI products I use daily for software development and work - no hype, just what actually works for me.
Claude Skills: Teaching Your AI Assistant Context-Aware Expertise
How Claude Skills let you embed reusable expertise into your projects, with a deep dive into building a de-slop skill for cleaning AI-generated code.
MCPB: One-Click Installation for MCP Servers
How the new MCP Bundle format makes installing Model Context Protocol servers as easy as browser extensions, with thoughts on where it fits in the ecosystem.
Building a Personal Prompt Library with MCP and Lexicon
How Lexicon turns your personal prompt templates into MCP prompts that automatically become slash commands in Claude Code
Evergreen Gets Serious: Building Tools That Think With You
How a simple personal CRM evolved into a flexible relationship management system powered by MCP prompts and detailed action tracking