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The Missing Link Was My Phone
Connecting my phone to Grok Bot brought reminders into my daily notes. The requested updates work. The nightly automation still has to prove itself.
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Claude and Cody Can Ask Each Other
I asked Cody, my collaborator in OpenAI’s Codex, whether Claude Code could consult it for a second opinion. Both are AI assistants I use to work directly with files on my computer. Once that route worked, I asked for the reverse: could Cody consult Claude? That became two custom skills in my Obsidian notes vault:…
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When Life Floods Your Plans
On September 26, water started entering the ground floor of my house in Bangkok. I switched off the electricity downstairs and stayed on the second floor while it kept rising. Heavy rain is familiar here. During the rainy season, you get used to sudden downpours and flooded streets. Watching the water enter my own house…
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The Asshole Label Is Not a Strategy
I have joined meetings while looking at another screen, thinking about the next task, and only half listening. I finished Robert I. Sutton’s The Asshole Survival Guide less interested in identifying the assholes around me and more worried about how easily I could act like one without noticing. That wasn’t comfortable. I like to think…
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What Survived 90 Days of AI Use
On September 11, I built and tested a negotiation-prep skill against two fictional situations. It became Day 090 when I closed the missing log entry two days later. The Outcome field says Worked. The Reusable field says Needs refinement. I haven’t used it for a real negotiation. That split is the clearest result of the…
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The Fix Moved the Work
Every time I changed one part of my notes system, the edit usually finished before the job did. I still had to remember which dashboard, map, log, or context file now disagreed with it. If I missed one, the next session started from stale information. On July 7 I turned that follow-through into a workflow…
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Can You Leave Your Software?
On August 25, I asked Codex to search my notes for earlier work on digital ownership. It read the Markdown files directly from the vault. Obsidian wasn't part of the access path. That showed something narrower than ownership: the notes were accessible outside the application that organizes them. I used to judge software at the…
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The Rule Didn’t Force the Check
On July 27 I told my AI operator to open today’s notes. It launched Obsidian. What I meant was create the Markdown files for the day and start filling them in. The clarification took ten seconds. It’s recorded in that day’s learning entry under “Human corrections required,” and it’s why I started questioning where responsible…
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A Streak Is Not a Record
On June 1, I picked a habit tracker and wrote myself a warning in the same note. The tracker was Streaks. I already owned it, so the test cost me nothing. It also fit Health and Apple Watch better than the alternatives I was considering. The warning was this: I’d bought Streaks once before and…
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My Camera Wish List Became a Storage System for Wanting
Near Chinatown at night, I photographed a welder with the Fuji 90mm f2. Sparks came off the work while the surrounding light fell away from the sharp subject. The first-generation Fuji 56mm f1.2 gave me a similar result with a stray cat sitting inside a market stall, also at night. I can’t define “Fuji magic”…