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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”…
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You Can’t Ask a Tool If You Still Need It
A tool can make a persuasive case for keeping itself without bias. The problem is the important context it cannot see.
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NotebookLM Is Now Gemini Notebook. The Boundary Matters More Than the Name.
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and connected it more closely to Gemini. The useful question is whether the source boundary remains visible.
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Complexity Signals the Unresolved
I had fourteen AI agents, and I couldn’t decide which ones to cut. I’d built each one for a reason. Research, writing, editing, coaching, Obsidian vault management, code, distribution, travel. Every agent had a brief and a defined role. The system still felt oversized. Two more AI models had joined the workflow. Several roles overlapped.…
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GPT-5.6 Sol Got Its Own Release Wrong. That Was the Useful Part.
I asked GPT-5.6 Sol to suggest three AI-learning activities I could finish in under five minutes. It ran a web search to ground the suggestions and came back with a warning: GPT-5.6 was still in preview and unavailable in ChatGPT. There was one problem. I was already using it. The model had found an official…
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Find the Break, Not the Motivation
A stalled task is not always a motivation problem. Sometimes the break sits between the plan and the capacity of the day.
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What 30 Days of AI Use Actually Changed
The experiment started badly. On Day 1, I built an Obsidian plugin for the AI Learning Path. The plugin worked. The logging habit didn’t. I missed the first entry and had to recover it the next day through a structured interview. That was the first useful signal. The failure wasn’t model quality. It was system…