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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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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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PARA Worked. Until I Started Thinking.
My Resources folder was a graveyard. Reading notes from books I’d finished, half-formed thoughts that didn’t fit anywhere else, blog drafts with no deadline. Everything that wasn’t a project, wasn’t an area, wasn’t an archive in the obvious sense. It all went to Resources. Which meant it went nowhere. PARA is a good system. It…
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The 1% Rule Works. But Not How You Think
Some mornings I pick up the dumbbells before I’ve fully decided to. Not because I’m disciplined. Because they’re on the floor in front of the wardrobe and avoiding them requires more effort than using them. That’s the whole system. Fifteen minutes, four exercises, done before coffee goes cold. I’ve been at 92 kilograms for a…
