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Claude Chrome: risk of waiting
Claude Chrome automates webpage navigation, but also has a longer wait time than regular chat. It is easy to fill the wait with doom-scroll and free time. Iteration became too easy, it creates the illusion that “doing the work” is “finishing the work”. Stop when the iteration provides marginal gains. Move on.
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Secondhand iPhone
Measure value by result, not money invested. Buying a new iPhone feels amazing. This thing will make my life better in multiple ways, I better match the color with a nice case. Don’t forget screen protector, I don’t want to dent the screen. There’s also that dust plug for the charger cutout. BTW, holiday is…
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Think at 100x scale
The more I talk with AI, the more it felt human. Except it isn’t. I’m limiting artificial intelligence with human intelligence. I can 2x the slide output, 5x if I worked hard, and 10x if I streamlined the workflow. But 100x is not reasonable. This isn’t true for AI. Next time prompting, try to add…
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Pattern learning and steal like an artist
This is a technique I frequently use to iterate faster to pattern learning: steal. Take a look at these two examples. Pattern recognition The first image is from a 2023 ASUS product announcement, I screenshot and kept it in the swipe file. Months later, it became a source to mimic in a product launch. Pattern…
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Catalog spec table aggregator
ISC West is a month away. Which reminds me one of the most painful assets to make: catalogs. More specifically, the spec table. Somehow typos are endless. This is my 2026 prompt to aggregate all specs and find discrepancies. It’s an extension of the datasheet rebrand project.
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Pyramid of capitalizing
🔻 Base — Skilled Labor Trading time for money. The Industrial Revolution model. Most people are stuck here. 🔺 Level 1 — Intellectual Property (IP) + Media Rather than learning more stuff, you reflect and create. Document what you’ve done, turn it into a story, record a video, make a guide. IP is anything written,…
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Mock. Skeptical. Run.
Electricity made tractors available in masses. But tractor didn’t replace farmers in the first discovery, it took iteration. The first tractor was powered by steam. It was delicate and expensive and required trained operators. This was a prototype. Prototype isn’t built for volume. So it didn’t look like a threat. The sight of mid field…
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Electricity. Internet. AI.
Electricity enabled industrial revolution. Farmers no longer rely on hard labor to harvest. Tractors and machines amplified the crop volume. Internet enabled information revolution. Farmers in Brazil can connect with farmers in Vietnam, it is easier to find cure to plant diseases. Crops can be harvested in warm countries during winter and shipped over. Quality…
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Iterations
It’s about the number of iterations that drive the learning curve. And iteration is not repetition. Repetition is a different thing. Repeating is doing the same thing over and over. Iteration is modifying is with a learning and doing another version of it. So that’s error correction. So if you get 10,000 error correction at…
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Deferred life hypothesis
Stop whipping yourself into submission, thinking that your happiness sits on the other side of the next set of goals that you’re going to achieve. You’ve already achieved the goals that you said would make you happy. So if you haven’t made it now, if this isn’t when life is going to begin, then when…