Sharing the Work in Public
I like resumes, but I love links. Here is how I use a live report, this blog, and an open knowledge base as a gentle way to show how I think and build—without a big marketing machine behind me.
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9 articles and counting
AI & LLMs Building Products Product Management Project Management Tools & Workflows
Tabs, Cognitive Load, and Choosing a Simpler Stack First
My market report grew past a thousand lines, and one section carried most of the scroll. Here is how I made it kinder to read on a phone—without jumping straight to a big client-side framework.
I Built a Financial Defense System With AI Agents During a Real Market Crisis
When my financial report hit 100/100 CRITICAL risk and I had a real 401(k) question, I stopped treating the project as a learning exercise and started building for real stakes.
I Audited My Own Context Engineering Setup and Found It Barefoot
We published a blog post about 8 context engineering components. Then we audited our own workspace against the framework. Six of seven were strong. One was barely there.
Attention Is All You Need — But It's Not All You Control
The transformer paper told us how AI models think. Context engineering tells us what they see. These are two different layers of the same stack, and confusing them costs you.
Why I Plan Before I Build (Even When the AI Can Just Do It)
Plan mode in Cursor isn't a solo pause — it's where human and AI align on direction before execution. Here's why that collaboration matters, and what I do when the UI and the chat disagree.
Building With AI Agents: What I've Learned So Far
I named my AI agent Lumen, wrote 13 principles for how we work together, and built a financial risk engine in three days. Here's what actually happened.
Shipping a Static Site With Astro in 2026
I built this blog in a single session — from an empty folder to a live site on GitHub Pages. Here's the real build story, the gotchas, and why Astro was the right call.
Why Product Managers Should Build Things
I'm a project manager who built a financial risk engine, a memoir blog, and a knowledge base — all with AI agents. Here's what building taught me that frameworks never could.