The Human in the Loop.
Essays, letters & field guides — on family, AI, and creativity. New writing arrives Sunday mornings.
My AI content stack.
A colleague asked what AI tools I use for content. The honest answer isn’t a tool list — it’s one workhorse, a folder system full of context, and a human holding the taste gate.
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Talk to your Claude Code.
I dictate my mornings to a machine at a coffee-shop table. Wispr Flow, the hold-to-talk key, and why spoken context beats typed prompts.
“I don’t want to die.”
My four-year-old found out about death in the middle of the night. On turning 41, and an appetite for ordinary Tuesdays.
The company is the context.
How I do context engineering for a small business — five context layers, a loop harness, and the actual files I run every day.
My AI content stack: what I actually use to make things.
One workhorse, a folder system full of context, and a human holding the taste gate.
Talk to your Claude Code.
The Wispr Flow voice setup — and how to dictate so a machine can build from it.
The company is the context.
Five context layers, a loop harness, and the actual files I run every day.
A culture of AI is just how your people talk about it.
How to diagnose whether yours is working, and six ways to improve it.
Graph engineering: wiring my AI loops into an org.
Stop thinking in isolated loops — wire the whole operation as a directed graph.
How to manage multiple Claude Code sessions.
Four habits that work in any terminal, plus a free one-screen fleet dashboard.
How to set up Higgsfield with Claude Code to produce great videos.
Claude Code as the cockpit, Nano Banana for stills, Higgsfield for motion.
Copywriting tips for beginners.
Three rules from a decade in newsrooms — and when grammar is just style.
“I don’t want to die.”
What my son said in the dark, and what I’ve been carrying since. Not despair — appetite.
You want to be in the comic?
A rainy afternoon, a nephew, and the half of the optimism answer you collect yourself.
What if Van Gogh painted us — and our screens?
Nine paintings of our cafés and bars — and what they surprised me into seeing.
The garden I couldn’t build in time.
For her birthday, a picture of a garden that doesn’t exist yet — made from our own backyard.
Toward the hope side.
Jessica Gutierrez navigates AI at Santa Monica High — divided task forces, distracted kids, real breakthroughs.
Designed for understanding.
Keith Marcel Woods learned to design at eight, on a tablet with no memory — chasing one outcome ever since.
Something from nothing.
Munir Haddad turned childhood blackouts in wartime Lebanon into one conviction: tell your story.