I run the tokens myself, so this page is the inventory: what is on the desk, what is new, and what runs without me. I update it by hand, about once a month.
01Writing
- SundaysThe Human in the Loop, one essay every Sunday morning. Subscribe to get it first.
- This monthThree new Constellation profiles in one week: Michael Semanchik, Teri Markle, and Adam Lovallo, sixteen people since August.
- OngoingMostly Working, the office comic, at No. 31.
02New this month
- Nov 9Measure Your Writing Against Your Own Hand, the field guide on how AI changed my sentences.
- Nov 11Your own hand, a free page that runs the same counts on your writing.
- Nov 11Your first day with Claude Code, for anyone opening it the first time.
- Nov 4A second-read board: three imagined readers who read a draft cold before anything under my name ships, and a check that measures every draft against my own hand.
- Nov 12Selected work: journalism, essays, fiction and poetry from 2012 to now, by outlet, with a link to each piece.
- Nov 12Take part: nominate someone for the Constellation, pitch an office moment for Mostly Working, or ask me a question.
- Nov 14What I’ve Measured, every number from this site in one place.
03What runs without me
Most of it runs on a Mac mini that never sleeps. These are the jobs as of November 14, 2026, read off the machine.
- At bootA launchpad for Claude Code that I can reach from my phone, with room for eight sessions at once. Most of what is on this site starts as a sentence typed on that phone. How it is set up.
- 7:30 a.m.Pulls last night’s sleep and recovery from WHOOP and the morning weigh-in from Renpho into one place I can ask questions of. The health hub guide.
- 8:00 a.m.Checks for new newsletter readers and drafts a short personal note to each one in Gmail. It never sends; I do.
- Every hourIn the cloud, not on the mini: a publish queue checks for any piece I have signed off with a date, and ships it when the date arrives.
- Fri 9:05 a.m.Sweeps the Downloads folder and files what is worth keeping.
- Fri 5:00 p.m.Reconstructs the week’s hours from what I actually touched, instead of a timer. Why I stopped tracking hours.
- AlwaysLogs every AI assistant that reads a page here. The counts are on What I’ve Measured.
04By the numbers, today
- 47skills, the written procedures Claude Code follows: 38 for everything, 9 for this site. What a skill is.
- ~160memory files for this site alone, one fact each, so a new session starts where the last one stopped.
- SeveralClaude Code sessions working on this site at once most nights, each in its own folder. This page came out of one of them.
05Listening
- DailyThe AI Daily Brief, still my favorite podcast.
The idea of a now page comes from Derek Sivers. If you keep one, write and tell me: joseph@josephlapin.com.
— Joe