Posts tagged “productivity”
20 posts
Everything Important I Built This Year Started Away From My Desk
A year in review, measured in trips, staycations, and one email read on vacation
VoiceCommit started on a hiking trail. BlackOps features get kicked off from hotel rooms. Spotter's biggest weekend began with an email read on vacation. One year of the same pattern, with receipts.
A Year Into Wispr Flow, I Can't Work Without It Anymore
Bullet points in, full messages out. That's the whole unlock.
A year ago voice dictation felt like a gimmick. Now it's load bearing. Here's what actually changed once I stopped typing and started talking.
Einstein Didn't Remember the Speed of Light
The Cognitive Offloading Revolution & Al Assistance.
Einstein famously said he didn't bother remembering things he could look up. Thirty years into this career, I think I finally understand what he meant.
I Was Trying to Buy a Truck. I Accidentally Discovered the Future of Note-Taking.
I spent an hour researching a truck purchase with AI. At the end I hadn't written a single thing down. Then I asked BlackOps to log it. That one moment changed how I think about what this product actually is.
Your AI Agent Already Had File Access. Here's Why Obsidian CLI Changes Everything Anyway.
Obsidian 1.12 shipped a CLI. The internet yawned. Agents could already read files. They're missing the point entirely.
My First Week with OpenClaw: From Skeptic to Believer
I spent 10 days building an AI workforce. Then Anthropic made my tool change its name. This is the real story — crashes, renames, and shipping anyway.
Why Travel Unlocks My Best Ideas
How Hospitality, Not Hustle, Became My Creative Operating System
Discover why travel, hotels and movement spark my most creative ideas, boost deep work, and strip away fake productivity so real focus finally shows up
The Future Dev Team: One Senior Engineer and an Army of AI Agents
How Mission-Command Development is reshaping engineering productivity, architecture, and delivery in 2025
Learn how Mission-Command Development lets a senior engineer direct AI agents to deliver faster, higher-quality software in 2025’s competitive tech landscape.
The Idea That Hit Me 2,500 Miles from My Laptop (And Sparked a New Dev Tool)
How a vacation without my laptop led me to build VoiceCommit - an AI-powered voice-first tool that turns spoken commerce and development ideas into GitHub Issues, PRs, and updates.
Command-Driven Development Logging with Visual Progress: A Better Way to Track Development with Claude Code
How I created and use a command-driven system in my everyday commerce development process with Claude Code to document progress with visual screenshots - giving me complete control over when and how enterprise development gets documented.
Claude Code Is More Than a Dev Assistant—It’s My Project Manager
Discover how combining Claude Code with a simple ROADMAP.md file transformed my personal project management and delivered consistent progress on my blog.
How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
Step-by-step guide to automatically adding current weather, sunrise, sunset, and moon phases to your Obsidian daily note using iOS Shortcuts and wttr.in API integration.
How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
Master iOS Shortcuts to add real-time local weather data to your Obsidian daily note with custom emoji mapping, location detection, and automated template insertion.
Automating My Obsidian Daily Note
Learn how to automate daily note creation in Obsidian using iOS Shortcuts with templates, calendar integration, and scheduled automation for seamless morning workflows.
Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad
Transform your iPad into a development workstation with VSCode web. Install vscode.dev as a home screen app, sync settings, and code from anywhere with GitHub integration.
How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note
Automate meeting imports from Outlook to Obsidian daily notes using icalBuddy and Templater. Never manually copy calendar events again with this macOS workflow solution.
5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams
Essential VSCode extensions for commerce frontend development and team leadership. Tools that enable efficient development across multiple e-commerce projects and remote team management.
How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note
Build a Dataview query to surface your latest Readwise highlights in Obsidian daily notes. Automatically review book highlights with custom formatting and date-based filtering.
First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin
Complete review of the official Readwise Obsidian plugin featuring automatic syncing, custom formatting, backlinks, and spaced repetition to transform reading highlights into knowledge.
My Obsidian Daily Note Template
A complete walkthrough of my Obsidian daily note template with dynamic task tracking, automated workflows, and Dataview queries to build a knowledge base from daily work.