knowledge-management
18 posts
- Space to be human
A week of new school routines and a storm and flood, and what I needed was space to be human.
- Rehearse the Deck You Didn't Write
The illusion of explanatory depth is what happens when the first test of your understanding is live, in front of people. Better to fail that test at your own desk.
- Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
"The best notepad for you and your agents." Hubble designs the note format around a second reader from the start — and the cost of that choice sits on the portability side.
- SoN 2.27: I Just Talked With Someone Else's Vault
More than twenty years ago, I sat with a class of eleven- and twelve-year-olds and tried to show them what “connected to the internet” actually…
- SoN 2.24: AI hasn't made me faster
AI hasn’t made me faster — it’s made me able to start Last Tuesday I came out of a meeting with a narrow window before the school run, and inside of…
- Measure twice, cut once — with two AIs
3 June 2026 When you work on your own, the thing you miss most is a second pair of eyes. Trades have known this forever. Carpenters say measure…
- SoN 2.18: Where can I skill up on AI? (Free Edition)
Multi-Tool Fluency Is a Non Starter (Free Edition) Dear Reader, Which tool should I use? The job market case for getting decent at AI got clearer in…
- SoN Vol 2, Issue 14: What about everything we learned? (Free Edition)
What about everything we learned? (Free Edition) Hey there, What about everything we learned? Last week we sent the shutdown email for MyCityZen.…
- Context Is the New Bottleneck. So Is Judgment.
Tiago Forte says AI shifts the bottleneck from capability to context. He's right — but that only works if you still have opinions worth providing.
- SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)
Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition) Hey there, Are your tools deciding how you think? Your CRM shows you a flat list. Your…
- Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
Mozilla's cq gives AI coding agents dynamic, evolving context — formalizing what power users already figured out through trial and error.
- Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
The Perplexity CTO says MCP eats 40-50% of your context window. Practitioners already knew this.
- SoN Vol 2, Issue 9: The Mirror and the Telescope (Free)
The Mirror and The Telescope Dear Reader, “Know thyself” has been advice for about 2,500 years. The inscription at Delphi, Socrates building a whole…
- SoN 33: The Questions I'm Asking My AI Before the New Year
December 17th, 2025 Dear Reader, Last week I asked Claude a simple question: “What patterns do you see in how I’ve been working this month?” Some…
- The Landscape of Available AI Tools
The AI Download #020 April 18th, 2025 Dear Reader, Let's be honest: the AI tool landscape in 2025 is a mess. Every week, a new "game-changing" tool…
- From the Turing Test to Humanity's Last Exam: How We Measure AI
The AI Download #017 March 21st, 2025 Dear Reader, Have you ever wondered how we (as a species) determine if a machine is truly "intelligent"? Long…
- 💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
#004 Hey Reader 👋🏻, While I normally kick off these newsletters with a note about the weather, it should already be known that Valencia is going…
- 💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
#003 Dear Reader, Greetings again from an incredibly muggy Valencia. Yesterday and today I'm attending the VDS 2024 Tech Conference at the City of…
