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7 pieces, newest first.
2026
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AI Can Finally Keep Organizational Memory. The Hard Part Is Trusting It.
AI can now write the organizational record as the work happens. That's what knowledge management never had. The harder part is trusting it.
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Carving Nothing
I set out to make a pendant of the empty tomb and spent two days working very hard to produce a hole. Almost nothing went to plan, and there was only ever enough silver for one attempt.
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How I Use Claude
Not a list of features — an account of how much I've actually handed over, in what order, and where it has gone wrong.
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How I Use Obsidian with Claude
Six weeks of running a personal knowledge vault with an AI librarian — what I built, what I threw away, and what actually stuck.
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My Weekend Jaunt into Chainmail
Winding my own rings, learning European 4-in-1, and finding out exactly how tedious a 1.5-inch swatch of mail really is.
2016
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There's Something About Steel
The four AISI families in plain terms — and the questions about cost, environment, and heat treat that narrow a dizzying catalog down to a single bar of steel.
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Design Goal
Why I want to make knives that are excellent first, comfortable second, and beautiful third — and never too pretty to actually use.
