I kept a Tul disc-bound notebook for years. The kind where you can pop pages in and out, rearrange sections, add fresh sheets when a list gets too messy. It was the only notebook that mattered.

Every morning started the same way. I’d set it on my desk, flip to my project list, and pick up my …

<– Part 1: The Notebook

I tried everything. And I mean the full circuit – the one that every productivity person eventually runs, usually more than once.

Todoist first, because it was simple and everyone recommended it. It lasted about three weeks. Then TickTick, because it had …

<– Part 2: The Leap

I am not a developer. I want to be clear about that upfront, because what I’m about to describe sounds like something a developer would do, and I think the fact that I’m not one is the whole point.

I sat down one weekend with Claude – Anthropic’s …

After I set up the Fire TV Stick to fix YouTube, I had a thought. This runs Android. Android runs emulators. And I still have every console I grew up with.

An hour later my 6-year-old was playing Super Mario Bros. 3.

The Setup

RetroArch is a free, open source app that plays classic games. I …

I handed my kid the remote and he pulled up a Minecraft build video. Twenty minutes later I walked back in and he was watching something that made no sense — some AI-generated fever dream that technically passes YouTube’s content filters but exists only to farm clicks from children.

Every …