Projects
This is how to use AI to plan a move, part 2: moving week
The truck comes Thursday. Part 2: load-out order, the long drive with kids and a dog, and the first 48 hours in the new place.
Archive
Older material from this site's earlier life. Kept online so links keep working.
Projects
This is how to use AI to plan a move, part 1: the six weeks before
The first Project on this site: a real move, run with AI from "we got the place" to the truck pulling away. Part 1 is the six weeks of before.
Foundations
This is how to think about kids and AI
Your kid is already using it, or will be by spring. The realistic version of what to do about that, from the same playbook as every other screen.
Foundations
This is how much to trust AI, decision by decision
Not a philosophy debate. A working dial: what to accept as-is, what to verify, and what AI never decides, sorted by what’s at stake.
Foundations
This is how AI gets things wrong, and why it sounds so sure
It will invent a plausible answer rather than say "I don’t know," and it will do it in the same confident voice. Here’s the shape of the failure and how to live with it.
Foundations
This is how AI actually works, in plain English
No math, no jargon, one honest mental model. Once you know what it’s actually doing, everything else on this site makes more sense.
Relationships
This is how to use AI to plan a date someone will actually enjoy
"We should do something Saturday" doesn’t have to end in dinner-and-a-movie autopilot. Describe the actual person; get an actual plan.
Skills
This is how to show AI instead of telling it
Half of what you’d struggle to describe, you can photograph or attach. Skill five: your camera and your files are inputs.
Skills
This is how to make AI push back on you
By default, AI is agreeable. That’s pleasant and useless. Skill four: turning the yes-machine into an honest second opinion.
Skills
This is how to make AI ask you the questions
You don’t know what context matters. It does. Flip the interview and watch the real problem surface. Skill three.
Hidden Powers
This is how to use AI to decode every mystery symbol on your car’s dashboard
That amber icon you’ve been ignoring for three weeks. One photo tells you if it can wait for the weekend or shouldn’t wait at all.
Skills
This is how to never accept AI’s first draft
The first answer is the averaged answer. The value lives in the second and third turn, and most people never take them. Skill two.