Essays on AI, technology and the wider world. For travel notes, see the journal.
AI Journey/26 January 2026/5 min
Most employees who try AI tools quietly abandon them within weeks. The solution isn't better technology—it's building the intermediate skills that transform AI from a curiosity into a productivity multiplier.
AI Journey/26 January 2026/8 min
Everyone's building a second brain. The tutorials make it look easy. Mine broke three times before I understood what was actually hard.
AI Journey/5 January 2026/4 min
AI lets juniors produce senior-level output. That sounds great—until you think about what's missing.
AI Journey/5 January 2026/4 min
AI agents aren't eliminating managers—they're forcing an evolution from taskmaster to conductor. The new skill is agentic oversight.
AI Journey/5 January 2026/5 min
The answer isn't competing with AI. It's becoming essential to how AI gets better.
AI Journey/5 January 2026/7 min
In November 2025, I had zero development experience. By January 2026, I'd started building six web applications. This is what I learned.
AI Journey/4 January 2026/3 min
The rise of Generative AI has created a whitespot in technical SEO: a dedicated file to guide AI models. Think robots.txt, but for LLMs.
AI Journey/4 January 2026/4 min
The landscape is shifting from searching and clicking to asking and answering. Welcome to the era of Generative Engine Optimization.
AI Journey/3 January 2026/3 min
AI models prefer structured data over fluffy text. By transforming your content into AI-digestible formats, you increase your chance of being cited.
AI Journey/2 January 2026/3 min
AI models trust User-Generated Content from Reddit and Quora. A brand mention in a high-ranking thread is now worth more than a typical backlink.
AI Journey/1 January 2026/3 min
The old tactic of writing one enormous guide is inefficient for AI. The new approach: build a ranch of smaller, highly specific articles.
Global Perspectives/31 December 2025/3 min
Businesses are losing traffic to generative AI and are terrified. A service positioned as Defense taps into a powerful psychological sales trigger.
AI Journey/30 December 2025/3 min
AI validates facts by cross-referencing multiple sources. A single strong link is good, but a network of mentions creates Triangulated Authority.
AI Journey/29 December 2025/3 min
Paradoxically, the best way to optimize for AI is to be more human. AI can only summarize—it cannot generate original, first-hand experience.
AI Journey/28 December 2025/3 min
A practical guide to measuring something that didn't exist two years ago: your visibility within generative AI outputs.
Global Perspectives/27 December 2025/3 min
Looking beyond GEO to a world where your website is a database, not a destination. The user stays on AI, and your site feeds the facts.