The journal.
- 5 min readSep 11, 2026The 168M challenge starts negative, and I'm fine with that
I haven't written about the 168M challenge in a while. Mostly because I was buried in content, straightening out some serious flaws in my flagship SaaS , and ho…
- 4 min readSep 10, 2026I started recording again, and it was a disaster
It's the second week of September, and I did say in a past update that outside of content creation and recording, my focus this month would be TWO and Study Bre…
- 6 min readSep 10, 2026My docs editor SaaS app was, and still is, seriously flawed
I'm so fucking glad I didn't push my MVP aggressively to market until now. That sounds like the opposite of success, but I'm convinced it's a win, not a failure…
- 4 min readSep 10, 2026Claude said we fixed the SaaS MVP bugs, but I don't fucking know
This is a follow-up to a post I wrote today about how flawed my SaaS app really was . At the time I wrote that, it really was flawed. I was only midway through…
- 6 min readSep 09, 2026Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT and Kimi: how I labeled them and use them
I'll admit it upfront: relying on a single AI platform for everything was never the smartest choice. I experienced that firsthand this year, and it pushed me to…
- 5 min readSep 09, 2026Hardware upgrade, part 2: do I really need all of it?
A month ago I wrote about going for a full overhaul: new desk setup, new Apple hardware, new accessories, a new podcast microphone, the works. And if you read t…
- 9 min readSep 08, 2026Study Brew: planning, deconstructing, and thinking ahead
I'm ahead of schedule. I feel far more comfortable now than I did during the honeymoon phase of vibe coding , and I've gone back and forth in my head trying to…
- 7 min readSep 07, 202690 days with the dashboard I built, and what I still don't use
A while back, when I was still in the early stages of learning GitHub and just starting to dip my toes into vibe coding, I built a custom dashboard for my own w…
- 8 min readSep 07, 2026Workel: I tried the dashboard. I think it's a hard sell
A few days ago I wrote about signing up for Workel through a Reddit promo, paying nothing for a year on their Max plan. That post was about the pricing chaos I…