Why I Stopped Using BJJ Notes and Built My Own
Building a BJJ training log in Notion with Claude turned two years of scattered notes into a connected system of reads, variations, and outcomes.
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What Decides Whether Technology Gets Used
Technology adoption depends less on what a tool can do than on exit costs, indirect effects and whether non-users have already chosen not to use it.
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The Words Were Never Hidden
Decoy Font fooled frontier vision models with a typographic illusion, but ordinary OCR found the message underneath.
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A Week Inside Marker
A week with Marker showed how a writing tool can help by asking questions, challenging structure, and sometimes refusing to manufacture an answer.
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What the Phone in My Pocket Used to Be
The technologies that changed everyday life rarely announced themselves, and the phone in my pocket is a reminder to be cautious about predicting how AI will arrive.
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What Actually Moves Between AI Tools
Trying to move a writing setup from Claude to ChatGPT showed the gap between portable memory, portable code, and portable workflow enforcement.
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Heat Is an Availability Problem
Heat turns availability into a physical dependency, from an overheating laptop in a London flat to data-centre cooling failures.
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The Tabs I Saved for After the Exam
Clearing saved tabs after the AWS recert showed how quickly useful technical workarounds age into features, obsolete notes, or stale bets.
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The Same Confident Voice
A heatwave fan problem showed how AI keeps sounding certain when it cannot check whether its answer works in the real world.
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The Web You'll Never Read
Machine-only web surfaces turn AI discovery into a trust problem when site owners cannot see what crawlers and agents actually receive.
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