Thinking Out Loud
Maria WeaverMy personal Substack
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 8 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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I Let AI Control My Browser - and it's creepy.
Welcome to my series on How I Used AI. The goal is to quickly share how I used AI - since AI is changing so quickly, I focus on concept and process uses more than specific tools.
Here’s a thing I’m not proud of - I regularly open Gmail and...
Prompting is Dead. Context Engineering is What L&D Actually Needs.
When scrolling LinkedIn or Reddit, there are two camps for ID folks battling it out in the comments. You've seen the post: "I asked ChatGPT to write a course / create a graphic / etc and look at what it created" followed by either breathles...
°3: Notes Transcription - The Voice Notes That Finally Went Somewhere
I haven’t done these types of articles since November, so bringing it back - these are more ad hoc musings about how I’m using AI. I time-box myself to 90 minutes. The goal is to quickly share since AI is changing so quickly. I tend to focu...
How I Used Claude Code to Build My Planning System (So I Could Stop Planning)
My problem is that I love planning. Often more than “the doing.”
I’ve been tracking my life obsessively for years: exercise, meals, drinks, books read, museums visited, plays attended, skincare routines. As a numbers person, I was convi...
I Missed My Deadline. Here's Why I'm Publishing Anyway
I committed to publishing every Thursday in 2026. Today is Friday.
The piece I planned isn’t ready. It’s about how I’ve been using Claude Code to build a planning system. Not because I haven’t built it. I have. It’s been running for two...
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