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Lee ShandI have early-onset Parkinson's and I use AI as a cognitive prosthetic — not a productivity hack, an actual replacement for the parts of my brain that don't show up anymore. This is where I show the working.
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AI Can Hold the Thread. It Doesn’t Get to Press Send
The cleverest thing an AI loop can do is stop.
Not crash. Not run out of tokens while attempting to improve a sentence for the four hundredth time. Stop, put the next batch on the table, and wait for the person whose name is going on it....
MCP - What Is it Exactly? It's the Cable Between My AI and My Life
MCP Is the Cable Between My AI and My Life
Something for the Weekend Series
In this post
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Before the cable
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Who built it, and why it is suddenly everywhere
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What it looks like in my actual stack
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A connection is not...
One Tiny AI Workflow Mistake Cost Me 12 Hours. So I Built a Black Box.
One Character, Twelve Hours
Yep, I lost twelve hours to one character.
Not a spectacular software failure. No dramatic crash. I was trying to make my Substack inbox workflow find the right mail in Gmail. One label name looked plausible....
Your AI Can Read Everything. It Shouldn't Obey Everything
One of the articles in my vault tells its reader to run a command.
Fair enough. It is a technical guide. That is what technical guides do.
But if an AI is reading my vault, that sentence is not an instruction for the AI to run anything on...
My Obsidian Vault Needed a Front Door (Something For The Weekend Series)
I have spent months building an Obsidian vault I trust.
It holds the bits my brain is liable to drop: what I was doing, why I decided something, the article I had half-written before the thread vanished, and the small useful discoveries th...
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Parkinson's picked the wrong bloke. British transplant in Tennessee, tech nerd, AI obsessive, space nerd, 3D printing goblin. Husband, Dad, Grandad, and servant to Purple, my service dog, best one in the family. Stubbornly curious about everything.
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