About

Someone once told me, "You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything."

That was true before AI.

It's still true. But, now we can do more.

Doing more isn't the goal. Some things need doing and doing them better is satisfying. But doing better things, with our time, our energy, our money, and our lives is how we grow. For me, that means creative work: stuff that inspires me, challenges me, leverages my skills and makes me feel like I'm improving my life (or someone else's life) in some way. I want to satisfy my curiosity, cultivate my empathy, share my talents, solve hard problems, and deepen my connection to the people and world around me. Daily.

I explored my many interests primarily through education. I pursued history, philosophy, religion, psychology, and art. In college, I was never really motivated by what job I could get. I wasn't there to do more. I was there to try to figure out what, if anything, was worth doing. I left college with an appreciation of how complex we are as human beings, how big the world is, and a sense of how much more we could be.

I sharpened my thinking abilities, then I sharpened my technical skills. I started my serious study of software design and engineering in 2017, almost twenty years into my working life. I gained early experience at a small startup, then moved to working on a large retail e-commerce platform. In my most recent role, I was part of a team responsible for designing experiences for a suite of video conferencing and communication tools. In 2023 I transitioned from product design into design operations as a program manager where I supported a 100+ person design team. Embracing change is how you survive in a rapidly changing environment. I want to help others do the same.

AI adoption wasn't an option for me. So, I embraced it.

I believe technology should improve the world – for everyone – and liberate humans to do more of the human things. I built a human-centered AI operating system with that goal in mind. I built it for myself and I run my work through it daily. It's just a set of markdown files, a few tools, and a way of working. Not an app – a system. And, it works. Since August it has grown to more than a dozen projects, over a thousand files, and hundreds of tracked decisions, with an AI assistant picking up each session where the last one left off. It's no longer a prototype. It's a proven program. I want to share it with you so you can do more of the things you want to do and less of the things you don't.

If you're willing to approach the world of AI with an open mind, a willingness to make a few mistakes, and a vision of what getting better might enable you to do, I think you're going to be impressed.

Everything starts with the Library on the Tools page.

Course 1 will show you how to use it.

Let's begin.