Loops within loops
AI doesn’t just accelerate product development; it changes the economics of feedback loops.
Writing
Essays and notes on product, technology and AI — and the transformation that happens where they meet: how it's changing the way we think, lead and work.
Living on the agentic frontier
Point capable agents at your own data for long enough and you find out which bits of the hype are real.
What a personal AI system costs
The real cost numbers for RafeOS, mid-build, and some decisions made along the way.
Agentic product development, up close
What building RafeOS with AI taught me about compression, discipline and judgement.
What it runs on
Infrastructure - a quick summary of the servers and devices running RafeOS
An agentic harness on swappable layers
A look at the agentic harness behind RafeOS. An account of what's working for me.
The second brain
How I've structured my markdown files for a shared substrate
AI-powered briefings
The layer that sits above all the modules and tells me which of them I should care about.
An attention layer, not a feed
RafeOS Reading module looks to give an AI and integration twist to the traditional feed reader.
Health, unified
How multiple health sources are combined into one and lessons from the agentic layer.
An agentic hybrid to-do list
What a shared AI-enabled and agent-friendly to-do list looks like. Lessons from RafeOS.
The messaging layer
Unified incoming comms and identifying what needs a reply.
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