Cheap to send, expensive to receive: what email taught me about AI coding agents
My AI-assisted throughput went up several-fold. My colleagues' capacity to absorb what I produce didn't. Does this remind you of anything?
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Notes on AI, design thinking, and what it actually takes to ship.
The Third Reader: Making your site agent-ready
Four small changes that made craftscale.uk easier for AI agents to read: a site summary at /llms.txt, serving plain markdown to agents that ask for it, advertising the site's other resources in HTTP headers, and a robots.txt that explicitly welcomes the AI crawlers.
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Think first, AI second: Using AI in Design Thinking
AI has a role in creative work, but only if we use it with intent. Here's how to bring AI into each stage of Enterprise Design Thinking without letting it do the thinking for you.
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Lightning Talk: Press Record and Hope
My talk on what it's like to be a podcaster, delivered at the Ilkley Arts lightning talks event in December 2024.
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Talk: Building with LLMs
Summary of the talk I gave in November 2024 at the Mindstone AI meetup in London.
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Working in the Metaverse
Revisiting 3D virtual environments for work, from IBM's Second Life experiments in 2006 to trying Horizon Workrooms in 2022. Why VR still feels like a significant future for remote teamwork, even if today's metaverse isn't quite there yet.
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How To Edit Your Podcast
A walkthrough of my six-stage podcast editing process: from assembling audio in Ferrite Recording Studio, through strip silence and review passes, to final audio engineering. A starting point for building your own editing approach.
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Using Notion to Manage Your Podcast
How to use Notion databases to manage a podcast's production: tracking episodes, guests, recording and release dates, and editing status across calendar, table, and status-board views.
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How to do a Lightning Talk
A practical guide to putting together and delivering a 90-second lightning talk, using a three-part context, story, and call-to-action structure you can prepare even on the day of the event.
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