“Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none… uses any techniques or means which serve its end. Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, only offer a better cage.” – Bruce Lee One of the pillars of Bruce Lee’s martial art was to absorb and incorporate anything useful from any style, leaving behind what
Whoever has the most, best ideas will win. Yesterday I shared a slide talking about how the distance from idea to done is getting shorter and shorter. Projects that took weeks can now take hours. Proofs of concept and MVPs can be generated over a meal. What this means is that if you are creative
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Ignore Claude Opus 4.6. The real magic is Claude Code Agent Teams. Imagine setting out a clear project plan and… then watching your employees arrive. A project manager. A devil’s advocate. A UX designer. A technical architect. They all just arrive at the office, clock in, and get to work. And they talk to each
Use YAML with AI instead of JSON most of the time. AI tools work best with structured data where it’s clear what’s what. They speak every programming language and are accustomed to structure, which is why using structured markup like JSON, XML, and YAML yield better results than just giving your AI a wall of
Even livestreams need rehearsals. Every Thursday at 1 PM ET, you can catch me, Katie, and John (usually) on our Trust Insights livestream. Tomorrow, for example, we’re looking at the new plugins feature in Claude Cowork. (and they are very cool) What you don’t see is the prep work on Wednesday night. Usually there’s 2-4
Sometimes the secret sauce is just a collection of little things. In AI, a lot of folks understandably focus on prompts – they’re the recipes that AI uses to cook with. But anyone who’s spent more than a minute in a kitchen knows that things like ingredients, appliances, chef skills, menu, etc. all matter. When
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NotebookLM in Gemini is the money. Here’s what I mean. Google’s Gemini 3.1 is a crazy smart model, especially the pro version. But even with a 1 million token context window (short term working memory that can hold about 750,000 words), it can’t remember everything. But not too long ago, Google enabled NotebookLM notebooks as
