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11/05/2026
Let My Claude Help Your Claude
What I mean by "let my Claude help your Claude": one-on-one sessions where I help a business owner set up AI to work the way it works in mine.
11/03/2026
How I Help Friends Ease Into Relying on AI
Two real examples of easing a business owner into AI: planning content from a site review, and triaging customer emails into a queue.
10/29/2026
Five Things to Try First With AI in a Small Business
How to start using AI in a small business: five low-risk chores to hand over first, and the one thing that should always stay with you.
10/27/2026
How Much Does One-on-One AI Coaching Cost?
My one-on-one AI guidance is $100 an hour, $80 for non-profits and veteran-owned businesses, with a three-hour minimum and a free first call.
10/22/2026
What the Claude Max API Credit Covers
Claude Max now includes a monthly API credit: $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x. Here is what it covers, what it doesn't, and how to claim it.
10/21/2026
Trust, but Break It on Purpose
A green checkmark is cheap. To trust a safety check your AI wrote, break the thing it guards on purpose and make sure it notices.
10/20/2026
My AI Knows When Not to Think
The cheapest AI call is the one you never make. A simple test for when a plain script beats a model, with examples from how I run my own sites.
09/27/2026
What to Hand AI, and What to Keep
The test I use with my own AI tools: am I deciding on something I know that the AI doesn't? If yes, it's my call. If not, the AI decides and shows why.
09/27/2026
Write It Down, Then Check It Anyway
A rule I'd written down was broken 370 times anyway. Two habits fixed it: make a computer check the rule, and check the backup before you rebuild.
09/27/2026
Will AI Make Specialists Unnecessary?
Four technology waves each promised to make specialists unnecessary. Each made production cheap and left judgment where it was. What that says about AI.
09/24/2026
Will We Even Need Admin Panels?
I updated a live website without logging in to anything. After years in vendor dashboards, it raises a real question: what is the admin screen for now?
09/10/2026
Four Frames From the Door of a Huey
Before video, 3D or AI, I was a crew chief on a UH-1H, allowed to bring my own camera on some flights. Four photographs from around the borders of Turkey and Iraq.
08/27/2026
The Beaches Put a Bounty on Parking
Taggr's job ads offer parking agents an incentive for every violation they find. The drivers they catch are the customers these beach towns' businesses are open for.
08/03/2026
A Night of Poetry and Music
A free night of poetry and acoustic music at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Jacksonville Beach. The event has now taken place; this is the invitation as it was published.
06/08/2025
Google’s Veo3: trial and cost
I asked Gemini how video production with Veo 3 works: fair use and resale of generated clips, who owns the output, what the trial allows, and what a 30-second commercial would actually cost.
02/25/2018
The $1,800 Bottle of Skin Glue
My son fell and gashed his chin before T-ball practice. The bill that followed, and the letter I got back when I questioned it, say more about American emergency billing than any explainer could.
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11/05/2026
Let My Claude Help Your Claude
What I mean by "let my Claude help your Claude": one-on-one sessions where I help a business owner set up AI to work the way it works in mine.
11/03/2026
How I Help Friends Ease Into Relying on AI
Two real examples of easing a business owner into AI: planning content from a site review, and triaging customer emails into a queue.
10/29/2026
Five Things to Try First With AI in a Small Business
How to start using AI in a small business: five low-risk chores to hand over first, and the one thing that should always stay with you.