Field Notes
Stories, ideas, and lessons from building an AI-era business.
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View Timeline →Choosing priorities
It becomes apparent once you have kids that you don’t have time for everything you want to do - something I took for granted in my 20s.
It took me almost …
Signed up Kwindla's Voice AI course
A lot of the material seems to be an overlap with the excellent Voice AI and Voice Agents that they released a while back. Fwiw, the guide itself is great …
Relatable AI Companions
I am listening to an Every podcast with the founders of Tolans - an AI alien that users interact with to discuss…life. This is a hard AI engineering …
venture-hypothesis-test
Venture Hypothesis Test for your Business Idea Develop a clear venture hypothesis to help distil your idea into a business.
lossfunk slides RightJoin AI Venture …
The Great Marketing Hurdle
That’s some tweets from Danny Postma and just throwing my thoughts into this note.
People hate marketing sales so much that just talking about your …
Idea - Synthetic Surveys
So this idea’s been bouncing around in my head for a while - just got sparked again watching Every’s latest video about this product Valley that …
AI Engineering Evals 101
Look at your data.
Create a data annotation interface to add free-form notes. this forces you to get close to the data Annotate until you feel you’re not …
Idea- AI to prompt humans
Some verison of this has been rattling around in my head for a while.
AI is a great sparring partner, better than a one-sided internal monologue and …
Businesses in the AI era
Some thoughts sparked listening to the SIP podcast with Andrew Wilkinson.
building an arbirtage mindset
one idea shared was to use v0 or lovable to build …
Spatial llm are here
this one caught my attention. the applications in civil engineering and architecture (my background) are immense. tagging this note from the the AINews …
Strategy 101
Writing is peak into one’s mind. This is a level of clarity of thought I aspire to.
By Paras Chopra, …
paras chopra's book reread list
I usually keep a note of reasources recommended by someone if it seemed interesting, but later forget who recommended it & why. This context is part of the …
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View All →A new journey
A new journey Introduction
AI stirs the Staffing Industry- SIA 2025 Recap by Haley Marketing
- Key Takeaways from SIA Executive Forum 2025 This webinar discusses insights from the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) …
Building realistic voice interactions with voice AI
Content Messy. A lot of parameters to tune to cater to a variety of end user conversation styles.
Here is some of the …
MCP Deepdive
MCP is an open protocol that revolutionizes how AI applications and agents interact with tools and data sources. …
Note Taking System Guide
Note Taking System Guide Introduction Managing personal knowledge and content effectively requires a well-structured …
Rebuilding Rightjoin
Rightjoin began as an automated interviewing tool designed to help recruiters pre-qualify candidates without spending …
Making a Good LLM - Tom Lu from CHAI
Video Information Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKOTeX-pXZs Date Processed: 2025-02-07 Audio File: …
Building an AI-Powered YouTube Note-Taking System
In the age of AI and abundant video content, being able to efficiently process and retain information from YouTube …
Hosting Multiple Apps on One Droplet
When running multiple applications on a single server, proper configuration is essential to avoid conflicts and ensure …
Deploying a Django app with Kamal
Deployment Guide Setting Up Start from a boilerplate - don’t reinvent the wheel. Clone repo from github. Use …
Enterprise Sales
Sales Funnel Here is a typical sales funnel
Prospecting Outreach Qualification Pricing Closing Implement Prospecting …
Marketing for solopreneurs
Problem selection Marketing starts with product and pain point.
Checklist before starting to build a product: -1 major …
On Focus
There are X hours in a day. My goal is to achieve Y. I can stay busy working some high % of X and get Y done. Y can also …
A good cold email
Cold emailing is a slightly different skill than writing given the target audience and the time consttraing to capture …
On Intensity
Habits to live by
Ship every 2 days. Anything that ships should provide immediate value to user. If not immediate, break …
Business Books
Business Buy Back Your Time, by Dan Martell
Business Million Dollar Weekend, by Noah Kagan
Business Rework, by Jason …
Understanding the Needs Stack
Charlie is a business owner, and he frequently needs to hire employees. But posting on job boards, screening …
It took me 5 mins to launch this site!
I share how I launched this Hugo site in 5 mins, invariably for my future self when I get around to doing it again after …