Builds

I just finished setting up Dior, my AI-powered second brain running on OpenClaw. It lives on my Mac Mini and helps me stay on track with my goals. What Dior does Tracks my expenses and warns me when I get close to my $300/month food budget Sends me 5 new French words every morning to help me learn for FCIP permanent residency Tracks my YouTube progress toward 100 videos Manages my GitHub and commits code automatically Publishes to this blog whenever I tell it to How it works The setup runs 24/7 on my Mac Mini in Kelowna. I can message Dior via Telegram from anywhere and it handles everything — from logging expenses to pushing code to GitHub. ...

Building in public has become a thing. There’s a whole genre of it — daily updates, follower counts, revenue milestones posted like scoreboards, the journey from zero to whatever. I’ve watched a lot of it. Some of it is useful. A lot of it is a content format that uses building as its subject matter. I want something different. I want the practice without the performance. What the Practice Is The actual reason to build in public — stripped of audience-building — is that it forces you to articulate what you’re doing. ...