Been working on some internal tools for me & my agents to power my content pipeline. So much freedom and power when designing for a customer base of one.

Feature request for all agent harnesses: Emoji reactions on paragraphs written by agents so I can approve/reject/confirm each thing. So much of the work now is sifting through long planning discussions. AskUserQuestion and numbering responses only take you so far.

My building workflow these days: 1. Long planning sessions in Claude. 2. Build a PRD from that (now in HTML!) 3. Break out to buildable milestones. 4. Agent builds + writes up notes for next milestones' agents to read. 5. Review & refine after each milestone. 6. Repeat.

Not everything needs to be super fast when leveraging AI in your work. I spend entire days and weeks shaping and reworking specs, design plans, drafts, directions (in collaboration with AI) before I let the agent cook.

Planning to redesign my video recording space. Walls, lighting, arrangements, set design... Who's got a nice setup? Looking for ideas.

My agents tend to run on this 3-part pattern I call 'The Night Shift': 1. Agent runs a Skill on a recurring schedule. 2. Reads/writes to a markdown file or custom app. 3. Sends me a report, I approve or give feedback. Examples in today's video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbf...

Spotify is down. It's too quiet.

Once I'm in a project and rolling, I'm an unstoppable shipping machine. But in that space between the last project and the next one... I procrastinate like its my job. For better or worse.

Every time I buy a new mac it sits unopened for a week until I have a day to set it up.

Added this email sent to folks who hesitate in my checkout flow. Highly recommend.

Back on the Conductor train as my daily-driver for building across multiple agents and projects all the time. It's just nicer in all the little details and workflows. The github integration especially melts away all the complexity of worktrees.

New work muscle paying off: For every project I ship, I also ship an agent Skill + recurring schedule to keep it from drifting or going stale. Recent examples: (continued...)

My markdown notes editor (replaced Obsidian for me). Syncs with Dropbox, shareable URLs (great for working with agents), frontmatter rules, voice recording, mobile-friendly... Build your own version using my Build Kit for this. buildermethods.com/kits/markdow...

Doubling down. This is the new Builder Methods. Helping you become a more confident builder with AI. New course, new free tools, build kits, live sessions. Have a look: buildermethods.com 🧵

Agent Skills aren't just about automating processes. They're how you bake brand consistency into everything you produce. Illustration skill, marketing page skill, social media skill, etc. Each one carries your brand guidelines so the output stays on-brand every time.

What's an internal tool you've been wanting to build for yourself but haven't yet?

Pro tip (I learned this week): Leave your MacBook on the flight to your beach vacation. Get it from the lost and found when boarding your return flight.

Refactor agent Skills like you refactor code. I try to avoid cramming long, complex processes into one SKILL.md. Better to extract each step out to its own markdown file, referenced from the main skill. Each step is swappable. Debugging & maintaining a lot easier. Agent parses it easily.

Working on a new course for people who want to build tools, but lack software dev experience. You will fill those gaps and build something real, using the same tools and process that "pros" do. Coming to Builder Methods Pro this month.

What's a task you've wanted to hand off to an agent but still feels just out of reach? Not "impossible forever." Just "not possible yet". What ya got?

Listening to the Masters in the background while working on some projects. Kinda like the sound of an audience clapping every time I ship a PR ⛳

When building internal tools with AI, the temptation is to build a monolith that does everything. I prefer a stack of purpose-built tools, each powers one process in my business. Me (manager) + My agents (workers) + Our app (shared UI) = ✅

What are we building today?

Shape first. Then plan. Brain dump → customer context → map what's broken → ask AI to push back → capture the PRD. Skip the shaping and you'll build the wrong thing fast.

"Where do I start with AI if I have zero coding experience?" Honest answer: forget the tools for now. Start with a real problem you need solved. Let AI guide you through building the solution. Your first project teaches you more than any tutorial ever will.

I'm hiring a Video Editor & Producer to work with me at Builder Methods. Know someone? You? Looking for a creative partner to take this to the next level — storytelling, custom visuals, motion graphics. I value taste and creator chops above tactics. buildermethods.com/jobs/video-e...

Just built and shipped 4 new features in an app I'm building. Good, now time to get out of bed and start my day.

Excited to be speaking at @brightonruby.com this June! Looks like quite a lineup for Ruby/Rails builders. I'll also be hosting a workshop the day before on AI adoption with your team. Ruby friends — who's going?

Live sessions all Spring for members of Builder Methods Pro. - Project Q&A's: share your project, get live feedback. - Team Talks: AI adoption, what's working, challenges. - New Builds: What are you launching? RSVP or catch a recording. Members only! buildermethods.com/sessions

My series on multi-agent teams with OpenClaw 🦞 has shipped for Builder Methods Pro members. - Ready-to-build spec to build your custom task scheduling app. - Technical setup cheat sheets - 15 deep-dive videos. Hundreds of builders are in. Join us! buildermethods.com/pro/openclaw...

There's so much I want to do with this business. If only I didn't have so much to do in this business.

Favorite brand for every-day walkin around sneakers?

Claude Code is slow for codebase changes. But crazy fast for back-and-forths only in the session, no file reading or writing. Great for shaping content ideas, and faster turnarounds than Claude ai & Cowork. Claude Code is the worst of their 3 UI's for that type of work though.

This is what 'working on the business' looks like now.

Booked to speak at 2 conferences this year. Both in Europe! Topic: AI (obviously). Wish me luck writing talks that aren't out-dated by the time I'm on stage 3 and 6 months from now 😬

Browsers always auto-fill a different one of my many email addresses from over the years and never my current one.

A custom-built UI, designed for you and your own agents to use, will outperform an "AI-powered" SaaS feature every time. Your agents bring your preferred model, memories, skills and history. Your UI fits the way you think and work. Product. Market (you). Fit.

Right to the top of my toy wish list this goes. polyend.com/endless/

Claude .ai has been defaulting to creating .docx artifacts instead of markdown artifacts and it's really annoying to remind it I never want that.

Can't believe I spent so many years not using Raycast's paste history and snippets.

Reorienting to how work gets organized now: - Less reliance on SaaS/Project management tools. - A LOT more local (markdown) files. - Introduction of agent Skills everywhere. - Smaller human teams. More agents.

How do you plan and prioritize your day and week? What's your system? Not your favorite tool.

Best way to keep a single collection of Skills auto-synced across Claude Code, Claude Cowork and GitHub?

Working on my take on Ralph.

My turn to host! Questions or topic requests?

New: OpenClaw Starter Kit for a multi-agent team 🦞 - Ready-to-build dashboard spec - Config cheat sheets - 18+ video guides Included in Builder Methods Pro. buildermethods.com/pro/openclaw...

About to hit the mics with Jordan and Justin. Come hang with us live!

Builder Methods Pro now has: - Community with hundreds of builders - Claude Code foundations course - Project ride-along videos - Workshops Next up: OpenClaw series! 🦞 Multi-agent teams, tasks dashboard, agent processes... (I should prob increase price soon 🤔)

Rain ontop of snow is as bad as it gets.

No amount of agents, skills, apps, systems or LLMs can tear me away from using my email inbox as my todo list.