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Honest field notes on AI, fatherhood, and orchestration. Biweekly. Real numbers. No optimism.

Each episode maps to one of three orchestration axes: self (how I route my own time), agents (how I route AI systems), relationships (how I route presence). The argument under everything: the new senior job is orchestration, and the only honest way to learn it is to publish the numbers.

axes self · agents · relationships

  1. Episode 001 · self · draft

    Facing the closet

    It is 8pm. I am hiding from my son to Claude-code. This is not the first time. Introduces closet hours — the hours you spend on builds nobody is waiting for.

    drafted

  2. Episode 002 · agents · 18 May 2026

    I am cloning myself for paternity leave

    Six weeks out of office. I am telling my employer I should be automated. My employer, reasonably, agrees.

    publishing 18 May

  3. Episode 003 · agents · 1 June 2026

    The night my clone nearly killed my computer

    February 3, 2026. Orphaned Claude processes. 43.6 gigabytes of swap. The quiet horror of watching your replacement eat your machine.

    in the queue

  4. Episode 004 · self · 15 June 2026

    The distribution

    I publish the anonymized closet-hours tax numbers readers sent after episode 001. Mine, unredacted, for the first time. Submit your number.

    in the queue

  5. Episode 005 · agents

    Adrian Loop

    I built a skill that writes like me, critiques like me, and iterates until I would publish it. I named it after myself. Then I stopped reading my own drafts.

    in the queue

  6. Episode 006 · agents

    One hundred and twenty agents in a drawer

    I have 120 custom agents on this machine. I built most of them and forgot. A handful I use every week. I am not going to tell you which.

    in the queue

  7. Episode 007 · self

    The hooks that watch me

    Every Claude Code session I run writes four receipts to four different services. I have more observability on my own thinking than my employer has on my output.

    in the queue

  8. Episode 008 · agents

    The book agents

    I have seven agents helping me write a book. The book is about agents. I am not sure which of us is the author.

    in the queue

  9. Episode 009 · self

    I wrote laws

    Law Zero is visibility. My son is the only entity in my life I have full visibility into. He is also the one I understand least.

    in the queue

  10. Episode 010 · agents

    The clone has a database

    My cognitive clone runs on SQLite. I have a schema for my own mind. I am the product manager of me.

    in the queue

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