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Real experiments, tools, and lessons from building calmer workflows with AI. Text-first, practical, and designed to help you apply ideas quickly.
19 articles
For the Macarthur Business Showcase, I gave Giskard the challenge of managing my expo stand as a project from end to end. I gave the direction, reviewed the work and made the decisions.
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An afternoon at Astra Commons in Drummoyne, sharing ideas while Codex upgraded our family robot game, Neon Breach.
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Writing a blog post is one job. Logging in, pasting, formatting, adding images and checking the finished page is another. Here is the file-based publishing workflow I am testing with Codex - and what I still keep human.
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A personal reflection on keeping up with AI by building small things, learning enough to ask better questions, using lived experience, finding good sources and staying close to other people who are experimenting.
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A short reflection from the Sydney Codex Community Meetup, where I shared everyday Codex experiments across life admin, learning and play.
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A personal AI field note on using Codex to capture messy household reminders, connect them to the week ahead, and produce a printable planner that fits real routines better than another app screen.
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Using Codex as a research assistant for finding local allied health support, without outsourcing the final decision. A personal AI field note on reducing the first-pass burden of heavy care admin while keeping human judgment,...
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Week 2 of a personal AI assistant experiment, exploring what changes when Codex on mobile can reach back into a home workspace, update files, research options and help move life admin forward away from the desk.
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A Week 1 field note on testing ChatGPT Pro and Codex as a personal admin layer for life admin, family admin, reminders, lists and mental load.
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A personal AI News Desk build that brings together selected RSS feeds and email newsletters, ranks the incoming material against my preferences and produces a concise daily brief without handing the final judgement to an opaque feed.
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I used Codex to move Blog Notebook from a half-remembered setup into a working local-first slice. This post covers what I asked it to do, what it handled well, where human judgment still mattered, and the workflow decisions that made...
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Practical AI notes, experiments, and workflow lessons from real builds.
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I used AgentKit and the visual Agent Builder to create a Research plus Reporter chain. It turns a topic into keywords, searches the web per keyword, then assembles a short report with sources. This post is a practical, neutral...
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These are my field notes from testing ChatGPT\'s new Agent Mode. Rather than a polished review, this is a snapshot of experiments, wins, and lessons learned as I tried Agent Mode on a variety of real-world tasks.
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Over the past two years, ChatGPT has shifted from a collection of separate models to something far more seamless and intuitive. These are my early impressions of ChatGPT-5, focusing on the new modes, how they've changed the way I work,...
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Building a newsletter usually means sourcing content, drafting copy, laying it out, testing email clients, fixing broken code… and forgetting your coffee in the microwave. So I asked ChatGPT (03 + 04 mini high) to handle the entire...
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If you’ve ever stared at your inbox with dead eyes, wondering how many more "just following up" emails you can physically tolerate before your brain melts-congratulations, you might be a tired parent in your 40s trying to keep...
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Looking back, there are a few things I wish I had known before diving into AI.
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A few years ago, if you’d told me I’d be using AI daily, not just for work, but for life admin, I’d have laughed, closed my 57 open tabs, and carried on with my caffeine fueled chaos
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