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A Memo From 2032: The AI Bull Case
How AI broke the labor economy, redefined our sense of purpose, and ushered in The Second Enlightenment.
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Survivor's Guilt: Processing Through AI Layoffs
Cognitive dissonance can occur when you watch your colleagues lose their jobs, ostensibly due to AI tools you evangelize. Here is what the data says and how I processed through when it happened at my company.
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Building SmartBooksAI: How I Learned to Think in Vectors
I built a semantic search engine with vector embeddings to explore my reading data. Visualizing 10,000 books in 3D space taught me a lot about RAG architecture.
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Doug's Roses: The Ethical Complexity of Using AI
An examination of the ethical, environmental, and job displacement concerns from AI usage and how I'm managing the cognitive dissonance.
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The Era of Bad AI Images Is Over
How I'm using Gemini to create a children's storybook, generate infographics, and accelerate my learning.
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AI for Kids
An opinionated post on the risks of exposing kids to AI chatbots too early. And some family-friendly AI activity ideas and mindsets to introduce when the time is right.
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Building Custom GPTs: Context Is King
How I built QuotebookGPT to reliably capture and recall quotes from a live Google Sheet, plus a simple pattern for building context-aware GPTs with lightweight RAG.
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Tutorial to Vibe-Code A Music Insights Dashboard
Follow this beginner-level tutorial to vibe-code your own personalized music insights dashboard powered by your data.
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5 Mindsets for Thriving With AI
Now is the moment to experiment, question, and actively build the mindsets that will help us collectively harness AI for good. Here are five mindsets that have helped me navigate through the complexity.
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Dad’s Bag of Tricks
Watch Agentic AI spin up a joke‑and‑trivia web app for my kids in minutes, no coding skills required.
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How to Build a Website with Agentic AI
Before this experiment, I had never built a website. AI gave me a crash course and took me from zero to launch.
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If You Can Dream It, AI Can Build It
The origin story of aiwithzach.com: how a series of jaw-dropping AI moments sparked an obsession.
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