Field Notes
Stories, ideas, and lessons from building an AI-era business.
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View Timeline →Claude code refresher
I’ve been off for Claude code for a while- spent time on Cursor and more recently, Antigravity but this vidoe was a good refresher. …
AI pricing
AI tools can be priced in different ways, and it’s challenging because it scales with usage on traditional SaaS more aggressively.
Now, it’s been …
AI-coding vs AI-assisted coding
After a couple months of trying the latest version of claude code/codex, I am back on cursor and find it noticably more enjoyable to view a code editor vs walls …
Teresa Torres's AI Evals
Product Evals have been a popular topic on twitter- and it’s mostly from Hamel and Shreya marketing their Maven course- so i wasn’t surprised that …
Rightjoin's first user from 2 years back resubscribes
Seeing an early customer come back after two years is one of the most validating moments for a solo founder.
Yesterday, one of my first users from the rightjoin …
Talentprism feature update
TalentPrism is an AI-powered candidate engagement platform that creates a compounding data flywheel for recruitment agencies. Rather than requiring deep ATS …
Persistence
Saw this line on Projection Lab’s HN post after reading 1M ARR <3
There are loads of people out there smarter than me.
The willingness to doggedly show …
Choosing priorities
It becomes apparent once you have kids that you don’t have time for everything you want to do - something I took for granted in my 20s.
It took me almost …
Signed up for Kwindla's Voice AI course
A lot of the material seems to be an overlap with the excellent Voice AI and Voice Agents that they released a while back. Fwiw, the guide itself is great …
Relatable AI Companions
I am listening to an Every podcast with the founders of Tolans - an AI alien that users interact with to discuss…life. This is a hard AI engineering …
Venture hypothesis test
Develop a clear venture hypothesis to help distil your idea into a business.
lossfunk slides RightJoin AI Venture Hypothesis Demand Mid-to-senior technical and …
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View All →Clarity
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Keep in mind.
RARE and Valuable Fulfill human desires Spot human desires …
Building a publishing pipeline for Talentprism blog
I wanted my AI writing tool to publish directly to my blog. Here’s how I wired up Arvow, Cloudflare Workers, …
Builing the memory layer for recruiting
Talentprism supports a suite of features that currently seem disjointed. This post is to track the thread that unifies …
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Omni-channel recruiting agents
The key principle of a recruiting chatbot, agnostic of channel is that it should Lead the conversation - this is not a …
Building realistic voice interactions with voice AI
Content Messy. A lot of parameters to tune to cater to a variety of end user conversation styles.
Here is some of the …
What is Talentprism?
What is Talentprism?
It’s a collection of software tools for staffing companies for quickly finding qualified and …
Supercharging Claude Code with Git Worktrees and Docker
I’ve been using Claude Code extensively for the past few months, and I stumbled onto a workflow that completely …
Pytorch and Resource Accounting
Some back-of-the-envelope math for training
Question: How long would it take to train a 70B parameter model on 15T …
Tokenization
Tiktokenizer is a handly website to see how different models tokenize strings. Tokenizers Character tokenization …
Language Modeling from Scratch
Introduction I’ve had this urge to go down the bare metal of LLMs, and channeling that with catching up on a some …
What I'm reading
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Agents
12 Factor Agents- https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents/tree/main How to …
AI for the Staffing Industry- SIA 2025 Recap by Haley Marketing
- Key Takeaways from SIA Executive Forum 2025 This webinar discusses insights from the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) …
MCP Deepdive
MCP is an open protocol that revolutionizes how AI applications and agents interact with tools and data sources. …
Note Taking System Guide
Note Taking System Guide Introduction Managing personal knowledge and content effectively requires a well-structured …
Rebuilding Rightjoin
Rightjoin began as an automated interviewing tool designed to help recruiters pre-qualify candidates without spending …
Building an AI-Powered YouTube Note-Taking System
In the age of AI and abundant video content, being able to efficiently process and retain information from YouTube …
Hosting Multiple Apps on One Droplet
When running multiple applications on a single server, proper configuration is essential to avoid conflicts and ensure …
Deploying a Django app with Kamal
Setting Up Start from a boilerplate - don’t reinvent the wheel. Clone repo from github. Use docker, kamal pegasus …
Enterprise Sales
Sales Funnel Here is a typical sales funnel
Prospecting Outreach Qualification Pricing Closing Implement Prospecting …
Marketing for solopreneurs
Problem selection Marketing starts with product and pain point.
Checklist before starting to build a product: -1 major …
On Focus
We all have the same 24 hours. The question isn’t how to fill them—it’s how to make them count.
Most people …
A good cold email
Cold emailing is a slightly different skill than writing given the target audience and the time consttraing to capture …
On Intensity
Habits to live by
Ship every 2 days. Anything that ships should provide immediate value to user. If not immediate, break …
Business Books
Business Buy Back Your Time, by Dan Martell
Business Million Dollar Weekend, by Noah Kagan
Business Rework, by Jason …
Understanding the Needs Stack
Charlie is a business owner, and he frequently needs to hire employees. But posting on job boards, screening …
It took me 5 mins to launch this site!
I share how I launched this Hugo site in 5 mins, invariably for my future self when I get around to doing it again after …