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All AI 33Theory of Constraints 30Strategy 28Small Business 26Healthcare 20Operations 18Practical Tips 16Medical Devices 9Leadership 8Case Studies 4Government 3Workforce 3
- My Grok Bot Knows What Is in Every Tote
· AI, Practical Tips
I am moving out of a paid storage unit, and a Grok Bot named Totes is keeping the inventory. I snap a photo on my phone, add a few words, and the record updates.
- People Are Discovering Grok Bot. Here Is What They Are Finding.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
Owners, writers, and engineers are putting Grok Bot to work. A look at what they build, what they praise, what frustrates them, and what it means for a small business.
- I Manage a Fleet of Grok Bots Every Day Without Losing Work
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
My Grok Bots do real work for my business every day. These are the habits I use to look after a very capable tool and keep my work safe.
- Check the Document Before the Error Travels
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Healthcare, Government
Public institutions should verify consequential documents before circulation, using evidence-backed adversarial AI review and accountable human approval.
- The HR Screen Is the Wrong Market for an Older Engineer
· AI, Small Business, Workforce, Strategy
After 18 months without a full-time gig, I stopped treating the standard HR application as my main route to work and started contacting decision makers directly.
- AI Was Supposed to Obsolete Me. It Multiplied My Opportunities.
· AI, Small Business, Workforce
At 66, hiring filters rejected me in hours and never saw a person. I am not bitter about it. The same tools that score us out multiplied the range of problems I can solve, and that is worth more than any job I applied for.
- Gemini Called My Website a Textbook Example. Here Is What It Took.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
I asked Google Gemini whether my small-business website was ready for AI agents. It said textbook example. That verdict took months of invisible work, and you can run the same test tonight.
- Your UX Spend Is Wasted on Me
· AI, Small Business, Strategy
My agent is my user interface. If your product wants my business, give my agent an API it can read and use in the next five minutes. Keep the screens.
- Why AI Improves Everything Except Your P&L
· AI, Small Business, Theory of Constraints, Strategy
Apply AI to a part of your business that was never limiting results and that part really does improve. Your costs go up, your sales do not. Here is what a constraint is, why almost no AI investment is aimed at one, and how to tell whether yours is.
- I Fired Anthropic From My Daily Brief
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
I moved the judgment and writing work in my daily report from cloud models to a local Qwen model. It costs less and keeps more of my data at home.
- The No-Losers Guide: A Practical Method for Resolving Organizational Conflict
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Leadership
Goldratt's Evaporating Cloud method, scaled with AI assistance.
- AI Assistants Fetched One of Our Posts 990 Times. It Had No Door.
· AI, Small Business, Strategy
We sell an audit that tells businesses what machines can read on their site. Then I looked at our own server logs and found the machines had been talking to us for months, and we had never once answered.
- Getting Started with Local AI: A Coding Stack That Runs on Your Own Hardware
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
For the past couple of weeks I have done real coding on a model running entirely on my own GPUs. Here is the hardware, the model, and what every parameter actually does.
- The Device CLI Was an Organizing Surface, Not Just a Tool
the most important part of the the client work was the protocol boundary. The host CLI, the firmware, the cellphone UI, and the product itself were organized around it.
- The Room Where It Happens (Differently)
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Strategy, Leadership
When an AI participates in a problem-solving conversation, people drop defenses they have carried for decades. This is not about a better search engine. It is about changing the dynamics of the room.
- My Registered Agent Charged $400 to File a $70 Form. I Fired Them This Morning.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
Becoming my own registered agent and using Claude Code to manage the paperwork saved money, but the real win is owning my business records in a system I control and can search.
- What Happens When an AI Agent Uses Evaporating Clouds?
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Strategy
I built an AI agent that applies TOC Thinking Processes autonomously to improve business ideas. When I pointed it at itself, it resolved two real tensions via Evaporating Cloud across 10 iterations.
- After the First Session
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Healthcare, Strategy
A board commissioner and an AI sit alone in an empty conference room and talk honestly about what just happened and why. Episode 06 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.
- The First Session
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Healthcare, Operations
Twelve people walk into a working group carrying separate problems and walk out carrying a shared one. Episode 05 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.
- I Woke Up Worried About a Denied Insurance Claim. Fifteen Minutes Later, I Wasn't.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
How I used Claude Code to turn a confusing insurance denial into a clear, organized answer -- and why I'm building an AI-managed insurance filing system for everything.
- I Fired QuickBooks. Then I Built Something Better in Twenty Minutes.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips, Strategy
Replacing a $150/month accounting platform with open-source tools and AI revealed something bigger: the build-vs-buy calculus has shifted, and most of us have not caught up.
- After the Meeting
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Healthcare, Workforce
A Chief Nursing Officer processes what happened at the board meeting -- and discovers that the structural conflicts she has been managing for years have a name. Episode 02 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.
- The Other Calculation
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Healthcare, Operations
A hospital CFO runs the same numbers two ways and gets answers that disagree by a factor of five. Episode 04 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.
- The Meeting That Went Differently
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Healthcare, Strategy
A dramatized community hospital board meeting — fictional health system, real governance dynamics — showing what changes when an AI has a seat at the table.
- I Published a Blog Post and Shared It on Social Media Without Opening a Browser
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
A working workflow for small business owners who know they should be posting online but never get around to it.
- The Meeting That Could Not Have Gone Differently
· AI, Healthcare, Strategy, Leadership
Why good people in well-run hospitals still end up in the wrong conversation, and what a structural fix might look like.
- Your Google Business Profile Is Floating in Space
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
How connecting your Google Business Profile to your website structured data helps both AI search engines and traditional search understand who you actually are.
- I Fired My SEO Expert (And Hired Claude Code Instead)
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
A small business owner's account of running a complete SEO audit with an AI coding agent in one session, fixing every issue the same afternoon, and what it means for the $80 billion SEO industry.
- Doing My Taxes with Claude Code and Codex
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
A small business owner's account of automating tax preparation with AI coding agents, and what it suggests about the near future of knowledge work.
- The Biggest Satisficing Trap AI Breaks Isn't What You Think
Matt Shumer is right that AI is about to change everything. But the real transformation isn't about job loss -- it's about discovering that most of the limits you've been working within were never real.
- Cancel Your SaaS, Keep Your Data: How AI Coding Agents Change the Economics
· AI, Practical Tips
When you can build a custom import tool in fifteen minutes, the calculus on which subscriptions to keep changes dramatically.
- AI-Facilitated Constraint Resolution for Healthcare Systems
· AI, Theory of Constraints, Healthcare, Strategy
How AI can dissolve complex multi-stakeholder conflicts by surfacing hidden assumptions, not by replacing human judgment.
- The Burnout Antidote: Voice Agents Transform Healthcare's Most Painful Conversations
· AI, Healthcare
Discover how voice agents transform healthcare's most painful conversations by removing emotional friction from insurance claims, patient billing, and administrative battles that burn out staff and traumatize patients.