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I Couldn't Code Before AI. Dyslexia Kept Me Out.
I am dyslexic. I tried to learn to code at nineteen, hit a wall I could not name, and walked away. Twenty years later, AI handed me a door that had never opened before. What changed and what it means.
- Identity
- AI
- Neurodiversity
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An Astoria Backyard Barbecue
Astoria, Queens has a very specific population of nerdy millennial gays. A few backyard barbecues and you know everyone. A short note on why the network you actually use is the one in walking distance.
- NYC
- Identity
- Anecdote
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The Cobbler's Kids
I run a content company. I am also a content company that has, until now, kept a website nobody read because I was too busy making content for everyone else. The honest version of why this site is finally getting written.
- Founder Notes
- Craft
- Identity
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The Only Gay at the Enterprise Dinner
An invite-only dinner with a software CMO, a private room, and me, the only out gay person at the table. How I found my people, landed the actual product conversation, and what queer-coded networking actually looks like in the wild.
- Identity
- Business Development
- Founder Notes
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No Dishwasher, Running Agents
I do my dishes by hand. I also run thirty-minute autonomous AI agents in the background. Both things are true at the same time and that is how all of this is going.
- Founder Notes
- AI
- Identity
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From Cold Event to Partnership in Two Weeks
I went to a tech hackathon I had no business being at, interviewed a founder on the spot, shipped the content in five days, and watched the inbound start writing itself. The actual play, with the actual moves.
- Business Development
- Interviewer's Notebook
- Founder Notes
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My Mom Is a ChatGPT Pro
My mother is almost eighty. She still works because retirement was not in the cards. She is also, as of about a year ago, a daily ChatGPT user. The story of how that happened, and why I cannot stop thinking about it.
- Family
- AI
- Identity
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AI and Neurodiversity in Practice
I am dyslexic and ADHD. I run two companies. I use AI all day. The honest version of how the tool actually helps a brain like mine, and where the tool makes things worse if you are not careful.
- Identity
- AI
- Neurodiversity
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I Studied Acting. Then I Built a Content Engine.
Eighteen months of running a real production system from inside a real agency. What an acting conservatory degree turns out to be the perfect prep for, and what the data says about the gap nobody else is closing.
- Founder Notes
- AI
- Craft
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800 Conversations
Eight hundred recorded interviews with founders, executives, and engineers across two years. The single most useful thing I learned was not about AI. It was about how people actually talk when they stop performing.
- Interviewer's Notebook
- Craft
- AI
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The Picket Line and the Prompt
My union went on strike for about a year. I was on the line. I was also using ChatGPT. This is the year I learned that AI was the wedge inside a much older fight, and that calibrating my voice was not retreating from it.
- Identity
- AI
- Labor
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Yes, I Played a Horse on Broadway
A year of War Horse at Lincoln Center. Eight shows a week, three operators per puppet, no view of the show. What being inside a horse taught me about craft, listening, and shipping work.
- Craft
- Theater
- Acting
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From Freelancer to 2x Founder
A CFO called on a Tuesday. He needed a deck. That call is when I knew Plumwheel was a company, not a product. The actual path from acting to two companies in eighteen months.
- Founder Notes
- Career
- AI Agency