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Running Local AI on a 2017 iMac: What Actually Happened
The iMac That Couldn’t If you’ve been searching for honest, real-world results on running a local AI setup on older hardware, specifically installing Ubuntu on a 2017 iMac and running…
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Some investor is going to wake up one day and realize how much world-class talent and untapped market cap have been warming the bench inside the US economy.
That’s the things you don’t know you don’t know problem. And those blind spots? They tend to bite back. Hard. I’ve been an unemployed GenXer for 36 months, with 30…
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I Built a Private AI Cloud. My Data Is Mine.
There’s a moment every creative hits when they realize the tool they’re using is also using them. Maybe it’s subtle. A response that sounds a little too polished. A suggestion…
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From SSH Friction to a Private LLM Cloud: Building a Private, Repeatable Ollama + EC2 Setup
Setting up a private, cloud-powered LLM environment on AWS sounds straightforward, until you actually do it. What started as a simple goal… “run Agent Zero with Ollama on EC2 without…
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Designing AI Systems That Actually Work
I’ve been designing and deploying custom AI agents, not generic tools, but systems built around how individuals and businesses actually work.
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You Can’t Recreate an AI “Personality” Without Doing This First
In my last post, I laid out a core problem: AI identity doesn’t survive a simple export/import. You don’t lose the data. You lose the presence. So the obvious next…
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I’m Starting to Feel Like A “Who in Whoville”
TL;DR Age bias in hiring is real—but mostly invisible The system protects against it in theory, not in practice Younger professionals aren’t paying attention (yet) This isn’t a rant—it’s a…
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The Hard Problem No One Is Solving in AI: Identity Continuity
There’s a quiet assumption baked into most conversations about AI right now: If you can export the data, you can recreate the experience. That assumption is wrong. And the gap…
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From Friction to Flow: How I Automated My Screenshot-to-Notion Workflow with Shell Scripts and AI
Learn how I built a macOS screen capture to Notion workflow using AI, environment variables, and automation to eliminate friction and reduce steps.