How I realised my AI assistant was never the problem, and built DayBook, a human and AI agent workspace, to fix the real culprit: my own fragmented data feeds.
Latest essay
2026-08-31
An AI Agent Made Me a Birthday Song. The Model Wasn’t the Point.
At first glance, this sounds like a story about an AI model becoming astonishingly creative. I do not think that is the right reading.
The more interesting part was not the model. It was everything around the tools.
Through months of interactions, Reeve had been able to learn my preferences from the ordinary context of our daily work together. That is what made the gift feel personal.
Read the essay →After writing about comparative advantage, an email from VIA Institute made me take their character strengths survey again. Three tests across four years returned the same top five. These are not skills I acquired. …
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Six months in, an AI team I work with every day. How I set the team up from a non-tech starting point, what the stack actually looks like, and the economic thinking that made me build it as colleagues rather than workers.
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We’ve been taught that success comes from fixing what we lack. But every hour patching a weakness is an hour not spent compounding a strength. Here’s the economist’s case for specialising ruthlessly, and letting teams, agents, and systems handle the rest.
LifeBloc
Keeping everyday photographs with a record of their provenance.
LifeBloc notes →Human-agent workflows
Exploring how people and agents might hand work back and forth without losing the thread.
Human-agent workflow notes →Commerce business
Notes on what I test, what proves useful, and what does not, inside the commerce business I run.
Commerce business notes →About Yammie.Net
Yammie.Net is a personal notebook about my commerce business, digital transformation, agentic development, projects and the ordinary things around them.
It will continue to evolve because the world around the work is changing, and because the tools and solutions I write about are not theoretical. They are things I am actually building, testing and using through Higooga, DayBook and LifeBloc.
Agentic Commerce is becoming the central thread, but this remains a personal website, so not everything here will fit neatly inside one subject. Some pieces are longer essays. Field Notes are shorter observations from the workbench and elsewhere.