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education

The Friction Campus: What a Quantum Chemist Turned Filmmaker Taught Me About AI and Education

Michael Schindhelm spent 30 years in Soviet labs, opera houses, and Hong Kong's West Kowloon. His thesis: the future belongs to augmented polymaths who embrace friction, not efficiency.

education

Your AI Forgets You Every Morning. Here's How to Fix That.

Three tools. Obsidian, an AI coding agent, one instruction file. Your AI knows your entire business before you type a word. No uploads, no cloud, no re-explaining.

education

AI for Scientific Research: HKU Masterclass Recap

Nine researchers. Fiber optics, radiobiology, aerospace, agriculture. One room at HKU. Here's what happened when we combined their expertise with AI agents.

creative

Shooting Sergei Minaev in Hong Kong

Three days shooting one of Russia's most influential writers and media figures for his history channel. And why this one was personal.

education

AI Agents Are Not Chatbots. Here's the Difference.

Why most companies are building the wrong thing when they say 'we need AI.'

creative

Six Books, One Page

I used six books from screenwriting, advertising, and business to rewrite one About page. They all said the same thing.

technology

One Person, Right Tools

How I built an iOS app, research pipeline, and deployment system across 14 markets. Solo.

creative

Style Is Risk

Why the best creative work comes from choices nobody validated beforehand.

technology

Poetify: AI Music Covers as a Birthday Gift

A full Spotify clone with AI-generated cover versions. Nirvana sings XXXTENTACION. MF DOOM covers Joan Jett. Janis Joplin does Ol' Dirty Bastard. Built for a friend's birthday in two days.