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Expensive tokens for judgment, cheap tokens for labour
2026-03-26
· How I ended up thinking about model choice as a practical resource-allocation problem rather than a leaderboard.
Why I moved my personal agent from OpenClaw to Hermes
2026-03-26
· Why a security-first framework, simpler architecture, and a tighter memory model suited the kind of personal assistant I actually wanted to run.
Systems thinking as a daily practice
2026-03-20
· On treating software architecture and operations as living systems rather than static blueprints.
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Starting with soil
2026-03-18
· Why everything in a resilient garden begins underground, and what it takes to build living soil from scratch.