AI Systems Architect. Founder of Harlem Labs.
Field notes from building things — for clients, for my kids, and for myself.
My Mac hit 97% full. I deleted fifteen gigabytes and ended up with less room than I started with. Three systems lied to me, a USB stick from 1996 refused a file, and the question that freed 78 GB cost nothing at all. Comes with a playbook you can run.
The Purse →A hundred-year-old money book, a voice line, and the Saturday message that caught me lying to my own ledger — installing The Richest Man in Babylon one cure at a time. Comes with a kit you can take.
The Three Deaths of a Project →Ninety-four open loops, one autopsy — why projects die at the start, in the middle, and at 90%, and the nine patterns that stopped mine from dying. Comes with a kit you can take.
The Interview →A framework I watched a stranger use on a bankrupt CEO went into my CLAUDE.md the same afternoon — and it's been interviewing me ever since.
The Handoff: Build Your Own →The Operator's Agent, Health Edition — the actual kit behind the garage story, four sessions to build on your own machine.
Looping →The week I stopped prompting my AI and taught the system to prompt itself — five loops, one review queue, and the hours that came back.
The Griot in the Garage →How an AI accountability partner, a ten-dollar gym, and a cleared-out garage started my march back to health.
Creators, Not Consumers →Why I'm building my kids their own platforms instead of handing them someone else's feed.
3,500 Songs. One Weekend. →How I turned a decade of unsorted music into three perfect party playlists — the night before the party.
Building a GRIOT Helmet →Turning a persistent AI companion into a physical object — from concept to a wired ESP32 helmet on my desk.